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This book contains a classic guide to the game of curling, looking at its history, equipment, different styles and techniques, and much more. Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice towards a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules and shuffleboard. Full of interesting historical information and practical instructions, this volume will appeal to curling enthusiasts with a particular interest in the history and development of the much-loved winter sport. Contents include: "A National Game", "A Game of Long Ago", "The Principles of Curling", "The Art of Curling", "The Skip", "The Single-Handed Game", "Curling in Scotland", "Curling in Switzerland", "Curling in Canada", and "Memories of the Ice". Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.

This book is a comprehensive resource for coaching the 4-3-3 formation at all levels. The level of detail and tactical solutions included will help you emulate how top coaches, such as Pep Guardiola, Maurizio Sarri and Jürgen Klopp use the 4-3-3 to great success.This book goes into great detail to show the movement of all players within the 4-3-3 formation in all phases, tactical situations and against different formations. This will enable you to see all the solutions, in order to optimise your team's tactical awareness and performance.Tactical solutions are provided for all game situations, in relation to how to counteract the opponent's positioning, organisation and decision making.This book will teach you to coordinate and solve specific game situations in a flexible way with many different options and tactical solutions. As a coach, you can train these patterns of play repetitively, so that the players' reading of the game becomes automatic and the team is quickly able to recognise and find the best solutions to solve every conceivable tactical situation.This book includes: Goalkeeper's Distribution from Goal Kicks Build Up Play to Counteract Different Types of Pressing Build Up Play Against Different Formations The Creating Phase The Finishing Phase The Defensive Phase How to Organise Training Sessions 25 Practices to Apply Tactical Solutions within the 4-3-3 in All PhasesA well-organised team, in which all players know how to recognise different tactical situations and support each other, is able to enhance the characteristics of the individual and allow them to produce higher quality performances. However, technically skilled players still need to be able to communicate with each other and interact effectively. This shows how important the organisation of the game is.The aim of the book is to highlight the principles that coaches must know and use to organise the modern game system. Learn to create a fluid and flexible environment where players know how to recognise tactical processes and relate to each other within shapes and geometric structures, to solve specific tactical situations within different areas of the pitch.Massimo Lucchesi is a tactical expert with many top selling books, most recently winning the prestigious Italian FA (FIGC) Award for "Best Coaching Book" 2018 ('Liquid Organisation,' 2018 Allenatore.net) and has conducted over 100 football coaching tactics seminars across the world.Massimo never stops learning and has observed the training sessions of some of the best coaches in the world, such as Carlo Ancelotti, Luis Enrique, Antonio Conte, Pep Guardiola, Maurizio Sarri, Diego Simeone + many more.

Tactical Periodization is a proven successful football coaching method. All training is driven by tactical training. It allows you the coach, to improve all other attributes (technical, conditioning and decision making) at the same time, within every single tactical practice.You will learn how to use periodization to train your players at the correct intensity for each day of the week, making sure they are always prepared tactically, mentally and physically for competitive matches. Your players (and team) will react quicker, be sharper, and make better decisions in all tactical situations.Tactical Periodization also helps you accelerate your players' understanding of their positional roles and responsibilities in an efficient way, which ultimately improves the team's tactical performance.José Mourinho: "It's all planned and researched so we create these training sessions that are harder than a game. It gives us confidence knowing we have trained to a greater intensity."The "Game Model" guides the entire training process. Training must "model" the game through specific practices (specificity) that include all the tactical game principles designed by the coach. You will learn the principle of performance stabilisation, so you can maintain your team's high performance levels throughout a full season.José Mourinho: "For me, training means training in specificity, creating practices that allow me to enhance my principles of play." (in Oliveira et al., 2006)Juan Luis Delgado Bordonau PhD (UEFA PRO Coaching Licence, current ASPIRE Academy Qatar Elite Scouting Coordinator - previously Valencia CF / Villarreal CF Academy Technical Director) and José Alberto Mendez Villanueva PhD (Qatar Football Association Head of Fitness & ASPIRE Academy Qatar Head of Physiology) have produced a complete blueprint for Tactical Periodization to provide coaches with the tools to organise the whole football training process - from one specific training practice, to full season planning.This is your chance to learn the Tactical Periodization method which has been applied by top coaches, with José Mourinho being the most influential and successful. Other examples are Vitor Pereira, Leonardo Jardim, Brendan Rodgers, Marco Silva, Nuno Espírito Santo and André Villas-Boas. Many other top coaches (Pep Guardiola among them) have adopted part of these Tactical Periodization principles, building their training method around the development of a game model and its principles, using the tactical dimension to lead their training.This book includes the background and development of Tactical Periodization, the Methodological Principles, The Game Model (specificity), Tactical Organisation in the 4 Phases of the Game, Analysing the Previous Match Performance and the Next Opponent, Weekly Training Objectives, Training Sessions for a 1 Match Week and Training Sessions for a 2 Match Week.There are many Tactical Topics and Training Practices including: Building Up Play from the Back and Creating Overloads Against a Compact 4-4 Formation Attacking with "Third Man Runs" Reorganising into Defensive Block Positions Pressing as a Collective Unit + Fast Break Attack Dropping Off, Compactness and Counter Attack with Switch of Play Defending Direct Play into 2 Forwards and Winning the Second Ball

Vol 5: Svalbard and Jan MayenThe original, most complete and up-to-date guide for mariners to the coasts of Norway and Svalbard. Updated since 1978. Over 1000 pages and 1000 ports/anchorages in 5 vols.

For anyone who has ever dreamed of leaving it all behind and heading for the hills, survival expert and three-time New York Times bestselling author, Tim MacWelch, makes that a reality with How to Survive Off the Grid. Concrete, useful hints cover everything from raising chickens in your urban backyard to going totally off the grid in your all-solar log cabin. A guide for the modern homesteader this covers energy efficiency, finding and pumping your own water, keeping chickens, goats, bees, and other critters, and much more from a practical hands-on perspective. GET THERE Decide how far off the grid you want to get, choose your spot, and take the plunge (or adapt these hints to a more suburban or even urban lifestyle)Stake Your ClaimGimme ShelterWater or LifeThe Heat Is OnPower UpLIVE THERE Ensure you have enough to eat on a daily basis, and all year round. More than MealsVeggies for AllFruits and NutsAmber Waves of GrainBackyard CrittersGet Your GoatHave a Cow, ManFish & BugsSURVIVE THERE Eat nature's bounty, build a safe house and nurse yourself back to health The Long HaulHunt & FishLevel UpSafe as HousesBe Your own Doctor Bug Out! Into the Wild

Roger Federer's sporting exploits are well-known, but who is the man behind them? This book captures the Federer phenomenon over fifteen thematically arranged chapters. And there's no shortage of anecdotes: the book is as entertaining as Federer's game.

In The Biography of Leeds United, Telegraph journalist and lifelong fan, Rob Bagchi, chronicles a history that will educate, entertain and inform both old and new supporters. Packed with fresh stories from former players, managers and money men, the book is an affectionate, comprehensive and blackly humorous portrait of a club like no other.

The autobiography of Eddie Jones, the England Rugby head coach and one of the most respected coaches in sport.

Bodybuilding: The Complete Contest Preparation Handbook offers scientifically supported and experience-based guidelines to help you have your best show ever. There are detailed posing tips, food and fluid plans, strategies for contest weekend, and postshow recovery tactics.

The Orvis Guide to Stillwater Trout Fishing explains everything the aspiring stillwater fly fisher needs to be successful and build a sound foundation that will last through a lifetime plying stillwaters.

The first and only "virtual gallery" with all or almost all the models produced by the Maranello firm from 1947 to the present day, drawn by an artist of the calibre of Giorgio Alisi. Detailed technical files and texts by Leonardo Acerbi, an established historian of the marque, complete this unique overview of the Prancing Horse and its history.

This book, the first in Evro's new Formula 1 Greats series, covers one of the most revered Formula 1 cars ever made. Pete Lyons, Autosport's renowned Formula 1 reporter for part of the Lotus 72 era, explores the car's entire race-by-race career in his insightful commentary accompanying a magnificent array of over 300 photos

Thomas Gravesen was one of the last footballing mavericks, once dubbed 'a grenade with the pin pulled out'. Hailing from rural Denmark, he fulfilled his childhood dream of becoming a top player but never lost his unique identity, earning a reputation for his bizarre antics and eyebrow-raising behaviour. Gravesen lined up for Real Madrid's glamorous Galacticos and enjoyed colourful spells at European giants Hamburg, Everton and Celtic. Remembered as a cult hero at all of his past clubs, he is a truly fascinating individual. After abruptly ending his career and disappearing, he re-emerged years later in bizarre circumstances in Las Vegas. Did he really lose $54 million at cards? Did he really bring dynamite to training, and spend his summers in a dark basement? Known as a 'unicorn' due to his mysterious life, this is a fascinating, helter-skelter journey into the mind of 'Mad Dog'. Team-mates, coaches and friends recount what it was like to be swept up in the surreal whirlwind of the most unorthodox individual they've ever encountered.

';Besides drooling over the gorgeous photos, it is guaranteed that you will salivate over the recipes that accompany each adventure and hopefully utilize Morgan's sustainable outdoor cooking tips.' American Trail Running AssociationOutlandish is a sun-soaked starter manual to fueling your own epic, equal parts fuel for the body and food for the soul. In this guide, the canyoneering wordsmith and adventurer Morgan Sjogren shows how outdoor adventure can become your lifestyle. Through her riveting personal stories, flavorful recipes, and the book's gotta-go-there photographs, Sjogren shares her advice and lessons learned from years exploring the desert Southwest while living out of her canary-yellow Jeep Wrangler. Outlandish is a gorgeous guide to a more adventurous life.In Outlandish, Sjogren shows how to sleep better in a car, build a cooking fire, overcome calamity, repurpose bacon grease, leave no trace, sun-dry tomatoes on your car hood, cook food on a hot engine block, and select practical gear for your tailgate kitchen. Equipped with little more than Outlandish, a backpacking stove, a cooler, and a few staple foods, you can seek out your own adventures fueled by Sjogren's inspiring outdoor lifestyle as well as her favorite burritos, dandelion salads, campfire blondies, and prickly pear margaritas.Sjogren offers up dozens of recipes that draw from the places she's beenSedona, Bears Ears, Yosemite, Silverton, Utahand help her tell intoxicating tales of exploration and mishap. There are taco recipes remembered from the highest mountain in Mexico and ';50 Shades of Burritos' with flavors taken from around the Four Corners.This smart and meaningful guide comes straight from the Utah canyon country and deserts of Arizona to share lessons learned from a life lived in wilderness. Sjogren's exhilarating guide will stoke your desire for adventure while offering tools, tips, and tricks that can help you launch your epic.

Rediscover the simplicity and exhilaration of the outdoors by immersing yourself in this inspirational handbook.

England manager Gareth Southgate's decision to appoint Kane, still just twenty-three years old, as the team captain in 2017 could have been seen as premature, bringing with it pressure that could damage a young player's career. However, he knew that Kane, a modest, humble and inspiring figure was up to the task.Having lost faith in the national team, English fans weren't sure the players would even make it out of their group. No one could have predicted that this young and relatively inexperienced side would achieve their best result since 1990, or that their captain would win the tournament's Golden Boot with six goals. Perhaps most importantly for the team and their manager, they brought the country together to make for an unforgettable summer.While their eventual semi-final loss to Croatia came as a stinging disappointment, this is just the start for the team and their skipper, one of our most exciting players for a generation and a truly world-class English star.In this in-depth biography, bestselling sports writer Frank Worrall traces Kane's journey from an ordinary childhood in north London, growing up just a few miles from White Hart Lane, to the most remarkable tournament of his career.

The autobiography of one of the World''s leading Welsh Cob Breeders. A fascinating insight into the life of Ifor Lloyd. Welsh cobs are world famous. Ifor details some of his dealings; showing and exporting animals to far flung lands and the challenges of making a living as a breeder.

Who is The Secret Cyclist and why all the secrecy?"Every public aspect of our lives is so tightly controlled that being truly honest is all but impossible in a newspaper interview, never mind a whole book.

Stories of the toughest cyclists of all time, told by The Velominati, originators of The Rules.

Borussia Dortmund are a very successful team that focus on high tempo pressing, preventing through balls and preparing for the transition from attack to defence. Jurgen Klopp has led his Borussia Dortmund team to two Bundesliga titles, one German cup and the Champions League final in 2013. Athanasios Terzis is a UEFA 'B' licence coach and has provided a full and extensive analysis of Jurgen Klopp's Borussia Dortmund team. This tactical blueprint is explained clearly with supporting diagrams, notes and detailed descriptions.This analysis has been used to produce 14 sessions (53 practices) including functional practices, opposed/unopposed zone play, game situations and small sided games.

Javier Mallo is currently a fitness coach at Real Madrid. He has previously been a fitness coach at Manchester City (2 years) and Atletico de Madrid (4 years). In this book, he explains how to create, organise and structure your football specific fitness training sessions.Periodization is the systematic planning of fitness training. This book helps you solve the problem of organising the training loads in order to achieve the highest team performance possible at the different stages of a season. Within this book we provide fitness training which includes practices that develop all the attributes needed for an individual and a team, such as warm ups with and without the ball, conditioning, technical, tactical, competitive small sided games, attacking, defending, the transition from defence to attack and attack to defence.The fitness practices in this book are very creative and aim to replicate competitive matches, so the players get used to making quick decisions and solving problems that arise during competition.Fitness coaches need to have a profound knowledge of the game, as all the practices in a session have to come together in a common way of thinking related to the tactical organisation of the team. It may be possible that in the following years the term fitness coach will lose all its value and will simply be replaced by coach or assistant coach.

Part 1. Preparation for life and battle. Train your body and mind in the ways of the ancient warriors of Thailand. A collection and guide of exercise postures in Muay Thai and Muay Boran. Introduces exciting postures that have been surrounded in secrecy and never written down before. . Develop strength and flexibility. Boost energy and immune system . Increase longevity, vitality . Combat disease, illness and injury . Experience extreme energy and power. Gain a powerful core-abs and back. Master the freedom to move without limitations, be able to do the splits and the advanced movements of martial arts . Transform exercise postures into powerful self-defence movements. Progress in Muaythai or MMA (Mix Martial Arts). For beginners and experts. Includes nine lethal and easy to learn self-defence strikes. WARNINGSuitable for responsible adults only.

This stunning photographic reference includes a fly-tying primer and a history of fly fishing. It also includes over 140 profiles of flies.