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What would legendary Boston Celtics coach and 16-time NBA champion Red Auerbach say is the most critical quality for a person to be successful? Would his advice differ from 10-time NCAA championship coach John Wooden's? What would each say to a young person just starting out in pursuit of their dreams? What is the best advice they were ever given?
It took author Christian Klemash more than two years of research, persistence, and original interviews, but now he's ready to pass on the best advice you'll ever get. Only the rare individual has had the opportunity to pick the brain of just one legendary sports coach—let alone thirty-four of the best sports coaches of all time. Klemash gives sports fans a once-in-a-lifetime chance to learn valuable life lessons from the most famous, intelligent, and victorious coaches ever. The legends span the sports world, from gold medal-winning gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi and three-time college football championship coach Tom Osborne to four-time World Series-winning baseball manager Joe Torre and hall-of-fame boxing trainer Angelo Dundee.
These coaches know how to teach top athletes about character and winning, how to manage pressure at crunch time, and how to bring out the best in their players when it matters most. How to Succeed in the Game of Life shares their insights into sports, life, and the most vital keys to sustain success.Featuring Exclusive Interviews with:
Red Auerbach, 16-time NBA World Champion
Bobby Bowden, College Football's All-Time Winningest Coach, 2-time National Champion
Scotty Bowman, 9-time Stanley Cup Champion
Bill Cowher, Super Bowl Champion
Tony Dungy, Super Bowl Champion
Dan Gable, 15-time NCCA Champion
April Heinrichs, Gold Medal Winning Coach of the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team
Bela Karolyi, The World’s Greatest Gymnastics Coach
Bill Parcells, 2-time Super Bowl Champion
Emanuel Steward, Boxing Trainer of 30 World Champions
Joe Torre, 4-time World Series Champion
Bill Walsh, 3-time Super Bowl Champion
Lenny Wilkens, NBA’s All-Time Winningest Coach, NBA Champion
John Wooden, 10-time NCAA Champion
And More!
Customer Reviews:
A Great Read.......2007-08-26
Wow!Could not put it down.An extraordinay self help book.Gave it to my kids they loved it.Don't miss this one
What a great read!.......2007-07-25
I took it on vacation with me and I couldn't put it down. A great book for aspiring athletes and coaches as well as your average Joe who works 9-5. The coaches discuss a variety of topics from their childhood to how they motivate their players. Any easy read for all ages.
Game of life.......2007-07-24
I've read through Game of Life and I enjoyed it very much. There are so many things to take from this book, not just into sports, but also some reflections on life. I would recommend this book to everybody.
Coaching advise from athletic coaches.......2007-06-27
A fun read, especially if yoiu're a sports fan. I read it in search of things that would help my own ability as a coach in my company. Much of it is light stuff but the easy read makes it fun nonetheless and there are few golden nuggets laced throughout the book.
Overcome Adversity.......2007-04-12
Anyone looking for inspiration, either for their own life or to share with others, will find a gold mine of quotes here. This book isn't just for sports fans.
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STORM RIDERS takes us on a journey through an amazing world in ancient China where, aside from the hegemony of the Royal Government, an individual and separate society exists: The World Fighting Association. Conquer, a powerful Kung Fu master, aspires to gain control of the Association and assembles the mightiest force of fighters known to humanity. Forgetting the evil deeds he's committed in his lifetime; he takes on Wind and Cloud, two very talented and young martial artists, as his disciples. His destiny to be the Ultimate Master draws nigh; however, destiny has a will of her own and at the crux of the impending maelstrom blow Wind and Cloud
Customer Reviews:
Poor translation.......2004-05-13
The translation to Storm Riders is terrible. Parts of the book are so bad; you think the translator never took an English class in his life. "Do people really talk like that?" The biggest annoyance of the book is the translator can't decide to use the English translation of the characters name or they're actual Chinese names (i.e. Cloud or Bu-Jing-Yun). And if you think it gets better as you progress through the series, you're wrong.
(...)
Another Note: The art is Awesome!
A fun and wild ride.......2002-10-03
Okay, I'll admit that I watched the movie before I read the comic book. However, even though "Storm Riders" is one of the most awesome movies I've ever seen, the book, of course, is better. I'm not a big fan of this style of art, but I quickly got used to it. It's definitely not the slick and commercialized sort of art that a lot of the big companies produce. It seems more esoteric, flowing, raw, and especially well suited to the sort of universe presented in "Storm Riders."
As a big fan of wuxia/kung fu fiction and movies, I instantly fell in love with the story and the characters. I'm not sure what someone who wasn't familiar with the style would think, but even if you aren't, check it out anyway. The characters are solid, the action is well-depicted, and I was left wishing all of the volumes were available right now in the U.S.
Definitely worth it!
Book Description
Young Hal Kailas is a runaway and a pauper, living hand-to-mouth in a kingdom where peace is by no means certain. But Hal has a dream. In his even younger days, he had the awesome experience of bonding with a young dragon-and the memory of the beast's great strength and power consumes his every thought. When war finally comes, the most daring and ruthless of men ride these fearsome dragons-monstrous weapons of war that are rulers of the sky. Few men are strong enough to bend a dragon's will, but Hal has reason to think he may be one of them.
Customer Reviews:
Trite and boring.......2007-08-27
After reading Dragonmaster, I was appalled to find this writer, Chris Bunch, had the audacity to write more than this one book. His characters are neither likable on unlikable, the writing over all is trite and lacking and disjointed. As to magic, it seems as though he threw it in as an afterthought as in, "oh yeah, I'm writing a fantasy novel. There should be magic!" His descriptions are simply not there from the character of the weather to the content of the battle grounds. In one scene, the main character sees an enemy soldier standing over three of his fellow soldiers and kills the enemy soldier. No description of the action, no reaction from the enemy soldier as if he's just standing there waiting to be killed by the main character. All in all, if you're thinking about buying this book, don't and move on to better fare.
Lacks punch, but an OK light read........2005-09-03
I have been reading Chris Bunch books since the start of the Sten series in 1982. I would give most of his older novels 4 stars. I was reluctant to buy "Dragonmaster" after reading Chris Bunch's mediocre Star Risk, Ltd. novels. The third book in that series, "The Doublecross Program," is Chris Bunch's poorest novel.
I decided to buy the Storm of Wings Trilogy after reading many favorable reader reviews. Unfortunately, I do not agree with most reviewers and give the books only three stars. The main theme (the development of dragons as weapons of war similar to what happened with biplanes and triplanes in World War I) is interesting, but the pacing is erratic, many of the key characters are boring, and the moral questions (mostly about 'progressing' towards "total war") seem forced. The inclusion of magic just muddles the stories, especially since the magicians are unimpressive.
The first book is the best of the three. Reading the second book is necessary to finish the story. The third book is optional (the war ended in the second book), but it should not be read without reading the previous two.
finally a good read.......2005-08-29
This should be the book you take to the beach or read for pure entertainment. Better than some stupid inane romance novel. I was given this book to read while recovering from extensive surgury. Thank God because even though I am a chick, I love a good battle. I can hardly wait to read the other books in this series.
reprinted edition.......2005-08-28
This title was originally published in 2003 as "Storm of Wings" book one of the Dragonmaster trilogy.The cover artwork has been changed,published by Orbit.Still selling on Amazon in standard paperback(cheaper).
fantastic sword and sorcery .......2005-08-03
On his way home Hal Kailas saw the lord's son Nanpean torture a baby dragon; he punches the boy and takes the kit back to his mother. Hal's family is in danger of losing their tavern for Hal's actions so he leaves the village of Caerly in the Kingdom of Deraine. He becomes a vagabond, wandering from job to the job, never finding anything that interested him until he becomes the goferr for a traveling troupe that sells dragon rides.
Hal knows he wants to do something with dragons on his own. However, the Queen of Roche uses a land dispute to go to war with Deraine and Sagene. Hal t is conscripted and rises to the occasion to become a leader of men. When his troops are massacred, Hal enlists to be trained to fight on dragons in a new unit. His exploits and daring earn him the hearts and admiration of the populace but the war costs him that what he treasures most. When he is injured, instead of mustering out like the king expects him to, Hal volunteers to lead a new dragon unit as their Dragonmaster.
This book is filled with plenty of action and will appeal to readers who love military fantasy. The use of dragons and magicians to aid in the war effort is so much a part of the storyline that readers will find themselves believing that such things are really possible in wartime. As the hero matures, he and the audience observe the toll of war as humans and dragons die at an alarming rate. Chris Bunch is a talented storyteller who entertains his audience with a fantastic sword and sorcery epic.
Harriet Klausner
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- Great Martial Arts fiction
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Storm Riders: A Tale of No Name is the anxiously awaited first novel spotlighting Nameless. Here we come to know a very different, more brash figure - a change from the humble soft-spoken powerhouse we have grown to love. Learn of young Nameless' upbringing as a youth and how he came to become the venerable character now in the forefront of Storm Riders: Invading Sun!
Customer Reviews:
Great Martial Arts fiction.......2006-07-01
If you have ever read a Louis Cha (Jin Yong) novel, then this is almost just like it. The action is so vivid, you'll think you're watching a movie. And you will enjoy the story of "Nameless" as he gains enlightenment through the adversities in his life. I wish there were more martial arts fiction out there like this.
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Very good: We need a four-and-a-half-star rating........2004-01-20
This is a much-better-than-usual story, and perhaps the best of Chris Bunch's (usually quite good) writing I've yet found.
The story of Storm Of Wings starts out fairly conventional; a lower-class child, of a not-long-ago-subjugated people, tangles with the spoiled child of the local lord, and takes it on the lam to avoid having consequences falling on either himself or his family. Adventures ensue; the child becomes a hero, and is vindicated.
Trite, yes?
No.
Hal Kailas starts his life adventures in a common manner, but the story does not stay common. All manner of clichés are avoided, or are turned on their heads: The run-away peasant-child doesn't discover the Terrible Secret that will free his people. He doesn't even try. The hero doesn't stumble into the hands of a renegade weapons master/mage/pirate/thief. He doesn't even connect with the dragons, about which the story revolves, save for the incident that chases him away from home, for quite a while. Instead, he becomes a wandering laborer, neither abused nor heroic, but merely surviving and traveling. So much for the standard clichés!
The next, drunken, encounter with a dragon also fails to produce a cliche, and Hal merely finds himself the subject a few hours amazement that he's alive and uninjured. Beyond that, he remains merely Hal, Vagabond. Things begin to change course as Hal finds himself enviously watching a barnstorming dragon-rider performing for coin outside of a random town. Again, the cliche is avoided; this is no knight-of-the-air, nor is the rider heir to some long and noble tradition. Instead, this man's a showman, and belongs to the first generation to successfully tame a dragon well enough to saddle it. It's all for the money.
Hal manages to convince the dragon-rider that he can use one more hand in the show, and joins the little troupe as they wander from village, to town, to fair, always in pursuit of coin. Again, the easy route is ignored, and Hal is *not* trained to ride the dragons, but instead becomes shill, advance man, and handler for the dragon troupe. But competition is springing up all over the place as more and more entertainers learn how to ride dragons, and war clouds are in gathering. Times are tough for the troupe, and everything they know will collapse in an instant...
Where is all this going, and why does Chris Bunch take so long to get you there? Well, I can't tell too much more without giving away the plot line in its entirety, and I won't do that. Chris has a plan, and he'll get you where he's going in good time, and entertain you along the way, to boot. Suffice to say that if you were to combine elements of World War One and World War Two, with some elements of the Cold War, and the birth of combat aviation, and substitute the fantasy element of swords, sorcery, and dragons, you'd create something similar to Storm Of Wings. The various elements are distinct, and easily picked out of the story, even as you read it. Oddly enough, this did not detract from my enjoyment of the book, but merely showed me the bones on which the flesh of the story grew.
This felt a lot like reading the memoirs of a WWI soldier: I knew the basics (once I identified the inspiration), but still found myself interested in the details from Hal's point of view. My only complaint, and it's minor one, is that I felt detached from the characters. I didn't really identify closely enough to greatly *care* about Hal, for all that I found his story intriguing. It felt like I was reading history. While I *like* history, I'd have been happier with the story if I'd been able to more closely identify with the hero. Anyway, as I said, it's a minor complaint, and this story has enough plot turns and twists to keep you turning the pages until well into the night, as it did me.
Read it!
You'll fall in love with this book.......2003-06-29
The main reason I liked this book is that it's all substance. Some authors seem to like putting in filler material so they have enough plot to last multiple volumes. This book by it self qualifies as a saga.
This is a MUST HAVE for all lovers of fantasy adventure!.......2003-05-13
We have something really special here! Too early to say if STORM OF WINGS will go on to Tolkienish heights with the lovers of the genre but what a start! And in all honesty, I would re-read this over Fellowship Of The Ring without a moments hesitation.
Dragonmaster is beautifully written but more than that the story is all class. I felt an affinty with Hal during his early struggles as a boy then in the army. Then the journey with him as he becomes a dragon rider, with his own squadron eventually, is a pure pleasure to be a part of.
From the plight and perils of Deraine and Sagene to the evil Roche, Hal Kalias goes from peasant-child who must leave his home to finding a place on the front line. In time he becomes a Lord. Then a dragonmaster. And you will savour each page as you share the journey.
Battles atop the backs of dragons adds another dimension to the story. I was reminded of world war 1 biplane action as the factions take to the skies with bow, aiming for the 'meat' rather than the machine (or in this case, the dragons). You too will be whisked away to magical places that you want to learn more about -- nothing in this book is a chore to read.
Action comes thick and fast from the outset. Along the way the human condition is echoed through characters that battle the same vices and virtues as the rest of us. There's Hal's first crush; dealing with rivals; finding love; forging relationships with a select few; tolerating fools; fighting against hopelessness and keeping an even keel: it's just so well done. His battles are not just fought upon his mighty dragons but within, the battles of emotions, thoughts, and stuggles of the mind that must be conquered too.
Battle sequences are so well crafted there can be no doubt that Bunch's tactical mind creates visions that smack of real authenticity within fantasy -- none have coalesed these elements as convincingly before. You'll never feel he's tried to pull something off that doesn't seem plausible.
I will admit being a big fan of Bunch's work -- his writing style, enabling you to get inside the main character's head, makes for wonderful reading. He reminds us all of our frail humanity and the at times bizzare nature of our thinking as his unlikely heroes take centre stage.
Storm Of Wings looks set to soar to heights even the dragons contained within would struggle to reach. Classic stuff! Chris Bunch, you are up there with the best. Add some colour to grey and dream sweet dreams of another reality populated by believable characters and driven by awesome plotting.
Fantasy adventure simply doesn't get any better than this. I wish my own novel (Ruminations Of A Wayfarer Parts I & II) was in the same league: it's great stories by writers like Chris Bunch that keep me interested in fiction.
Put down that computer game! Take a week off work! Put the kids to bed early! Take a long train ride! Do whatever you need to do to get your mits on this novel and procure the time to read it.
First of the series.......2002-09-26
I have to be honest, I am not one to read alot of books. I applaud Chris Bunch for such a great book. From the beginning of this book it grabbed my attention and I had to keep reading it just to find out what would happen next. The characters in this book just seemed to come alive while you were reading it. I truly can not wait for the rest of the series to come out and I do hope that they are just as good or better then this one cause they will be great.
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- Another Great Addition to the Series
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The Storm Riders love triangle takes a turn for the tragic while the warriors' cycle of vengeance begins to spin out of control. Wounded badly and near death, Kong-Chi reveals her "true" love. It seems that like her marriage to Frost and her affair with Cloud was a ruse. Cloud is shocked by the truth, because his love for her was real. Meanwhile, determined to take revenge for his brother's murder, Sword Saint prepares for his duel with Conquer, but first his sword skill is tested by Nameless's young disciple. All this and the return of the Flame Kylin Sword!
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Another Great Addition to the Series.......2002-10-13
Stormriders 5 continues the adventures of Wind and Cloud, Lord Conquer's foster sons.
In this installment, Wind goes to Lin-Yin cave to learn more about his father's death. He rescues Cloud, who has been imprisoned by Sword Saint, and in exchange, Cloud reveals some pertinent information. A Flame Kylin Beast- a beast none knew existed - killed Wind'sfather. (See issue 1).
Hurrying back to the castle, Cloud brashly resumes his affair with Kong-Chi, Frost's wife, unaware that he is seen by Wind. Wind confronts Cloud with an ultimatum. End their affair- or -leave the palace as an exile! Cloud is prepared to do neither, and challenges Wind to a fight to the death!
Wing Shing Ma's art is simply lovely. He portrays the kindly Wind and the violent Cloud perfectly. These are characters you both love and hate. This is a Kung Fu book, but the characters display true emotions. Kong-Chi's infidelity and Frost's silent acknowledgement of the betrayal were heart wrenching. Good Work!
My only disappointment was that Cloud's violent temper appears to have grown worse. He seems to get crueler by the book which is sad. I hope we learn WHY Cloud has such a terrible temper, and he somehow manages to get it under control.
Overall, another excellent read, with some great coloring my Ma' and his team! I recommend this book, highly, although be warned... Like the other books in this series it is quite violent, and might not be appropriate for anyone but mature readers.
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Wind discovers that his childhood friend Duan-Lang has betrayed him. On a quest for vengeance, Wind goes on a wild killing spree. Meanwhile, Wen Motley, one of Conquer's followers, discovers Conqueror's scheme to divide Cloud and Wind. To ensure Wen's silence, Conquer sends Frost to kill him and destroy the letters he has collected as evidence. As the turmoil within the World Fighting Association heats up, Sword Saint confronts Conquer and challenges him to a duel. After the challenge, Sword Saint sets off to see an old rival, Nameless. Could a new member be added to the alliance against Conquer?
Customer Reviews:
Excellent!! Story! Great Characters.......2002-08-30
Storm Riders 4 is the ongoing adventures of Wind and Cloud, and their relationship to their villainous stepfather Lord Conquer.
In this latest issue, Wind is featured more, (which is great for me, since I am a big fan of Wind!), and we learn several secrets about the noble swordsman's past.
Driven to excel at martial arts due to his loyalty for Conquer who he views as a father, Wind is nevertheless lonely within the Fighter's association. In this issue, we learn that Wind has secretly been corresponding with a penpal, (a beautiful woman who once saved his life). In these letters, Wind pours out his love for her, and in this issue, they agree to meet.
Unfortunately, Trouble, as usual, follows Wind and Cloud. Separated because of an argument, Wind and Cloud, are ambushed separately on the way back from Conquer's keep with disastrous consequences.
For fans of Wind, this is a great issue. You learn much more about the gentle swordsman and the inner turmoil he suffers.
For those of you who haven't read Stormriders: This is an epic tale of good and evil set in a 'alternative fantasy version' of Imperial China, and follows the Adventures of Wind and Cloud, and the rest of the adopted children of Lord Conquer.
A warning: This book is violent, and contains depictions of death, mayhem, and killing, and of course lots and lots of fighting! If you are squeamish, you might not like this book.
For everyone else: I highly recommend this for those who like Kung Fu drama or a graphic novel of epic proportions, with many characters and a romantic subplot. Overall, an excellent, thrilling read sure to delight readers.
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Finally, Conquer seizes Mud Buddha. Mud Buddha tells him that Cloud and Wind will become a threat to his future. To prevent Cloud and Wind from taking over his power, Conquer starts spreading rumors to split them up. Cloud finds and kills the trader and his clan. Cloud has become the ultimate fighter with no mercy for anyone; he seeks Kong-Chi, wife of Frost, his soulmate to comfort his mind. Wind finds out about this affair accidentally and suggests Cloud either leave her alone or get out of Kung Fu society with her forever. How can Wind, Cloud and Frost deal with this? Can they forgive each other?
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You've been wondering who killed Nameless' wife so many years ago. Well, now you get to meet him. Also, Cloud and Nameless fight an incredible battle for possession of the Ultimate Sword.
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