Buy used & second hand Sports

150 fast and effective joint locks and cavity strikes. Includes fundamental training.

The legendary fighter demonstrates simple, effective methods for dodging and deflecting incoming blows; offers invaluable advice for improving the speed, power, and accuracy of your kicks and punches; and shows you how to eliminate bad habits from your training. As the third volume in the "Bruce Lee...

Meticulously researched and lavishly illustrated, Muay Thai: A Living Legacy include sections on Muay Thai'ss rich ceremonial and cultural rituals; rare archive photographs; new step-by-step pictures illustrating the basic techniques, employing all the weapons in the Muay Thai arsenal; a Thai-Englis...

Peter Leitch, aka The Mad Butcher, is a legend in his own lifetime - a larger-than-life character who left school at 15 and went on to build a nationwide chain of successful butchers shops and a reputation as a foul-mouthed league supporter with a heart of gold. Behind the scenes he contributed time...

You don't have to win the Tour de France to live life like a champion What drives someone like Lance Armstrong to consistent and phenomenal success? Is it something you're born with, or is it something you can acquire, develop, and perfect? Lance Armstrong's longtime friend Brad Kearns has spent yea...

Building on the great success of the first titles in this new series ("Racing Cars", "Planes", "Pirate Masks", "Finger Puppets"), "Top Football Teams" features even more easy-to-make, amazing press-out models. Now you can create your own top international football teams, play out a world championshi...

What kind of person risks their life for their sport? And more to the point, why? Intrepid author Tony Davis takes a leap into the unknown to find out in Splat! The Madness and Magnificence of the World's Most Dangerous Sports. Talking to top exponents of the most edgy sports on the planet Davis unc...

In this title, which combines real-life stories and practical advice, Peter Benchley draws on more than 30 years of experience on and under the water, to help the reader approach the ocean and its inhabitants with the understanding and respect they deserve. He describes the many types of sharks, and...

Learn to break down every stage of combat, from contact and exchange to pursuit and retreat, in this must-have manual that is filled with guiding principles, including chi sao drills to develop coordination, balance, timing, accuracy, and chi power. Also included are chum kil form techniques to redi...

"Plenty of thrills for the armchair traveller...captivating". -- PeopleMany people go to the sea in boats, but few of them write as movingly about the experience as Peter Nichols does in this enthralling meditation on the wonders of sailing, the mystery of the sea, and the ebbs and flows of love. Wi...

Solo sailors are widely known to be a breed apart, and here’s an unforgettable book that shows just how wide a berth they give themselves from the crowds. Several years ago, Miles Hordern, a schoolteacher by training---though he had run away to sea a few times before---set sail on a twenty-eight-foo...

This new and exciting guide will help both novice and experienced divers plan the underworld trip of their dreams. All types of diving environments are included, from coral reefs and kelp forests to shipwrecks, caverns, and caves. It includes exciting dives for advanced divers and also features: The...

This coffee table book features around 60 of the world's top diving locations. Aimed at both the experienced and amateur diver, sites have been chosen for their beauty and uniqueness, and the quality of their underwater life. The book is divided into the world's great oceans, and a two page introduc...

Whether he's administering a double knee face breaker (a.k.a. The Codebreaker) or telling the story of some of his favorite matches, you can't ignore Chris Jericho. The controversial former WWE intercontinental champion obviously enjoys being the center of attention and in this standalone sequel to ...

A book for chicks of all ages who sometimes get it wrong but keep on trying anyway . . . When celebrity broadcaster and columnist Kerre Woodham became the Short Fat Chick who runs marathons, she changed lives. Hugely successful, her first book is now followed by a funny, inspiring and devastating...

The techniques explained in this golf instruction book do not reveal Tiger Woods' own predilections, but how he took care to make it a guide for everyone, men or women, young or old, tall or short. The book is structured differently from other books, starting at the green and progressing backwards -...

This fascinating volume takes readers on a journey through the cultural history of American football - from its earliest post-Civil War roots to the high-flying acrobatics of the modern game - and explains why the game evolved, and how its evolution was often a mirror on American society and culture...

One of the world's greatest footballers finally tells his story in his own words Sometimes I think that my whole life is on film, that my whole life is in print. But it's not like that, there are things which are only in my heart - that no one knows. At last I have decided to tell everything Diego A...

Tiger Woods has won the US Amateur title three times in a row, three USPGA tournaments within six years of turning professional, and the US Masters by a record margin. Here his father, Earl Woods, offers a personal look at the philosophy, instruction and training that went into raising Tiger.

It is 30 years since Lou Fisher founded the Spirit of Adventure Trust and launched the first of two sailing vessels that would take more than 50,000 young New Zealanders on journeys of adventure and self-discovery around New Zealand's coastline. This title celebrates 30 years of a national instituti...

Rob Matthews always knew that one day he would be completely blind. He had inherited a congenital eye condition from his father and after a childhood of painful visits to eye clinics, where he was used as a textbook example for multitudes of medical students, he eventually became completely blind. A...

An official MotoGP book, the second edition of this practical guide to motorcycle racing technique, aimed at racing and track day enthusiasts at all levels, has been expanded to include extra information as well as many new photographs and up-to-date quotes from today's MotoGP stars. From starting a...

This text is a complete presentation of Bruce Lee's art of Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do, and is an expanded sequel to the bestselling "Tao of Jeet Kune Do". The development of Bruce Lee's unique martial art form, its principles, core techniques, lesson plans, and illustrative sketches are presented here in ...

The first edition of "Trek!" gloriously spanned the wild mountains, rainforests and deserts of our incredible planet, revealing how many of its once remote corners are now regularly visited by ordinary travellers - a fact that would have astonished the intrepid explorers of the past. Actin...

This work presents tales of great characters, extraordinary courage, bizarre dangers and passionate victories from Australia's impressive motor racing tradition. Australia has produced an incredible twenty-four world champions in everything from Superbikes to Supercross. Riders like Gardner, Doohan,...

Most ‘histories’ of our national game start with the 1905 Originals, and have neglected the rich and varied pioneer period of rugby in New Zealand which began more than thirty years earlier. For the first time, the origins of the game and its place in our early history has been researche...

Jo Ramirez is one of the best-liked and most respected Formula One personalities of recent years, and is held in high esteem both inside and outside the Grand Prix paddock. Now available in paperback, here is his personal account of his life in motor racing, told with humour, warmth and joy, and pro...

'I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at seventy-five miles per hour. I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a fi...

In Paris on July 25th, 1999, Lance Armstrong made world headlines with the most stunning comeback in the history of sport: winning the Tour de France in the fastest ever time after battling against life-threatening testicular cancer just 18 months earlier. A few months after his historic victory, he...

In this updated edition of the highly acclaimed "Tour de France", Fife sets the 2008 race in the context of the event's remarkable history, which began in July 1903. Combining meticulous research with a pacey narrative style, Fife penetrates the mystique of the race and paints a colourful ...