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Author : Jonathan Snowden
Release : 2010-12-15
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 378/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Total Mma by : Jonathan Snowden
Download or read book Total Mma written by Jonathan Snowden. This book was released on 2010-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings readers the history and information surrounding the contemporary world of MMA.
Author : Patrick Jones
Release : 2017-01-01
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 074/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ultimate Fighting by : Patrick Jones
Download or read book Ultimate Fighting written by Patrick Jones. This book was released on 2017-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! What if a boxer and a wrestler fought? Who would win? What if a fighter skilled in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tangled with a foe trained in traditional judo? These were questions that fans of combat sports asked for years, but how to settle it? The answer: mixed martial arts. In this action-packed book, you'll meet the superstars and record holders of mixed martial arts, get behind-the-scenes details about some of its most dramatic moments, and find out what the future holds for this radical hybrid sport.
Author : Erich Krauss
Release : 2004
Genre : Self-Help
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 577/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Warriors Of The Ultimate Fighting Championships by : Erich Krauss
Download or read book Warriors Of The Ultimate Fighting Championships written by Erich Krauss. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and detailed history of the UFC and the men who participate in ultimate fighting showdowns.
Author : Dale C. Spencer
Release : 2013-06-19
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 164/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment by : Dale C. Spencer
Download or read book Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment written by Dale C. Spencer. This book was released on 2013-06-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize strikes (punches, kicks, elbows and knees) as well as submission techniques to defeat opponents. This book explores the carnal experience of fighting through a sensory ethnography of MMA, and how it transgresses the cultural scripts of masculinity in popular culture. Based on four years of participant observation in a local MMA club and in-depth interviews with amateur and professional MMA fighters, Spencer documents fighters' training regimes and the meanings they attach to participation in the sport. Drawing from the philosophical phenomenology of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Luc Nancy, this book develops bodies-centered ontological and epistemological grounding for this study. Guided by such a position, it places bodies at the center of analysis of MMA and elucidates the embodied experience of pain and injury, and the sense and rhythms of fighting.
Author : Jennifer McClearen
Release : 2021-03-30
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 633/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fighting Visibility by : Jennifer McClearen
Download or read book Fighting Visibility written by Jennifer McClearen. This book was released on 2021-03-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultimate Fighting Championship and the present and future of women's sports Mixed martial arts stars like Amanda Nunes, Zhang Weili, and Ronda Rousey have made female athletes top draws in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Jennifer McClearen charts how the promotion incorporates women into its far-flung media ventures and investigates the complexities surrounding female inclusion. On the one hand, the undeniable popularity of cards headlined by women add much-needed diversity to the sporting landscape. On the other, the UFC leverages an illusion of promoting difference—whether gender, racial, ethnic, or sexual—to grow its empire with an inexpensive and expendable pool of female fighters. McClearen illuminates how the UFC's half-hearted efforts at representation generate profit and cultural cachet while covering up the fact it exploits women of color, lesbians, gender non-conforming women, and others. Thought provoking and timely, Fighting Visibility tells the story of how a sports entertainment phenomenon made difference a part of its brand—and the ways women paid the price for success.
