The hockey handbook - Hardcover

Percival, Lloyd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0498088464 ISBN 13: 9780498088469

Publisher: Barnes, 1961

Synopsis

x, 322 pages. Index. "The first really comprehensive book ever written about ice hockey. Intended as much for ready reference as for detailed study, it deals with every aspect of the game for player, coach and spectator. Containing numerous diagrams and photos, this work represents a major contribution to the literature of sports." - dust jacket. This copy a 1972 reprint of the 1960 revised edition. Prior owner's name inside front board otherwise book unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. Somewhat above-average wear to price-clipped dust jacket which bears prior owner's name atop front panel and is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound vintage copy of this world-renowned ice hockey guide.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

Originally published in 1951, and rejected at the time by one NHL coach as "the product of a three-year-old mind," Lloyd Percival's The Hockey Handbook went on to become an internationally recognized classic. Russian and European coaches seized on the book as the first authoritative, analytical treatment of hockey fundamentals and based their training regimes on the principles Percival described. The father of Russian hockey, Anatoli Tarasov, wrote to Percival: "Your wonderful book which introduced us to the mysteries of Canadian hockey, I have read like a schoolboy."

Now, nearly half a century later, The Hockey Handbook remains in a class by itself. It is the first book required by players or coaches at all levels of proficiency who are setting out to develop their own or their team's hockey skills.

Wayne Major, Larry Sadler, and Robert Thom are all experienced amateur hockey coaches who came to appreciate the practical value of Percival's pioneering work. In revising the text, they drew upon the expertise of a variety of specialists, including, for example, Dr. Tom Sawa, who updated the chapter on training and conditioning, to give The Hockey Handbook a new relevance to modern hockey coaches. Now redesigned and issued in an easy-to-use format, the book will serve as an inspiration and guide to future generations of players and coaches.

About the Author

Lloyd Percival with revisions by Wayne Major and Bob Thom

Edition details

• Publisher: Barnes
• Publication date: 1961
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0498088464
• ISBN 13: 9780498088469
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 322