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    Backpacker's Start-Up
    Bowler's Start-Up
    Boxing Mastery
    Boxing's Ten Commandments
    Boxer's Start-Up
    Fencer's Start-Up
    Fighting Fit
    Fitness Training for Girls
    Golfer's Start-Up
    In-Line Skater's Start-Up
    Longboarder's Start-Up
    More No Holds Barred Fighting
    No Holds Barred Fighting
    No Holds Barred Fighting:
      Savage Strikes

    No Holds Barred Fighting:
      Takedowns

    No Holds Barred Fighting:
      The Clinch

    No Holds Barred Fighting:
      The Ultimate Guide to Conditioning

    Sailor's Start-Up
    Skateboarder's Start-Up
    Skateboarding: Book of Tricks
    Skateboarding: New Levels
    Skateboarding:
      Ramp Tricks

    Snowboarder's Start-Up
    Street Skateboarding:
      Endless Grinds and Slides

    Street Skateboarding:
      Flip Tricks

    Surfer's Start-Up

    New : 2008
    Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks
    No Second Chance: A Reality-Based
      Guide to Self-Defense

    No Holds Barred Fighting:
      The Kicking Bible
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News You Can Use

Alan Lachica is back with a third boxing guide, Boxing's Ten Commandments. His first two books, Boxer's Start-Up and Fighting Fit, have been among the top selling boxing instructional guides since 2000. This title will be published in June 2007 and will cover new information about boxing essentials including counterpunching and angles.

Steve Badillo is the #1 author of skateboarding guides. Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks is his latest book and covers skating’s most influential tricks and the history behind them. Check out his new site. www.stevebadillo.net

Mark Hatmaker is NHB’s #1 author. The seventh book in the No Holds Barred Fighting series is due this Fall. The Kicking Bible will cover strikes for NHB competition and street. Coming soon is his first self- defense book, No Second Chance: A Reality-Based Guide to Self- Defense. What’s new about the information in this guide is his take on proactive self-defense. www.extremeself
protection.com

Fitness Training for Girls is helping teen girls everywhere to get fit. Author Katrina Gaede was interviewed in Seventeen Magazine and is a
5-time California State Champion gymnast.

Start-Up books have also appeared on CNN and ESPN.

Golf Magazine gave Golfer's Start-Up
a 4-Star rating.

Boxer's Start-Up is endorsed by USA Boxing, the national governing body of amateur boxing, and was featured in Booklist and Publishers Weekly.

Fitness, Health,
Shape, and Walking Magazines have also featured Start-Up Sports books. School Library Journal featured Surfer's
Start-Up
and Skateboarder's
Start-Up
.

Start-Up Sports® is officially trademarked and has produced popular sport instructional guides since 1993.

The Passion For Sports

Start-Up Sports encourages everyday people to feel the passion and triumph of the sporting life.

All the guides in the Start-Up Sports Series celebrate the challenge of learning a new sport with emphasis on technique, safety and FUN!

Books are inexpensive and designed to inform in a simple, contemporary manner without information overload. Start-Up Sports books are easy to read, intended for all ages and loaded with thoughtful, helpful photos to make learning that much more enjoyable.

The series has been featured on CNN and ESPN, in Golf Magazine, Surfer, Snow Country, Skiing Magazine, Library Journal, Booklist and many, many others. Start-Up books are sold across the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

What People Are Saying

Booklist:
"Succinct, straightforward advice ... wealth of detail ... conversational tone and an enthusiasm readers will find appealing."

Library Journal:
"Start-Up Sports tackles the hottest sports. These inexpensive titles are forthright and simple, with good illustrations and social pointers."

Also Featured In:
Outside Kids, Boys' Life, Fitness, Jump, Boxing USA, Transworld Snowboarding, San Francisco Examiner and many others.

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Books available in all major bookstores and selected sporting goods stores.
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140 Brightwood Avenue
Chula Vista, CA 91910
Call 1-800-443-3570
619-476-7125
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E-Mail: tracks@cox.net

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