The Art of Shooting Baskets

by Ted St. Martin

Book Overview

A guide to various fundamentals of shooting a basketball. With photos and a focus on contemporary trends, it provides advice and illustrated step-by-step instructions on what players need to make... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809240092
• ISBN13: 9780809240098
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fine Instructional Basketball Shooting Book!

Ted St. Martin of Jacksonville, Florida describes in his book the scientific analysis of the basic shots employed in basketball games. This manual provides many illustrations demonstrating the proper techniques for basketball shooting. The book also provides a general descriptive history of the basketball shooting career of Ted. He has established numerous basketball exhibition shooting world records. He has traveled all around the United States for a long time performing basketball free throw shooting demonstrations. At various times in the past Ted has held world records for 24-hour marathon free throw shooting, five minute and ten minute free throw speed shooting, etc. Ted is the current Guinness world record holder for sinking 5,221 consecutive free throws and he has sunk a record 48 free throws in a one minute time span. These are mind boggling feats! Of all basketall shots Ted St. Martin is most qualified to espouse upon the free throw shot. This book contains much informative information about the premises and principles of sinking this essential shot. There has never been a greater basketball shooter in history than Ted St. Martin. The reader can profit greatly from his exquisitely unparalleled expertise. I am a close friend of Ted St. Martin and have shot in contests against him and I have also performed an exhibition show with him. I make special appearances performing my own one-person basketball exhibition shooting shows. Even though I am similar to Ted St. Martin in the sense that I possess a very rare basketball shooting talent in basketball history, I have profited from Ted's analysis of my own shooting technique.

accurate, easy to understand

Anyone from a child to an adult can learn how to accurately shoot a free throw from this book. The visuals are very helpful, lets you actualy see how you should hold the ball. Your stand and the follow through are very important which Mr. St.Martin stresses time & time again.