The Tao of the Jump Shot: An Eastern Approach to Life and Basketball

by Mahony, John Fitzsimmons; Walton, Bill

• ISBN13: 9781569752289
• ISBN10: 1569752281
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Pgw

Summary

Both poetic and graceful, this book takes the reader on a journey through inner and outer mastery of the jump shot. But the book is about much more than basketball. It describes how to move with grace, how to prize every action, and how to experience the beauty of life, all through the simple act of getting a ball through the hoop.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(8)
Bill Walton
First Half
The Way of the Shot	9	(5)
Perfection	14	(7)
The Five-fold Movement	21	(5)
The Still Point of the Cosmic Wheel	26	(4)
Effortless Virtuosity	30	(6)
Release	36	(5)
The Containment of Form	41	(3)
The Purity of a Pure Shooter	44	(3)
The Principle of Extension	47	(6)
Centering	53	(5)
The Gap	58	(5)
The Accuracy of Aimlessness	63	(8)
Second Half
The Moon in the Water	71	(6)
Shooter's Doubt and the Doubt of Being	77	(5)
Harmony	82	(6)
Energy and Form	88	(5)
Inner Blocking	93	(6)
Unconcious in the Zone	99	(6)
Intensity and Inattention	105	(5)
The Negative Way	110	(6)
Humility	116	(6)
The Coach as ``True Man''	122	(6)
Shooting as Art	128	(7)
Bibliography	135