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How to play the position of Blindside Winger (No. 11): A practical guide for the player, coach and family in the sport of rugby union - Paperback

$13.43

by Chris Miles (Author)The purpose of this book is to provide the player, family, coach and player's support network with the information needed for positional excellence in the position of Blindside Winger (No. 11) in rugby union. The objectives of this book are: 1. To provide the reader with an understanding of the natural physical and mental development of young players in the sport of rugby union. 2. To explain the demands of rugby union and use that information to help guide the player's...

How to Play the Position of Openside Flanker (No.7): A practical guide for the player, coach and family in the sport of rugby union - Paperback

$20.25

by Chris Miles (Author)The purpose of this book is to provide the player, family, coach and player's support network with the information needed for positional excellence in the position of Blindside flanker (No. 6) in rugby union. The objectives of this book are: 1. To provide the reader with an understanding of the natural physical and mental development of young players in the sport of rugby union. 2. To explain the demands of rugby union and use that information to help guide the player's...

The dharma of surfing: wisdom from the water for life - Hardcover

$37.44

by Sally Anne MacKinnon (Author), Scott Johnson (Photographer), Huon MacKinnon-Farnworth (Photographer)"Surfing is more than standing up on a surfboard. It is, I believe, the language of 'Oceanspeak'; of feet on waves, of heart in sky, of breath and body in synch with Mother Nature. Perhaps if we surf with a spirit of sharing, connection, love, mindfulness, gratitude, humility, joyfulness, awareness, playfulness and curiosity, then we might also take those qualities further into our lives as ...

Adults Guide To Better Swimming - Paperback

$14.33

by Katie Smith (Author) Number of Pages: 98 Dimensions: 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: July 08, 2019

How to play the position of Inside Centre (No. 12): A practical guide for the player, coach and family in the sport of rugby union - Paperback

$20.25

by Chris Miles (Author)The purpose of this book is to provide the player, family, coach and player's support network with the information needed for positional excellence in the position of Inside Centre (No. 12) in rugby union. The objectives of this book are: 1. To provide the reader with an understanding of the natural physical and mental development of young players in the sport of rugby union. 2. To explain the demands of rugby union and use that information to help guide the player's de...

How to play the position of Openside Winger(No. 14): A practical guide for the player, coach and family in the sport of rugby union - Paperback

$20.25

by Chris Miles (Author)The purpose of this book is to provide the player, family, coach and player's support network with the information needed for positional excellence in the position of Openside Winger (No. 14) in rugby union. The objectives of this book are: 1. To provide the reader with an understanding of the natural physical and mental development of young players in the sport of rugby union. 2. To explain the demands of rugby union and use that information to help guide the player's ...

How I Became The Fittest Woman On Earth: My Story So Far - Paperback

$43.18

by Tia-Clair Toomey (Author)I have loved to compete since primary school; where I lived for sport, particularly running, and would push myself to the limit to become better than yesterday. It may come as a surprise to you, but I always came second. I was always the underdog, that person who just fell short. I never gave up, I just felt that fire in my belly get stronger and stronger - I wanted do more, be more, achieve more.The day I finally came first was something I had always dreamed of. A...

Surfing as a dance: How one woman found grace in and out of the water - Hardcover

$40.32

by Sally Anne MacKinnon (Author)This is the story of a woman who accidentally resurrected her lifelong dream of surfing at the age of 46. In an improbable twist of fate she became a surf instructor at 50. Sally MacKinnon walked out of a career as a professional environmental protector with a PhD in Adult Education, to reinvent herself as a fitness, yoga and surfing instructor on Queensland's Gold Coast. She also took up the practice of Zen. But this is more than a story about surfing and rei...

Tom's Law: How to Succeed as a Personal Trainer - Paperback

$17.08

by Tom Law (Author)Discover the secrets to success in the personal training industry.After spending a lifetime working on all aspects of group and personal training, here, in this one book, Tom Law presents the habits and techniques that have helped his business thrive.Learn how to handle all types of clients, how to prepare for new challenges, and how to keep things fresh and energised. Learn it from someone who has made all the mistakes and then some. Keep Tom's Law close by, and you will f...

Basic Soccer Drills for Kids: 150 Soccer Coaching and Training Drills, Tactics and Strategies to Improve Kids Soccer Skills and IQ - Paperback

$35.98

by Chest Dugger (Author)Are you looking to take your kids' soccer game to the next level? Check out this guide for youth soccer players (under 15 years) used by coaches, parents and players alike. Soccer is the most popular team sport in the world. It is perfect for kids to play. It is safe, simple and the skills required can be easily acquired. Becoming an expert player requires high levels of dedication, natural athleticism and innate skills. Any girl or boy can take to the sport and find ...

Soccer Intelligence: Soccer Training Tips To Improve Your Spatial Awareness and Intelligence In Soccer - Paperback

$33.10

by Chest Dugger (Author)Discover the one quality that all great soccer players have in common that sets them apart from the rest.A commonly asked question amongst the soccer community is what makes a great player? What made Pele, Maradona or Ronaldo exceptional instead of good? What is the last magical piece of the cake to become a world-famous soccer player?Well, there is no magic formula to become the next Messi, but there is one key quality that every top soccer player must possess that ...

Soccer Fitness: Workout Routines, Secrets and Strategies to Improve Your Soccer Fitness - Paperback

$35.98

by Chest Dugger (Author) Are you a skilled soccer player who can't make it big? Is it because of your lack of physical and mental fitness?This book will provide an excellent way to help with soccer fitness for players and coaches. The book will look at fitness for soccer and consider how this reflects and differs from general fitness. It will offer examples of ways in which players can enhance their endurance for playing soccer. It will also look at the kind of fitness specifically needed for...

Soccer Offense: Tips and Drills to Break Down Defensive Soccer Teams - Paperback

$33.10

by Chest Dugger (Author)Soccer is the most popular team sport in the world. It incites passion in players, pundits and supporters and leads to enormous loyalties to followers. It is the simplest of games, but one upon which tactical skills can be layered as we might find in the closest of chess matches. But the aspect of soccer that lifts the crowds to their feet, gets them cheering and, usually, offers the greatest thrills to players and supporters alike is when a team attacks. The superb pi...

Soccer Shooting Tips: Soccer Coaching and Training Tips to Improve Your Soccer Shooting Power and Accuracy - Paperback

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by Chest Dugger (Author)Is your soccer team getting a lot of chances but unable to score? Or you are personally unable to score goals as a striker? Take your soccer shooting skills to the next level with our book Read below: If you do not shoot, you cannot score. That lesson must be instilled into players right from the first time they kick a football. Of course, we want every player to develop game awareness, to know when a pass is the best option, but if players become concerned about cri...

Soccer Mastery: The little things that make a big difference: Habits, Secrets and Strategies that will escalate your game to the next level - Paperback

$33.10

by Chest Dugger (Author)What do Pearl Harbor, McDonald's, Graceland and a soccer game have in common?The mind thinks between 60,000 - 80,000 thoughts a day. That's an average of 2500 - 3,300 thoughts per hour.Yet most of those thoughts happen unconsciously and dictate your behavior.People act based on their unconscious habits and you end up......biting your nails while you wait for the next epiphany ...avoiding eye contact with the people next to you on the bus ...eating junk food to reward y...

The Trail Running Guidebook: For all trail runners who want to Perform Wilder - Paperback

$25.90

by Hanny Allston (Author)The Find Your Feet Trail Running Guidebook provides athletes of any ability a safe pathway of preparation to their chosen adventures. Hanny Allston's personal coaching methodologies focus on sustainable, long-term health, training and performance successes.The Trail Running Guidebook contains a snapshot of key lessons that Hanny has learnt on her journey to becoming a world champion and elite trail running record holder. To help you find your feet in the sport of trai...

Soccer Skills: Improve Your Team's Possession and Passing Skills through Top Class Drills - Paperback

$35.98

by Chest Dugger (Author)Are you looking to improve your soccer skills and get a stronger team? This book is the answer to your questions. Soccer is the world's most popular sport. In the Summer of 2018 the latest World Cup Finals take place in Russia, with some of the best (and, perhaps, luckiest) teams in the world participating. The competition will see teams divided into mini leagues, based on their world rankings and a draw. The top two teams from each group go forward to the knock out s...

Soccer Drills: A 100 Soccer Drills to Improve Your Skills, Strategies and Secrets - Paperback

$35.98

by Chest Dugger (Author)Whether known as football or, as in the US, soccer; the 'beautiful game' is the most popular sport in the world. The best players earn millions of dollars per year, and the greatest clubs are icons in their regions. Children love putting down a couple of jerseys and having a kick around. It is, globally, the team sport that has the greatest public participation and, at the highest level such as the World Cup, top leagues and cup finals, matches are watched live by tens...

Support Your Local League: A South-East Asian Football Odyssey - Paperback

$28.78

by Antony Sutton (Author), Retta Laraway (Designed by)With the 2014 World Cup as a backdrop, British expat Antony Sutton takes us on a journey as he meets and learns about the people who play, coach and follow football in South East Asia. Along the way he meets football hooligans, a member of the 1990 Cameroon World Cup squad, and numerous players and coaches, both well known and some merely just making a living. It is a gentle, humorous, rollicking and revealing insight that is part 'boys ...

Journey to 100: How to Run Your First 100km Ultramarathon - and Love It - Paperback

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by Nick Muxlow (Author), Joe Friel (Foreword by)Have you ever wanted to run a 100km ultramarathon? And not just run it, but enjoy it and make it to the finish?But what will it take to improve your ultra running and achieve the results you want?The biggest challenge ultra runners face is not their lack of motivation or determination. The biggest challenge ultra runners face is their lack of preparation and training.Journey to 100 will teach you how to prepare and train for your next ultramarat...

The Open Boat: The Australian 18-Footer, Origin, Evolution and Construction - Paperback

$42.12

by Ian Hugh Smith (Author)For over a hundred years the Aussie 18-footer was the dominant Open Boat racing class on Sydney Harbour, the Brisbane River, many ports up and down the NSW and Queensland coasts and in the early days, Perth. But where did they come from? Folklore tells us that they evolved out of working boats, but did they?In an extensively researched presentation, boatbuilder and sailor Ian Hugh Smith traces the origin of the 18-footer in the nineteenth century and its evolution in...

Facing Fear Head On: True Stories From Women on the Water - Paperback

$18.79

by Parry Jackie (Editor), Wright Shelley (Editor), Blair Lisa (Foreword by)A collection of inspirational and practical stories from women on the water. Gasp, cry and laugh out loud as forty-six women from around the globe reveal their deepest fears and coping strategies while voyaging on (and in) the world's waterways. Experience a unique journey and witness the emotional turmoil that fear can create as dreams, and loved ones, are threatened. These true tales of raw emotion and courage wil...

Just Magnificent: Lessons from a Life in Golf - Paperback

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by Gillian Ednie (As Told to), Twite Brian (As Told by)With forewords from Gary Player and Mike Clayton, the inspirational life story of Brian Twite OAM, Just Magnificent - Lessons from a Life in Golf, reveals Brian's 'getting of wisdom' and his timeless fundamentals of golf and life. The book is about Brian's love of golf and the wisdom he has accumulated over his early years as a teaching professional in the United Kingdom, and his last 60-plus years at The Metropolitan Golf Club in Melbour...

Purpose Driven Movement: A System for Functional Training - Paperback

$41.69

by Tarek Michael-Chouja (Author), Dan Henderson (Author)Are you a personal trainer, performance coach or fitness enthusiast who wants to understand the world of functional training?Do you want to know how to incorporate tools like kettlebells, battle ropes and functional bags into your workouts in a purposeful way? Are you looking for a logical, comprehensive and road-tested guide to functional movement and fitness?Look no further.Dan and Tarek, co-founders of the Functional Training Institut...

99 Tips to Get Better at Spearfishing: Actionable information to improve your spearfishing - Paperback

$35.10

by Levi Brown (Author), Skye Bailey Howard (Illustrator), Jessie Cripps (Contribution by)99 Tips to Get Better at Spearfishing is the ultimate spearfishing bookSourced from 3 years interviewing the worlds best spearos. This guide has one goal, to make you a better a spearoFully Illustrated with love by some of the worlds best spearfishing photographers as well as submission from the Noob Spearo community99 Tips is jammed packed with tips, tricks and advice from spearfishing legends like Chris...

Mind Hack Your Golf: Improve Your Game - Paperback

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by Margaret Potter (Author)How would you like to take charge of your mind and play your golf on your own terms? While most mental skills books for golf adopt a narrow focus on teaching skills that target performance, this book uses a holistic approach and provides tools to organize your thinking. You will learn to direct your mind with focused purpose to help you achieve your goals. Mind Hack Your Golf explores the 5P's of a great golf mind: 1. Preparation - explores how to create the right...

The Faith of 50 Million: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture - Paperback

$54.00

by Christopher H. Evans (Editor), William R. Herzog II (Editor)The Faith of 50 Million features essays by religion scholars who analyze the relationship between baseball and theology in American culture. Topics include the sense of national identity, baseball and civil religion, "saints and sinners," baseball and the American Dream with regard to racial integration, women and baseball, baseball as metaphor, and baseball as spiritual autobiography. Readers will love this fascinating intersecti...

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by M. Wuttrich (Author), Laila Savolainen (Illustrator)Little Dirt Bike loves to zoom through puddles and get very muddy. But when his owner puts him away with his engine splattered with mud, trouble arises. They both learn the importance of a bath before bed. Number of Pages: 26 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 02, 2019

Play It as It Lies: Golf and the Spiritual Life - Paperback

$24.84

by Mike Linder (Author)Mike Linder believes that golf is the most spiritual of all sports. Whether it is a perfect drive by a novice, a duffer sinking an impossible putt, or a miraculous chip shot, these totally unpredictable occurrences reveal a mystery that, if explored with patience and alertness, can, like religion, lead a person to deeper, ineffable truths. Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.41 x 8.5 x 5.53 IN Publication Date: March 01, 1999

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics - Hardcover

$34.00

by Daniel James Brown (Author)Soon to be a major motion picture directed by George Clooney The #1 New York Times-bestselling story about the American Olympic rowing triumph in Nazi Germany--from the author of Facing the Mountain. For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times--the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at...

The Essential Jackie Chan Source Book - Paperback

$20.95

by Jeff Rovin (Author), Kathy Tracy (With)Jackie Chan-mania swept America when Rumble in the Bronx gave movie audiences a thrilling look at the athletic actor known for performing his own jaw-dropping stunts. The Essential Jackie Chan Sourcebook reveals everything you want to know about the dare-devil dynamo who is part Buster Keaton, part Bruce Lee, and a truly unique performer in his own right -- and whose devoted cult following is exploding into international stardom. With straight talk ab...

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by Jimmy Houston (Author), Steven D. Price (With)One of the best-known, most-loved TV fishing personalities, Jimmy Houston has become a bass legend. Two-time winner of the B.A.S.S. Angler of the Year award, Jimmy now brings you A of the wonderful, entertaining, and instructive stories he's gathered over the years.... CAUGHT ME A BIG 'UN... and then I let him go Anyone who loves fishing -- on a lake, pond, river, or ocean -- is guaranteed to love Jimmy Houston's insightful, instructive, and...