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Encouraging Everyday
People to Feel the Passion
Learning a new sport is a real challenge for most of us. It's a steep, bumpy road fraught with frustration, hard work and even danger.
Getting inside a new sport is just as tough. Veterans in any sporting pursuit can be (or seem to be) arrogant, insular and uncommunicative.
"To produce instructional materials that enable and encourage everyday people to feel the passion and triumph of the sporting life."
-TRACKS Publishing
Well, take heart. Someone else has jumped into the jaws of ten different sports and has some hard earned wisdom to share. Doug Werner, author of the Start-Up Sports Series, is a scrappy type who loves sports but has yet to reach superstar status in any particular one. Like many of us, he just wants to play.
What he brings to the table is a clever knack for explaining a sport's initial learning curve. The result is a sharply edited and entertaining feast of know-how and what-now that will make your own ride on the curve safer, simpler and a lot more fun.
Beginners will embrace his approach because the laughs and the triumphs, as well as the groans and the frustrations, are exactly like their own. There's instant communication because the text is void of jargon, insiderism and information overload. Like a good coach, each book is chock full of encouragement and sound advice. In short, the books are friendly. And FUN.
Along with his talent for making a sport less intimidating and more understandable, Werner seeks the expertise and endorsement of top athletes, organizations and publications within each sport to ensure credibility, authenticity and accuracy.
Seven of the books have at least one major national organization's endorsement. Major corporate sponsorships include Karhu USA (hockey), Ebonite International (bowling), Stewart Boardsports (surfing), Leon Paul of London and Winsor Sports (fencing).
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