Absolute Tennis is thorough and comprehensive guide to improving your tennis. In this insightful and visually engaging book, Marty Smith, an NCAA Division I Southern Conference Champion and long-time Director of Tennis at the New York Athletic Club, shares his extensive knowledge of tennis technique, strategy, psychology and fitness in easy to understand language. His meticulous explanations of the strokes, coupled with narrated individual and sequenced photos of the world's best players, will help you develop powerful and consistent swings, play with more confidence and win a lot more. A forward thinker, Smith not only discusses the strokes of today, but also the future. Marty goes through the evolution of the game, and makes a compelling and persuasive case for three unconventional strokes that may become accepted techniques as the game continues to evolve and become faster. Recognizing that tennis is a highly athletic, tactical, and mental game, he also dedicates a large part of the book to the body, singles and doubles strategy and the mind. You will learn how to improve your footwork and movement, integrate winning game plans that highlight your strengths and expose your opponents' weaknesses, and use your inner voice to remain focused, positive and energetic, helping you attain peak performance.

From ESPN's authentic, popular, and intrepid correspondent Marty Smith--SIDELINE CEO details key leadership principles Marty has learned from championship coaches he's interviewed over the past two decades.

SIDELINE CEO delves into the unique psychology and daily preparation and gameplan execution of some of America's most respected leaders--the coaches who have led hugely successful programs to win it all. Included among the legends whom Marty interviewed for SIDELINE CEO are: Nick Saban, Mack Brown, Kim Mulkey, Doc Rivers, John Calipari, Tim Corbin, Roy Williams, Tom Izzo, Patty Gasso, Dabo Swinney, Frank Beamer, and many others.

In talking to these sideline CEOs, Marty develops a set of leadership pillars that include:

• Building vital TRUST within the organization.
• Creating open lines of COMMUNICATION.
• DELEGATING responsibility--and thereby empowerment--to your coaches and players.
• Establishing and sustaining the RIGHT CULTURE in your program.
• MANAGING CRISES and adversity.
• EVOLVING with the game, the players and society, and always challenging your team.

Packed with insight, candor and keen storytelling from some of the greatest coaches of all time, SIDELINE CEO offers valuable takeaways that go beyond the game and apply to the boardroom, the classroom, and can help set intentions for winning in our daily lives.

Invisible Truth The Supreme Source of Infinite Manifestation Christina Wollebek-Smith with Marty Smith 267 pages. Prologue -The world of science and the world of religion (faith) are not exclusive; they're symbiotic. The only difference is the interpretation of what miracles are. -Science has proof positive that all of the universe is made up of energy, including the human race, and all animals for that matter. The various faiths of the world concur. -Energy cannot be created nor can it be eliminated. Its direction, however, can be changed. -The Nine Laws and Principles of Invisible Truth explain how to direct energy in a way that creates (manifests) abundance in our lives through directed, organized energy. -These laws and principles show exactly how to use directed energy in our lives to manifest what we desire. -Throughout the book we show how the world of science and the world of faith are congruent in these Nine Laws and Principles. -The importance of this message is in the use of the Nine Laws and Principles. If you wish to go directly to causing immediate change in your life, start with Part Two of Invisible Truth. The remainder is the reasoning behind our stance. This is a 4 part book. Part 1: In the Beginning. What is Invisible Truth. Manifestation. Aether. Part 2: The Bucket. Living in the Now. Thought. Words. Belief. Work. Thankfulness. Forgiveness. Giving and Receiving. Environment. Putting it Altogether. The Last Words. Part 3: Our Stance. Cosmic Consciousness. Unveiling the Neural Mysteries. Your Extended Environment. Part 4: About the Author. Afterthought. This book explores the ability of our self to change the neural pathways through which our reactions to exterior stimuli travel, thereby changing our perceptions...thus allowing us the ability to control the direction of our lives. There is about five years of research behind this work. We spell out how to actually change brain patterns in a natural way. This is beyond Rhonda Byrne's book, 'The Secret, on steroids. This is A Course on Miracles in a way that is not only coherent, but applicable. This book explains the religion of science, and the science of religion.

The amazing and blessed life of popular ESPN reporter and correspondent for College GameDay, Marty Smith, whose mission in this thoughtful and funny memoir is to return fans to the true soul of sports in this country.
You know Marty right? The guy during College GameDay hanging off the back of a pickup truck while zooming around the Clemson athletic facilities. The guy who visits Nick Saban's lake house and somehow gets Coach to jump in the lake. The guy who sits down with Dale Jr. at Daytona to talk through tears about his miraculous return to racing. The guy who interviews Tiger Woods, Tim Tebow, Peyton Manning and Jimmie Johnson -- the guy who gets paid to live the fantasy of every sports fan in America.
Never Settle is the funny but oh, it's true story of how Marty got here, and a revealing look at his journey. Never Settle includes all the best stories and behind-the-scenes moments from Marty's wild life, covering topics including: college football, racing, fathers and sons, how sports can bring us together, and how it all goes back to growing up on a farm and playing high school ball in Pearisburg, Virginia.

From ESPN's authentic, popular, and intrepid correspondent Marty Smith--SIDELINE CEO details key leadership principles Marty has learned from championship coaches he's interviewed over the past two decades, now in paperback.

SIDELINE CEO delves into the unique psychology and daily preparation and gameplan execution of some of America's most respected leaders--the coaches who have led hugely successful programs to win it all. Included among the legends whom Marty interviewed for SIDELINE CEO are: Nick Saban, Mack Brown, Kim Mulkey, Doc Rivers, John Calipari, Tim Corbin, Roy Williams, Tom Izzo, Patty Gasso, Dabo Swinney, Frank Beamer, and many others.

In talking to these sideline CEOs, Marty develops a set of leadership pillars that include:

• Building vital TRUST within the organization.
• Creating open lines of COMMUNICATION.
• DELEGATING responsibility--and thereby empowerment--to your coaches and players.
• Establishing and sustaining the RIGHT CULTURE in your program.
• MANAGING CRISES and adversity.
• EVOLVING with the game, the players and society, and always challenging your team.

Packed with insight, candor and keen storytelling from some of the greatest coaches of all time, SIDELINE CEO offers valuable takeaways that go beyond the game and apply to the boardroom, the classroom, and can help set intentions for winning in our daily lives.

Goran, Patricia, and Sophia are three people who live lives full of difficulties and dissatisfactions. Goran, a young man from a small town in Eastern Europe, with a turbulent past. Patricia, a psychologist with a passion for painting, who is left without an eye following an accident, feels trapped in a life without meaning. Sophia, on the other hand, is a young girl who, discovering that she has been adopted, is in search of her identity.

Through a series of coincidences, the three protagonists meet and find themselves sharing a strong connection, based on mutual understanding of their inner struggles. They feel a deep restlessness that becomes unbearable, and that's when they decide to embark on an unforgettable journey through Southeast Europe, in the hope of finding what their lives are missing.

Rick Kingsley's younger half-brother Aidan ran away three years ago. During those years, ghost trains - old long-gone streamliners - began reappearing, sometimes even rescuing people in danger. A being called the Wizard started entering peoples' dreams, but offering real-world psychic powers. Rick has inherited, from a mysterious recluse he's never met, a vast fortune and an estate, Haw Court. And the world seems speeding ever closer to apocalypse, with global-warming fires, floods and tornadoes increasing both in numbers and size; along with human evils: religious freedom and Stand Your Ground laws, rampant bigotry online and in person, right-wing sabotages against society, topped by Trump's Presidential bid. Now, on the eve of the election, Aidan's coming home. His return may bring Rick to a possible confrontation with the Wizard himself - with the lives of Rick's family and friends, and his own, at stake.

Easton's marriage is falling apart, his father is dying and his midlife crisis is coming into full swing, it's time for a glass of wine. What It All Comes Down To is a humorous and heartfelt look at the lives of three creative and dynamic friends, Easton, Bailey and Robert, as they realize that life has not always turned out the way they expected, but there is little that close friends, a good glass of wine and a dose of humor can't cure. And when it comes to matters of the heart, sometimes life gives out second chances.

When the law has been broken and you need justice you call the police. When the police can't help, you call Frank. Washington, D.C. is a city of politics, power and the spy capital of the world. It is a town where money exchanges hands, favors are bought and sold and morals are not always so clearly defined in black and white. Retired homicide detective Frank Goulet is working as a private investigator. It will take someone with his grit and knowledge of the streets to unravel a case involving corporate spying, prostitution and political connections to get to the truth and deal out street justice.

The poems in Horse with Hat cover family feuds; the familial effects of World War II; and horses, both in general and in poet Marty Smith's childhood experience. Some poems look at the long relationship between horse and man and the thousands of years the horse has stood as an icon of speed, power, and civilization. Her father, who made his children learn to ride bareback, is also the subject of many poems. Her family appears as characters throughout the collection, including her father and grandmother who lived on the same farm but never spoke. Still other poems explore the effects of the gift of silence from the men in her family who suffered the Second World War. Poignant and lyrical, these poems form a fascinating debut collection.