Extreme Golf is a captivating journey through the world's most geographically extreme, climatically challenging, dangerous and uniquely designed courses. From the sweltering courses of the desert to the freezing ice golf championships in Greenland, and from the erotically shaped bunkers in lush surroundings in France to the harsh surfaces in ...
An energetic look at the spiritual lives of extreme athletes, this work asks why extreme athletes take the risks that allow them to push the limits of consciousness, what they encounter there, and what others can learn from them.
Scores of American women are leading double lives. By day they are librarians, financial analysts, bartenders, teachers, and even mothers; by night their athletic alter egos assume their authority with monikers such as Helen Wheels, Dirty Britches, Anna Mosity, and Assaultin' Pepa. They lace up their skates, slide into racy racing uniforms, and ...
ECW burst onto the sports entertainment scene in the early 1990s, and redefined the industry with a reckless, brutal, death-defying, and often bloody style that became known as 'hardcore'. In the process, it attracted a rabid, cult-like following that is still going strong today. The ECW 'hardcore' style changed the wrestling business forever; and ...
In "Amped," readers meet the alternative American sports--skateboarding, snowboarding, BMX biking, and motocross--and the lifestyle, history, music, and million-dollar industry behind them.
A searching and at times harrowing re-appraisal of the life of Evel Knievel, the seventies American icon and the greatest daredevil motorcyclist that ever lived. Now fully updated in paperback with the story of the last few years of his life and his death in 2007. Stuart Barker's definitive biography captures the super-star status that Knievel ...
Featuring 2002 ESPN X-games gold medallist Mike Metzger (Freestyle Motorcross), this volume includes interviews with top athletes in the world of extreme sports.
Watch as these talented athletes scale walls and leap from ledges. Learn all about this exhilarating extreme sport, from its early beginnings to present day, through wonderful color photographs and engaging text.
Written for children who are able to read on their own, this book about the world of extreme sports combines more text, more complex sentence structure, and a faster pace. Full-color illustrations.
For anyone who wants to be "just a little bit more amazing" in whatever they do, this revealing look at the world's most daring athletes combines sensational stories with practical advice on surviving the physical and mental challenges of extreme sports. 50 photos.
It has been called golf with attitude! And it has captured the imagination of Generations X, Y, and Z. Forget the well-manicured fairways, rigid dress codes, and costly greens fees of the country club. Guerilla golf is taking the game in a dramatic new direction-to the streets, parks, pastures, and ski slopes, locations that offer true golfing ...
Ages 6 to 12 years. Surfing is an exotic sport that fascinates and excites us. Surfers are daring athletes who challenge the mighty waves of oceans. Find out what makes a person wake up at dawn to take thrilling rides on these enormous waves! In this book, children will discover: the etiquette of surfing; the many types of surfboards and how to ...
For many golfers, the innocent thrill of striking a drive clearly, avoiding a deep sand-trap, or holing out an unlikely putt is all they need to make a round (or a whole year) of golf memorable. But there's a group of modern players in search of something more. They've rediscovered the magic of the game in "extreme" golf, and their adventures are ...
Ages 6 to 12 years. BMX bikes have been around for a long time, but found a whole new outlet when skateboarding became popular. In addition to motocross racing, BMX riders are tearing it up on pipe ramps and in pools with their own vocabulary of tricks. This book flies children right into the middle of this rejuvenated sport with features such as: ...
Amazing pictures of an extraordinary man's sporting achievements in several disciplines. Climbing mountain peaks, one of the best sky-divers in the world, taking racing cars round the greatest tracks on the planet, a member of the Belgian fencing team, swimming across the Channel and base jumping; these are just a few of the adrenaline kicks he ...
From the street to the pipe and all the way to luge, Skateboard! gives kids some fantastic inspiration for extreme fun right in their own neighborhood. Skateboarding is becoming a BIG COMPETITION SPORT EXTREME SPORTS IN GENERAL ARE OF HIGH INTEREST TO KIDS. FUN TO READ with it's convenient size, spectacular photos, clear drawings, and engaging ...
Ages 6 to 12 years. Extreme skiers have taken this favourite pastimes to a whole new level! These daring athletes do it all, from winning gold at the Olympics to hitting backcountry mountains. This book shows young readers how this sport strikes the perfect balance between the strength and grace of skiing and the thrilling tricks of such extreme ...
Finch chronicles the harrowing true story of two friends who plunge 900 feet into the water in South Africa--and only one returns. What happened that day is the stuff of nightmarish drama, but it's also a compelling human story of friendship and of coming to terms with loss and tragedy. 8-page color photo insert.
This vividly illustrated series introduces the who, what and how of extreme sports. The book emphasizes safety amd proper training and features tips on technique, tricks and gear as well as profiles of top competitors.
Marking "Thrasher" magazine's anniversary, this jam-packed retrospective recounts skateboarding's twists and turns of the last two decades and offers a glimpse at its thriving future.
This book is about the new crop of extreme sports stars from Apolo Ohno to superstar skateboarder Shaun White to phenom climbing star Tori Allen. Each chapter focuses on a different sport and star, and is full of photos, bio info, trivia, anecodotes, quotes, and stats.The complete list of athletes in this book is as follows: climber Tori Allen, ...
In 64 packed pages, kids will learn an enormous amount about roller skating. The book focuses primarily on in-line skating but includes a bit on quad, which is making something of a comeback. Chapter 1 covers the fundamentals of the sport. Chapter 2 introduces kids to aggressive skating, the in-line sport at the X Games Chapter 3 covers roller ...
Ages 6 to 12 years. Not so long ago, a surfboard in the sky was the stuff of comic book fantasy. Today, extreme athletes surf the air with ease. "Extreme Sky Sports" features such high-velocity sports as sky surfing and skydiving. Kids will get their hair blown back by brilliant aerial photos of sky surfers and divers in action, as clear concise ...
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