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Following up on the success of Run Like You Stole Something, Why Dick Fosbury Flopped looks at sporting technologies and techniques from a popular science perspective, and discusses current-day sports science issues from an historical bent. The many informative, weird and fantastic anecdotes will provide entertaining reading for sports fans of all levels of experience and knowledge. The authors answer some really big sporting questions: * What did Dick do to have a flop named after him? * How did the golf ball get its dimples? * Upon which great and disastrous attempts from past decades are today's records built? * How would the great sporting names and the great events of the past match up on today's stage? * How have athletes' bodies changed over time? * What effects have performance enhancing drugs and drug tests had on world records? If you want to win friends and influence people with impressive explanations of amazing human feats and quirky facts about sporting paraphernalia, you need this book.

Table of Contents:
Chapter One Innovations in Equipment (Winged Keel, Superbikes for cycling, nasal strips, ice jackets, clap skates, tennis racquets, etc) Chapter Two Innovations in Technique (Fosbury Flop, V-Style Ski Jumping, Bending a ball like Beckham, etc) Chapter Three Evolution of the Sporting Body (AFL/Rugby, Sumo, Jockeys, Horses, Tour de France v Olympic Track cyclists, etc) Chapter Four Beating the Cheats (drugs like EPO, steroids, blood doping, etc, gene doping, chucking in cricket, bat tampering in baseball) Chapter Five In the Lab (evolution in measurement techniques + equipment: stop watches to cyclops, film to digital video, etc) Throughout: - Breaking the Barriers (eg history of four-minute mile, 10 sec for 100 m sprint, Dawn Fraser beating 60 sec for 100 m, Sergei Bubka beating 20 feet in pole vault, etc) - Comparing past athlete with today's athlete - Tables/Timelines for improvements in record

About the Author :
Dr Damian Farrow is the Skill Acquisition Specialist at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra. As part of his role there, he consults to teams in the professional football codes. He has a PhD from the University of Queensland and a Master of Applied Science degree from Deakin University, Melbourne. Justin Kemp is the Exercise Physiologist at Australian Catholic University, Melbourne. He is also currently a PhD scholar at Victoria University and has a Master of Science degree from Queens University, Canada. They have previously written the acclaimed Run Like You Stole Something and regularly publish and present their work in scientific journals. They were regular contributors to the Age newspaper for several years and Justin broadcasts a weekly sports science radio program (now in its 9th year) on Melbourne's 3RRR-FM.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781741144949
  • Publisher: Allen & Unwin
  • Publisher Imprint: Allen & Unwin
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1741144949
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: And Answers to Other Big Sporting Questions


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