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""Beach Sport Kit"" serves as an essential guide for anyone looking to enhance their beach sport experience through informed gear selection. Covering a range of coastal activities from surfing to beach volleyball, the book emphasizes the crucial role of appropriate equipment in ensuring both safety and enjoyment. It uniquely bridges the gap between casual beachgoers and informed participants by offering expert advice on selecting the right gear based on material science, personal needs, and environmental considerations. Did you know that choosing equipment isn't just about brand loyalty; it's fundamentally linked to personal safety and minimizing environmental impact. The book delves into co...
Beach Sport Rules offers a comprehensive guide to the regulations, scoring, and competitive standards of various beach sports. Beyond well-known sports like beach volleyball and soccer, the book delves into disciplines such as beach handball, beach tennis, and even sandboarding. Understanding these official rules is crucial for fair play, effective training, and strategic planning, bridging the gap between casual play and professional competition. Did you know the book also traces the historical development of each sport, highlighting its unique adaptation to the beach environment? The book is structured to first introduce the fundamental concepts applicable to all beach sports, including ad...
Campus Recreational Sports Facilities covers the entire process of building a facility, from initial planning through design, construction, and move-in. Recreational sport directors, architects, and other experts provide construction options and share industry standards, guidelines, procedures, and more to help you navigate this complex process.
Match analysis is a performance-diagnostic procedure, which can be used to carry out systematic gaming analysis during competition and training. The analysis of team and racket sports, whether in competition, for opponent preparation (match plan), follow-up, or training is nowadays indispensable in many sports games at different levels. This analysis nevertheless presents many open questions and problem areas: Which data should be used? Who manages the data? Who provides whom with which information? How is this information presented, digested, and applied? The more complex and anonymous the data management is, the more commercial, expensive, and uncontrollable information management and provision becomes. Match Analysis: How to Use Data in Professional Sport is the first book to examine this topic through three types of data sets; video, event, and position data and show how to interpret this data and apply the findings for better team and individual sport performance. This innovative new volume is key reading for researchers, students, and practitioners alike in the fields of Coaching, Performance Analysis, Sport Management, and related specific sport disciplines.
In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
This book relives the career of the greatest volleyball player in the history of the sport. There are over 200 color photos, along with interviews/quotes with Karch, his former coaches, partners and peers. The book includes charts/list of records by Karch as well as a "Tournament by Tournament" account of everyone of Karch's 148 career tournament victories.
Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships with Native Hawaiians. Surfing became a central part of what emerged instead: a beach culture of dressing, dancing, and acting like an Indigenous people whites idealized. Patrick Moser uses surfing to open a door on the cultural appropriation practiced by Depression-era Californians against a backdrop of settler colonialism and white nationalism. Recreating the imagined leisure and romance of life in Waikīkī attracted people buffeted by economic crisis and dislocation. California-manufactured objects like surfboards became a physical manifestation of a dream that, for a...
Contemporary sport is both a sophisticated and complex international business and a mass participatory practice run largely by volunteers and community organizations. This authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of sports management helps to explain the modern commercial environment that shapes sport at all levels and gives clear and sensible guidance on best practice in sports management, from elite sport to the local level. The book is divided into three sections. The first examines the global context for contemporary sports management. The second explores the key functional areas of management, from organization and strategy to finance and marketing, and ex...
A detailed and coherent account of the social significance and the politics underlying sports, Global Games demonstrates that sports are not a trivial pursuit but are deeply embedded in the way individuals and nations wish to be perceived. Book jacket.
Geared to physiatrists and sports medicine physicians, this book is a practical guide to the rehabilitation of sport injuries. It focuses on specific sports and describes a variety of popular sports in sufficient depth so that physicians can confidently diagnose and treat patients injured during each sport. The authors focus on conservative management of injuries, so that physicians can maximize nonsurgical options before resorting to surgery. The book explains the mechanism of each injury and offers strategies for evaluating patients and preparing them to return to play. Numerous illustrations complement the text.