Guide Flies: Simple, Durable Flies that Catch Fish. by Tim Rolston

What flies do the professionals go to when the chips are down? In Guide flies, Tim Rolston, international competitive angler, national fly fishing team coach, guide and author provides all the information you need to manufacture your own highly effective fly patterns. Illustrated with superb graphics, external video content and a splash of humour.

For a fly fishing guide it isn't enought that the patterns they use are effective, that is a financial necessity. If they are not and clients fail to connect with fish, the erswhile guide is likely to be looking for alternative gainful employment some time soon.



In "Guide Flies", international competative angler, fly fishing coach and fishing guide give up the secrets to success. Not only in terms of the fly patterns he uses, but equally and perhaps more importantly the methods of their manufacture. The book is littered with gems of imformation on tying and fishing these flies, how to modify them to suit your own needs and how to insure that they are not simply effective but equally durable.



Guide flies also considers in detail the thought process behind the design of various key patterns and anecdotal evidence from real "on the water" successes and failures that have led to the development of the patterns illustrated.



Guides tie flies for their clients and the clients come in all shapes, sizes and skill levels, which means that the flies detailed in this book are suitable for all anglers, experts and beginners alike. Not demanding of complex tying procedures, fancy tools or tricky to obtain materials. "Guide Flies" will alow any trout angler of rivers or stillwaters, to manufacture a selection of patterns which cover most of the bases and equally to understand why they should work and when.

All beautifuly illustrated in full colour graphics and with links to external video content of the flies and techiques discussed.

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I am an outdoorsman, not a computer boffin, or at least that was the picture when I started this a few years back. Since then I have become caught up with the advantages of electronic media. Steep learning curves continue, frustrations abound but out of that crucible have I think come some really worthwhile publications. How to Make your own fly fishing lanyard was the first and remains the most popular of all the titles. Plus it's free. Then "Who Packed your Parachute" an investigation into better ways to tie parachute flies followed.Still an experiment and free to anyone. Recently my book "Learn to Fly-cast in a Weekend" previously published in hard cover was converted to electronic format making it available to a far wider audience. It has received great reviews and then came the comprehensive and highly innovative "Essential Fly Tying Skills" book, which was previously only available on CD due to the file sizes has been made available for instant download. Now the genre has expanded further with "Guide Flies", with the same format of graphics, text and video clip links. I am still passionate about the outdoors, fly fishing and writing. I hope that you will enjoy the books and find them useful. I further hope that as I learn more there will be more titles with ever better content. Regards Tim

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Golf Yips – Practical Exercises and Mental Routines to Overcome The Yips by Jonathan Adler

Over the last 10 years or more, the Author, Jonathan Adler, has been helping golfers to overcome their yips. Here he shares his experiences and techniques.

Over the last 10 years or more, the Author, Jonathan Adler, has been helping golfers to overcome their yips. Here he shares his experiences and techniques.

"You may be surprised to learn about the true cause of your yips.

It is not a mechanical issue. Although it is true to say that when you play your chip shot or your putt, your technique does break down, this is not the cause of the problem.

Trying to fix your technique does not address the cause of the problem. It is like removing the leaves of a weed. It may temporarily seem to have cured the problem but unless you get to the root and pull it out, your problems will remain.

No, the true cause of your yips is you. Your very own mind has become conditioned to respond in this way when you play your chip or putt. Isn’t this why when you are feeling relaxed, perhaps practicing alone, your yip can be less severe?

The way out of the problem lies in the same place. Inside You.

You must strengthen and condition your mind to remain calm and concentrated when you play these shots.

The exercises and routines in this e-book, if practiced regularly, will do just that, strengthen and condition your mind.

If you are patient and persistent you are bound to be successful in overcoming your yips"

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My style is very practical, experiential with the emphasis on self discovery for the players, so most of our work is done with the players swinging a golf club on the range or putting on the practice green.

My job as Performance Coach is to increase the players’ awareness. Increased awareness of the problem is where you begin to find the solutions.

My goal is to enable you to learn for yourself what works and what doesn't work with regard to swinging a golf club and focusing your mind well. As well as being a Performance Coach to some great golfers I consider myself to be a student of the game of golf. I have been coaching golfers of all abilities for over ten years, from Touring Pro's to Amateurs. If you are struggling to play your best golf when it matters then please contact me.

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What Every Hitter Must Know by Billy Kehoe

A hitting instructional book for baseball and softball players. The fact-based, time tested hitting development program is one of a kind.

What every hitter must know is just that... the information and development program in the book can be an eternal guide to becoming a quality hitter.

The author Billy Kehoe, a lifelong baseball junkie, did a study in 2004 to find the truth about hitting.

He went into an intensive 14 month study on what the elite hitters do, and more importantly what they ALL do commonly.

Once the information was gathered and shared among some of the games best minds,Billy took his new developmental program on the road. Completing more than 700 events in nearly 30 states, the program has become ever so popular because of the results it creates.

What every hitter must know is the base from which the program is run. Information, instruction, tips... It's a reference guide to elite hitting.

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What Is Wrong with My Horse? by Keith Hosman

A book full of solutions for the horse owner. In three parts. Section I: "Fright" in it's myriad forms. Section II: Neglect your lawn, get weeds. Neglect your car, break down. Neglect your horse... collect trips to the ER. Here's what you need to know to keep your horse tuned-up and out of trouble. Section III: Step-by-step fixes for the most common problems faced by horse owners.

You are a horse owner with problems. This is a book with solutions.



This book is dedicated to every horse owner who has seriously considered leaving the gate open and spilling a trail of corn out to the highway. I've been there, my brothers and sisters. I feel your pain. Horses can be an amazing high - but can also drive ya nuts faster than you can say "Why would you do this to me when I pay all the bills?"



This book is also dedicated to all you folks who, new to horses, ignored all sensible advice and bought a young horse, figuring you could "learn together." Doubtless, you're starting to doubt the sanity of that decision... but relax, it's our little secret. Cram what you can of this material each night; amaze your friends in the morning.



Section I: The lion's share of challenges faced by riders and owners revolve around some form of "fear," the rider's - or the horse's. Here we deal with "fright" in it's myriad forms.



Section II: Neglect your lawn, get weeds. Neglect your car, break down. Neglect your horse... collect trips to the ER. Here's what you need to know to keep your horse tuned-up and out of trouble.



Section III: Find step-by-step fixes for the "most popular" (notice the quotes?) problems faced by horse owners.



CONTENTS



SECTION I: FEAR, IN ALL ITS FORMS

How your horse gets scared has everything to do with how we go about fixing it.



Retraining the Flighty or Bratty Horse

Horses are herd animals and instinct tells them that there's gotta be a boss. If it's not you, it's gotta be them. Here's how to get and maintain control.



Covered:

- Whoever Moves First, Loses

- Scared of My Horse

- Despooking: Scary Things

- Despooking: Scary Moments

- Despooking: Scary Places

- Say Good-Bye to Mr. Jiggy

- How to Slow Down Your Too-Fast Horse

- Calm Down Now



SECTION II:

Keeping your horse on the straight and narrow. Today's actions determine the horse you'll ride tomorrow.



Perfect the First Time

If you're guilty of being a bit heavy-handed (as evidenced by a stiff-as-a-statue horse) here's a Top Five Horse Training Concept that will soften your horse fast.



6 Easy Ways to Improve Your Training

Six horse training tips, each designed to simplify your training and make big changes fast.



Rider Checklists

Here are 3 "Rider Checklists." Together, they'll keep you safer - and accelerate your training to boot.



The First Thing I Do

Here's the first thing you should do with your horse today - and with any horse that's "new to you."



When You Get On, Do This First

Here's one small thing you can do to keep your horse's attitude in check - and prevent mount-up problems from taking root.



Is My Horse Hard to Train... Because of His Feet?

If your horse stumbles, cranes his head to the ground, takes halting steps, doesn't want to "move out," or has grown irritable, it might be that his feet are hurting him. Here's how to tell.



SECTION III: OVERT VICES

Here's how to fix some of the most common problems you might face with your horse: easy, objective, step-by-step.



Covered:

- Biting Horses

- Cinchy Horses

- Horses That Won't Go

- Leading Stubborn Horses

- Help! Picking Up Feet

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John Lyons Certified Trainer Keith Hosman lives near San Antonio, TX and divides his time between writing how-to training materials and conducting training clinics in most of these United States as well as in Germany and the Czech Republic.



Visit horsemanship101.com for more D.I.Y. training and to find a clinic happening near you.



Other books from Keith Hosman:



- Crow Hopper's Big Guide to Buck Stopping

- Get On Your Horse: Curing Mounting Problems

- Horse Tricks

- How to Start a Horse: Bridling to 1st Ride

- Rein In Your Horse's Speed

- Round Penning: First Steps to Starting a Horse

- Trailer Training

- What I'd Teach Your Horse, Training & Re-Training the Basics

- What Is Wrong with My Horse?

- When Your Horse Rears... How to Stop It

- Your Foal: Essential Training

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Mind vs Target: Six steps to winning in the clay target mind field by Bob Palmer

Bob Palmer's highly acclaimed SportExcel system is a revolutionary way to win, and it is changing the way clay-target shooters approach their game in North America and around the globe. No matter if you’re a world-class shooter, a coach, a weekend enthusiast, a beginner or a parent, this book is your handbook to using your very powerful Zone to learn how to win.

The highly acclaimed SportExcel system is a revolutionary way to win, and it is changing the way clay-target shooters approach their game in North America and around the globe. With Bob Palmer’s easy-to-read and easy-to-understand, step-by-step system, you learn to see the target as huge, to eliminate distractions and to stay totally focused.



Mind vs Target is not psychology. This book is your mental handbook on winning—it’s a tested and proven system and it is your prescription for taking your game to the next level. This book is filled with tools and tips as well as short cuts to learning—And it’s backed by winning clay-target shooters, professionals and Olympians. And it’s backed by science.



Mind vs Target builds a strong mental game:



* By giving you consistency, where you stop thinking and get rid of all distracting self-talk and affirmations

* By putting you in control by stopping people from distracting you

* By putting the brakes on embarrassing death spirals, so one dropped target means nothing

* By making your eyes dynamic where you see targets slow and bright and as big as garbage pail lids

* And by shooting with purpose and learning to forget all past mistakes



This book teaches you the Zone, how to stay in it and how to use it for fun, success and winning.



“Great shooters don’t think – they just shoot in the Zone.” No matter if you’re a world-class shooter, a weekend enthusiast, a beginner, a coach or a parent, this book is your handbook to using your very powerful Zone to learn how to win.

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SportExcel CEO Bob Palmer is a high performance expert, NLP master practitioner, author, the founder of the SportExcel System and 4th degree black belt in karate. Since 1994 he has been creating innovative ways to help athletes, coaches and sport leaders achieve their dreams. His system makes winning a lot of fun, easier to achieve and repeatable for all ages.



Bob's SportExcel System has been embraced by a wide range of sports including the clay target sports, surfing, snowboarding, figure skating, triathlon and golf as well as the team sports of football, hockey, baseball and soccer. It has ignited the passion, joy and skillfulness of thousands of athletes, coaches and leaders in numerous sports, and many have achieved podium success in the Olympic, Commonwealth Pan Am, and X Games, as well as in many developmental, collegiate and recreational sports.



His Olympians and pros rave about his six-step system for training and will often speak with Bob the night before performances to fine-tune their performance. With twenty years of experience under his belt, Bob can shift almost any athlete’s performance to the Zone in less than two hours for extraordinary results. Even athletes reading his book send Bob emails detailing that the system works as a result of simply following the steps!



With this kind of reputation, other professionals such as business and sport CEO's, singers and entertainers seek Bob out for his guidance, problem solving and insights.



Bob is the author of two books: Mind vs Target and a Mind to Win, “clinics in a book” that initiate the Zone, build leadership and ensure on-going high performance. He also writes on high performance and leadership for North American magazine and newsletters. Bob travels widely conducting clinics for teams and organizations. And he has also pioneered the use of Skype for reaching out to the world.



A former national karate champion and 4th degree black belt, Palmer is a member of the Shintani Wado Kai Karate Association where he currently holds a voluntary position as High Performance Trainer for the Shintani Wado Kai Karate national team. He has previously served as the Chairman of the Barrie Sports Hall of Fame, on the board of Big Brothers and as a volunteer with the YMCA.



Bob holds a degree in Education from Brock University, a degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo and a Master Practitioner level in neuro-linguistic training.



SportExcel Inc. is reinventing and rejuvenating the world of sport high performance. For more information, visit www.sportexcel.ca or call 877.967.5747.

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In the Flow by Jonathan Males

Former international paddler and now sport psychologist Jonathan Males combines his many years of experience working with successful competitors with recent research in this accessible book, designed to help paddlers and coaches understand the theory behind success and provide practical skills to improve performance.

The importance of delivering the psychological fundamentals to achieve paddling success.



What’s the connection between what paddlers think and feel and how they perform? How does mental preparation help performance? What do paddlers and their coaches need to do, to ensure paddlers perform at their best when it counts?



Former international paddler and now sport psychologist Jonathan Males combines his many years of experience working with successful competitors with recent research in this accessible book, designed to help paddlers and coaches understand the theory behind success and provide practical skills to improve performance.



Relevant for competitors in all disciplines as well as for recreational paddlers, In the Flow features chapters on self-confidence, decision-making, teamwork, whitewater paddling, competition and the joys of wilderness paddling.

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I’ve been hooked on kayaking since the age of 12, when I discovered the magical feeling of being able to paddle my own boat and the joys of moving water. In the late 70s and early 80s Tasmania still had remote and unknown rivers, and I was lucky enough to share in the adventure of first descents. As a teenager, slalom emerged as my priority. For nearly ten years I followed my ambition as a slalom racer, achieving success at a national level and competing internationally on the Australian team at four world championships through the 1980s. Travelling and competing on the slalom circuit was a fantastic, and at times highly challenging experience, that sparked my curiosity about performance psychology and has shaped my life and career ever since. Following my first slalom career, I coached the Australian slalom team at the Barcelona Olympics, then I moved to Britain where I worked as a coach and sport psychologist with talented paddlers and coaches on the British slalom and sprint teams over three Olympic cycles. For the last ten years I’ve been an active paddler again; running rivers, trying to master freestyle moves, racing slalom again and introducing my daughters to the sport.

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63 Defense: A Winning Youth Defense by Jack Gregory

The 63 Defense using both read and stack pressure concepts made famous by the 33 Stack Defense. It blends these concepts along with the zone coverage, Tampa cover 2 concepts, and aggressive 34 outside linebacker techniques to give you an aggressive defense that is fundamentally sound yet very simple to install. Coach Gregory goes into great detail about installation, practice, and adjustments.

About Jack Gregory

Jack Gregory began football coaching at the early age of twenty while in the Marine Corps. He has coached semi-professional football, high school football, middle school football, and youth football in California, North Carolina, Texas, Japan, and Europe. He has twenty years of coaching experience and most of that coaching middle school and youth football players. He is the founder of the National Double Wing Football Coaches Symposium and as authored several books on coaching football. His first book written in 2007 was the Bull, Bear, and Bison Offense - The Triple B is an offensive instruction manual on a variation of the modern Double Wing offense. In 2008 he wrote the book The Youth Double Wing - A Winning Youth Offense and shortly after writing the book was approached by Championship Productions and created the five DVD instructional set The Youth Double Wing Offense. He is currently releasing his new book The 63 Defense - A Winning Youth Defense and is working on the second addition to his Youth Double Wing series called The Youth Double Wing: The Gun! He is currently a head football coach at Prince of Peace Middle School in Plano, TX and is married to his beautiful wife Tammy and has two beautiful children Kaden Blair Gregory and Blake Alan Gregory.

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When the Yankees Were on the Fritz –Revisiting the “Horace Clark Era” by Fritz Peterson

"When the Yankees Were on the Fritz" is about a low time in New York Yankee history, the Horace Clarke Era, 1966-1974. Fritz's scouts had sold him on the concept that if he were on the Yankees he would be getting a World Series check almost every season, but instead, the Yankees fell to last place in the American League for the first time ever. Fritz never did get a World Series check.

This book is written from a players perspective and attempts to explain why the New York Yankees didn't, and couldn't have won any pennants from 1966 through 1974, a time known as "The Horace Clarke Era" by baseball historians. The book takes the reader from the first day Fritz Peterson appeared in a Yankee uniform in the spring in 1966 to the day he, and three teammates were traded to the Indians in April, 1974. The book shows both the personal and professional sides of life being a New York Yankee in the 1960's and 1970's before free agency when the players were more like a family rather than a business when players all had to work during off seasons, now a lost art. Many players will be highlighted because of the impressions or various incidents that happened making them especially memorable to Fritz. Players range from Mickey Mantle, down to Luke Lamboley, Fritz's first friend to be released (fired) from the Yankee organization.

About Fritz Peterson

Fritz Peterson was born in 1942 in Chicago, Illinois and was a White Sox fan until he signed with the NY Yankees in 1963. He won the first game he started on April 15, 1966 against the would be World Champion Baltimore Orioles, 3-2. It was the only game the Orioles lost that month. He won 20 games in 1970 and pitched in the All Star game that season. After an 11 year career he holds the lowest career E.R.A. in the long 85 year history of Old Yankee Stadium. Fritz had an over all e.r.a. of 2.52, Whitey Ford was second with a 2.58 e.r.a.

Fritz became an author in 2009 and again in 2012 and is finishing up 2 other books in 2014. He finds humor in almost everything he does. He and his wife have been married for over 40 years and have raised 7 children (so far) with a 7 year old grand daughter living with them as of 2014.

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What I'd Teach Your Horse by Keith Hosman

If you broke your horse to saddle and rode it for the first time today, this book is where you'd start tomorrow. Likewise, if you have an older horse that needs re-training, you'd start here. This book is a roadmap to building the foundation every horse needs, regardless of age, breed or background, regardless the type of riding for which it will eventually be used.

Question: "I just bought a horse. What do I do now?"

Answer: "Buy my book, 'What I'd Teach Your Horse.'"



If I had a dollar for every email I get asking "what to do" to make a riding horse out of the mare Uncle Emo just traded for the old RV - or how to retrain a horse that's grown rusty - or some version on either theme, I'd be the world's first gazillionaire. With the publication of this book then, I'm hoping to grab that distinction.



If you broke your horse to saddle and rode it for the first time yesterday, this book (chapter 1) is where you'd start tomorrow. If you have an older horse and you've taught him everything you know and he still don't know nothin', this book is where you'd start, (chapter 2). It's a roadmap to building the foundation every horse needs, regardless of age, breed or background, regardless of what you've got ultimately planned for that horse.



Afterwards, when your horse knows this book back to front, go train for barrels, roping, eventing, jumping or dressage. But today, basics are basics.



Section I is the stuff your horse needs to know. Section II is the stuff (the theory) you need to know. Practice the first handful of chapters in order, as written. Beyond that, you should feel free to mix and match depending on your needs or abilities. Some chapters are dependent upon others - but in those cases, I've spelled out necessary prerequisites.



Contents:



SECTION I: BASICALLY TRAINING YOUR HORSE



- Legs Mean Move (Step 1 if This Is "Day 2" for Your Young Horse)

- Hip Control, Part I

- Hip Control, Part II

- Classic Serpentine

- Train Your Horse to Travel Straight

- Clockwork: How to Teach Anything to Your Horse

- Shoulder Control

- The Reverse Arc Circle

- How to Fix Leaning Shoulders

- Serpentine: Indirect to Direct

- Speed Control

- Slow Down, Part I: Move the Hip

- Slow Down, Part II: Wherein We Train the Brain

- Balky Horses: Comatose One Minute, Hot to Trot the Next

- Crossing Creeks and Scary Stuff

- Teach Your Horse to Lower Its Head While Standing

- Better Back Ups

- Simple Steps to Power Steering

- Diagonal Movement ("Leg Yields Without the Legs")

- Softening

- Getting Leads

- A Fix for Cross-Firing (aka "Cross-Cantering")

- Hips-in (aka "Haunches-in" or "Travers")

- Neck Reining How-To



SECTION II: TEACHING YOU, THE THEORY BEHIND THE PRACTICE



- The First Thing I Do

- Each Time You Mount Up, Do This

- How to Pick Up Your Reins Like a Pro

- Training Magic: Release on the Thought

- What You're Feeling For

- Learning

- Reins Tell Direction, Legs Tell Speed

- Talking Horse

- See Yourself Leading When Riding

- Perfect the First Time

- Six Easy Ways to Improve Your Training

- Rider Checklists

- Diagnosing Problems



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About Keith Hosman

John Lyons Certified Trainer Keith Hosman lives near San Antonio, TX and divides his time between writing how-to training materials and conducting training clinics in most of these United States as well as in Germany and the Czech Republic.



Visit horsemanship101.com for more D.I.Y. training and to find a clinic happening near you.



Other books from Keith Hosman:



- Crow Hopper's Big Guide to Buck Stopping

- Get On Your Horse: Curing Mounting Problems

- Horse Tricks

- How to Start a Horse: Bridling to 1st Ride

- Rein In Your Horse's Speed

- Round Penning: First Steps to Starting a Horse

- Trailer Training

- What I'd Teach Your Horse, Training & Re-Training the Basics

- What Is Wrong with My Horse?

- When Your Horse Rears... How to Stop It

- Your Foal: Essential Training

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2014 Longhorn Football Prospectus: Thinking Texas Football by Paul Wadlington

This 2014 Texas football preview is a season companion, reference guide, and resource for the entire football season. Our goal is to present a rational, entertaining assessment of Longhorn Football, Texas opponents, and the Big 12 Conference, while imparting a more comprehensive and deeper understanding of the game, so that you can enjoy game day, and our Longhorns, all the more. Hook 'em

Welcome to the second annual 2014 Longhorn Football Prospectus: Thinking Texas Football.



This book is a Texas football preview, a season companion and reference guide, and a resource for the entire football season. Our goal is to present a rational, insightful and entertaining assessment of an exciting new era of Longhorn Football. We also want to dive into Texas’ opponents and the Big 12 Conference as a whole, while imparting a more comprehensive and deeper understanding of the game that will help you enjoy game day, and our Longhorns, all the more.



We wrote this guide because we believe it fills an important, underserved niche in the market. Like many passionate football fans reading regional or national publications, we realized that we knew more about our team and conference than the “experts.” And most of their previews might better be termed “historicals” - as they are written in April for June publication. We targeted an August release to include the most recent developments: transfers, injuries, off-season intelligence, and staff hires.



Local media vary widely in talent and intellectual curiosity and even the best of them are constrained by the need to fit formulae into a 800 word column, catering to sports section readers that their editors believe operate at a 8th grade reading level. Thinking Texas Football, in deference to its name, is written for an intelligent football layperson. We won’t insult you by writing down to the lowest common denominator nor will we try to overawe you with technical babble.



The internet has several fantastic resources - public and pay - but they (where we write included) serve a reactive news cycle and rarely have the chance to be comprehensive and develop deeper themes. It’s the difference between books and newspapers. We like both.



Our best ambition is to provide you with different tools - while plainly communicating an awareness of our own biases and blind spots - so that we can drive a conversation that mutually enriches our shared passion.



If you like it, tell a friend. If you really like it, buy several and send it to all of your friends. We hope they’ll appreciate it as much as we do.



Hook ‘em!

- Paul, Jason, Scott

About Paul Wadlington

Texas graduate and long-time corporate monkey turned media entrepreneur and writer. Currently living in San Francisco, CA.

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Enhancing Performance: Mental Training for Coaches, Athletes, and Parents by Dan Yarmey

This book describes the methods and mental skills necessary for optimal performance in individual and team sports. Forty brief chapters representing such topics as attention and concentration, goal-setting, imagery, mental preparation, and mental toughness are covered. The book will be of interest to coaches, college and club level athletes, high school players, and athletes' parents

About Dan Yarmey

Dan Yarmey is a University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the University of Guelph. He was born in Toronto, Ontario Canada and attended Waterloo College and the University of Western Ontario graduating with a BA in honors Psychology. He then completed his MA and Ph.D. in experimental psychology at Western. He has taught at Wilfrid Laurier University, the University of Tennessee, the University of Guelph, and the University of Guelph-Humber. Most of his research focuses on issues related to psychology and the law, especially on the psychology of eyewitness testimony and voice identification. This book is his first contribution to the literature on Applied Sport Psychology. Sport has been a life-long passion as an athlete, coach, consultant, teacher, and fan. He has coached youth sport in football, soccer, and hockey, and most recently, high school football. In addition to teaching a course on sport psychology, he has been a sport consultant for the University of Guelph's football team and men's and women's basketball teams, and women's basketball at Wilfrid Laurier University.

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Dry Land: Winning After 20 Years at Sea with the Pittsburgh Pirates by Charlie Wilmoth

Dry Land follows fans of the Pittsburgh Pirates through the team's first winning season in two decades. Along the way, Bucs Dugout's Charlie Wilmoth explains how the Pirates finally built a team strong enough to end the streak with a 94-win season and a playoff run.

Dry Land follows Pittsburgh Pirates fans as they navigate the longest streak of losing seasons in the history of major American pro sports. The Bucs' 20-year drift raises provocative questions about why we root for sports teams in the first place. Why would fans invest emotionally in a team with so little to offer? And why do fans who openly describe themselves as "masochistic" and "delusional" stick around?



Charlie Wilmoth chronicles the losing streak and explains how the Bucs finally built a team strong enough to challenge it. Meanwhile, he profiles fans in their teens and twenties who have never seen the Pirates win, and older ones waiting for the team's first winning season in a generation. Stir-crazy after two decades at sea, fans of all ages seethe at the Pirates' ownership and at each other, all while holding out hope that next year might somehow be different. Their loyalty is either inspiring or insane. And after two decades of choppy water, their luck is finally about to change.



"The Pittsburgh Pirates' transformation from record-setting losers to perennial contenders might be this century's best baseball story, and Charlie Wilmoth is the best person to tell it." - Rob Neyer, FOX Sports



"Pirates fans are like no others. After years of sharing his unique insights at Bucs Dugout, Charlie Wilmoth deftly captures the wildly varied emotions of Pirates fans in this excellent book." - Rob King, ROOT Sports



"With a sense of humor and point of view that could develop only through firsthand experience, Charlie Wilmoth chronicles a team and fan base hitting rock bottom, then rising to the top in a redemptive 2013 season. Dry Land examines what motivates fans to remain loyal after decades of losing, and follows them as their skepticism washes away during the Pirates' playoff run." - Tim Dierkes, MLB Trade Rumors

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