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Kinetic Golf, Picture the Game Like Never Before, Nick Bradley

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Kinetic Golf

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Nick Bradley

Picture the Game Like Never Before

In Kinetic Golf Nick Bradley uses 115 extraordinary photographs, accompanied by clear, direct text, to raise the bar on golf instruction and give golfers-amateur or professional-a unique way of actually feeling their way to mastering the game. Offering insights that words alone cannot convey, the book provides a vastly improved golf game as the reward. Drawing upon his deep knowledge of trade and Tour secrets, Bradley shows how to build a powerful and consistent game while also debunking many of the myths that cloud the confidence and hinder the performance of the novice and developing golfer. Throughout Kinetic Golf Bradley boils down the very essence of swing motion and technique, blends it with a feeling, and then creates an image that says it all. Take one look, and you'll get the picture

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword by Butch Harmon -- Introduction -- Images of Shots -- The Big Drive I: Hang Back and Fire! -- The Big Drive II: Face It: No Short, Pokey Swing Hits It Anywhere -- The High Shot: Shrink for Lofty Goals -- The Low Shot: Diving Planes: Planely Body Language -- Occupying the Mind: More Will Be Less -- Verbalizing the Shot -- Fading I: Static Fade: Dominant Body Fading -- Drawing I: Static Drawing: Drawing on Your Setup -- The Ball Has Gone with the Wind -- Judging Wind Thermals -- From The Fairway -- Fading II: Fading Fire -- Fading III: The Stinger Fade -- Feeling a Fade: Aim the Face and Feel the Fade -- Drawing II: Feeling a Draw -- Baseball Bat It from Sidehill Lies -- The Sidehill Slider -- The Downhill Shot -- Playing from a Divot: "Earth-Shattering" Divot Play -- The Fairway Bunker: Don't Crack the Egg, Because You Might Lose More Than a Shot! -- Your Shot-making Menu: ©ђ La Carte Your Way to the Shots You Choose -- The Third Eye of the Mind -- Attacking the Front, Middle, and Back Flag Positions -- From the Rough I: Playing with a Caddy Named Ego? -- Don't Clown Around with Sucker Pins! -- From the Rough II: Become the Rough Diva with an Extra Lever -- Into the Wind: To Hit the Ball Low, Ahead the Sternum Must Go -- Controlling Your Ball Downwind -- The Crosswind Hold -- The Pain of Rain -- Put the Ball into the Hole -- The Crosswind Ride -- Into The Green -- Trajectory Targeting -- Rocket Uphill Shots -- The Two-Bounce Rule -- The Uphill Pitch -- The Spinning Wedge: Spin the Cover, Not the Core -- The Expectancy Routine: How to Front-load Your Mind -- Around The Green -- Bunker Shot Ballistics I -- Bunker Shot Ballistics II -- Distance Control in Bunker Play -- The Plugged Bunker: Homage to Bruce Lee's One-Inch PunchPinball Wizard: "That Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Kid Sure Plays a Mean Pinball": Sensory Putting -- The Short Putt: Don't Be the Grim Reaper -- Be the Happy One! -- Toe-to-Toe Putting -- The Hole of Time -- The Flop Shot: Hands Behind-Handle Behind -- The Wind Pitch-and How to Avoid Being "Gone with the Wind" -- Building Layers of Feel with the Ego -- Images of Swings -- The Left-Hand Grip: The Golf Swing's Genesis Moment -- Pincer Pressure: The Finger Anchors of a Great Grip -- The Short Left Thumb: Torque Up Your Grip -- Equality in Your Setup Position -- Spine-Wrecking Posture -- Energized Posture: Ready to Flow -- The Relationship Between the Inclined Spine, Trajectory, and Ball Position -- Body Alignment -- Balance: Stay with Me on This One! -- The Two Roles of the Right-Hand Delivery -- Driver Setup: An Image for the Slicers Among You -- Connection to a Bigger Mass: The Swingweb -- The Zip Grip -- The Pivoting Motion of the Body: Firing the Right Knee -- The Three Points of Resistance: The Chaos Theory of Swing -- The Right Knee: Your Swing's Anchor and Battery Pack -- Kinetically Flowing for Power Blowing -- So What Is the First Move Down? -- The Combination Lock of a Great Follow-through: Start with the End in Mind -- Ground-Pressured Power -- Boundary of Your Swing -- You Can't Make a Downswing Without Breaking a Few Eggs -- Good Body Motion Is Sheer Magnetism -- Athletic Foot Grounding and Dynamic Balance -- The Club, The Arms, and The Hands -- The Release of the Right Arm -- The Feeling of Mid-Plane in the Club and the Arms -- The Radius of the Swing -- Swing Synchronization: Great Circles of Fire -- Drag It, Lag It, WHACK IT! -- Disciplining Your Armswing at the Top -- Liberate the Motion of the Club -- The Puck Release -- The Club's Initial Path and Motion from the Ball -- To Invert Your Mid-Plane -- To Rotate and Round Off Your Initial PlaneStretch Your Way to the Top -- As a Rule, Get Some Leverage -- The Plane's Line of Fire -- Images of Motivations, Attitudes, and Affirmations -- A Round of Golf? No, a Round of Life -- Confession Time: Let's Be Honest -- Reincarnating After Every Shot -- It's You and the Golf Course, Nothing Else -- The Memory Chip -- Too Excited and Fired Up -- Aggression -- Tiredness -- Frustration -- The Ego Loves the Long Game but Hates the Short Game -- Gambling: To Be or Not To Be? That Is the Question -- Your Persona and Your Story -- In a War Zone? Don't Go to Your Happy Place! -- Dedication -- Copyright Page