Practical Carp Fishing

Practical Carp Fishing is brimming with practical and sound advice and is invaluable for all budding carp anglers as well as more experienced carp anglers who wish to improve their skills and their catches.

The popularity of carp fishing has increased drmatically during the last thirty years; many now regard the sport as a separate branch of angling in its own right, alongside coarse fishing, game fishing and sea fishing. The increase in the popularity of carp fishing has been accompanied by a great thirst for knowlege about this exciting form of angling. More fishing magazines and websites are dedicated to carp than to any other species and there is no sign of this enthusiasm slowing down. There are books of all kinds but this volume is particularly aimed at the coarse angler with some experience, who has decided to enter the exciting world of carp fishing for the first time, and at relatively inexperienced carp anglers who wish to improve their catches.

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Wiffle Ball: The Ultimate Guide

Author Michael Hermann, president of Wicked Cow Entertainment, and The Wiffle Ball Inc.'s, brand managers, gives readers an inside look at this palatial Wiffle get-up and at the best Wiffle fields around, as well as the down-and-dirty on how in 1953 a down-on-his luck shoe polish salesman and his 16-year-old son concocted the first Wiffle Ball from spare perfume packaging, turning a plastic orb into an American icon. You'll explore The Science of Wiffle, and why a Wiffle Ball, well, "waffles." You'll also learn all the how to's: how to build the best field; how to throw the best sinker ball; and how to best tape up a Wiffle Bat. And best of all, major leaguers and A-list celebs will share their fondest and funniest Wiffle memories.
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Jump Rope Training

Olympian Buddy Lee has developed training programs that have helped athletes on 25 U.S. Olympic teams compete on the international stage. As athletes strive to improve speed, agility, balance, strength, power and endurance, the progressive programs Lee presents will help them achieve those goals. With instruction on techniques for increasing difficulty and intensity along with strategies for adding jump rope drills to current training methods, athletes will learn to maximize performance in minimal training time. Check Catalog

African Soccerscapes: How a Continent Changed the World's Game

From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, Africans have wrested control of soccer from the hands of Europeans, and through the rise of different playing styles, the rich rituals of spectatorship, and the presence of magicians and healers, have turned soccer into a distinctively African activity. African Soccerscapes explores how Africans adopted soccer for their own reasons and on their own terms. The Confédération Africaine de Football democratized the global game through antiapartheid sanctions and increased the number of African teams in the World Cup finals. The unfortunate results of this success are the departure of huge numbers of players to overseas clubs and the influence of private commercial interests on the African game. But the growth of the women’s game and South Africa’s hosting of the 2010 World Cup also challenge the one-dimensional notion of Africa as a backward, “tribal” continent populated by victims of war, corruption, famine, and disease.

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You're the Umpire: 139 Scenarios to Test Your Baseball Knowledge

Divided into three sections, this unusual handbook offers Routine Calls, which deal with scenarios and rules that typically come up in games and deal with clear cut rules--fair and foul, strike zone questions, and the like. The next section, Basic Situations, deals with umpiring matters and rules that are just a bit more unusual or, for the casual fan, obscure. Interference and obstruction calls, for example, don't come up too often, but they remain standard stuff involving rules that umps and many fans know quite well. In the final section, Obscure Rules and Situations, you will be presented with what many baseball people call knotty problems. Here, you will be asked questions involving the complex infield fly rule, and other arcane matters. This section, then, is the ultimate test of your umpiring skills and knowledge Check Catalog