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Roller & In-Line Skating eBooks

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  • Rollergirl

    Totally True Tales from the Track

    The 1950s phenomenon of Roller Derby is back in full force, and it's definitely not your grandma's game anymore. With leagues in more than one hundred cities across the country, a national tournament, and major sponsors, the new wave of the sport has gone mainstream. No one is better qualified to tell the story of Flat Track Derby's astronomic rise than Melissa "Melicious" Joulwan. As a founding ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Down and Derby

    The Insider's Guide to Roller Derby

    “Part manifesto, part how-to-guide . . . required reading for anyone who’s searching for new ways to be fearless.” —Carrie BrownsteinWhen most Americans hear the words “roller derby” today, they think of the kitschy sport once popular on weekend television during the seventies and eighties. Originally an endurance competition where skaters traveled the equivalent of a trip between Los Angeles and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Roller Hockey

    by Rob Price ...
    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Roller Hockey is the most comprehensive and up-to-date roller hockey-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of nearly 100 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round roller hockey-specific weight-training programs ... Read more

    $17.63 USD

  • Mastering Skateboarding

    Ever watched pro skaters and wished you knew how they were able to pull off the tricks that you see? If so, then Mastering**Skateboarding is the resource for you!Two-time world champion skateboarder Per Welinder teams up with longtime skateboard advocate Peter Whitley to bring you the techniques and tricks used by the pros. But the information doesn’t stop there. Welinder and Whitley also provide ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Skateboarding

    The Ultimate Guide

    by Becky Beal ...
    Series series Greenwood Guides to Extreme Sports
    From skateboarding's distant origins in the 1940s to the heyday of the Z-Boys to Tony Hawk's lifelong and lucrative career as a professional skateboarding icon, this book showcases what skateboarding was in the past and what it's now evolved into.In the last half century, skateboarding has evolved from a simple, idyllic child's pastime that originated in southern California to becoming a worldwide ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Troll Or Derby

    A Fairy Wicked Tale

    by Red Tash ...
    Series series Troll Or Derby
    In TROLL OR DERBY, fifteen year old Roller Deb is singled out by town bullies for both her skates, and for being different. When her popular homecoming queen of a sister is kidnapped by a scuzzy drug dealer, Deb must flee the trailer park in which she’s grown up, and rescue her. Along the way, Deb becomes enmeshed in the magical realm of trolls and fairies, and the blood-thirsty version of roller ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Inline skating in contemporary sport

    An examination of its growth and development

    True or false: Roller skating, in its quad form, has been around longer than inline skating. True or false: Aggressive Rollerblading® is the only form of inline skating that people practice. Of course, both of these statements are false. This new ebook, Inline skating in contemporary sport - An examination of its growth and development, looks at various forms of inline skating—ranging from ... Read more

    $4.85 USD

  • The Roller Derby Athlete

    A complete introduction to the exciting world of roller derby including how to play the game, strategy, training, fitness and nutrition.Roller derby is a unique, fast-paced, female-dominated sport that is taking the world by storm. It originated in the USA in the 1930s but it is the revival that began in 2001 that has inspired this new book. Roller derby has become one of the world's fastest ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Become A Pro Skateboarder

    With This Ultimate Guide On Cheap Skateboards, How To Skateboard, Skateboarding Ramps, Skateboarding Tricks, Skateboard Decks AND Skating Shoes! ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • In-Line Skating Made Simple

    by UNKNOWN ...
    Chapter 1: In-line skating is really easy   Chapter 2: Considerations when getting your skating gear   Chapter 3: Remember the rules and regulations   Chapter 4: Fundamentals of skating posture    Chapter 5: Keeping the balance while skating   Chapter 6: How to make a stop in skating   Chapter 7: Mastering... ... Read more

    $4.00 USD

  • Five Strides on the Banked Track

    The Life and Times of the Roller Derby

    by Frank Deford ...
    Illustrated with photographs by Walter Iooss Jr.: Iconic sportswriter and commentator Frank Deford’s first book brings to life one of America’s most thrilling—and misunderstood—sports entertainments, the Roller Derby, from its birth during the Great Depression to it second ascendancy in the late 1960sIn Five Strides on the Banked Track, distinguished sports journalist Frank Deford opens a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teach Someone to Roller Skate: Even Yourself!

    Marty Donnellan is former skate coach at All American Skating Rink near Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She has taught scores of people how to skate, and many others how to improve their skating. "Teach Someone to Roller Skate - Even Yourself!” is a complete curriculum for a beginning roller skating course for children through adult. By studying Marty’s clear text and engaging illustrations, you, too, can ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teach Someone to Roller Skate - Even Yourself!

    Marty Donnellan has worked as a roller skating coach at All American Skating Rink near Atlanta, GA, USA. She has taught scores of people how to skate, and many others how to improve their skating."Teach Someone to Roller Skate" is a complete curriculum for a 4-to-6 week beginning roller skating course for all ages. Marty has used it with individual students of all ages, as well as school PE groups ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Troll Or Park

    Trollogy, #2

    by Red Tash ...
    Series Book 2 - Trollogy
    Another Fairy Wicked TaleWhen sixteen year old Deb heads to a roller derby tournament in Vegas, she hardly expects to skate against so many dangerous fairies -- much less for The Realm to experience a coup in her absence.What follows is an odyssey among fairy night life, beastly derby girls, blown out casinos and a mermaid with a hankering for a Philly Cheese Steak. Separated from her best friend ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Learn To Skate Like A Pro!

    What will you learn in this book about the art of skateboarding? You are going to begin by taking a glance at what it takes to put oneself in the mind of a quality skateboarder. Those who are able to put themselves in this kind of mindset are already ahead of the game and well on their way towards success.A fearless mindset is essential especially with skateboarding where it sometimes comes down ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eight-Wheeled Freedom

    The Derby Nerd’s Short History of Flat Track Roller Derby

    by D.D. Miller ...
    D. D. Miller is fascinated by roller derby. As the Derby Nerd he has been covering roller derby since 2009, travelling to games across Canada and the United States, including two world championships, reporting back to an ever-growing audience the details of the sport. In this entertaining and thorough book he explains roller derby to newcomers and charts the sport’s rise from small groups of women ... Read more

    $7.43 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Le guide de survie de la fresh meat pour bien débuter au roller derby !

    Series series Sports extrêmes
    Sens l’odeur de la sueur, du mascara qui coule et de la gomme qui chauffe. Entends les appels de la foule, les crissements du patin et les cris de raillerie. Car, peu importe comment, ce livre a atterri entre tes mains. Le roller derby est un sport taillé pour tou(te)s, d’autant plus si tu es : l’ex-maigrichonne de la cour d’école, la meuf qui n’est pas branchée pilates, le moustachu, la fille qui ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Spalding's Athletic Library - Official Roller Polo Guide

    by Chalres Olin ...
    This vintage book contains a complete guide to roller polo, with information on how to play the game, notable leagues and teams, history, and much more. An easy-to-read and interesting volume, "Spalding's Athletic Library - Official Roller Polo Guide" is highly recommended for both those with an interest in polo and collectors of vintage sporting literature. Contents include: "Roller Polo", "The ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Henley's Official Polo Guide - Playing Rules of Western Polo Leagues

    by M. C. Henley ...
    This vintage book contains a detailed guide to the game of polo, first published in the late nineteenth century. It includes a fascinating history of the game as well as rules, tips, detailed explanations, and information on the various different rules of American league play. Highly recommended for those with an interest in the history of polo. Contents include: "Polo", "Hints", "Technical Terms ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chicago Rink Rats

    The Roller Capital in Its Heyday

    by Tom Russo ...
    Series series Sports
    By 1950, roller skating had emerged as the number-one participatory sport in America. Ironically, the war years launched the Golden Age of Roller Skating. Soldiers serving overseas pleaded for skates along with their usual requests for cigarettes and letters from home. Stateside, skating uplifted morale and kept war factory workers exercising. By the end of the decade, five thousand rinks operated ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Motown Sound on Wheels

    Rockin Richard Houston

    Over 100 years people have been Roller skating on the street on concrete and at parks. Roller skate wheels have been around in different forms, Wooden, Metal, Plastic and Rubber. Roller skating as been what some would call a fad throughout the years.During the 60's and 70's things like Disco and Rap and The Motown sound had skaters starting to developed a (Rhythm) a strong repeated pattern of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Skateboarding and the City

    A Complete History

    Skateboarding is both a sport and a way of life. Creative, physical, graphic, urban and controversial, it is full of contradictions – a billion-dollar global industry which still retains its vibrant, counter-cultural heart.Skateboarding and the City presents the only complete history of the sport, exploring the story of skate culture from the surf-beaches of '60s California to the latest ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The A to Z of Skateboarding

    by Tony Hawks ...
    For more than twenty years, Tony Hawks has been mistaken for Tony Hawk, the American skateboarder. Even though it is abundantly clear on his website that he is an English comedian and author, people still write to him asking the best way to do a kickflip or land a melon.One mischievous day he started writing back in a pompous tone, goading his correspondents for their spelling mistakes and poor ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Rollergirls

    The Story of Flat Track Derby

    Flat track roller derby is one of the country’s fastest growing sports. What started as a single league in Austin, Texas, a couple of decades ago has grown into an international phenomenon, with nearly two thousand leagues around the world.Rollergirls captures the spirit of the game, which is poised to become an Olympic sport, and highlights the women who have become known as the godmothers of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD