Sport

Fort William to Aviemore: 82 miles (132km) of Scotland's unspoilt Highland wilderness described in the first and only guide to the East Highland Way.

Provides information on reading and relying on electronic and paper nautical charts. This title explains various aspects of electronic and paper nautical charts: how a chart is assembled, how to gauge the accuracy of chart data, how to read charts created by other governments, how to use information such as scale, and more.

The authors didn't have any boating experience and when their plans to remedy that fell through the two had to learn everything the hard way. This title includes lessons the authors learned and shares them as examples of what and what not to do. It explores the ongoing maintenance and upkeep of a cruising multihull.

Everything you will need for the perfect cycling holiday: detailed maps, accommodation, travel advice and all you need to know for an unforgettable trip. Taking a route from Belfast to Dublin through the most spectacular scenery and routes that Ireland has to offer.

A guide that gives walkers ten of the finest walks to Lakeland pubs. With clear information, an overview and introduction for each walk, it offers expertly written numbered directions, large scale Ordnance Survey maps, panoramic photographs, and interpretation of points of interest along the way.

Paul Reeds latest battlefield walking guide covers the site of the largest amphibious invasion of all time, the first step in the Allied liberation of France and the rest of northwest Europe. All the most important sites are featured, from Pegasus Bridge, Merville Battery, Ouistrehem and Longues Battery to Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah Beaches, Point

Boasting numerous improved and updated features and enjoying its biggest overhaul in a decade, The Manual of Horsemanship has been comprehensively revised with an exciting new format and design.

Ever wondered how to build a football club? What a typical match day feels like for the players on the pitch and those behind the scenes? From scouting systems to managing the big names (and their egos), merchandise deals to hotel life, the Secret Footballer takes you into the fascinating world of professional football and shows us the hidden side of a world we think we're familiar with. We get the fights and fornication, the revenge stories and scandals; he profiles the legends as well as the backroom boys and the unsung heroes.Funny, shocking and always entertaining, this is the Secret Footballer at his most revealing and irreverent yet.

A guidebook that gives walkers the ten finest routes around or beside the Lake District's best-known lakes, in a popular pocketable format. It includes lakes such as: Windermere, Coniston Water, Rydal Water and Grasmere, Ullswater, Thirlmere, Derwent Water, Buttermere, Crummock Water, Loweswater, and, Ennerdale Water.

In the summer of 1969, as Apollo 11 was blasting off to the moon, two teenage twin brothers, with only three years' mountaineering experience, set off to climb one of the highest rock faces in Europe. This title offers a true account from Gordon Stainforth of a near-death experience on a mountain in Norway in 1969.

Some of the most dangerous and downright bizarre sports in history brought vividly back to life, from Fox Tossing to Ski Ballet

But it is also a book about much more than that. Anthony Clavane loves Leeds - certainly the football club, but also the city, and the tribes that make it. Now that he is an exile in the South, his frequent pilgrimages to the stadium speak for themselves.

Delivers an easy-to-follow workout and diet plan that burns fat and builds muscle in less time. This book features a twelve-week fitness and diet program; many metabolic exercises; and, dozens of workout routines including hurricanes, complexes, bodyweight and strength circuits; and, advanced warm-up and pre-hab techniques to prevent injury.

This guidebook describes some of the best walking routes in the southwest of Ireland, with plenty of details about each hike, and full color photos and maps.

Originally published in 1979, this book provides defense techniques taught to military, law enforcement, and black belts. Chapters include: history, solo patten training, fundamental training, extensive kicking training, sparring and throwing, and defenses against a variety of weapons.

Famed for promoting health and longevity, as well as for its effectiveness as a fighting art, Xingyi is practiced by enthusiasts in China and in the West. Designed as a primer or introductory reader and filled with photos, illustrations, and descriptive text, this authentic manual introduces the Five Elements of Xingyi-Splitting Fist, Drilling Fist, Smashing Fist, Pounding Fist, and Crossing Fist-outlining the basic theory and history of the art. Coming directly from an eighth-generation practitioner of a famous lineage, The Xingyi Boxing Manual is a distillation of the knowledge and experience of many of the major figures in the history of Xingyi boxing. Translator John Groschwitz includes previously unavailable materials from the complete original book making this revised and expanded edition an essential guide for today's practitioner of this traditional martial art.

When Arsene Wenger was appointed as manager by Arsenal Football Club in 1996, football fans everywhere gave a puzzled look and asked, 'who?'They were soon to find out just what kind of man had become a part of English football, as Wenger added to Arsenal's first Double win by leading them to another in 1998 and a third in 2002. Since then, he has amused and entertained with his erudition and always pertinent evaluations of Arsenal's merits and those of the game in general.Here are the most diverting and most intriguing comments of manager Arsene Wenger.

The easy way to get the ins, outs, and intrigue on this beloved sport The National Basketball Association (NBA), with 30 teams and an average attendance of more than 17,000 spectators per game, is the richest and most popular basketball league and arguably the most viewed American sport in the world.

After assignments as a Canadian diplomat in Mexico, Colombia, Sudan, and South Africa, Nicholas Coghlan and his wife Jenny unwind by sailing Bosun Bird, a 27-foot sailboat, from Cape Town across the South Atlantic and into the stormy winter waters of the Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, and the Strait of Magellan. Coghlan recalls earlier adventures in Patagonia during the late seventies when he and his wife explored the region over three successive summers. Now, as they negotiate the labyrinth of channels and inlets around snow-covered Fireland, he reflects on the voyages of past explorers: Magellan, Cook, Darwin, Slocum, and others. Sailing enthusiasts and readers of true adventures will want to add Coghlan's world-wise narrative to their libraries.

Provides you with a fresh approach to running, achieving your goals and setting your personal best. This title challenges the stereotypes, removes the doubts and erases the self-imposed limitations by prescribing not only what to do but also how to do it. It helps you learn how to overcome the obstacles that prevent you from running faster.

A highly practical guide explaining what sail trim is all about, how toachieve it, and what its benefits are for owners and crews sailing alltypes of boat from dinghies to offshore cruisers in all wind conditionsand points of sail.

Provides practical advice that makes you a better sportsperson, whether you are learning the basic skills, discovering advanced techniques or reviewing the fundamentals of your sport.

Aimed at surfers of all ages and abilities, this book offers a complete training package designed to take your surfing to the next level. It includes a series of training programs that target the different muscle groups used in surfing, from paddling to all the different maneuvers. It also includes sections about swimming and cardio regimes.

Kodokan judo, one of the most well-known martial arts in the world today, was originated by Jigoro Kano (1860-1938). Kano was a martial artist and career educator who developed the art after studying several types of jujutsu, sumo, and Western wrestling. Openness and refinement were hallmarks of his personal and professional style, and he relentlessly searched for the best way to practice, teach, and perform techniques. This biography shows how Kano saw judo as a vehicle not just for self-defense, but for physical, spiritual, and moral development as well. His teachings clearly emphasize his ideal of judo as a way of self-cultivation that leads to physical health, ethical behavior, and ultimately a better society. Kano was a tireless activist who promoted the practical application of judo's principles in all realms of life-in one's personal behavior, for education, in work, for economic benefit, and in both the local and international political arenas. Kano's students were a colorful, sometimes notorious bunch, and this book reveals how several went on to become famous-or infamous-in their own right. They include a prime minister of Japan, the leader of the Communist party in China, a famous novelist, a spy, high-level military leaders, and a media mogul, among many others. The author, John Stevens, gives a fascinating account of Kano's life and times, his teachings, and his interaction with his students.

Part diary of a year running through the Northamptonshire countryside, part exploration of why we love to run without limits, this book is an account of running in a forgotten, rural way, observing wildlife and celebrating the joys of nature.

Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais is best known for pioneering the somatic therapy that bears his name. Less well known is that he was also one of the earliest European practitioners of the martial art of judo and wrote a number of influential texts on the subject. Primary among these is Higher Judo, first published in 1952 and now reprinted with a new foreword that offers useful context and elaborates on Feldenkrais' comprehensive-and still timely-approach to the martial art and to the body.Judo was a natural choice for Feldenkrais's fascination with body/mind exploration and how to promote optimal functioning through awareness. In Higher Judo, he presents judo as the art of using all parts of the body to promote general health, and as part of the "basic culture of the body." He reveals judo's potential for creating a sense of rhythm of movement and improving mental and physical coordination. Higher Judo covers specific movements and positions-the astride position, the six o'clock approach, falling techniques-in both the text and the clear line drawings. Even more importantly, it shows how such groundwork can help practitioners develop their mental and physical awareness to their full potential.

An illustrated guide to the glories of the world's 246 Link Courses.