Punching Bag

Punching Bag
Author: Rex Ogle
Publisher: WW Norton
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1324016248

A New York Public Library Best Book of 2021 The companion to Rex Ogle’s award-winning Free Lunch is a searing account of adolescence in a household torn by domestic violence. Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who brilliantly mapped his experience of hunger in Free Lunch, here describes his struggle to survive; reflects on his complex, often paradoxical relationship with his passionate, fierce mother; and charts the trajectory of his stepdad’s anger. Hovering over Rex’s story is the talismanic presence of his unborn baby sister. Through it all, Rex threads moments of grace and humor that act as beacons of light in the darkness. Compulsively readable, beautifully crafted, and authentically told, Punching Bag is a remarkable memoir about one teenager’s cycle of violence, blame, and attempts to forgive his parents—and himself.

Free Lunch

Free Lunch
Author: Rex Ogle
Publisher: WW Norton
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1324003618

"A mighty portrait of poverty amid cruelty and optimism."—Kirkus (starred review) Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle’s first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school’s free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day in the school lunch line, Rex’s is a compelling story of a more profound hunger—that of a child for his parents’ love and care. Compulsively readable, beautifully crafted, and authentically told with the voice and point of view of a 6th-grade kid, Free Lunch is a remarkable debut by a gifted storyteller.

Heavy Bag Combinations

Heavy Bag Combinations
Author: Sammy Franco
Publisher: Contemporary Fighting Arts, LLC
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2015-06-08
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO HEAVY BAG COMBINATIONS Heavy Bag Combinations is the second book in Sammy Franco’s best-selling Heavy Bag Training Series. This unique book is your ultimate guide to mastering devastating heavy bag punching combinations. Practitioners who use this guide as a reference tool will quickly improve their heavy bag training skills. In fact, the punching combinations featured in this text will dramatically improve your fighting skills, condition your body, and breathe new life into your current heavy bag program. ACHIEVE MAXIMUM TRAINING PERFORMANCE Heavy Bag Combinations will help you achieve maximum training performance in a variety of activities including: Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts, Kick Boxing, Self-Defense, and Personal Fitness. 30+ YEARS OF RESEARCH, TRAINING AND TEACHING This one-of-a-kind book is based on self-defense expert, Sammy Franco’s 30+ years of research, training and teaching the martial arts and fighting sciences. He has taught these unique heavy bag skills to thousands of his students and now he’s finally put them down in a comprehensive book.A A HEAVY BAG BOOK FOR ALL SKILL LEVELS! With over 300+ photographs and detailed step-by-step instructions, Heavy Bag Combinations provides beginner, intermediate and advanced heavy bag workout combinations that will challenge you for the rest of your life! In fact, even the most experienced athlete will advance his fighting skills to the next level and beyond.Infinite Combinations Means INFINITE HEAVY BAG WORKOUT PROGRAMS! The best feature of this book is Sammy Franco’s “combination blending” formula that teaches you how to easily create an infinite amount of unique punching combinations. As a result, you get: -An unlimited supply of heavy bag combinations that will challenge you for a lifetime. -An invaluable tool that prevents your heavy bag training from becoming boring, stagnant, and monotonous. This means you are less likely to quit or abandon your workouts. -A fantastic training method that develops mental toughness. The THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE HEAVY BAG WORKOUT BOOK Whether you need stand-alone heavy bag combinations or a comprehensive heavy bag training program, you will find it in this exceptional book!

The Speed Bag Bible

The Speed Bag Bible
Author: Alan H. Kahn
Publisher: Rehabilitation & Sports Consulting
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1995-05
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780964182769

A complete and comprehensive training manual on how to use the Speed Bag as a unique fitness workout. Written for beginners to advanced users, it includes equipment and information on punching techniques.

Autplay Therapy for Children and Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum

Autplay Therapy for Children and Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum
Author: Robert Jason Grant
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Autism in adolescence
ISBN: 9781138100404

Autism spectrum disorder and developmental disabilities -- Foundations of autplay therapy -- The autplay therapy approach -- Research and case studies -- Emotional regulation interventions -- Social skills interventions -- Connection interventions -- Additional resources.

Fighting Sports, Gender, and the Commodification of Violence

Fighting Sports, Gender, and the Commodification of Violence
Author: Victoria E. Collins
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2021-04-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1793600643

Fighting Sports, Gender and the Commodification of Violence: Heavy Bag Heroines offers a glimpse into the cultural terrain of women's boxing as it manifests in everyday gyms for novice boxers. Taking an ethnographic approach, Victoria Collins examines broad understandings of gender, violence, self-defense, commodification, and health and fitness from the point of view of women who engage in the sport. Collins unpacks dominant assumptions about gender and the sport through the eyes of the women's understandings of gender norms, social assumptions about physicality, sexuality, as well as challenges to masculine and feminine performativity. Central to this study is the appropriation and marketing of the boxers' work out in cardio-boxing gym spaces (i.e. fitness boxing), where the sport has increasingly been packaged, commodified, and sold to predominantly middle class, white female consumers as a means to not only improve their health and fitness, but also as a means to defend themselves against a would-be attacker. The body project for women in the sport of boxing, therefore, should not only be framed as a form of resistance, but one of physical feminism.

Heavy Bag Workout

Heavy Bag Workout
Author: Sammy Franco
Publisher: Contemporary Fighting Arts, LLC
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2015-07-29
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

100% HARD-CORE HEAVY BAG TRAINING! Heavy Bag Workout features over two dozen “out of the box” workout routines that will maximize your fighting skills for boxing, mixed martial arts, kickboxing, self-defense, and personal fitness. 30+ YEARS OF RESEARCH AND TRAINING AT YOUR FINGERTIPS This book is based on self-defense expert, Sammy Franco’s 30+ years of research, training and teaching the martial arts and fighting sciences. He has taught these exclusive workout routines to thousands of his students and now he’s put them down in this instructional book. IMPROVE YOUR SPEED, POWER, TIMING, ENDURANCE AND EXPLOSIVENESS! With over 100 detailed photographs and easy-to-follow instructions, Heavy Bag Workout has beginner, intermediate and advanced workout routines that will improve your speed, power, timing, endurance, and explosiveness. Whether you’re an elite fighter or a complete beginner, this comprehensive book will take your fighting skills to the next level and beyond!

Desktop Boxing

Desktop Boxing
Author: Running Press
Publisher: RP Minis
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-09-27
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780762460809

For boxing fans and desk jockeys alike, Desktop Boxing is the perfect desk accessory for fun yet effective stress relief. Don't take out your stress on your coworkers, take it out on this mini punching bag! Box includes: A mini desktop punching bag with suction cup base Two tiny boxing gloves for your pointer fingers A mini book with basic finger boxing moves and boxing trivia

Penny Pincher Journal

Penny Pincher Journal
Author: Dr. Penny Pincher
Publisher: Dr. Penny Pincher
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2014-02-16
Genre:
ISBN: 1310671095

Penny Pincher Journal: How To Save Money Every Day provides valuable tips on saving money every day. Spend a day with Dr. Penny Pincher and learn to save $17,000 per year! Dr. Penny Pincher has a Ph.D. in engineering and likes to share the ways he has found to enjoy life more while spending less money. Learn how to spend less money on food, shoes, clothing, heating, fitness, razor blades, gasoline, coffee, jeans, cake, pet food, vehicle expenses and more. Plus, learn some easy ways to make money as you enjoy frugal living. Penny Pincher Journal will help you identify ways to enjoy life more and spend less money. How is this possible? Many things that people spend money on are simply not necessary and do not contribute to their happiness. Dr. Penny Pincher likes to find ways to eliminate unnecessary things that consume money and waste time.