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Hatchet Kick - Volume 8 of the Achieving Kicking Excellence ...

 October 28, 2008 What exactly is a hatchet kick? It is not as well known as your common side kicks and popular roundhouse kicks. Nor is it as self-descriptive as a front kick. So how do you describe it? Guinness World Record holder, black belt, and author Shawn Kovacich describes the hatchet kick like this, ..

Triumph in Triathlons - Learning the Techniques, Training an ...

 October 10, 2008 Completing a triathlon is not difficult for a seasoned athlete that has done a bit of cycling, swimming and running. Indeed, in my first triathlon, I did pretty well, even though I was weak in the swimming, I was a very strong running and could hold my own on the bike. Of course, I was not anywhere .

Pressure is a Privilege - New Book Release by Billie Jean King

 October 07, 2008 Lessons I've learned from Life and the Battle of the Sexes is a remarkable book in as much as Billie Jean King reveals never before discussed, behind the scenes thoughts, events, preparations and the enormous pressures she endured to represent her gender in the legendary 1973 Battle of the Sexes ..

Pressure is a Privilege - New Book by Billie Jean King

 October 07, 2008 Billie Jean King's new book PRESSURE IS A PRIVILEGE - Lessons I've learned from life and the Battle of the Sexes released in August of 2008 is a must read for any aspiring junior tennis player and, most certainly, a must read by their parents.How to handle opponents. How to adjust to the current ..

Can Simple Golf Swing Really Improve Your Golf Score?

 October 06, 2008 "The Simple Golf Swing" is a step-by-step golf instruction ebook written by David Nevogt, for average golfers who are having problems with improving their golf score but cannot quite figure out how, perhaps it's time to think about consistency.The lack of consistency in your golf swing which can in .

Football CashBuilder

 October 01, 2008 The Football CashBuilder is not just another scam which comes up with the promise to earn you millions of pounds within one or two days. This is an authentic venture that has yielded good profit for the founder since three years now. There are many people who have suffered badly while dealing with ..

A Sports Story That Slam Dunks

 September 26, 2008 Every once in a while an anomaly appears in sports, a one of a kind. Soccer had Pele, Golf has Tiger Woods, Bicycling has Lance Armstrong, Hockey has Wayne Gretsky, Swimming has Michael Phelps and Basket Ball has Michael Jordan. These men are not merely athletes they are legends and deservedly so. ..

The Martial Way and Its Virtues - Tao De Gung - A Review

 September 16, 2008 "The Martial Way and its Virtues - Tao De Gung" by F.J. Chu was an enjoyable read that made me think of my own martial art journey. I agree with William R. Connors’ foreword in that rather than a technique book, this book uses martial arts as a core to provide an insight into martial arts as ..

Football Books For Women - A Bad News-Good News Kind of Thing

 August 24, 2008 Football books for women seem to fall into a unique category in our culture.Recently, although beyond the blush of youth, we went back to college to get our degrees. In a huge library full of books, there were, indeed, books about women's issues.And rightly so.But we found no Math Books for Women. ..

Book Review Crescent Kick

 August 22, 2008 Crescent Kick is the fourth book of the Achieving Kicking Excellence series by Shawn Kovacich. Just as he did with the other volumes of the series, Kovacich attacked the instruction of the crescent kick with meticulous detail and thoroughness.This book is the most detailed written description you ..

Cheap Shots, Ambushes and Other Lessons Book Review

 August 07, 2008 I first read Cheap Shots, Ambushes, And Other Lessons: A Down And Dirty Book On Streetfighting & Survival while stationed in South Korea in the 1980s. I was serving with the 2nd Infantry Division and did not know that in the future I would become friends with Marc MacYoung, work together, train ..

The Brutal Art of Ripping, Poking and Pressing Vital Targets ...

 August 06, 2008 The Brutal Art of Ripping, Poking, and Pressing Vital Targets" by Loren W. Christensen is a book full of what some people would call dirty fighting techniques. But as Christensen points out, all fighting is dirty. This is not sport, it's fighting. In the ugliness that is a street fight, techniques ..

The Jeet Kune Do Experience

 July 30, 2008 The “Jeet Kune Do Experience: Understanding Bruce Lee's Ultimate Martial Art" by Jerry Beasley (Paladin Press) incorporates material from Beasley's “In Search of the Ultimate Martial Art" and “The Way of No Way." It addresses the subject of training in the system of jeet kune do ..

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