The book guides a reader through one player's quest to break the magic mark of United States Table Tennis Association ranking of 2000. It describes the challenges faced in the process, the details of the training, and the experience gained in tournament matches. This book outlines the steps and provides invaluable information that would help an aspiring player to achieve the same goal. "I really love this book! Many great nuggets of solid info are to be found within the pages." Sean O'Neill Two-time member, U.S. Olympic Team "This book is a first-hand step-by-step look at the strategic development of a player from near beginner to an advanced level. Instructional books generally teach how to do each technique; this book shows the actual events taking place as the techniques were learned, how they were learned, and most important, why." Larry Hodges USATT Hall of Famer and National Coach "Because this book is now available to the many at a similar starting place to where his story begins, those desiring a similar effort have a wonderfully useful set of information of much value, information that assuredly will be beneficial in many ways." Donn Olsen Principles Approach to Table Tennis Institute

Breaking 2000

Sports & Outdoors

Polyakov, Alex

Racket Sports

Table Tennis Achievements Publishing

This book provides detailed insights on four essential parts of the game - technique, strategy, tactics, and the mental game. The aim of this book is to create a different type of an artifact and go beyond common basics. This book's goal is to describe numerous principles of table tennis and to show how to apply vast amount of table tennis knowledge to construct player's most effective game using the skills that the player has already mastered as well as to describe many other skills that the player may choose to develop to take the next step onto higher levels.

The Next Step

Providing a look ahead at some of the most promising innovations in graphics technologies, this guide covers the GDI+ graphical library, the .NET Framework platform, C#, and the DirectX library. Theoretical aspects of graphics, algorithms for solving common problems, and examples of their practical implementation are covered. The support of popular graphic file formats, such as BMP, GIF, TIFF, JPEG, EXI, PNG, ICO, WMF, and EMF, as well as bitmap redrawing with the application of the external alpha channel are discussed. Resizing, stretching, distorting, and rotating bitmaps are addressed in detail, as is gradient filling and support for transparency.

Graphics Programming with GDI+ & DirectX

Computers & Technology

Brusentsev, Vitaly

Programming

A-List Publishing

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