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  Training to Win - Training...

  Jon Emmett

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  Gold medal winning coach, Jon Emmett works with sailors and coaches around the world and is frequently asked things like: 'What is a good exercise to improve this?' 'Why do we do this exercise?' 'How do we make the exercise more / less difficult?' This book is the answer to those frequently asked questions. It contains training exercises for each element of a sailing race. As well as describing and illustrating the exercise, it tells you what skills you are trying to improve, why and how to make the exercise harder or easier. The book will enable coaches to deliver better, more focussed, training sessions, but it will also help sailors who don't have the benefit of a coach to practise and improve their sailing skills. The exercises are marked as to whether they are suitable for solo boats, groups of boats or those with a coach boat. As Aristotle said: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit." Armed with this book, get out, do some training and improve your sailing skills!

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  How to Play in the Woods -...

  Robin Blankenship

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  A guide that’s “loaded with outdoor play ideas and skills to learn” for homeschoolers, wildschoolers, and nature-loving families (Take Them Outside).   Learn skills, games, and activities for back-to-nature adventures and camping trips, for all ages and abilities, from children to adults. How to Play in the Woods is a must-have for anyone working with scouts or youth groups, as well as a handy reference book for campers and outdoor enthusiasts who need to brush up on basic survival skills.   Learn how to make rope from plant materials, navigate using the sun and/or moon, build shelters, and start a fire. There are activities for teaching about safe knife handling, gathering and preparing wild foods, cooking on a spit, and plant medicines. And, for more fun and entertainment, there are instructions for making instruments, natural jewelry, clay containers, baskets, and even buckskin clothing.    In this book, Robin Blankenship, the owner of the Earth Knack School, encourages and motivates readers to be interactive with nature, to be free from prescribed schedules, and to just play and enjoy outdoors while relearning the wisdom and ways of our ancestors.

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  This Is Indiana - Tom Crean the...

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  An in-depth look at IU basketball’s 2011–2012 comeback season. 
   
  On a chilly Saturday in December 2011, Tom Crean led his Hoosier basketball players to an upset win over Kentucky, the #1-ranked basketball team in the nation. From that moment on, the revival of IU basketball was becoming a reality. Back in 2008, facing many challenges, Coach Tom Crean walked into Indiana’s Assembly Hall, promising a return to glory for Indiana basketball. Four years later, led by Big Ten Freshman of the Year Cody Zeller and the brilliant lineup of Jordan Hulls, Christian Watford, Will Sheehey, Verdell Jones III, and Victor Oladipo, the Hoosiers went 24-7. Making it to the NCAA’s Sweet Sixteen, the team once again faced the Wildcats in what would prove to be a thrilling season finale . . .  
   
  A keepsake for Hoosiers and basketball lovers everywhere, This Is INDIANA will let you relive this incredible season—game by game, photo by photo.

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  Samurai Zen

  Scott Shaw

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  In this book, Shaw draws upon his knowledge of Asian culture and years of study in the martial arts to show us how we, too, can achieve higher understanding through the tenets of Zen Buddhism. Iado - the meditative way of the sword becomes a path to enlightenment. The first step is to learn to control the physical body; once physical senses are honed, the thinking mind can be silenced and can join with the body to become a unified force. Illustrated. Index.

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  GameDay - The Untold Story of...

  Tim Cooper

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  College Football is America's Game. The game has a rich history that is woven together with that of the nation which founded it. From the Civil War to the Steel Towns of the Midwest. From the Dust Bowls of The Great Depression to the battlefields of World War II. From The Civil Rights Movement to Campus Protests. From tragedy to 9/11. Whether you Roll Tide or you OH-IO. Whether you are a Michigan Man or a War Eagle. Whether you do the Gator Chomp or the Seminole Chop. This story is for you because it is our story. The story of College Football is The American Story.

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  Nymphing – the New Way - French...

  Jonathan White

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  French nymphing, or European nymphing as it is often known in the US, is the most important new development in flyfishing for a generation. The use of ultra-long tapered French leaders provides huge advantages both in terms of reducing drag and dramatically improving fly presentation.
  These methods, which have already revolutionised the world of competition flyfishing, are now also proving themselves to be a game-changer for the recreational fisherman.
  
  This is the first book to explain all branches of French leader technique:
  
  • sight nymphing
  
  • short and long-range indicator nymphing
  
  • dry fly
  
  • fishing for grayling, carp and steelhead
  
  • masterclasses from leading experts
  
     Cody Burgdorff (USA)
     Julien Daguillanes (France)
     Stanislav Mankov (Bulgaria)
  
  • tips for fishing in all types of river and clear stillwaters in the UK, Continental Europe, the
  
     USA and the Southern Hemisphere.
  Use of the French leader has led to the French national team becoming the most successful team at the World Championships in recent years, winning 7 Gold, 7 Silver and 7 Bronze medals.
  
  As opportunities to catch trout on a dry fly have become less frequent and of shorter duration, the use of modern nymphing techniques can often make the difference between a successful fishing trip and not catching fish at all.

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