[PDF] Balancing Acts Women In Sport eBook

Author : Justin Wolfers
Publisher : Brow Books
Page : pages
File Size : 22,15 MB
Release : 2018-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781925704020

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Personal, literary, historical, critical and experimental essays that explore Australian women's experiences in sport and sport culture. --Featuring more than 20 non-fiction essays from a diverse range of Australian writers, journalists and athletes. --Contributors include established sports writers and sports advocates like Brunette Lenkic, Imogen Smith, Jodi McAlister, Nicole Hayes, and Danielle Warby; academics and cultural critics such as Kasey Symons, Emma Jenkins and Erin Stewart; as well as emerging writers published widely across literary magazines and newspapers including Ellen Van Neerven, Kate Doak, Holly Isemonger, Gina Rushton, Charlotte Guest, Katerina Bryant, Nadia Bailey and Rebecca Slater. --Essay topics include: the continual sexualisation of women in surfing culture; the marginalisation of women in boxing; feminine performativity in ballet; life as a long-time female AFL spectator; structural disadvantage as experienced by a professional cyclist; social soccer's ins and outs; the power relations between female athletes and their coaches; female-identifying athletes' experience of homophobia; and the aesthetics of televised sports.

Author : Gerd Heuschmann
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1646012585

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German rider and equine veterinarian Dr. Gerd Heuschmann is well-known in dressage circles—admired for his plain speaking regarding what he deems the incorrect and damaging training methods commonly employed by riders and trainers involved in competition today. Here, he presents an intelligent and thought-provoking exploration of both classical and "modern" training methods, including "hyperflexion" (also known as Rollkur), against a practical backdrop of the horse's basic anatomy and physiology. In a detailed yet comprehensible fashion, Dr. Heuschmann describes parts of the horse's body that need to be correctly developed by the dressage rider. He then examines how they function both individually and within an anatomical system, and how various schooling techniques affect these parts for the good, or for the bad. Using vivid color illustrations of the horse's skeletal system, ligaments, and musculature, in addition to comparative photos depicting "correct" versus "incorrect" movement—and most importantly, photos of damaging schooling methods—Dr. Heuschmann convincingly argues that the horse's body tells us whether our riding is truly gymnasticizing and "building the horse up," or simply wearing it down and tearing it apart. He then outlines his ideal "physiological education" of the horse. Training should mirror the mental and physical development of the horse, fulfilling "classical" requirements—such as regularity of the three basic gaits, suppleness, and acceptance of the bit—rather than disregarding time-tested values for quick fixes that could lead to the degradation of the horse's well-being. Dr. Heuschmann's assertion that the true objectives of dressage schooling must never be eclipsed by simple "mechanical perfection" is certain to inspire riders at all levels to examine their riding, their riding goals, and the techniques they employ while pursuing them.

Author : Gerd Heuschmann
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 33,55 MB
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781646010721

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In today's society, is it indeed possible for riders in any horse sport to put the good of the horse first and foremost?

Author : Mary Ellen Flora
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781886983021

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Everyone has both male and female vibrations regardless of gender. Learn about the spiritual purpose of male and female energies, female and male relationships, and communication. Take charge of your energies and create the space to grow and heal. Balance your energies to fully experience and express your

Author : Tadhg Coakley
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 178537298X

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This book is a multifaceted reflection on sport. It is part memoir, outlining Tadhg Coakley’s time as a player and fan of sport and how it has shaped his life. It is also a book of essays critiquing several aspects of sport, both good and bad, and showing its influence in the wider world. It is also a work of auto-fiction, wherein Coakley uses his novelistic abilities to chart narratives, personal and public. It is, finally, a work of scholarship, brilliantly interweaving the author’s view of a life spent inside and outside the white lines with the cultural discourse of previous writers and thinkers on the many themes explored. The book is an exploration and explanation of what sport means, why it is the world's largest single consumer product and such a dominant/pervasive presence in Irish culture. Why, for example, were the terms ‘European Championships’ and ‘Premier League’ the top Google searches in Ireland for 2021? Why was Christian Eriksen the most searched person? In this book Tadhg Coakley interacts with sport in the way that Olivia Laing interacts with isolation (The Lonely City) Sinéad Gleeson and Emilie Pine interact with the female body and female experiences (Constellations and Notes to Self), Doireann Ní Ghríofa interacts with being haunted by an eighteen-century poet (A Ghost in the Throat) and Fintan O’Toole interacts with Irish history (We Don’t Know Ourselves). This is a book that needed to be written. We are consuming sport in ever-greater gulpfuls – often blindly. The ‘coverage’ of sport is vast: newspapers, magazines, books, a whole raft of TV channels in many languages, websites, podcasts, blogs, radio stations, hourly sports bulletins with every news cycle. Why is that, and what does it mean? The book does not romanticise or idealise sport. Sport has a dark side and is rife with greed, corruption, sexism, homophobia, nationalism and a raft of toxic masculine behaviour – and the author interrogates his own behaviour and attitudes in respect of some of these. On the other hand, in sport – as in art – people can forge their own identities in grace, imagination and the possibility of what may be. This contradictory duality and the cognitive dissonance it carries with it is one of the most fascinating aspects of sport. Sport, like story, is mostly about loss. Ultimately, sport, like story, is about what happens to the fans outside the white lines and, for the readers off the page.

Author : Kathy Sloan
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Gymnastics
ISBN :

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"This paper will first explore how gymnastics got into the mess that prompted the writing of "Little Girls in Pretty Boxes" by profiling one athlete and two coaches. The topic of eating disorders within the sport will be explored in detail through the case of one former elite gymnast, Christy Henrich. ... This will be followed by a contrast of two coaching styles that have been prevalent in American gymnastics over the last several years: the styles of Bela Karolyi and Mary Lee Tracy ... Once the profiles have been laid out, the paper will discuss how the situation became permissible in the first place. Is it strictly an issue of physically smaller bodies being more capable of performing the technical difficulty the sport requires? Or does the problem require a deeper probing of how our culture looks at these young female gymnasts? Finally, we will look at changes that have taken place within gymnastics since the publication of "Little Girls in Pretty Boxes." The steps USA Gymnastics has taken to address the issue of eating disorders will be explored. The direction elite women's gymnastics may be taking now will also be discussed"--Author's introduction.

Author : Shelby Holmes
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 2008-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0595533132

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Reverend Shelby and Shawn Holmes have been married for over thirteen years and the proud parents of their baby girl Nina Johanna Holmes. Reverend Holmes is the Founder of M.T.O.I Ministry and Senior Pastor of Refuge Missionary Baptist Church in Texas, where their motto is A Place Where God's People are His Prized Possession. Reverend Shelby and Shawn Holmes are natives of the windy city, Chicago Illinois. Reverend Homes is a noted Speaker, Teacher, Author and Powerful Preacher of God. RMBC uses a powerful and progressive approach to educating God's people and the restoration of family values. Their dynamic style of teaching, biblically based principles for every day use have influenced many marriages and families to find Christ. This book is yet another accomplishment of this growing Church and Ministry for God.