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  Mastering Wing Chun Kung Fu -...

  Shaun Rawcliffe

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  Building on the success of his acclaimed Wing Chun series, Sifu Shaun Rawcliffe presents his most comprehensive and advanced guide yet. Mastering Wing Chun Kung Fu is written for practitioners who already have a foundation in the art and want to refine, deepen and expand their skills with expert-level coaching and real-world insights.
  DRAWING ON MORE than 45 years of experience as both instructor and practitioner, Shaun moves beyond technical descriptions to deliver practical lessons that come alive through demonstration, explanation and application. With over 100 photographs and illustrations, detailed form analysis and training drills, this book equips martial artists with the tools to assess their own practice, sharpen their techniques and share knowledge with others.
  Inside, discover: The three classical empty-hand forms revisited with expanded explanations, applications and training methods, Core principles such as centreline theory, triangulation and elbow energy, explained with clarity and practicality, Drills, Chi Sau training and realistic approaches to kicking and striking, Advanced insights into using Wing Chun beyond the classroom, including awareness, reaction management and peripheral vision, Exclusive new material on ground fighting, plus introductory chapters on wooden dummy and weapons training as tasters for Shaun's specialist works.
  If you're looking for a deeper understanding, Mastering Wing Chun Kung Fu provides the principles, coaching tips and training strategies to elevate your practice.

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  Masters of Men - Rory Mcilroy...

  Liam Hayes

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  Masters of Men is the story of one journey taken, over half a century apart, by two outstanding golfers.
  But, this is more than a golf book. It's the story of two young men, and the people who filled their lives - the mentor who dominated Ken Venturi, the agent who loomed too large over Rory McIlroy, and the two young girls who became their first loves and lost their men as they became champions. Uniquely, it pits the incredible struggles and victories of perhaps the single most naturally talented golfer from the 1950s and '60s (Ken Venturi, US Open champion, 1964) against the game's most naturally talented golfer of today (Rory McIlroy, US Open champion, 2011). It puts them on the same tee boxes, on the same greens, on the same day.
  Masters of Men uniquely, and dramatically, brings together for two days, two remarkable golfers from two different ages in golf - on the final day of their greatest failure, and the final day of their most remarkable triumph. It weaves in elements of cultural and social history, examines the birth of two of the greatest golf courses in the United States, Augusta National and Congressional CC, and examines the journey undertaken by the game of golf, and its greatest players from generations past, from Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan, to Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, to Greg Norman and Tiger Woods. It is an extraordinary story and one that will appeal to both golf fans and the wider sport-reading public.

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  Run Faster from the 5K to the...

  Brad Hudson, Matt Fitzgerald

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  Learn how to run faster, unlock your potential, and reach peak performance with training advice from a former Olympic trials marathoner and coach to Olympians like Dathan Ritzenhein.  
   
  Hudson is the most innovative running coach to come along in a generation. Until now, only a handful of elite athletes have been able to benefit from his methods.  
   
  Now Run Faster from the 5K to the Marathon shows all runners how to coach themselves as confidently and effectively as Brad coaches his world-class athletes.  
   
  Becoming your own best coach is the ticket to running faster at any distance.  
   
  First you will learn to assess your abilities. Then you’ll learn how to devise a training program specifically geared to you. Filled with easy-to-follow sample training programs for distances ranging from the 5K to the marathon and abilities ranging from novice to  
  advanced, Run Faster is the cutting-edge guide for optimal performance.  
   
  With Hudson’s guidance, you can train smarter and more effectively—and avoid injury. And you’ll soon be running faster than you ever thought possible! 
   
  This audiobook contains a supplemental PDF.

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  Finding Renee Richards - The...

  Julie Kliegman

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  The candid, definitive biography of professional tennis’s first openly transgender player, Renée Richards, featuring untold stories nearly lost to history, until now. 
  Fifty years ago, tennis player Renée Richards made international headlines in her fight to compete in the women’s draw of the 1977 US Open—marking the first time a trans athlete sued to participate in professional sports in the gender category with which they identify. Renée eventually won her case. Though she lost in the first round of the singles tournament, she and her tennis partner made it to the finals in doubles, losing to Martina Navratilova and her partner. 
  Finding Renée Richards chronicles Richards’s extraordinary life, moving from her tumultuous upbringing in Queens, New York, to her career as a successful eye surgeon; her years as a star tennis player to her role as a transgender pioneer. Now in her nineties, Renée remains a complex figure: A person who changed the sports world forever yet questions the place of trans athletes in that world today. GLAAD award-nominated sports journalist Julie Kliegman deftly probes these contradictions, drawing on intimate interviews and offering critical reflections on what is at stake for athletes, fans, and the queer community today, at a time when trans participation in sports is more hotly contested—and condemned—than ever before. 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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  Private Thoughts from a Small Shoot

  Laurence Catlow

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  Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Pennines, Catlow's shooting diary records his year as an amateur pheasant rearer, gamekeeper, forester, dog-handler and all-round shooting enthusiast. But he also records his thoughts as he goes around his small shoot: his views on the right to roam, on why he loves the birds he shoots, his wine cellar, his other sporting interests. He airs his opinions on subjects as diverse as sport and the nanny state, game cookery, friendship, disobedient dogs and beloved hats.
  Interspersed with pheasant shooting are magical evenings duck flighting and expeditions rabbit shooting. He controls vermin such as mink, crows and foxes - all familiar activities to those who run small shoots.
  Catlow is shooting's most articulate exponent and this is an intelligent, funny and thought-provoking book.

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  Adventures on the Water - The...

  Jo Moseley

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  Why do so many of us find peace and contentment while on open water? 
  Adventures on the Water: The power of paddleboarding to change lives explores the uplifting and restorative power of stand-up paddleboarding (SUP). Compiled and edited by passionate paddleboarder and adventure advocate Jo Moseley, it features personal stories and collected wisdom from a wide range of Jo’s fellow paddlers. Immerse yourself in the physical and mental health benefits of paddleboarding, as well as the warm and inclusive community around the sport. 
  If you’re a new paddler, you’ll learn about the diverse and welcoming SUP community in Shilpa Rasaiah’s story, who paddled the length of the Grand Union Canal at the age of nearly sixty. Experienced boarders and wildlife lovers will be interested in world-record adventurer and charity founder Cal Major’s story, as she describes encounters with orca and her feelings of fear while paddling at night on a traverse of Scotland’s coastline. Find out about SUP yoga from Kathy Marston, who recounts how it gives her the space to process her anxiety and move through life with more resilience. If you want to see what adventures are possible on a paddleboard, read about extreme sports enthusiast Dean Dunbar who, despite being registered blind, took on a daring Atlantic Ocean paddle from North Uist to St Kilda. 
  Wherever you are on your paddleboarding journey, these stories will uplift you and inspire you to get out on the water.

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