Water Sports category: 1998 books
by Joy Symons
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Whether you are thinking about starting your children in swimming lessons or you already have, this book will help you get the most out of lessons.'Sink or Swim' includes tips and expert advice on what you should expect from swimming and water safety teachers. It includes instructions to show...
Tides and the Ocean
Water's Movement Around the World, from Waves to Whirlpools
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Surfers, sailors, and anyone who loves the ocean will enjoy this visual exploration of the world's seas along its shores, including rip tides, swells, waves, and tsunamis.
Tide is the vertical motion of water, something so subtle it is impossible to see with the naked eye. Inspired by his travels...
Swim Speed Secrets
Master the Freestyle Technique Used by the World's Fastest Swimmers
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Sheila Taormina’s Swim Speed Series is America’s favorite guide to faster swimming.
In this new edition of the best-selling Swim Speed Secrets, the 4-time Olympian, gold medalist, and triathlon world champion reveals the swim technique used by the world’s fastest swimmers.Taormina’s...
Swimming
Steps to Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Be confident in the pool or open water with Swimming: Steps to Success. This proven program will help you master these techniques:
• Freestyle
• Backstroke
• Breaststroke
• Butterfly
• Starts and Turns
• Open Water
• Survival Swimming
Step-by-step...
by Aquatic Exercise Association
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Aquatic fitness is not just for older adults or those with physical limitations. Water exercise is a proven fitness activity that is challenging and fun for all age groups and abilities. It offers reduced-impact options for group exercise, small-group fitness, and personal training. As the primary...
Teach Dinghy Sailing
Learn to Communicate Effectively & Get Your Students Sailing!
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
Whether drifting in Optimists or skimming the water in a catamaran, the principles of instruction are the same and the major difficulty is communicating knowledge. This is a step-by-step course in how to teach beginners to sail safely and effectively. It takes you through the basics of teaching someone...
The Upside Down Spinnaker
Ups and Downs of Cruising, Racing, And Buying Cruiser Size Sail Boats
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book about sailing begins with an account of the author's and his collaborator's separate early experiences and the problems they encountered. In one case, ignorance was not bliss - it resulted in property damage. The other case, despite life-threatening conditions at sea, luckily had a happy...
by Gideon Samson
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Donderdag is voor Gied de ergste dag van de week. Want dan is er schoolzwemmen en dat is het stomste wat er bestaat. Duiken. Watertrappelen. Zwemmen met kleren aan. Gied moet al die vreselijke dingen kunnen en doen. Elke week weer.
Gelukkig krijgt Gied hulp van de man met de uiven. Als de schoolzwembus...
by Ken Walker
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Written by an expert in the Swimming Pools field, The Pool Safety Bible is packed with essential information and practical advice on safety around pools and water in general.
Pools can be great fun but they are also dangerous places. You should be aware that a pool is a potentially life-threatening...
by Beth Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Kayaking next to open water swimmers, elite and novice, has given Beth Barnes a chance to blend two lifelong passions into one explosive one. Helping others fulfill a dream and being on the open water is where she feels that she reaches her own full potential. During the 2010-11 Catalina Channel Swim...
KOSMOS eBooklet: Open Water Diver (OWD)
Aus dem Gesamtwerk: Tauchen - Handbuch modernes Tauchen
Language: German
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Trockene Theorie? Nicht mit diesem Grundlagenwerk der Tauchausbildung. Gleich, bei welcher Organisation man die Eintrittskarte zum Tauchen erwirbt – jeder Taucher findet in diesen drei Einzel-E-Books umfassenden Reihe alles was er wissen muss, um seinen Traum zu verwirklichen: Kompetente Anleitungen,...
KOSMOS eBooklet: Advanced Open Water Diver (AOWD)
Aus dem Gesamtwerk: Tauchen - Handbuch modernes Tauchen
Language: German
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Trockene Theorie? Nicht mit diesem Grundlagenwerk der Tauchausbildung. Gleich, bei welcher Organisation man die Eintrittskarte zum Tauchen erwirbt - jeder Taucher findet in diesen drei Einzel-E-Books umfassenden Reihe alles was er wissen muss, um seinen Traum zu verwirklichen: Kompetente Anleitungen,...
Swimming
Technique, Training, Competition Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Crowood Sports Guides provide sound, practical advice that will help make you a better sportsperson whether you are learning the basic skills, discovering more advanced techniques or reviewing the fundamentals of your sport. Featured in Swimming - Crowood Sports Guides are information boxes containing...
A Social History of Swimming in England, 1800 – 1918
Splashing in the Serpentine
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Covering a time of great social and technological change, this history traces the development of the four classic aquatic disciplines of competitive swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo, with its main focus on racing. Working from the beginnings of municipal recreational swimming,...