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Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks 2
Tracks Publishing 2010; US$ 9.99Compiling more legendary skateboarding figures and their pioneering tricks, this comprehensive resource details dozens of spectacular stunts?combining invaluable technical information with insightful historical perspectives. Each feat is captured in action sequence and captioned allowing aspiring riders to learn how to perform them. A history of... more...
Win at winter sports
Infinite Ideas 2012; US$ 6.95Millions of us want to feel improve our on-piste performance and be better, stronger skiers and snowboarders, and there?s tons of advice out there to help us; a never-ending avalanche of books, magazines, websites and TV programmes. But who?s got the time to wade through this lot to sift the stuff that works from the rubbish? What we need are failsafe... more...
Down and Derby
Soft Skull Press 2010; US$ 14.95When 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... more...
Historical Dictionary of Skiing
Scarecrow Press 2011; US$ 89.99The Historical Dictionary of Skiing relates the history of the sport through a comprehensive alphabetical dictionary with detailed, cross-referenced entries on key figures, places, competitions, and governing bodies within the sport. Author E. John B. Allen introduces the reader to the history of skiing through a detailed chronology, an introductory... more...
White Heat
Simon & Schuster UK 2012; Not AvailableThere is an old joke among skiers, usually put to other fans of the sport as a question: what's better, sex or skiing? The answer is a given, but the hesitation in answering, that moment of serious consideration, is cause for humour. Extreme skiers get it. They know skiing isn't just a sport; it's a lifestyle, one inextricably bound up in the notion... more...
White Heat
Simon & Schuster UK 2012; Not AvailableThere is an old joke among skiers, usually put to other fans of the sport as a question: what's better, sex or skiing? The answer is a given, but the hesitation in answering, that moment of serious consideration, is cause for humour. Extreme skiers get it. They know skiing isn't just a sport; it's a lifestyle, one inextricably bound up in the notion... more...
Skateboarding: New Levels
Tracks Publishing 2002; US$ 9.99An instructional guide to an increasingly popular sport, this book reviews the basics of skateboarding, the mental and emotional side of the sport, and what it takes to become an advanced skater. As aggression is a key factor to skating success, this book attempts to pinpoint where the risks begin to outweigh a skater?s chance for reward and success.... more...
Skateboarding: Book of Tricks
Tracks Publishing 2003; US$ 9.99Serious skaters looking for unusual and innovative tricks will find them in this skateboarding instructional guide. The tricks run the gamut from classic old school to modern with an emphasis on diversification, creativity, and originality. Included are riding basics and tips for controlling fear, visualizing, and focusing. Sequential shots detail... more...
Street Skateboarding: Flip Tricks
Tracks Publishing 2005; US$ 9.99With sequential photos and step-by-step instructions, this guide to a performance cornerstone?the flip trick?benefits skateboarders of all skill levels. Often combined with curb tricks and applied to such obstacles as handrails and ramps, flip tricks are commonly used as the final touch on a more complex maneuver, and, with this guidebook, readers... more...
Hawk
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 13.99For Tony Hawk, it wasn't enough to skate for two decades, to invent more than eighty tricks, and to win more than twice as many professional contests as any other skater.It wasn't enough to knock himself unconscious more than ten times, fracture several ribs, break his elbow, knock out his teeth twice, compress the vertebrae in his back, pop his... more...









