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From the authors of Run Like You Stole Something, a collection of facts, fallacies, explanations and anecdotes: sporting technologies and techniques explained in everyday terms.
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Dr Damian Farrow is the Skill Acquisition Specialist at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra. As part of his role there, he consults to teams in the professional football codes. He has a PhD from the University of Queensland and a Master of Applied Science degree from Deakin University, Melbourne. Justin Kemp is the Exercise Physiologist at Australian Catholic University, Melbourne. He is also currently a PhD scholar at Victoria University and has a Master of Science degree from Queens University, Canada. They have previously written the acclaimed ùRun Like You Stole Somethingú and regularly publish and present their work in scientific journals. They were regular contributors to the Age newspaper for several years and Justin broadcasts a weekly sports science radio program (now in its 9th year) on Melbourne's 3RRR-FM.
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Paperback. Damian Farrow, Allen & Unwin. Following up on the success of Run Like You Stole Something, Why Dick Fosbury Flopped looks at sporting technologies and techniques from a popular science perspective, and discusses current-day sports science issues from an historical bent. The many informative, weird and fantastic anecdotes will provide entertaining reading for sports fans of all levels of experience and knowledge.The authors answer some really big sporting questions: * What did Dick do to have a flop named after him? * How did the golf ball get its dimples? * Upon which great and disastrous attempts from past decades are today's records built? * How would the great sporting names and the great events of the past match up on today's stage? * How have athletes' bodies changed over time? * What effects have performance enhancing drugs and drug tests had on world records? If you want to win friends and influence people with impressive explanations of amazing human feats and quirky facts about sporting paraphernalia, you need this book. Paperback. Seller Inventory # 9781741144949-SECONDHAND
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