Sailor's Start-Up: A Beginner's Guide to
✍ Doug Werner
📂 Library
📅 2001
🌐 English
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Boxer's Start-Up: A Beginner?s Guide to Boxing (Start-Up Sports series)
✍ Scribed by Doug Werner
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 161
- Category
- Library
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✦ Synopsis
A user-friendly, highly illustrated, straightforward boxing guide that promotes fun, fitness, self-defense, and self-confidence. Endorsed by USA Boxing, national governing body for amateur boxing.
✦ Table of Contents
Copyright
......Page 3
Acknowledgements......Page 5
Preface: Renaissance
......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Introduction: Good News
......Page 10
1. Learning
......Page 16
2. Boxing Gear
......Page 18
3. Boxer’s Stance & Basic Footwork
......Page 24
4. Basic Punches
......Page 30
5. Basic Combinations
......Page 46
6. Application: Whaling on the Heavy Bag......Page 54
7. Basic Defense & Counters
......Page 70
8. Punch Mitts: Working Offense with Defense......Page 84
9. Boxer’s Workout
......Page 92
10. Sparring
......Page 96
11. History, Love & Hate in America, Amateurs vs. Pros & the Champs
......Page 106
12. Boxer’s Journal:Author’s Six-Month Journey
......Page 115
Glossary
......Page 152
Resources
......Page 154
Bibliography
......Page 157
Index
......Page 158
About the Author & Start-Up Sports......Page 160
About the Coach......Page 161
✦ Subjects
Физическая культура и спорт;Единоборства;Европейские и американские единоборства;Бокс;
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