| Down and Derby: The Insider's Guide to Roller Derby
| When most Americans hear the words roller derby” today, they think of the kitschy sport once popular on weekend television during the seventies and eighties. Originally an endurance competition where skaters traveled the equivalent of a trip between Los Angeles and New York, derby gradually evolved into a violent contact sport often involving fake fighting. But after nearly dying out in the nineties, derby has been making a comeback. From a mere handful of leagues in the United States just a...More
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| Rollergirl: Totally True Tales from the Track
| The 1950s phenomenon of Roller Derby is back in full force, and it's definitely not your grandma's game anymore. With leagues in more than one hundred cities across the country, a national tournament, and major sponsors, the new wave of the sport has gone mainstream. No one is better qualified to tell the story of Flat Track Derby's astronomic rise than Melissa "Melicious" Joulwan. As a founding member of the Texas Rollergirls -- the league that launched the sport and the reigning national champ...More
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| Laura Stamm's Power Skating - 4th Edition
| Develop explosive acceleration, speed, and agility and dominate the ice! Laura Stamm's Power Skating presents the skating system used by thousands of the sport's top players and teams to move with maximum efficiency on the ice. From starts and stops to turns and transitions, Laura Stamm's Power Skating covers all of the critical components of explosive skating. Through top-level instruction, practice drills, and coaching tips, you'll learn these skills: -Increase on-ice ac...More
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| Mutt
| In the early 1980s, at the age of 13, Rodney took the freestyle skating world by storm. He won 35 world titles in less than five years. Through it all his father pressured him to walk away from the sport. "The Mutt". chronicles the sometimes sad, but ultimately triumphant story of the godfather of street skating.
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| Hawk : Occupation Skateboarder
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| Roller Hockey: The Game Within the Game: A Player and Coach Handbook
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| Roller Skates
| A republication of the original 1937 Newbery Medal-winning classic follows the adventures of a free-spirited tomboy in 1890s New York as she traverses the city on a pair of roller skates.
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| Get Rolling, the Beginner's Guide to In-line Skating, Third Edition
| Get Rolling is your guide to the safest, easiest way to start (and stop!) rolling on in-line skates. Author Liz Miller is a nationally-known certified instructor who wrote Get Rolling for nervous novices seeking a comprehensive in-line how-to guide. With an easy, encouraging format and tons of empathy for your fears, Liz will turn you into a confident, competent skater with dozens of step-by-step lessons, plenty of photos, and her own lively drawings. Then you, too, can b...More
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| Speed on Skates: A Complete Technique, Training and Racing Guide for In-Line and Ice Skaters
| Become a smoother, faster, and better-conditioned skater-on asphalt and on ice. Speed on Skates, the most comprehensive and in-depth book ever written on in-line and ice speedskating, gives you the instruction and drills to master basic to advanced techniques. Elite skater and coach Barry Publow combines the science and art of speedskating as he covers every discipline:- In-line-indoor and outdoor - Long track- Short track- Marathon skatingFirst, Publow explains and demonstrates the m...More
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| Roller Derby: The History and All-Girl Revival of the Greatest Sport on Wheels
| “Thrill-seeking women leading double lives—accountant by day, hell on wheels by night—will find a great introduction to derby history here, from its early days to the ’70s RollerJam heights to its new punk-queer aesthetic in the modern revival. There are also player vignettes, rule breakdowns, definitions of derby slang and lots of pictures to accompany Mabe’s semi-fanatical text.”—CurveScores of American women are leading double lives. By day they are librarians, financial...More
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| Roller Derby Art: Women, Wheels, and Wicked Fun
| Today's roller derby is a wildly popular woman's contact sport, international in scope. This grass roots sport is built on fun, for the spirited rollerskaters and the fans alike. From Reno to Toronto, roller derby is everywhere. See 250 color images of promotional material, including fliers, handbills, logos, and posters promoting bouts for more than 50 leagues around the world, tht convey the thrill of roller derby's glamour, grit, and glory. See the ladies themselves, as they travel the globe ...More
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| Conditioning for Figure Skating: Off-Ice Techniques for On-Ice Performance
| To be the best on the rink, skaters must spend endless hours strengthening and conditioning their bodies off the ice to build strength for the rigors of their performances. Illustrative and technical, yet user-friendly, Conditioning for Figure Skating provides detailed coverage of the physical preparation necessary for Preliminary through Senior-Elite skaters while concentrating on all disciplines of figure skating, including singles, pairs, and ice dance. More than 300 photos illustrate ...More
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| Skateboarding Is Not a Crime
| Early forms of skateboarding first emerged in the United States in the 1950s and the sport has been popular on and off ever since the 1970s. Now it is back bigger than ever. Skateboarders are everywhere and skateboarding style is too. Like surfing, skateboarding is a sport with a philosophy and a culture very much its own. Skate culture is anti-establishment and part of the trend away from team sports towards something more individual. Life is too tame without a bit of danger in it and skateboar...More
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| We Skate Hardcore: Photographs from Brooklyn's Southside
| View Photos. Published by New York University Press and Lyndhurst Books of the Center for Documentary Studies. The stunning photographs of We Skate Hardcore reveal the determination, the dreams, and the rough and tumble story of urban Latino youth coming of age in New York City. Vincent Cianni spent eight years photographing and documenting a group of Latino in-line skaters in the Southside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Cianni weaves together images of the skaters with their own words...More
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| Roller Hockey
| The sport of roller (in-line) hockey is exploding. New leagues are being formed and existing leagues are doubling, tripling, and even quadrupling in size leading to a demand by players, coaches, parents, and league directors for educational materials that will help them understand the game, improve their knowledge of the sport, and give them confidence at the various levels of competition. Roller Hockey: Skills and Strategies for Winning on Wheels is the most in-depth publication availabl...More
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| Between Boardslides and Burnout. My Notes From the Road
| Fully illustrated with fabulous photos. Exciting text.
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| Smart Cycling: Promoting Safety, Fun, Fitness, and the Environment
| Cycling is experiencing a resurgence in popularity. Many people are looking to cycling as the solution to concerns about rising fuel costs, environmental issues, and lack of exercise. Biking to school or work is inexpensive, active, and green, but some children have never learned to ride a bike and many adults haven’t dusted off their bikes in years. These new cyclists need help building their skills before they take to the road. If your school or organization wants to offer bicycle skill...More
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| Answer Is Never
| Skateboarding is one of the great outlaw subcultures - combining death-defying stunts, cutting-edge fashion, and an all-round bad attitude. This is the story of the people who forged and inspired that culture, like the legendary Dogtown crew: Alva, Peralta, Adams, - kids bailing out scummy backyard pools to skate in them, fleeing from security guards, and inspiring each other to ever-greater feats. A scene which eventually led Tony Hawk to be the first skater to earn a million dollars a year. Wr...More
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| 7 Pre-Game Habits of Pro Hockey Players
| Hockey players and parents will spend thousands of dollars this year developingphysical skills to improve their performance on the ice. Players will spend countlesshours of hard work shooting pucks in the backyard, playing shinny on the pond, orstickhandling in the basement to improve their performance on the ice. Yet many parents,players, and coaches fail to take the mental aspect of hockey into account.7 Pre-Game Habits of Pro Hockey Players by author Brett Henning expands on specifictechnique...More
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| The Complete In-Line Skater: Basic and Advanced Techniques, Exercises and Equipment for Fitness
| Learn America's Hottest New Sport--And Have Fun Doing It!!In-line skating is fun and easy to learn. It's also a great low-impact way to get your heart and legs in shape. The Complete In-Line Skater is the perfect skater's companion. Written by an experienced teacher, this book tells you everything you need to know about equipment, basic and advanced skating techniques, safety and improving fitness.Over 100 professional line drawings help illustrate the text, which includes chapt...More
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