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Parents are the key in sport development. The roles that parents develop in sport with their children, either in a leisure or competitive way, are complex and varied. However, the literature that makes a distinction between the father and the mother is very limited. This book has expected, therefore, to contribute to know much better the mothers´ role in that sport development. Her presence has always been obscured by the male perception of the sport activity. To give the mothers voice and presence has been the main goal of this book. Mum, thanks! Is an appreciation to the work that many...

Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and demanding father, by the age of twenty-two Agassi had won the first of his eight grand slams and achieved wealth, celebrity, and the game's highest honors. But as he reveals in this searching autobiography, off the court he was often unhappy and confused, unfulfilled by his great achievements in a sport he had come to resent. Agassi writes candidly about his early success and his uncomfortable relationship with fame, his marriage to Brooke Shields, his growing interest in...

Con esta visión actualizada de la metodología de las llaves de brazos, pretendemos ampliar y reforzar el conocimiento sobre los principios y fundamentos pedagógicos así como profundizar en los aspectos técnicos que rigen el principio de las Ude Kansetsu waza, (Llaves de brazos), desde la óptica pedagógica y particular del sistema cubano de defensa personal Kansen Ryu y tomando como referencia los fundamentos científicos de la nueva didáctica del Judo del Gran Maestro 8º Dan de Judo Andrés Kolychkine Thomson. En este primer tomo, se exponen las llaves de brazos combinadas con otras...

¿Qué ocurriría si en una de esas clásicas pachangas navideñas en las que se juntan los amigos del crack de turno con los amigos de otro de los astros de moda invirtiéramos los papeles y pusiéramos a jugar a todos aquellos jugadores que no triunfaron en el balompié? ¿Y si acotáramos a los seleccionables exclusivamente a aquéllos que vistieron la camiseta del Real Betis Balompié o del Sevilla Fútbol Club? Pues de tal batiburrillo sólo podría salir un duelo tan apasionante como el que nos ofrecerían los “Amigos de Colusso” contra los “Amigos de Kukleta”, un libro basado...