Heavy/Light

Heavy/Light
Author: Mike Beech
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2017-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781697233230

Heavy/Light is the first manual to create a full-season block periodization approach for athletes competing in the Scottish Highland Games. The goal of this manual is to create an easy-to-follow foundation for what do to on the practice field, and how to make the best of your time practicing the throws. This is built as a companion piece to Matt Vincent's Strength Lab, but it can be paired with any strength and conditioning program if you are a Highland Games athlete.Any sport played at a higher level involves deconstructing the way it's played into drills, variations, and then approaching game speed. The Highland Games should be treated no differently.

The Scottish Highland Games in America

The Scottish Highland Games in America
Author: Emily Ann Donaldson
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1999-03-31
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781455611713

"This is a work of great value to all who seek knowledge of Scottish-American events, and who wish to understand what surely must be one of the most interesting, colorful, and evident ethnic occurrences in the U.S." -W. R. McLeod vice-chairman, Dunvegan Foundation Clan McLeod "The author's enthusiasm for the Scottish Highland Games, and indeed her expertise, are reflected in this long-awaited work. All who are interested in the story of this enduring and popular festival will be grateful to Ann Donaldson for her conscientious research. It is a fine tribute to those Americans of Scottish descent who have contributed to keep this unique aspect of their culture vibrantly alive in the New World." -Gerald Redmond author of The Sporting Scots of Nineteenth Century Canada Discover the Scottish Highland Games, celebrated in over thirty U.S. states every year. Participants compete in the caber toss, Highland dancing, piping and drumming, fiddling, and many more competitive and non-competitive events. The Scottish Highland Games in America recognizes the players and events that keep the modern Games alive and exciting. Readers will discover the history of the Games, rooted in Scotland and celebrated in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries where Scots have settled. A complete state-by-state listing of the Games and their events is also provided. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Emily Ann Donaldson is a devoted Games fan, a participant in Scottish country dancing, and a member of several Scottish associations.

Disaster at the Highland Games

Disaster at the Highland Games
Author: Riel Nason
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-04-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781778610158

Kate loves going to Highland dance class each week and is thrilled when her teacher suggests she compete at the Highland Games. A single misstep sets off a hilarious chain of events across the whole Highland Games in this over-the-top tale.

The Scottish Highland Games

The Scottish Highland Games
Author: Francie Hall
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781570722370

An athletic feat told in Scottish lore; the best are chosen to serve for the chief, and pipers, singers, and dancers enter contests, too, to obtain the chief's patronage all their lives through.

Highland Heritage

Highland Heritage
Author: Celeste Ray
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1469625806

Each year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than two hundred other locations across the country to attend Scottish Highland Games and Gatherings. There, kilt-wearing participants compete in athletics, Highland dancing, and bagpiping, while others join clan societies in celebration of a Scottish heritage. As Celeste Ray notes, however, the Scottish affiliation that Americans claim today is a Highland Gaelic identity that did not come to characterize that nation until long after the ancestors of many Scottish Americans had left Scotland. Ray explores how Highland Scottish themes and lore merge with southern regional myths and identities to produce a unique style of commemoration and a complex sense of identity for Scottish Americans in the South. Blending the objectivity of the anthropologist with respect for the people she studies, she asks how and why we use memories of our ancestral pasts to provide a sense of identity and community in the present. In so doing, she offers an original and insightful examination of what it means to be Scottish in America.

Sporran Explains Highland Games

Sporran Explains Highland Games
Author: Linda J. Purves
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2008
Genre: Highland games
ISBN: 143434553X

"A fun introduction to traditional Highland Games...an informative guide for young readers and a wonderfully illustrated keepsake for all" Scottish Games Association (governing body of Highland Games)

Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society

Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society
Author: Rodney P. Carlisle
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 1033
Release: 2009-04-02
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1412966701

Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine, January 2010 The Encyclopedia of Play: A Social History explores the concept of play in history and modern society in the United States and internationally. Its scope encompasses leisure and recreation activities of children as well as adults throughout the ages, from dice games in the Roman empire to video games today. As an academic social history, it includes the perspectives of several curricular disciplines, from sociology to child psychology, from lifestyle history to social epidemiology. This two-volume set will serve as a general, non-technical resource for students in education and human development, health and sports psychology, leisure and recreation studies and kinesiology, history, and other social sciences to understand the importance of play as it has developed globally throughout history and to appreciate the affects of play on child and adult development, particularly on health, creativity, and imagination.

Weird Sports and Wacky Games around the World

Weird Sports and Wacky Games around the World
Author: Victoria R. Williams
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2015-04-28
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

With hundreds of books dedicated to conventional sports and activities, this encyclopedia on the weirdest and wackiest games offers a fresh and entertaining read for any audience. Weird Sports and Wacky Games around the World: From Buzkashi to Zorbing focuses on what many would consider abnormal activities from across the globe. Spanning subjects that include individual games, team sports, games for men and women, and contests involving animal competitors, there is something for every reader. Whether researching a particular country or region's traditions or wanting an interesting read for pleasure, this book offers an array of uses and benefits. Though the book focuses on games and sporting activities, the examination of these topics gives readers insight into unfamiliar places and peoples through their recreation—an essential part of the human experience that occurs in all cultures. Such activities are not only embedded in everyday life but also indelibly interconnected with social customs, war, politics, commerce, education, and national identity, making the whimsical topic of the book an appealing gateway to insightful, highly relevant information.

Literacy Edition Storyworlds Stage 8, Our World, Highland Games

Literacy Edition Storyworlds Stage 8, Our World, Highland Games
Author: Pearson Education
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Total Pages: 16
Release: 1998-06-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780435141035

This fantastic range of fiction for Shared, Guided and Independent reading gives you stories your children will love to read over and over again. Gaelic and Scottish teaching support also accompanies this reading series.