by the numbers

Beginning Bridge By The Numbers (https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Bridge-Numbers-James-Frazee/dp/1635248590/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1489406357&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=BEGINNING+BRIDGE+BY+THE+NUMBERS+by+Jim+Frazee&linkCode=ll1&tag=dallascom-20&linkId=3c70573798b2a2b881b5c77efe5d5822) by Jim Frazee

A beginner's "How To" book about learning to play bridge based on numbers. The method presented is a step-by-step process for those who are just learning to play the game.  As your game progress, you'll go back again and again to Beginning Bridge by the Numbers as a   reference manual.

The book teaches  new players how to determine points and then use them in bidding.  In each chapter you'll find examples and exercises to help you learn and retain the basics before moving on to the next section.  Let's face it, Bridge is complicated - we all need help and guidance to become better players!    Helpful sections will explain terminology, scoring and tricks.

Jim Frazee has decades of experience not only as a player but also teaching bridge.  After encouragement from his many students, he carefully penned this manual to benefit new players.  You'll learn  the rules for what cards to lead, the strategy to play a hand, how to keep score and most importantly how to win!

Sean Manseau is the author of “By The Numbers.”A former animator, Sean found CrossFit in 2005 and believed he was “the only person in New York who had ever heard of CrossFit.” As often happens, he was drawn to coaching after a few years as an athlete.In the animation world, a “master animator” draws the major positions of movement, and then an assistant draws all the joint angles between those positions. Sean teaches the major positions and assigns them a number–hence, “By the Numbers.”Sean refers to “rhyming positions”–positions that are identical across different exercises. “The second position of the deadlift is really close to the bottom of the KB swing, which is really close to the hang position of the clean…” he says. When he’s coaching, he can relate new cues to previous positions.We talked about “drawing the line” between intensity and sloppy movement. Sean says the line will depend on an individual coach’s “quality of mercy.” While he agrees a coach must take the long view on client training, he names different modes of training through which an athlete passes.See the full episode notes here: http://twobraincoaching.com/episode-14-sean-manseau-of-by-the-numbers/