Author: Eric Devine Publisher: Running Press Kids ISBN: 0762447001 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 322
Book Description
Seventeen-year-old Tony Antioch lives in Pleasant Meadows, a trailer park where questions aren't asked since everyone already knows the answers from their own experience. He dreams of rescuing his mother from her constant stream of abusive boyfriends but in reality can barely duck the punches that are aimed at himself. When Tony is coerced into joining his friend Rob's Mixed Martial Arts class, he is surprised to find that he has a talent that he actually wants to develop. But with a meth-dealing biker gang that is hungry for recruits and a vicious cycle of poverty and violence that precedes him, Tony is going to need a lot more than blood and guts to find a way out. Gritty, powerful, and unapologetic, Tap Out explores what it takes to stay true to oneself and the consequences of the choices made along the way in order to do so.
Author: Steve Scott Publisher: ISBN: 9781938585203 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 482
Book Description
Learn how to make your opponent tap out in virtually any situation! This guide is packed with hundreds of armlocks, chokes and leglocks that you can use to make any opponent tap out. This book offers hardcore, serious, practical instruction on submitting an opponent in a wide variety of grappling and fighting situations. Whether you are a submission grappler, judo or jujitsu athlete or MMA fighter, you will learn armlocks, chokes and leglocks from start to finish in both "no gi" and "gi" situations. Plus you will get variations, alternate finishes and escapes so no matter what your opponent throws at you, you will be ready. Steve Scott shares the same training tips, technical expertise and tactical advice that he has used to train over 200 national and international champions in grappling sports. This book is like having your own world-class coach with you every time you step on the mat. The book is divided into 3 massive sections: SECTION ONE: ARMLOCKS -- This section features the four primary armlocks including the cross-body armlock, the bent armlock, the armpit lock and the straight armlock. In some cases, shoulder joint locks are also shown when relevant to an armlock. There are many breakdowns, set ups, variations, combination techniques and applications of armlocks in this section. SECTION TWO: CHOKES & STRANGLES -- This section emphasises strangles and chokes aimed directed against the carotid arteries on the sides of the neck as well as against the trachea (windpipe) and front of the check and throat. In some cases, neck cranks and shoulder locks are also shown when relevant to a choking technique. A wide variety of ways to break down an opponent, roll an opponent into a choke, flatten out an opponent for a choke or apply chokes from a variety of positions. SECTION THREE: LEGLOCKS -- This section includes all submission techniques directed toward the lower body, including the ankles, knees, legs and hips. A large number of toeholds and ankle locks are featured. Both straight and bent knee leglocks are shown in this section as well.
Author: Sean Rodman Publisher: Orca Book Publishers ISBN: 1459808754 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
When Darwin's father went to prison for assault, his mom decided it was time to move him from his inner-city school to the elite Norfolk Academy. It was supposed to be a brand-new start for him. But old instincts die hard, and Dar is used to fighting for everything. Convinced by a new friend to take part in an illegal fight club, Dar starts competing in no-holds-barred matches between students. He quickly rises to become the best in the ring. When one match goes too far and a student is almost killed, Dar faces a choice. Everyone tells him he's a fighter, but he needs to decide for himself--who is he, and what is he fighting for?
Author: Edgar Kunz Publisher: Ecco ISBN: 1328518124 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 115
Book Description
A fierce debut collection from NEA and Stegner fellow Edgar Kunz―spare and intimate narrative poems that sprawl between oxys and Bitcoin, crossing the country restlessly as they struggle to reconcile a troubled young adulthood with the working poor New England of his youth
Author: alley ciz Publisher: ISBN: 9781950884032 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
What would you do if you came face-to-face with your celebrity crush?Rocky Steele is surrounded by professional athletes.It's her job. As a physical therapist in a world renowned gym, she works with the best of the best, from hockey players to MMA fighters. Celebrity status does not impress her. Nor do big, strong men in peak physical condition. Nope. When it comes to her job, she's one hundred percent professional.Enter Gage James. Her celebrity crush. And the newest fighter to train in her gym. Where it will be her job to put her hands on every inch of the six foot seven two hundred and sixty pounds of utter Alpha male perfection. She's got this....Maybe. Gage 'The Kraken' James is the reigning MMA Heavyweight Champion.When he walks into The Steele Maker for the first time, it's like he's hit with a one-two punch to the chest in the form of a certain raven haired firecracker. His coach's daughter. His physical therapist. His every waking thought.He's in for the fight of his life. The stakes are higher... outside the octagon.Time to release The Kraken.GAME ON.
Author: Quang Bao Publisher: Temple University Press ISBN: Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 536
Book Description
Showcasing new work, Take Out captures the freshness of contemporary expressive culture in queer Asian Pacific America. It brings together established and emerging artists to define their personal and collective vision as gays and lesbians. The visual, literary, and performance works in this anthology probe a variety of topics-inter-generational relationships, domesticity, pop culture, camp, Hollywood, fairy tales, and Asia. Take Out resists summary just as its contributors refuse limits on their artistic expression and attempts to objectify them as people.Distributed by Temple University Press for the Asian American Writers' Workshop Author note: Quang Bao is the current managing director of The Asian American Writers' Workshop in New York City. His fiction, essays, and book reviews have appeared in magazines and literary journals including The Boston Globe, The Threepenny Review, The New York Times, Open City, Lambda Book Report, Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose (AAWW/Temple University Press), Personals: Dreams and Nightmares from the Lives of Twenty Young Writers, and The Asian American Literature Textbook.Hanya Yanagihara is an editor at the magazine Brill's Content and the e-publishing company Contentville.com. She is also the editor of the Asian American Writers' Workshop's Asian Pacific American Journal and serves on the board of directors of Kaya Productions, a non-profit publishing concern focusing on literature of the Asian and Pacific Diaspora. She lives in New York.
Author: Stephen Mark Silvers Publisher: Sky Oaks Productions, Incorporated ISBN: 9780940296589 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 312
Book Description
A resource book of TPR commands for ESL/EFL teachers.
Author: Steve Scott Publisher: ISBN: 9781934903148 Category : Hand-to-hand fighting Languages : en Pages : 480
Book Description
Learn how to make your opponent tap out in virtually any situation! This guide is packed with hundreds of armlocks, chokes and leglocks that you can use to make any opponent tap out. This book offers hardcore, serious, practical instruction on submitting an opponent in a wide variety of grappling and fighting situations. Whether you are a submission grappler, judo or jujitsu athlete or MMA fighter, you will learn armlocks, chokes and leglocks from start to finish in both "no gi" and "gi" situations. Plus you will get variations, alternate finishes and escapes so no matter what your opponent throws at you, you will be ready. Steve Scott shares the same training tips, technical expertise and tactical advice that he has used to train over 200 national and international champions in grappling sports. This book is like having your own world-class coach with you every time you step on the mat. The book is divided into 3 massive sections: SECTION ONE: ARMLOCKS -- This section features the four primary armlocks including the cross-body armlock, the bent armlock, the armpit lock and the straight armlock. In some cases, shoulder joint locks are also shown when relevant to an armlock. There are many breakdowns, set ups, variations, combination techniques and applications of armlocks in this section. SECTION TWO: CHOKES & STRANGLES -- This section emphasises strangles and chokes aimed directed against the carotid arteries on the sides of the neck as well as against the trachea (windpipe) and front of the check and throat. In some cases, neck cranks and shoulder locks are also shown when relevant to a choking technique. A wide variety of ways to break down an opponent, roll an opponent into a choke, flatten out an opponent for a choke or apply chokes from a variety of positions. SECTION THREE: LEGLOCKS -- This section includes all submission techniques directed toward the lower body, including the ankles, knees, legs and hips. A large number of toeholds and ankle locks are featured. Both straight and bent knee leglocks are shown in this section as well. The use of position, breaking an opponent down, set ups, rolling techniques to gain momentum and controlling your opponent are featured.
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