Tag: Amateurs

April 26, 2024

Professionals, amateurs and performance sports coaching in England, 1789-1914

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Free Download Professionals, amateurs and performance : sports coaching in England, 1789-1914 By Day, David
2012 | 298 Pages | ISBN: 3034308248 | PDF | 14 MB
This book was shortlisted for the Lord Aberdare Prize 2013. While the relationship between amateurism and sport is well documented, the impact of this ethos on the professional coaches and trainers who directed and supported elite sporting performance has been entirely overlooked. This book explores the foundations of coaching and training practices and chronicles how traditional approaches to performance preparation evolved during the nineteenth century. Drawing on primary material to uncover the life courses of coaches and their families, the author argues that approaches to coaching replicated the traditional craft approach to skilled work. The advent of centralized, amateur-controlled governing bodies of sport created a significant shift in the coaching environment for professional coaches, meaning that individuals had to adapt to the master-servant relationship preferred by the middle classes. Cultural differences in the value accorded to coaching also contributed to a decline in the competitiveness of British athletes in the international arena. The author concludes by arguing that despite scientific advances, Edwardian coaching practices remained reliant on long-established training principles and that coaching practices in any period are inevitably an amalgamation of both tradition and innovation

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January 26, 2024

Grandmaster Chess Strategy What Amateurs Can Learn from Ulf Andersson’s Positional Masterpieces

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Free Download Jurgen Kaufeld, Guido Kern, "Grandmaster Chess Strategy: What Amateurs Can Learn from Ulf Andersson’s Positional Masterpieces"
English | 2011 | pages: 221 | ISBN: 9056913468 | PDF | 2,1 mb
Every chess player knows how difficult it can be to convert an advantage into a win. Positional technique is what you need and this book teaches exactly that in 15 thematic lessons. The training material is based on 80 games of the legendary positional genius Ulf Andersson, a world elite player from Sweden who reached number four on the FIDE rating list. Studying Andersson?s crystal-clear middlegame and endgame technique, which Kaufeld and Kern made accessible for club players by pinpointing exactly in which positions and how Andersson made the difference, will improve your strategic skills and your positional feeling.

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January 5, 2024

The Last Amateurs Playing for Glory and Honor in Division I College Basketball

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Free Download John Feinstein, "The Last Amateurs: Playing for Glory and Honor in Division I College Basketball"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0316277010, 0316278424 | EPUB | pages: 394 | 2.1 mb
A revealing inside look at the world of college basketball by one of the nation’s most beloved sportswriters looks at the coaches, players, teams, and schools that have made Division I basketball so compelling, without the million-dollar professional contracts. 125,000 first printing.

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