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The Art of Fencing: A Manual of Sword Fencing; Historical Techniques by an 18th Century Master - Paperback

$17.24

by Monsieur L'Abbat (Author), Andrew Mahon (Author)Monsieur L'Abbat was an early 18th century tutor of fencing and sword fighting, who instructed many students in France with the techniques contained in this guidebook. Discussing techniques, tactics, stances, and movements essential for the skilled swordsman, L'Abbat treats the pivotal motions with great attention. With the aid of pictorial examples alongside, we learn how to assume a good battle stance, how to lunge or thrust in attack or de...

The Art of Fencing: A Manual of Sword Fencing; Historical Techniques by an 18th Century Master (Hardcover) - Hardcover

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by Jasmine Taylor (Author)This coloring book is ideal for kids of any age (and adults) who love playing or watching hoops. Enjoy basketball players in action while performing a variety of dribbling, passing moves, different shooting techniques and much more. These detailed ready-to-color illustrations have plenty of white space giving you room to sketch, draw, doodle and add your own unique artistic personality to each colored scene for hours of creative fun Benefits - Make your work look gr...

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by Jasmine Taylor (Author)This coloring book is ideal for kids of any age (adults too) who love the heart pumping action of daredevil skateboarding. Enjoy coloring skateboarders in action doing high flying, gravity defying stunts and tricks on their boards. These detailed ready-to-color illustrations have plenty of white space giving you room to sketch, draw, doodle and add your own unique artistic personality to each colored scene hours of creative fun Benefits - Make your work look great u...

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by Jasmine Taylor (Author)This coloring book is ideal for kids of any age (adults too) who love tennis which was first played between 1859-1865 in Birmingham England. Enjoy coloring men, woman and children as they play, serve and return the ball to their opponent. These detailed ready-to-color illustrations have plenty of white space giving you room to sketch, draw, doodle and add your own unique artistic personality to each colored scene. Enjoy an infinite number of possibilities for hours o...

Lessons of the Broadsword Masters - Paperback

$39.24

by Christopher Scott Thompson (Author)The most comprehensive book ever written on the art of fencing with the basket-hilted Highland broadsword, including every major technique and concept from broadsword and backsword masters Donald McBane (1728), Thomas Page (1746), Andrew Lonnergan (1771), John Ferdinand (1788), Captain G. Sinclair (1790), Archibald MacGregor (1791), Henry Angelo (1799), John Taylor (1804), and Thomas Mathewson (1805). Includes: - Fundamental Skills - Plain Playing - Timin...

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by Randy Ribay (Author)A powerful novel about friendship, basketball, and one teen's mission to create a better life for his family in the tradition of Jason Reynolds and Walter Dean Myers, from National Book Award Finalist Randy Ribay. "Belongs on the shelf alongside contemporary heavy-hitters like Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give, Brendan Kiely and Jason Reynolds's All-American Boys, and Nic Stone's Dear Martin." --School Library Journal, starred review Bunny and Nasir have been best frien...

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by Tibor Horvath (Author), Lorenz Gubler (Author)A comprehensive examination of long distance boomerangs, how to make them, throw them and tune them. Current long distance boomerangs are covered as well as a look at older technology and styles. Number of Pages: 90 Dimensions: 0.22 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 19, 2018

Belichick: The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time - Paperback

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by Ian O'Connor (Author)The definitive biography of the NFL's most enigmatic, controversial, and yet successful coach Bill Belichick is perhaps the most fascinating figure in the NFL--the infamously dour face of one of the winningest franchises in sports. As head coach of the New England Patriots, he's led the team to five Super Bowl championship trophies. In this revelatory and robust biography, readers will come to understand and see Belichick's full life in football, from watching college...

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by Jasmine Taylor (Author)This coloring book is ideal for kids of any age (and adults too) who love the sport of fishing. Enjoy coloring these fishermen as they cast, wade, troll and reel in a big one. These detailed ready-to-color illustrations have plenty of white space giving you room to sketch, draw, doodle and add your own unique artistic personality to each colored scene. Enjoy an infinite number of possibilities for hours of creative fun Benefits - Make your work look great using colo...

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by Ashida Kim (Author)Ashida Kim is one of a handful of men in the world who have learned the true art of Ninjitsu, the Silent Way of stealth and assassination in feudal Japan. Initial attempts to bring these secrets to the public were met with resistance due to the brutal and terrifying effectiveness of the techniques. The Ninja can fight or disappear. Looked for, cannot be seen, listened for, cannot be heard, felt for, cannot be touched. Now, you too can become a master of invisibility with...

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by Ashida Kim (Author)Ninja Alchemy reveals for the first time the secrets of the Ninja art of breath control- how to channel, collect, and cultivate the mystical force of Qi to foster health and longevity. It also offers comprehensive techniques for improving control of body and mind and developing the external and internal strength to make the Ninja invulnerable to tiger's claw and serpent's fang. Readers will learn meditation techniques and exercises aimed at attaining optimum performance ...

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by Lawrence Day (Author)Sensei Senzo Tanaka of the Japanese Kokuryukai, was heavily involved in the training of many famous martial artists, including Chicago's infamous Count Dante, who participated in Oriental Death Matches and reportedly killed three men with his bare hands. He was scheduled to fight again in 1975 but his untimely death allowed his protege Frank Dux to attend and become the first American to win the event. His epic battle to honor his teachers was made famous in the movie ...

The Whale that Lit the World - Paperback

$18.88

by Josh Churchman (Author)Fishing tales on the Pacific, where one man encounters the massive whales. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 10, 2018

The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports - Paperback

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by Joshua Robinson (Author), Jonathan Clegg (Author)The Club is the inside story of how English soccer's Premier League became the wildest, richest, most popular sports product on the planet, "a narrative that is part Great Expectations, part Game of Thrones, in equal measure." (Roger Bennett, NBC Sports, Men in Blazers) This is a sports and business tale of how money, ambition, and twenty-five years of drama remade an ancient institution into a twenty-first-century entertainment empire. No ...

The Ultimate Guide to the Sport of Gymnastics for Parents and Athletes - Paperback

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by K. Santiago (Author)Gymnastics is one of the most beautiful sports in the world. It is the perfect combination of balance and strength, power and grace. Thousands of athletes and families around the world donate hours and hours per week to this sport. With the generous contribution of experts around the country, including former Olympians - Mitch Gaylord, Lance Ringnald, and Terin Humphrey, families can better prepare themselves with the advice they give, for what it takes to both begin an...

The Physics of the Martial Arts, 2nd edition - Paperback

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by Clinet Furr (Author)"The Physics of the Martial Arts" is not a science book, it's about knowing the why and how things work.... and even more importantly, why it doesn't and how to fix it. It's a book about a business venture that turned into the science and the martial arts. Students and teachers learn the physics of break boards and concrete blocks. Number of Pages: 86 Dimensions: 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 01, 2019

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by An Officer of The Indian Police (Author)Written in the early 1920's by the Superintendent of Police in India, H.G. Lang, this book covers very simple to learn, yet highly effective techniques of self defense with the walking stick. These techniques are designed to be easily learned and mastered within days! Practical self-defense for ordinary citizens. Covers an entire range of defensive and offensive skills including guards, strikes, combinations, counterattacks, feints & tricks, doub...

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by Jasmine Taylor (Author)This ready-to-color illustrated soccer/football coloring book is for adults and children of all ages who love this team sport played by over 250 million people in over 200 countries making it the world's most popular sport. Benefits - Make your work look great using colored pencils, pens, markers or crayons - Illustrations on separate pages to protect your colorful masterpiece - Artist name & date box on back of each illustration - Share and give your colored art...

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by Jasmine Taylor (Author)This ready-to-color illustrated Judo Martial Arts Coloring Book is intended for children of all ages who love this Japanese art form of unarmed combat. Judo (the gentle way) was derived from jujitsu and intended to train the body and mind using various holds and leverage to unbalance your opponent. Benefits - Make your work look great using colored pencils, pens, markers or crayons - Illustrations on separate pages to protect your colorful masterpiece - Artist name &...

The Wildwood Workbook: Nature Appreciation and Survival - Paperback

$11.50

by Robert Mitchell Jr. (Author)Do you want to see more, do more, and have more fun outdoors? Do you want to be more prepared for potential danger when you're out camping or hiking? Whether you're a seasoned woodsman or an inexperienced greenhorn, this straightforward, step-by-step workbook's 40+ exercises will deepen your relationship with nature and get your heart and mind engaged like never before. As lean as a coyote and straight as an arrow, this little book is packed with action and mea...

Falconry: Its Claims, History, and Practices - Hunting with Birds of Prey (Hardcover) - Hardcover

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by Gage Earle Freeman (Author)This guide to falconry dates to mid-19th century Britain, and explains both the history and practical elements of using birds of prey to hunt wild animals. Raising and training intelligent birds of prey to hunt animals was popular in Europe from the Middle Ages onward. Over the centuries, techniques and practices were refined, with the peculiarities of the various birds used - be they peregrine falcons, goshawks, sparrow-hawks or otherwise - investigated by gener...

Forty-Four Years, the Life of a Hunter: Being Reminiscences of Meshach Browning, a Maryland Hunter and Trapper (Hardcover) - Hardcover

$47.50

by Meshach Browning (Author)Meshach Browning spent decades as a professional hunter and trapper of bears, boars and deer in rural Maryland during the early 1800s - this is his story, in his own words. Born in modest circumstances, Browning grew up at a time when the USA as a nation was in its infancy, with much of the population living in rural areas. From his youth, the author vowed to be self-sufficient, leaving his home and first love to hone his hunting skills. Returning with money gained...

The Still Hunter: The Classic Guide Book to Stealthy Hunting of Deer; How to Track, Shoot and Maintain Your Equipment and Hunting Rifle (Hardcover) - Hardcover

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by Theodore Van Dyke (Author)The Still Hunter is a classic guide to hunting deer in rugged terrain - dating to the late-19th century, many of this book's lessons remain valuable, relevant and highly useful to this day. A book long appreciated by hunting enthusiasts all over the world, The Still Hunter was the first book of its kind: offering detailed guidance and step-by-step instruction in a manner both lucid and demonstrative, at the time it appeared in 1882 deer hunting was a practice shro...

The Still Hunter: The Classic Guide Book to Stealthy Hunting of Deer; How to Track, Shoot and Maintain Your Equipment and Hunting Rifle - Paperback

$21.58

De Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi - Paperback

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by Philippo Di Vadi (Author)This book is a simple, straight forward translation of Philippo di Vadi's "De Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi" (1482), which covers a theoretical framework for the Italian longsword as well as plays of the sword, sword in armor, spear, poleaxe, and dagger. Number of Pages: 102 Dimensions: 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 07, 2019

Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand - Paperback

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by Martin Crotty (Editor), Robert Hess (Editor)Sport and war have been closely linked in Australian and New Zealand society since the nineteenth century. Sport has, variously, been advocated as appropriate training for war, lambasted as a distraction from the war effort, and resorted to as an escape from wartime trials and tribulations. War has limited the fortunes of some sporting codes - and some individuals - while others have blossomed in the changed circumstances. The chapters in this bo...

Sport Facility Operations Management: A Global Perspective - Paperback

$124.72

by Eric C. Schwarz (Author), Stacey A. Hall (Author), Simon Shibli (Author)Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Sport Facility Operations Management goes beyond the basic theories of sport facility management to include relevant practical professional experiences connecting facilities, people, and technology. This is a comprehensive and engaging textbook introducing cutting-edge concepts and best practice in sport facility operations management. Each chapter contains real-world...

Secrets of Drunken Boxing: The Eight Immortals - Paperback

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by Neil Ripski (Author)The Ba Xian or Eight Immortals are famous throughout Taoist legend and Chinese mythology. Each of the immortals is important in the Ma style of Drunken fist as archetypal templates for the practitioner. In this book, each of the eight are revealed not as legendary figures but as useful tools for the Drunken practitioner to improve their understanding of the style and reach its highest level. Not only learning the movements of the art but the internal change represented ...

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by Ron Willetts (Author)A young lifeguard experiences the perils of the ocean on the Jersey Shore after witnessing a drowning death on the beach. He learns the skills and knowledge necessary for saving and protecting lives in an often unforgiving and unpredictable sea. He will soon be the difference between life and death by drowning on the notorious Black Sunday on Labor Day Weekend, when the ocean is often turbulent and most threatening to unsuspecting swimmers. Number of Pages: 42 Dimensio...

A Social and Political History of Everton and Liverpool Football Clubs: The Split, 1878-1914 - Paperback

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by David Kennedy (Author)This book focuses on the advent of professional football in Liverpool and, in particular, the formation of Everton and Liverpool football clubs and their development prior to World War I. This book details the factors that led to the early dominance within Liverpool of Everton FC, and addresses the complexity of the dispute within that club leading to the later formation of Liverpool FC by expelled club members. This book also highlights, via a comparative study, the ...

Functional Anatomy for Sport and Exercise: A Quick A-To-Z Reference - Paperback

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by Clare Milner (Author)Functional Anatomy for Sport and Exercise: A Quick A-to-Z Reference is the most user-friendly and accessible available reference to human musculoskeletal anatomy in its moving, active context. Fully updated and revised, the second edition features more illustrations to enhance student learning and an expanded hot topics section to highlight key areas of research in sport and exercise.An accessible format makes it easy for students to locate clear, concise explanations ...