The Cricket of Abel, Hirst, and Shrewsbury

The Cricket of Abel, Hirst, and Shrewsbury

There appear to be hardly any beginners or habitual players who know how to profit by seeing experts at play and at work. The reason cannot well be that we do not look on at games sufficiently often! No, one reason is that we have not been trained to observe with a view to personal experimentation afterwards; and another reason is that there is very little time to catch and realise the different positions and movements as they flash by. Hence the value of photographs, especially when they areas many of these thirty-four aretaken from behind: it is not easy to reproduce for ourselves the action as shown by an ordinary photograph (taken from in front), since it gives us everything the wrong way round. But even photographs often fail to teach their lesson. The learner must be told how to teach himself from photographs. After which he will find it easy to teach himself from actual models, as soon as he knows just what to look out forthe feet and their stances and changes, and so on. It is to be hoped that these photographs, and the notes on them, and the obvious inferences drawn from them, will train readers to study various other experts besides these three, who are only a few out of a host. For the object of the book is not to tie any player{viii} down to any one method, but rather to set him on the track of independent research and self-instruction: to show him how to watch and see, and how to practise the best things that he sees, and what the best things are most likely to be. Not a single hint in these pages need be followed until the reader is convinced that what I advise is what most if not all great players actually do, whether consciously or by instinct. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 58702
Author: Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
Release Date: Jan 15, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic), 1867-1940 , Miles, Eustace, 1868-1948