The Secrets to Optimal Performance Success
The Secrets to Optimal Performance Success

Author: Dr Ashley M. Berge, PhD

Publisher: AM8 International

Published: 2018-03-20

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0994569440

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The coaching community is filled with an assortment of coaches, players and parents of varied experiences, levels and exposures to best practices. The Secrets to Optimal Performance Success is here to unravel the maze between the developmental player and the elite, and to discuss what separates the good from the great. What is holding back coaches from developing the elite is answered, whilst what is holding back developmental players from taking the next step towards elite status becomes evident throughout. The role of the parent and their integral role in player development and their journey towards optimal performance outcomes plays an important role in the discussions on how these three: coaches, players and parents contribute towards optimal performance success. Presented is a discussion for all involved in the sports coaching community, irrespective of where you or your player is on the developmental scale, allowing you to finally access The Secrets to Optimal Performance Success – as a coach, as a player, and as a parent.

The Secrets to Optimal Coaching Success
The Secrets to Optimal Coaching Success

Author: Dr Ashley M. Berge, PhD

Publisher: AM8 International

Published: 2018-03-20

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 0994569432

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The role of the sciences in sport, as a whole, has been disputed up until now, and its indirect proponents tied to performance optimisation. This is no more. The Secrets to Optimal Coaching Success brings forward the sciences as a whole and presents a cohesion of the often complex presented jargon into a simplified and refined format for the real-world, with coaches, players/athletes and parents at the forefront. Near refuted up until now, the diversification of the optimal performance spectrum begins to shed light on the facets that truly count in developing optimal performance parameters. The habitual characteristics of optimal coaching success is identified through the text, embedded inside each respective segment, a direct result of the latest scientific findings in the real-world. With established, and heightened significance to the sports coaching world, The Secrets to Optimal Coaching Success begins to unravel the road ahead and the expectations on the line to reach optimal success. Tied with direct and indirect relationships presented, and various coaching pedagogic traits, the secrets are progressively discussed with application and function at its core.

The Science of Elite Performance: The World Awaits
The Science of Elite Performance: The World Awaits

Author: Dr Ashley M. Berge, PhD

Publisher: AM8 International

Published: 2017-03-20

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 0994569424

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Never before in the world of sports have coaches been privy to a method or style of practice that has handed them the reins to develop the best athletes in the world. One sport and one technique provide the necessary channels to follow addressing the very existence of a formula attributed to elite sporting success.The sport of tennis was used along with its collective technique in the forehand groundstroke, as the gateway to deliver to the coach and athlete a blueprint that encapsulates the requirements and demands vital in achieving a “top 10” ranking. A blueprint of the science and education, as one, is presented. The featured literature reviews, reiterated yet stylistically shaped with a multi-premise: to teach both the coach and athlete how to develop and achieve optimal performance success, synonymous with a “top 10” ranking, and to accommodate the academic: a guide on how to build, structure and freely evolve the literature review, serving as their own unique learning structures. Introducing the ground-breaking sports coaching phenomenon: the Optimal Performance Theory, and The V by Dr. B © – handing you what the sporting world has been awaiting: the formula behind optimal performance success.

Everybody Wins
Everybody Wins

Author: James Wallis

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2023-03-14

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1839081910

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The revolution in tabletop gaming revealed and reviewed, in this entertaining and informative look at over 40 years of award-winning games. The annual Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) Awards are like the Oscars of the tabletop. Acclaimed British author and games expert James Wallis investigates the winners and losers of each year’s contest to track the incredible explosion in amazing new board games. From modern classics like CATAN, Ticket to Ride, and Dixit to once-lauded games that have now been forgotten (not to mention several popular hits that somehow missed a nomination), this is a comprehensive yet hugely readable study of the best board games ever made, penned by one of the most knowledgeable commentators on the hobby.

Mortal Games
Mortal Games

Author: Fred Waitzkin

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2017-02-07

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1504043014

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An illuminating profile of the world champion chess player and political activist by the acclaimed author of Searching for Bobby Fischer. Over the course of his unprecedented career, Garry Kasparov dominated the chess world with astonishing creativity and explosive passion. In this unforgettable work of reportage, author Fred Waitzkin “captures better than anyone—including Kasparov himself in his own memoir—the various sides of this elusive genius” (The Observer). Waitzkin had intimate access to his subject during Kasparov’s gripping 1990 matches against his sworn enemy, Anatoly Karpov. As the world chess champion defends his title, Waitzkin analyzes the match play with verve and depth that will delight lay readers and aspiring grandmasters alike. Against this backdrop, Waitzkin assembles a fascinating portrait of a complicated man who is both a generational talent and an outspoken advocate of Russian democracy, brilliant and volcanic, tenacious and charismatic, despairing one moment and exuberant the next.

Don't Let Us Win Tonight
Don't Let Us Win Tonight

Author: Allan Wood

Publisher: Triumph Books

Published: 2024-05-21

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1637273959

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Now revised and updated to include reflections on the modern era of Red Sox baseball Commemorating the Boston Red Sox's unforgettable championship run in the fall of 2004, go behind the scenes and inside the dugout, bullpen, and clubhouse to discover how this team defied the ultimate odds. This oral history highlights how, during a span of just 76 hours, the Red Sox won four do-or-die games against their archrivals, the New York Yankees, to qualify for the World Series and complete the greatest comeback in baseball history. Then the Red Sox steamrolled through the fall classic, sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals in four games to capture their first championship since 1918.Don't Let Us Win Tonight is brimming with revealing quotes from Boston's front office personnel, coaches, medical staff, and players, including Kevin Millar talking about his infectious optimism and the team's pregame ritual of drinking whiskey, Dave Roberts revealing how he prepared to steal the most famous base of his career, and Dr. William Morgan describing the radical surgery he performed on Curt Schilling's right ankle. The ultimate keepsake for any Red Sox fan, this is the 2004 team in their own words.

Windows 7
Windows 7

Author: David Pogue

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 907

ISBN-13: 1449389449

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In early reviews, geeks raved about Windows 7. But if you're an ordinary mortal, learning what this new system is all about will be challenging. Fear not: David Pogue's Windows 7: The Missing Manual comes to the rescue. Like its predecessors, this book illuminates its subject with reader-friendly insight, plenty of wit, and hardnosed objectivity for beginners as well as veteran PC users. Windows 7 fixes many of Vista's most painful shortcomings. It's speedier, has fewer intrusive and nagging screens, and is more compatible with peripherals. Plus, Windows 7 introduces.

Windows 7: The Missing Manual
Windows 7: The Missing Manual

Author: David Pogue

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2010-03-19

Total Pages: 909

ISBN-13: 1449388876

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In early reviews, geeks raved about Windows 7. But if you're an ordinary mortal, learning what this new system is all about will be challenging. Fear not: David Pogue's Windows 7: The Missing Manual comes to the rescue. Like its predecessors, this book illuminates its subject with reader-friendly insight, plenty of wit, and hardnosed objectivity for beginners as well as veteran PC users. Windows 7 fixes many of Vista's most painful shortcomings. It's speedier, has fewer intrusive and nagging screens, and is more compatible with peripherals. Plus, Windows 7 introduces a slew of new features, including better organization tools, easier WiFi connections and home networking setup, and even touchscreen computing for those lucky enough to own the latest hardware. With this book, you'll learn how to: Navigate the desktop, including the fast and powerful search function Take advantage of Window's apps and gadgets, and tap into 40 free programs Breeze the Web with Internet Explorer 8, and learn the email, chat, and videoconferencing programs Record TV and radio, display photos, play music, and record any of these to DVD using the Media Center Use your printer, fax, laptop, tablet PC, or smartphone with Windows 7 Beef up your system and back up your files Collaborate and share documents and other files by setting up a workgroup network

Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Volume 2
Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Volume 2

Author: Elwyn R. Berlekamp

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0429945604

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In the quarter of a century since three mathematicians and game theorists collaborated to create Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, the book has become the definitive work on the subject of mathematical games. Now carefully revised and broken down into four volumes to accommodate new developments, the Second Edition retains the original's wealth of wit and wisdom. The authors' insightful strategies, blended with their witty and irreverent style, make reading a profitable pleasure. In Volume 2, the authors have a Change of Heart, bending the rules established in Volume 1 to apply them to games such as Cut-cake and Loopy Hackenbush. From the Table of Contents: - If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em! - Hot Bottles Followed by Cold Wars - Games Infinite and Indefinite - Games Eternal--Games Entailed - Survival in the Lost World

Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays
Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays

Author: Elwyn R. Berlekamp

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 0429945590

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This classic on games and how to play them intelligently is being re-issued in a new, four volume edition. This book has laid the foundation to a mathematical approach to playing games. The wise authors wield witty words, which wangle wonderfully winning ways. In Volume 1, the authors do the Spade Work, presenting theories and techniques to "dissect" games of varied structures and formats in order to develop winning strategies.