Master all of the archery skills essential to shooting straight and true. Archery: Steps to Success provides in-depth, progressive instruction with accompanying illustrations for each phase of the shot-sighting and aiming, shooting form, and anchoring-for all forms of archery. Build a solid skill base; learn the details of choosing, fitting, and tuning equipment; and then refine your technique and sharpen your mental skills. By practicing the 91 drills and using the scoring systems to gauge your progress, you'll develop consistent technique and shot patterns in no time. Whatever the target, this manual will help you hit the mark. 11/2/2005 copyright, 224 pages.
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She's performed at the highest levels, from the Olympics to the world championships to the Goodwill Games. Now, in Artistry on Ice: Figure Skating Skills & Style , 1994 Olympic silver medalist Nancy Kerrigan shares her knowledge to give you the inside edge on winning competitive events. From body alignment and effective routine elements to refining footwork, music, and expression, Artistry on Ice: Figure Skating Skills & Style gives you an in-depth look at the sport from the perspective of one of its champions. After a quick look at the basics, Kerrigan concentrates on advanced techniques for jumps, spins, moves in the field, ice dancing, pairs, and synchronized skating. Four chapters are devoted solely to competition, covering the music, choreography, costumes, and other elements to create the total package. Filled with practical information, Artistry on Ice: Figure Skating Skills & Style also includes renowned trainer Igor Burdenko's insights on physical preparation for the spor
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Great athletes make difficult moves look effortless with a combination of skill, strength, and balance. Traditional conditioning builds a fitness base, but modern sports training takes into account athletic movement patterns. The Athletic Body in Balance book and DVD first of its kind to show you how to train for smooth, fluid movement and prevent muscle imbalances, mobility restrictions, stability problems, and injuries. Physical therapist and sports conditioning expert Gray Cook has proven the effectiveness of his approach through the performances of athletes in the NFL, NBA, NHL, WNBA, and Reebok® University's sports training system. Whereas other books concentrate on maximizing your strengths, the Athletic Body in Balance book focuses on exposing and overcoming your weaknesses to form a foundation for long-term training gains. Cook will help you identify functional weaknesses; correct imbalances; explore your potential; and refine sport-specific movement skills such as jump
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Great athletes make difficult moves look effortless with a combination of skill, strength, and balance. Traditional conditioning builds a fitness base, but modern sports training takes into account athletic movement patterns. The Athletic Body in Balance book and video is the first of its kind to show you how to train for smooth, fluid movement and prevent muscle imbalances, mobility restrictions, stability problems, and injuries. Physical therapist and sports conditioning expert Gray Cook has proven the effectiveness of his approach through the performances of athletes in the NFL, NBA, NHL, WNBA, and Reebok® University's sports training system. Whereas other books concentrate on maximizing your strengths, the Athletic Body in Balance book focuses on exposing and overcoming your weaknesses to form a foundation for long-term training gains. Cook will help you identify functional weaknesses; correct imbalances; explore your potential; and refine sport-specific movement skills suc
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Athletic Development offers a rare opportunity to learn and apply a career full of knowledge from the best. World-renowned strength and conditioning coach Vern Gambetta condenses the wisdom he's gained through more than 40 years of experience of working with athletes across sports, age groups, and levels of competition, including members of the Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, and U.S. men's 1998 World Cup soccer team. The result is an information-packed, myth-busting explanation of the most effective methods and prescriptions in each facet of an athlete's physical preparation. Gambetta includes never-before-published and ready-to-use training approaches in sport-specific demands analysis, work capacity enhancements, movement skills development, long- and short-term training program progressions, and rest and regeneration techniques. Athletic Development explains what works, what doesn't, and why. Gambetta's no-nonsense approach emphasizes results that pay off in the competit
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With women's sport performance at an all-time high and continuing to rise, you need to be faster, stronger, and more agile in order to compete. Yet, until now, no training manual has specifically addressed female athletes' physiological, biomechanical, and anatomical needs. Athletic Strength for Women presents effective exercise prescriptions to help you build a strength base and then convert that strength to speed and power in competition. The result is not only better performance but also fewer injuries. For example, exercises and programs for the lower body will improve hamstring and quadriceps strength ratios, providing enhanced takeoff power and landing strength and better protection for the knee. More than 120 targeted exercises and drills are provided to improve throwing, striking, swinging, and other upper-body skills; starting, stopping, jumping, cutting, turning, pivoting, and other lower-body maneuvers; and overall power and speed. Written by David Oliver, former streng
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Completely overhauled and updated, Athletic Taping and Bracing, Second Edition, is a leading text in its field. Like the popular first edition, it continues to integrate the science of anatomy and injury mechanisms with the practice of athletic taping and bracing. The new edition is updated to reflect changes in the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) Education Council's 'Competencies in Athletic Training' and the fourth edition of the NATA Board of Certification's 'Role Delineation Study.' Both students and professionals will use this text time and again as a reliable reference. Athletic Taping and Bracing, Second Edition, has been significantly improved with the addition of more than 450 full-color illustrations and photos. These include 60 superb three-dimensional anatomical images from Primal Pictures. The photos that illustrate taping sequences feature tape with darkened edges that enable readers to distinguish the layers and patterns of the tape applied in each ste
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Completely overhauled and updated, Athletic Taping and Bracing, Second Edition, is a leading text in its field. Like the popular first edition, it continues to integrate the science of anatomy and injury mechanisms with the practice of athletic taping and bracing. The new edition is updated to reflect changes in the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) Education Council's 'Competencies in Athletic Training' and the fourth edition of the NATA Board of Certification's 'Role Delineation Study.' Both students and professionals will use this text time and again as a reliable reference. Athletic Taping and Bracing, Second Edition, has been significantly improved with the addition of more than 450 full-color illustrations and photos. These include 60 superb three-dimensional anatomical images from Primal Pictures. The photos that illustrate taping sequences feature tape with darkened edges that enable readers to distinguish the layers and patterns of the tape applied in each ste
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The most well-rounded opponents can take charge of points and hit winners from anywhere on the court. While it may seem like these players have no weaknesses, Attack the All-Court Player will show you how to recognize their patterns and capitalize on the opportunities you create. See key strategies for the all-court game, the shot making and tactics to keep them off balance, and the best drills and games to reinforce these skills in practice. It's like hiring your own elite-level tennis coach! Hosted by Paul Annacone, coach of Tim Henman and former coach of Pete Sampras, TENNIS Magazine's Tactical Tennis Series reveals the key strategies and tactics necessary for overcoming any type of opponent. Human Kinetics DVDs are coded for universal playback and can be played in all regions of the world. 7/11/2006 copyright, approximately 40 minutes.
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Attention and Motor Skill Learning explores how a person's focus of attention affects motor performance and, in particular, the learning of motor skills. It synthesizes the knowledge coming from recent research examining the effects of attentional focus on motor performance and learning, and it provides practical implications for both instructional and rehabilitative settings. Attention and Motor Skill Learning challenges traditional views that the method of learning a motor skill involves focusing attention on each part of the skill and internalizing proper execution. Instead, author Gabriele Wulf argues that the learning of new motor skills suffers when attentional focus is on the coordination of movements. When attention is directed to the desired movement effect, however, performance levels rise. Not only is a higher level of performance often achieved faster with an external rather than an internal attention focus, but the skill is retained better. The advantages of external f
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Australian Football: Steps to Success provides the essential skills players and coaches need to master the game and build successful teams. This book contains comprehensive instruction on the techniques and tactics that have helped top player Andrew McLeod become a two-time Norm Smith medallist and three-time All Australian. McLeod and football coach and teacher Trevor Jaques draw on years of experience to help you prepare for and play the game. From basic ball handling to more challenging ruckwork, Australian Football: Steps to Success provides full technical guidance. Carefully selected drills speed the learning process and help monitor progress. You then apply those skills on the field with the tactical approaches essential to commanding every facet of the game. The final training guidelines ensure that practice sessions are varied, efficient, and fun while physically preparing players to execute the skills and withstand the rigors of one of the most challenging team sports. 10
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Seventeen of the game's top collegiate coaches have teamed up with the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) to bring you the game's most comprehensive assortment of practice activities. The Baseball Drill Book features 198 drills proven to improve individual and team performance. Former Fresno State coach Bob Bennett, Ripon College's Gordie Gillespie, Lewis-Clark State's Ed Cheff, Wichita State's Gene Stephenson, and South Carolina's Ray Tanner are among the greats who present their best practice drills and insights for improving these skills: Conditioning and warm-up Throwing and catching Base running and sliding Hitting and bunting Pitching Fielding Offensive and defensive tactics Each drill follows a concise format. First, the primary skill or tactic to be enhanced is identified, then procedure and setup details are provided. Illustrations for proper technique are also included, followed by coaching insight to help you sharpen players' understanding of the game's finer
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Now you can combine the detailed instruction of the Baseball Skills & Drills book with the dynamic visual presentation of the DVD for the ultimate baseball package! Baseball Skills & Drills is the most comprehensive training book available for coaches and players at all levels. Packed with techniques that accelerate learning and improve execution, as well as tips and insights on how to better organize practices and correct common errors, you will learn the best skills and drills for improving overall performance at every stage of the game. With the ABCA's Baseball Skills & Drills DVD , you will learn how to organize better practices, gain a better understanding of what drills you need to develop fundamental baseball skills, and improve your chances at a winning season. Developed in conjunction with the American Baseball Coaches Association-the world's leading baseball coaching organization-the Baseball Skills & Drills book and DVD feature coaches from three of the nation's to
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With the ABCA's new Baseball Skills & Drills Series DVD , you can learn how to organize better practices, gain a better understanding of what drills you need to develop fundamental baseball skills, and improve your chances at a winning season! Developed in conjunction with the American Baseball Coaches Association-the world's leading baseball coaching organization-the Baseball Skills & Drills Series DVD features coaches from three of the nation's top collegiate baseball programs. The DVD is divided into three sections: Hitting and Baserunning features Mark Johnson as the on-camera expert. Johnson is a successful coach at Texas A&M University's baseball program and a highly respected clinician and teacher. Pitching and Catching features Pat McMahon during his head coaching stint at Mississippi State University (1998-2001). McMahon was named head coach at the University of Florida in 2001 and is recognized as one of college baseball's top pitching coaches. Fielding features J
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By using Basketball Fun & Games: 50 Skill-Building Activities for Children , you can make learning basketball a positive experience for children, choose from 50 activities and games to build skills and tactical understanding and work toward the national standards, take the 'kill' out of 'drill' to put fun into learning what can be a complicated game, quickly locate developmentally appropriate games for 5- to 12-year-old children. Teachers, coaches, and recreation leaders who are looking to increase the effectiveness of their teaching while making learning enjoyable need look no further. Basketball Fun & Games: 50 Skill-Building Activities for Children contains age- and developmentally appropriate activities that are the antidote to the 'same old, same old' drills that take the fun out of learning basketball and fitness skills. And these activities are more than just appropriate; they're engaging and creative, and they leave participants eager to come back for more. Basketball Fun
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Learn the essentials of winning basketball from a coach who did it at the high school, college, and professional levels. The Basketball Handbook presents a proven player- and team-development game plan founded on the five principles of success. Coach Lee Rose teaches the essential techniques and tactics, with drills and tips on executing them when the game's on the line. His performance rating system is a superb evaluation tool, effective in identifying players' strengths and shoring up weaknesses in all facets. Rose's 45 years of maximizing player and team potential shine through as he emphasizes key skills and shares the savvy for advancing through each competitive level of the game. The Basketball Handbook will help you master each fundamental, then add new dimensions to individual and team performance on the offensive and defensive ends of the court as well as in special situations. Use it in-season and during the off-season for greater success on the court. 7/26/2004 copyrig
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Make the most of every possession with the help of Basketball Offenses & Plays. Inside you'll find 22 man-to-man offenses, 15 zone offenses, 51 quick-scoring and delay offenses, 26 special situational plays, and 62 inbound plays. Each section contains a variety of sets and plays, all clearly explained and diagrammed. The presentation will assist you in selecting the best options for your offense based on the game situation, your personnel on the court, your preferred playing style, and your opponent's personnel and tactics. Basketball Offenses & Plays provides all the information you need to make the right call every time your team has the ball. 3/22/2004 copyright, 344 pages.
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Master all the important skills of basketball and take your game to the next level. Basketball, Second Edition: Steps to Success provides in-depth, progressive instruction in techniques and tactics, including detailed tutoring on shooting and 111 drills featuring a scoring system to gauge your progress. As you build your skill base, you'll learn how to make all the right moves in game situations, whether it's executing the correct footwork when defending screens or making the right pass for a winning basket. Highly regarded coach, teacher, and clinician Hal Wissel will help you execute each technique proficiently and consistently on the court. Improve your game. Basketball, Second Edition: Steps to Success will help you develop the total package of tools to achieve your goals on the court. 8/26/2004 copyright, 232 pages.
Price: 18.95
