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Books : Sports : Racket Sports : Racquetball
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The most comprehensive training and instruction book for Racquetball players. Voted by Racquetball Magazine as the best book for competitive players to own.
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The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Racquetball and Squash is the most comprehensive and up-to-date racquetball and squash-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round racquetball and squash-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.No other racquetball or squash book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book will have the player increasing strength, quickness, agility, and endurance enabling more powerful and precise backhands, forehands, and serves. Following this program will allow you to compete with all your energy until the final shot.
Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!
As an added bonus, this book also contains links to free record keeping charts which normally sell separately for $20.
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Whether you’re a competitive tournament player or a recreational player, Winning Racquetball: Skills, Drills, and Strategies will help you improve your game.The authors—veteran racquetball player and instructor Ed Turner and #9-ranked professional racquetball player Woody Clouse—show you all the shots and strategies for success on the court. Using more than 140 photos and illustrations, the book includes dozens of practical tips and 35 drills for better practice and performance.
Inside you’ll find valuable information on
• selecting equipment and facilities;
• injury prevention and treatment;
• conditioning to improve strength, power, flexiblity, and endurance;
• common errors and how to correct them;
• effective game strategies for doubles and tournament play; and
• mental training and outthinking opponents.
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Head to the court and learn to hit that winning kill shot in no time at all! Racquetball Fundamentals will have you playing and competing while you master the basics of the game. Youll learn shot techniques for the forehand, backhand, serve, return of serve, passing shot, side-wall shot, and kill shot. You will also become more competitive with instruction on shot selection, court positioning, and footwork. Soon youll be winning your share of matches as you employ those techniques with the tactics taught for both singles and doubles play. More than 75 drills and games will speed your learning and improve your performance. Youll also gain a greater understanding of the games rules, scoring, etiquette, and safety.
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BEGINNING RAQUETBALL covers the fundamentals of raquetball and is suitable for players at all levels. Its major strengths are its comprehensive art program and rich pedagogy, which include "Points to Remember"-a checklist of helpful hints for players and "Check Points"- study questions at the end of each chapter.
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This guide to raquetball uses the Personalized Sport Instruction model of teaching (PSI), which is widely respected as an effective, interactive, student-centered teaching model. This workbook, as part of a six-book series, features a common organization and framework for planning, managing, implementing, and evaluating the fundamentals of learning badminton. Each module includes specific directions for setting up learning tasks and criteria for demonstrating mastery. For anyone interested in the sport of raquetball.
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You have taken your first step to success in learning to play racquetball with the purchase of this book. Racquetball: Steps to Success combines the knowledge and experience of master teacher Stan Kittleson with the latest research on learning racquetball.Racquetball: Steps to Success is a unique guide designed to maximize your racquetball progress. It is a breakthrough in sport skill instruction through its development of complete learning progressions--the steps to success. You will climb 18 steps on your way to racquetball success. Each step (chapter)
• explains why the concept or skill is important,
• identifies the keys to correct technique,
• helps you correct common errors,
• explains how to practice each skill in realistic ways,
• lists specific performance goals for each drill,
• gives you a summary checklist for evaluating proper technique, and
• lets you proceed at your own pace.
Each of the steps you will take is an easy transition from the one before. The first few steps provide a solid foundation of basic skills and concepts. As you progress you will learn how to choose the proper shots and strategies to match your various racquetball needs--whether you want to improve your quickness, develop power, practice deception, or just have fun. As you approach the top of your climb to success you will have gained confidence in your racquetball ability and experienced the satisfaction of becoming an accomplished player.
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The most extensive treatment to date of women's experiences in team sports, Higher Goals provides an ethnographic account of the "Blades," a Canadian team that plays at the highest levels of women's hockey. With a vivid depiction of life on the Blades, the book follows the team over two seasons, tracing their journey to a national championship. Key issues in the sociology of sport and gender studies are explored, including the construction of community among women athletes; the "feminine apologetic" and pressures on athletes to conform to feminine ideals; homophobia and the experiences of lesbian athletes; and physicality and women's experience in contact sports.
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RACQUETBALL TODAY is one of several activity texts in Wadsworth's Physical Education series. It covers all the basic fundamentals of the sport and is suitable for players of all levels. Full of illustrations, helpful checklists, and photos of players in action, RACQUETBALL TODAY is a valuable instructional and reference book for any racquetball activity class.
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* Training program for all skill levels * Featuring Men's Pro Tim Doyle and Women's Pro Cheryl Gudinas * Written by Tom Travers (US Team Coach 1997-2002, 6 Time National Champ) and Dr. Tim Miller (5 Time National Collegiate Champion Team Coach)
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