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Book Power Skating

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Stamm
  • Publisher : Sterling Publishing (NY)
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 9780806976723
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Power Skating written by Laura Stamm and published by Sterling Publishing (NY). This book was released on 1982 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Laura Stamm s Power Skating

Download or read book Laura Stamm s Power Skating written by Laura Stamm and published by Human Kinetics Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develop the explosive acceleration, speed, and agility necessary for success in hockey. Laura Stamm's Power Skating presents the techniques and drills that she has used to train some of the top professional teams and players. With over 300 detailed skill-demonstration photographs and illustrations, this is the perfect resource for all levels.

Book Skate for Your Life

Download or read book Skate for Your Life written by Leo Baker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us. "Wow! Leo's vulnerability and authenticity allowed me to experience his pain and triumph. A great testament to the positive power of skateboarding and the dangers of gender." --Elissa Steamer (skateboarding pioneer) "In Skate for Your Life, Leo Baker invites us on the intimate journey toward self-realization. Leo's deep passion for skateboarding is beautifully communicated while bringing to light the difficult reality of breaking the mold on a public stage. This book synthesizes what so many LGBTQIA people can relate to--the lifelong journey of seeking out spaces where we fit in, and when we don't find them, making new ones." --JD Samson (musician, producer, and songwriter) In this moving, personal story, professional skateboarder Leo Baker shares their journey within the sport and the importance of authenticity and allyship as a non-binary athlete. Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. "Your authenticity is your superpower." That's the motto that professional skateboarder Leo Baker lives by and champions. But like any hero's journey, learning about their power didn't come easy. In this installment of the Pocket Change Collective, Baker takes the reader on a complicated, powerful journey through the world of skate and competitive sport as a non-binary athlete.

Book Skate Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emily Chivers Yochim
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 047205080X
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Skate Life written by Emily Chivers Yochim and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at skateboarding culture by a promising young scholar

Book Inside Edge  A Revealing Journey Into the Secret World of Figure Skating

Download or read book Inside Edge A Revealing Journey Into the Secret World of Figure Skating written by Christine Brennan and published by Japanime Co. Ltd.. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figure skating is the most beautiful and mysterious of all sports. When the skaters are on the ice, every twitch of a muscle and every slip of a skate blade is visible for the world to see. In Inside Edge, Christine Brennan chronicles—for the first time—a season on the skating circuit, intimately portraying the lives, on and off the ice, of the sport's current and upcoming stars. Woven into the narrative are stories of figure skating luminaries—including Peggy Fleming, Janet Lynn, Katarina Witt, Brian Boitano, Scott Hamilton, Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan, Oksana Baiul, Michelle Kwan, Rudy Galindo, and Tara Lipinski. Revealing the backstage conflicts high-profile figure skaters face, and the ambition that drives them, Brennan also tells the stories of their families, of improbable rises to the top, and of wasted talents. If skaters are perfect, they can become international heroes. But if they fall, if they miss a three-revolution jump on a quarter-inch blade of steel, the despair is theirs alone. This is their life on the edge, where decades of training culminate in little more than four crucial minutes on the ice. There is no other sport like it. There is no other story like theirs.

Book It s Not about Pretty

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cindy Whitehead
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-02-14
  • ISBN : 9780692821947
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book It s Not about Pretty written by Cindy Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skateboarding, Photography and female empowerment book

Book The Power of the S  K  A  T  E

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tanya Dean
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-12-12
  • ISBN : 9781366635624
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Power of the S K A T E written by Tanya Dean and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power Of The Skate uses the analogy of roller skating to help you become successful and make all your dreams come true. Whether its career, relations, school,etc. traumatic experiences from any point in your life can hold you back from achieving your goals. These S.K.A.T.E principles are so simple and clear by following them will help you achieve everything you really want in life!

Book Skateboarding and Religion

Download or read book Skateboarding and Religion written by Paul O'Connor and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which religion is observed, performed, and organised in skateboard culture. Drawing on scholarship from the sociology of religion and the cultural politics of lifestyle sports, this work combines ethnographic research with media analysis to argue that the rituals of skateboarding provide participants with a rich cultural canvas for emotional and spiritual engagement. Paul O’Connor contends that religious identification in skateboarding is set to increase as participants pursue ways to both control and engage meaningfully with an activity that has become an increasingly mainstream and institutionalised sport. Religion is explored through the themes of myth, celebrity, iconography, pilgrimage, evangelism, cults, and self-help.

Book Sebastian s Roller Skates

Download or read book Sebastian s Roller Skates written by Joan de Déu Prats and published by Kane/Miller Book Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sebastian is very shy, but when he finds a pair of old roller skates in the park, he learns how to do much more than skate.

Book The Most Fun Thing

Download or read book The Most Fun Thing written by Kyle Beachy and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR • Southwest Review • Electric Literature Perfect for fans of Barbarian Days, this memoir in essays follows one man's decade-long quest to uncover the hidden meaning of skateboarding, and explores how this search led unexpectedly to insights on marriage, love, loss, American invention, and growing old. In January 2012, creative writing professor and novelist Kyle Beachy published one of his first essays on skate culture, an exploration of how Nike’s corporate strategy successfully gutted the once-mighty independent skate shoe market. Beachy has since established himself as skate culture's freshest, most illuminating, at times most controversial voice, writing candidly about the increasingly popular and fast-changing pastime he first picked up as a young boy and has continued to practice well into adulthood. What is skateboarding? What does it mean to continue skateboarding after the age of forty, four decades after the kickflip was invented? How does one live authentically as an adult while staying true to a passion cemented in childhood? How does skateboarding shape one's understanding of contemporary American life? Of growing old and getting married? Contemplating these questions and more, Beachy offers a deep exploration of a pastime—often overlooked, regularly maligned—whose seeming simplicity conceals universal truths. THE MOST FUN THING is both a rich account of a hobby and a collection of the lessons skateboarding has taught Beachy—and what it continues to teach him as he strugglesto find space for it as an adult, a professor, and a husband.

Book The Skateboarding Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tait Colberg
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2012-10-29
  • ISBN : 1300354593
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book The Skateboarding Art written by Tait Colberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a celebration of skateboard graphics or photography and videos, more than a personal memoir of one life on four wheels, this book argues that riding a skateboard is an art form of the same kind and stature as the traditional visual and performance arts. Like a paintbrush or a musical instrument, the skateboard has become a tool of limitless creative possibilities. Not a sport, often a crime, and for many a broader lifestyle, skateboarding transforms mundane travel and neglected spaces into extraordinary experiences and spectacles. Mullen, Gonzales, Hawk, and others count among its Masters.

Book Skateboard Breakdown

Download or read book Skateboard Breakdown written by Eric Fein and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ty Taggart has always loved skating. But ever since his older brother, Nick, died in combat, Ty has been off his game. He skates recklessly and has lost all interest in the local skating tournament. But when Nick's best friend, Edwin, pays him a visit, Ty is able to reign in his anger and realize his true skating potential. In the finals, everyone is dazzled by Ty's slick, flashy tricks -- until he wipes out and breaks his board. Ty will have to pick up the pieces and reassemble his board overnight if he hopes to prevail.

Book More Power to Your Skating

Download or read book More Power to Your Skating written by Barbara Williams and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the basic skating techniques, drills, equipment, warm-ups, body positions and maneuvers that are necessary for power skating and effective ice hockey play.

Book Laura Stamm s Power Skating

    Book Details:
  • Author : Human Kinetics
  • Publisher : Human Kinetics Publishers
  • Release : 2009-09-18
  • ISBN : 9780736093279
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Laura Stamm s Power Skating written by Human Kinetics and published by Human Kinetics Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master maneuvers in skating through proven practice skills with Laura Stamm's Power Skating/DVD package. Stamm's new book is coupled with a companion DVD released in 2005 to bring training methods alive. The package demonstrates and instructs the skills and drills necessary to skate your best and elevate your game.

Book The POWER of the S  K  A  T  E

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tanya Dean
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-01-15
  • ISBN : 9781541253094
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book The POWER of the S K A T E written by Tanya Dean and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an inspirational leader, life coach and avid roller skater, Tanya has found the keys to success by utilizing the principles of roller skating to completely change your life in and out of the roller rink!

Book Skate Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emily Chivers Yochim
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2010-05-25
  • ISBN : 0472026607
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Skate Life written by Emily Chivers Yochim and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Intellectually deft and lively to read, Skate Life is an important addition to the literature on youth cultures, contemporary masculinity, and the role of media in identity formation." ---Janice A. Radway, Northwestern University, author of Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature "With her elegant research design and sophisticated array of anthropological and media studies approaches, Emily Chivers Yochim has produced one of the best books about race, gender, and class that I have read in the last ten years. In a moment where celebratory studies of youth, youth subcultures, and their relationship to media abound, this book stands as a brilliantly argued analysis of the limitations of youth subcultures and their ambiguous relationship to mainstream commercial culture." ---Ellen Seiter, University of Southern California "Yochim has made a valuable contribution to media and cultural studies as well as youth and American studies by conducting this research and by coining the phrase 'corresponding cultures,' which conceptualizes the complex and dynamic processes skateboarders employ to negotiate their identities as part of both mainstream and counter-cultures." ---JoEllen Fisherkeller, New York University Skate Life examines how young male skateboarders use skate culture media in the production of their identities. Emily Chivers Yochim offers a comprehensive ethnographic analysis of an Ann Arbor, Michigan, skateboarding community, situating it within a larger historical examination of skateboarding's portrayal in mainstream media and a critique of mainstream, niche, and locally produced media texts (such as, for example, Jackass, Viva La Bam, and Dogtown and Z-Boys). The book uses these elements to argue that adolescent boys can both critique dominant norms of masculinity and maintain the power that white heterosexual masculinity offers. Additionally, Yochim uses these analyses to introduce the notion of "corresponding cultures," conceptualizing the ways in which media audiences both argue with and incorporate mediated images into their own ideas about identity. In a strong combination of anthropological and media studies approaches, Skate Life asks important questions of the literature on youth and provides new ways of assessing how young people create their identities. Emily Chivers Yochim is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Arts, Allegheny College. Cover design by Brian V. Smith

Book Skate the World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan Mehring
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 1426213964
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Skate the World written by Jonathan Mehring and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hit the streets with 200 exhilarating photographs of the worlds greatest professional skateboarders in action. In this dynamic collection, award-winning photographer Jonathan Mehring takes us from New York to Hong Kong to Istanbul and beyond as he sets out to capture the heart and soul of skate culture on six continents. Featuring stars like Tony Hawk, Nyjah Huston, and Eric Koston, Mehrings images have been published in top skateboarding magazines, and ESPN named him one of the sports ten most influential people. Now, in his first book, Mehring invites us along on his exhilarating photo adventures across six continents. By capturing these experiences on camera and including complementary images contributed by other top skate photographers, Mehring presents an exciting and artful look at skate culture around the world. With an adrenaline rush on every page, this book celebrates the joy of skateboarding and its power to inspire young people to overcome obstacleson the board and off."--Amazon.com.