{"id":19,"date":"2008-09-15T08:43:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T16:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/2008\/09\/15\/episode-7-gerry-fox-interview-part-iii-bridge-on-the-high-seas\/"},"modified":"2008-09-15T08:43:23","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T16:43:23","slug":"episode-7-gerry-fox-interview-part-iii-bridge-on-the-high-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Episode #7: Gerry Fox Interview- Part III, Bridge on the High Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the last of our three-part interview with Gerry Fox, a Bridge cruise director super-agent, teaching professional for over 30 years and book author.<\/p>\n<p>In this session, Gerry discusses numerous tips for Bridge cruise teachers\/directors that he has learned over the years.  Learn the importance of reading the students, avoid the tendency to become blindsighted by focusing on bright students, capitalizing on your personality, etc.  Gerry&#8217;s lessons are tailored for the average social Bridge player, particularly those on the high seas.  Gerry&#8217;s Bridge books (order via phone at 707-252-1257 or EMAIL gfoxbridge@aol.com):<\/p>\n<p>Partnership Bridge &#8211; An Easy Guide to Standard American Bidding<br \/>\nPartnership Defence &#8211; An Easy Guide to Defender&#8217;s Play at Contract Bridge<br \/>\nTricks for the Taking &#8211; An Easy Guide to Declarer&#8217;s Play at Contract Bridge<br \/>\nContract Bridge in 28 Lessons &#8211; A Manual for Teachers<br \/>\nBridge in Brief &#8211; A Shortcut Through the Rules of Bidding (With Opening Leads, Too)<\/p>\n<p>Double-click right arrow to play (move slider to advance\/rewind)<\/p>\n<p class=\"audioplayer_container\"><span style=\"display:block;padding:5px;border:1px solid #dddddd;background:#f8f8f8\" id=\"audioplayer_1\">Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&amp;promoid=BIOW\" title=\"Download Adobe Flash Player\">here<\/a>. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.embed(\"audioplayer_1\", {soundFile:\"aHR0cDovL21lZGlhLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vbWVkaWEvYnJpZGdlaGFuZHMvYmg3Lm1wMw\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/bridgehands\/bh7.mp3\">Or download the entire MP3 audio file (49Mb)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/Admin\/BridgeHands_Copyright.htm#Creative%20Common%20License\">Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the last of our three-part interview with Gerry Fox, a Bridge cruise director super-agent, teaching professional for over 30 years and book author. In this session, Gerry discusses numerous tips for Bridge cruise teachers\/directors that he has learned over the years. Learn the importance of reading the students, avoid the tendency to become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgehands.com\/bridgeblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}