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The Art of Shooting Baskets

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This book is awesome. It really helped me with my shooting. I love the authors writing and how he tells you what to do in simple steps. I learned how to free throw with this book! Now I can help my team out more and make jumpshots with a rush.

I first read this book in high school and if you apply the techniques it preaches (and most importantly GET SHOTS UP EVERY DAY) you will amaze yourself at how much you improve. It covers more or less every sensible shot in basketball (including hook shots and dunking), and explains things clearly, kind of if you were trying to teach a child something. Over the years I haven't been able to play as much as I would have liked, and have not been shooting as well as I should be so I re-purchased the book for that reason. I haven't lost the competitive nature to want to be a sharp shooter and I know retracing my steps with this book will put me back where I need to be. Moral of the story: book is a great tool for someone trying to make themselves a better shooter.

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.

At first this book was extremely intriguing, but after attempting to comphrend with this book it was humanly impossible. You could read this book as much as a million times but it will not give you any ideas or info on how to shoot a basketball properly and other supremely important information. Choose wisely, this book is nonsense. I reccomend tom amberry's free throw book it gives you mainly all the secrets.

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.