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Modern Army Combatives Program: FM 3.25-150 - Paperback

$26.98

by United States Army Combatives School (Author)Every Fight Is A Grappling FightEvery Fight Is Over WeaponsThere Is No Short Cut To Developing Fighting SkillThe Modern Army Combatives program draws the best and most practical combat techniques from Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Muay Thai, Boxing, and Escrima. More than just a simple self-defense strategy or mixed martial arts system, Modern Army Combatives is designed to bring the most brutally effective combat system to the battlefield to rende...

The History Of Professional Wrestling Vol. 2: WWF 1990-1999 - Paperback

$47.23

by Grant Sawyer (Editor), Graham Cawthon (Author)Since 2002, The History of WWE.com has served as the premiere online resource for the in- and out-of-the-ring histories of multiple wrestling companies. Now, for the first time in print, you have access to the thousands of dates, cities and ring results that comprise pro wrestling's past. You can now find the hidden gems, the main events that drew thousands and the ones that only drew flies. This second volume in "The History of Professional Wr...

Fergie's Last Stand: A Correspondent's Diary 2012/13 - Paperback

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by Mark Payne (Author)Sir Alex Ferguson's final campaign as Manchester United manager covered in detail by ESPN correspondent Mark Payne. Number of Pages: 272 Dimensions: 0.57 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: November 06, 2013

Skills and Drills: For the Practical Pistol Shooter - Paperback

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by Ben Stoeger (Author)This book contains the live fire training methods of Ben Stoeger. Drawing on his experience at the top levels of competition and his experience teaching others, he has refined his methodology for years. This book is the culmination of those ideas and experiences. This is the most detailed and involved live-fire training manual ever produced for the USPSA/ISPC competitor. This book contains: -A detailed set of drills and concepts to help you take your shooting to the nex...

The Ultimate Guide to Soccer Positions - Paperback

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by Mirsad Hasic (Author)Learn The Secrets of any Soccer Position and Play The Best Game of Your Life How to become a Prolific Goal-scorer Desperate to improve your striking skills but lack the inside knowledge on how to do so? Want to know how to imitate the world's best professional strikers? There are a few straightforward procedures you can undertake to achieve top striking ability. Read my book to find out how what they are and how to implement them. With the secrets contained within its ...

The Hunting Rifle: Design, Selection, Ballistics, Marksmanship - Paperback

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by Townsend Whelen (Author)This is a new release of the original 1940 edition. Number of Pages: 464 Dimensions: 0.94 x 10 x 7.01 IN Publication Date: October 27, 2013

Real Golf: Taking Your Best Game to the Course - Paperback

$20.23

by Matthew Rudy (Author), Chris Poston (Author), Stan Utley (Introduction by)Every player has beaten balls on the driving range working on his or her game, either alone or with a teacher. Everyone has paged through a copy of Golf Digest looking for the latest tip. Or watched an instructional video looking for the easiest way to lower scores. But all of that access to top-tier instruction, video swing analysis and game improving equipment hasn't made golfers any better as a group. The average ...

Swimming Workouts: for Master Swimmers - Paperback

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by Sarah Patricia Condor-Fisher (Author)This book contains a selection of workouts from an experienced master swimmer. It is intended for those who want to keep in shape and possibly compete in USMS Nationals like its author.If you are over 40, fit and disciplined, yet have no more than two hours a day to spare, often less, sometimes every other day, and if you believe yourself to be sufficiently fit and disciplined to improve and compete, the book is for you.This book contains basic advice o...

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by Nic Aldam (Author)Pep Guardiola's four seasons as FC Barcelona's first-team coach will be remembered as one of the greatest ever eras in club football. Not only did Guardiola's team win an astonishing fourteen titles in those four seasons, but Bar a's brand of possession-based football which came to be known as tiki-taka was widely regarded to be among the most attractive styles of football ever seen. The outstanding player of the team was undoubtedly the astonishingly talented Leo Messi a...

Push Dick's Button: A Conversation on Skating from a Good Part of the Last Century--and a Little Tomfoolery - Paperback

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by Dick Button (Author)Everything many of us know about figure skating, we learned from the man who's been called the "Voice of Figure Skating." Now Dick Button, the Emmy Award-winning skating commentator famous for his precise, passionate, opinionated rinkside analyses and for his historic career as a two-time Olympic gold medalist, five-time World Champion, and seven-time U.S. Champion (plus being the inadvertent inventor of the flying camel, the first to successfully land a double Axel in ...

The Mechanical Principle of Taijiquan - Paperback

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by Jie Gu (Author)Taijiquan is a martial art of spring boxing. Taiji spring is adept to detect the motion of the opponent, is supple and stable in defense, and is hurling effective in offense. Taiji spring boxing materializes the ethic of Taijiquan. The spring introduces a cushion between the two opponents in a collision, therefore reducing the possibility of local deformation and prevents anyone from getting hurt. To achieve the art of spring boxing is to cultivate relaxation and nimbleness....

The History of Professional Wrestling: Jim Crockett Promotions & the NWA World Title 1983-1988 - Paperback

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by Grant Sawyer (Editor), Jim Cornette (Introduction by), Graham Cawthon (Author)Since 2002, The History of WWE.com has served as the premiere online resource for the in- and out-of-the-ring histories of multiple wrestling companies. Now, for the first time in print, you have access to the thousands of dates, cities and ring results that comprise pro wrestling's past. You can now find the hidden gems, the main events that drew thousands and the ones that only drew flies. This third volume in ...

Pinan Flow System: Heian - Pinan Shodan & Nidan: karate kata application for beginner to black belt - Paperback

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by Iain Abernethy (Introduction by), John Titchen (Author)Packed with information this book, the first in a four volume series, examines the first two Pinan / Heian kata. With practical application drills based on the study of the reactions of students to common forms of aggression and violence in high pressure scenario simulations, and years of research into violent crime, it contains a detailed analysis of the attributes that makes techniques effective, an exploration of the origins and pur...

Breaking Into The Biz: The Insider's Guide to Launching An Entertainment Industry Career - Paperback

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by Jenny Yerrick Martin (Author)You want to be a working member of the entertainment industry doing a job you love. You want to be energized, motivated, and rewarded. You want to be on your way to an ultimate position that will bring you personal fulfillment and professional success. Whether you have a particular position you want to pursue (Talent Agent, Film Producer, TV Drama Writer, Music Manager, Sitcom Actor, Studio Executive, Music Editor or something else) or just know you want to be...

How To Select, Equip and Maintain a Cruising Boat. The Series.: 37 Chapters of Practical Reading. - Paperback

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by John Champion (Author)This book is intended as an aid for people who are interested in knowing more about cruising boats. You may have a boat and be preparing for a trip or thinking of buying one. For people who may aspire to live aboard, cruise or cross oceans and want to start researching what the boat needs. Well, this is the place to start. All the details in this book will probably raise as many questions as are answered but questions are good. This book is not technical, (well, not m...

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by Sue Rutson (Author)Do you ever feel exasperated when some of your players continually say "It's too hard", "I can't do it", "I'm not good enough"; especially when YOU can see for certain that they have the physical skills to be great? Then tool up with some easy to apply NLP (Neuro-Linguistic-Programming) skills that allow you to change a mind-set easily and puts 'Magic' into all your coaching. In this book I reveal some simple steps that will supercharge your coaching sessions and move yo...

Tempting the Throne Room: Surviving Pakistan's Deadliest Climbing Season 2013 - Paperback

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by Eric Graves (Editor), John Quillen (Author)His climbing partner was face down in the snow at 18,000 feet with a shattered limb and the weather was turning again. Little did they realize that this was only a small taste of the tragedy that would unfold on this ill-fated expedition. Of their team of 11 only 8 would return and one faced the possiblity of losing his leg permanently. What happened in the Karakoram and who paid the ultimate price for tempting the throne room? Experience this fir...

Meeting Her Match: The Story of a Female Athlete-Coach, Before and After Title IX - Paperback

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by Debbie Millbern Powers (Author)Growing up in basketball-crazed Indiana in the '50s, Debbie Millbern mastered her game on driveway courts against neighborhood boys. Touted as a gifted athlete with an unrelenting passion for competing, she was relegated to the bleachers while the boys played on school teams. Though conflicted and confused by cultural limitations, Debbie continued to embrace her love for sports. Playing basketball in college gave her a taste of organized competition, but also...

Jeet Kun Do: System without a System - Paperback

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by George Hajnasr (Author)Jeet Kune Do A System Without a System is one of the best books ever written on the complete system that was pioneered by the late great Bruce Lee. George Hajnasr has put together the full course and understanding principles that are the make up of the complete system. Everything from Warm Up exercises to self defense techniques ranging from beginner to advanced. You will find it all in this one large manual of the Complete system of Jeet Kune DO A System Without a S...

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by Felipe Alou (Author), Peter Kerasotis (Author), Pedro Martínez (Foreword by)Growing up in a tiny shack in the Dominican Republic, Felipe Alou never dreamed he would be the first man born and raised in his country to play and manage in Major League Baseball--and also the first to play in the World Series. In this extraordinary autobiography, Alou tells of his real dream to become a doctor, and an improbable turn of events that led to the pro contract. Battling racism in the United States a...

Building a Better Basketball Program: A Game Plan for the High School Coach - Paperback

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by Steve Biddison (Author)Whether you are a new basketball coach or a seasoned veteran in the coaching ranks, Building a Better Basketball Program will help organize your thoughts, goals, and plans for each basketball season. From developing or tweaking your coaching philosophy to planning and scouting opponents, this book details a step by step plan that will enhance your total basketball program. In Building a Better Basketball Program, Coach Biddison takes you through each stage of basketb...

Sugar: Micheal Ray Richardson, Eighties Excess, and the NBA - Hardcover

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by Charley Rosen (Author)The 1980s were arguably the NBA's best decade, giving rise to Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Michael Jordan. They were among the game's greatest players who brought pro basketball out of its 1970s funk and made it faster, more fluid, and more exciting. Off the court the game was changing rapidly too, with the draft lottery, shoe commercials, and a style driven largely by excess. One player who personified the eighties excess is Micheal Ray Richardson. During his eigh...

Rabbit Hunting: Stories and Techniques - Paperback

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by John Tomikel (Author), Paul Jukes (Author), Nick Sisley (Author)Rabbits account for more hunting hours than any other game animal and Rabbit Hunting is the only book devoted exclusively to this sport. It consists of stories about hunting and techniques used in the sport with sections on types of rabbits, uses of dogs, methods of hunting and recipes for cooking rabbit. The material is culled from the works of some of the finest outdoor writers in America. Whether you are a hunter or an armc...

Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women's Bicycle Racing - Hardcover

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by Roger Gilles (Author)The 1890s was the peak of the American bicycle craze, and consumers, including women, were buying bicycles in large numbers. Despite critics who tried to discourage women from trying this new sport, women took to the bike in huge numbers, and mastery of the bicycle became a metaphor for women's mastery over their lives. Spurred by the emergence of the "safety" bicycle and the ensuing cultural craze, women's professional bicycle racing thrived in the United States from...

$Infractions: Rule Violations, Unethical Conduct, and Enforcement in the NCAA - Hardcover$

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by Jerry Parkinson (Author)Jerry Parkinson spent nearly ten years, from 2000 to 2010, as a member of the NCAA's Division I Committee on Infractions, participating in over one hundred major infractions cases. He came away from that experience--and the experience of reading extensive commentary on infractions cases--with the conviction that most observers do not understand the NCAA's rules-enforcement process, despite the amount of public attention many major cases receive. Parkinson uses his ...

The Boys of Book of Hunting and Fishing - Paperback

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by Warren H. Miller (Author)After all is said and done there is but one excuse for the men of to-day living in this world and that is to prepare the boys, the men of tomorrow, to run the world better by instilling in them an enduring appreciation for the great outdoors Any sport which keeps young boys out in open air is undoubtedly a good thing. This work is devoted to the proper use of rod and gun and hopefully will help to send our young people to the field, the forest, the river, and the l...

Pastime Lost: The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball - Hardcover

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by David Block (Author)Long before baseball became America's national pastime, English citizens of all ages, genders, and classes of society were playing a game called baseball. It had the same basic elements as modern American baseball, such as pitching and striking the ball, running bases, and fielding, but was played with a soft ball on a smaller playing field and, instead of a bat, the ball was typically struck by the palm of the hand. There is no doubt, however, that this simpler English...

History of U.S. Table Tennis Volume 1 - Paperback

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by Tim Boggan (Author)These comprehensive volumes cover the history of U.S. Table Tennis from its late 19th century beginnings. Volume 1 covers the years 1928-1939.Author BiographyTim Boggan is a former International Table Tennis Federation Vice-President, a former three-term President of the United States Table Tennis Association (now USA Table Tennis), and a former Secretary of the Association. For 13 years he served as Editor of the USTTA's National Publication, then followed by editing hi...

The Hidden Language of Baseball: How Signs and Sign-Stealing Have Influenced the Course of Our National Pastime - Paperback

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by Paul Dickson (Author)Baseball is set apart from other sports by many things, but few are more distinctive than the intricate systems of coded language that govern action on the field and give baseball its unique appeal. During a nine-inning game, more than one thousand silent instructions are given--from catcher to pitcher, coach to batter, fielder to fielder, umpire to umpire--and without this speechless communication the game would simply not be the same. Baseball historian Paul Dickson ...

Present at the Creation: My Life in the NFL and the Rise of America's Game - Paperback

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by Upton Bell (Author), Ron Borges (Author)Upton Bell grew up at the knee of the NFL's first great commissioner, his father, the legendary Bert Bell, who not only saved the game from financial ruin after World War II but was one of its greatest innovators. Present at the Creation details Bell's firsthand experiences, which started as he watched his father draw up the league schedule each year at the kitchen table using dominoes. There he learned the importance of parity, which is a hallmark o...

A Locker Room of Her Own: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes - Paperback

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by David C. Ogden (Editor), Joel Nathan Rosen (Editor), Roberta J. Newman (Foreword by)Female athletes are too often perceived as interlopers in the historically male-dominated world of sports. Obstacles specific to women are of particular focus in A Locker Room of Her Own. Race, sexual orientation, and the similar qualities ancillary to gender bear special exploration in how they impact an athlete's story. Central to this volume is the contention that women in their role as inherent outsider...

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by Chuck Hines (Author)The leading character, Sandy Scott, a strong swimmer, leaves his home in the mountains of Western North Carolina and enters college in California to learn the sport of water polo. Six years later, he returns home and revives a defunct water polo program at his local YMCA, working with young eleven- and twelve-year-olds. The book follows his trials and tribulations as he takes his team of boys and girls to tournaments in Pennsylvania and Colorado. There is a family eleme...