Author: R. Michael Onello
Publisher: Turtle Press
Keywords: boxing, course, week, martial, american, art
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-10
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1880336820
ISBN-13: 9781880336823
Whether you want to box for fitness or competition, Boxing: The American Martial Art is an excellent guide to getting started. Professional boxing coach and trainer R Michael Onello has created a 12-week, step-by-step boxing course that can be followed at home or in the gym. Begin with the thorough boxing conditioning program designed to tone and strengthen your entire body, with a special emphasis on the abs, chest and arm muscles. From Lesson One, you’ll learn stance and movement, defensive tactics and a simple method of wrapping your hands to protect them during training. As you work
Authors:Floyd Patterson, Bert Randolph Sugar,
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Keywords: boxing, skills, basic, hall, international, fame
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1602390207
ISBN-13: 9781602390201
For all boxers and fans, this step-by-step guide to successful boxing by a two-time World Heavyweight Champion will be educational and entertaining. Floyd Patterson set out to “pass along to you what I’ve learned, to unlock some of the secrets of the greatest sport in the world.” He succeeded, creating a classic that’s one of the most comprehensive boxing manuals ever written. Topics include rules, equipment, how to bandage your own hands, stance, bobbing and weaving, punching technique, offensive and defensive moves, strategy, and conditioning—all offered with stories from Patterson
Author: W. K. Stratton
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: shadows, boxing
Number of Pages: 195
Published: 2009-10-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0292721293
ISBN-13: 9780292721296
Reaching the top in any sport requires a long, hard climb. But when you start with the baggage of years of family dysfunction and incarceration in a hellish mental hospital, the climb is especially steep. Yet even with such weights to carry, Anissa Zamarron won not one, but two, world championships in women’s boxing. Her story, as dramatically intense as the Clint Eastwood film Million Dollar Baby, is one of tremendous courage and determination to overcome the odds against her as a Latina and as a woman working through mental illness and addiction--a fight in which Zamarron has been as p
Author: Joyce Carol Oate
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classic
Keywords: boxing
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0060874503
ISBN-13: 9780060874506
Yes, the same Joyce Carol Oates who packs one of the most lethal punches in American literature also happens to be an astute observer of the sweet science. Oates filters her knockout collection of essays through multifaceted prisms of art, history, sexuality, and politics to directly confront and explore boxing’s physical and commercial brutality, but also the sense of human struggle and survival that’s at boxing’s purest core. "In the boxing ring," she writes, "man is in extremis, performing an atavistic rite ... for the mysterious solace of those who can participate only vi
Author: Nigel Colli
Publisher: Carol Publishing Corporatio
Keywords: babylon, boxing
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 1990-11-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0806511834
ISBN-13: 9780806511832
Author: Brian Johnston
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Keywords: shadows, boxing
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0522853307
ISBN-13: 9780522853308
Author: John W. Hurley
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: boxing, art, defense
Number of Pages: 53
Published: 2004-08-21
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1411601890
ISBN-13: 9781411601895
This book is a reprint of Ned Donnelly’s classic treatise on boxing.
