- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Touchstone; Original edition (April 6 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0684862158
- ISBN-13: 978-0684862156
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.7 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 390 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,930,174 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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You've watched skiers race down the most dangerous of slopes with incredible grace and speed. With a mixture of pure disbelief and fascination, you've seen extreme skateboarders soar through the air with just enough balance and timing to keep their edge. And you can't help but wonder, how do they do that?
Lessons from the Edge is an exciting exposé of the extreme experience, giving you the why and the how of what it means to live on the edge. Extreme athlete Maryann Karinch chronicles the close calls and peak performances of competitive athletes, and shows that being successful is about much more than winning. For extreme athletes, success means cultivating the inner strength, confidence, and discipline to be ready for the next challenge.
Both inspirational and practical, Lessons from the Edge is a how-to guide for tapping into your own potential for greatness.
- Learn how to develop mental toughness, trust intuition, and channel emotional energy in do-or-die situations
- Prepare for an athletic challenge with expert advice on nutrition, sport-specific training routines, personal gear and equipment, and dealing with injuries
- Discover what makes extreme athletes tick, from the bravado and thrill of adrenaline that come with success to the fear and self-doubt that can undermine performance
About the Author
Maryann Karinch is one of the few women to have completed the inaugural Eco-Challenge in southern Utah. She is an experienced skydiver, a certified scuba diver and personal trainer, and an avid ocean whitewater kayaker. The coauthor of Boot Camp, she lives in Half Moon Bay, California.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Not nearly what I expected...,
By T-Mogul "tinymogul" (Long Beach, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lessons from the Edge: Extreme Athletes Show You How to Take on High Risk and Succeed (Paperback)
While I must agree with the other reviewers that the book provided interesting insights into what motivates extreme athletes, the title leads one to believe there would be more explanation and discussion of how these folks prepare physically to do what they do. Instead of training tips, diet or even mental exercises to help the amateur prepare for extreme sports, the book only skims the surface of why extreme athletes do what they do. In trying to cover so much ground, the author fails to even inspire the reader to get outdoors and try one of these sports or to train harder for the sports they might currently be engaged in. Pass this one up and spend the money on a subscription to OUTSIDE magazine, you'll be more satisfied in the long run.
5.0 out of 5 stars
karinch teaches you to handle kar-unch time!,
By DAVID SHERER (chevy chase, maryland United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lessons from the Edge: Extreme Athletes Show You How to Take on High Risk and Succeed (Paperback)
Maryann Karinch has compiled some great stories about atheletes and their individual accomplishments. She focuses on ways in which they enhance performance through mental imaging, use of the mind-body connection and exercizes that improve performance and stamina.One great thing about the book is that these "lessons from the edge" can be carried over into our everyday lives leading to renewed self confidence, heightened curiosity and a sense of adventure in both work and play. I highly recommend this book to those of us who want to get the most out of the activities which give us joy and purpose.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Thriving On The Edge,
This review is from: Lessons from the Edge: Extreme Athletes Show You How to Take on High Risk and Succeed (Paperback)
"Lessons From The Edge" is a marvelous compendium on Extreme Sports, written by an expert who has obviously spent her life challenging herself physically, intellectually and emotionally.Karinch has tackled a subject that encompasses a wide variety of human endeavors -- some as old as mountain-climbing, others as new as urban luge -- and made it informative and comprehensible to both the initiated and novice. It is a subject that is increasingly familiar to the public via widening media coverage and even in fanciful depictions in advertising: e.g., the sky-surfing man catching a can of refreshment as he hurtles earthward. Hair-raising accounts of the dangers, deprivations and ultimately, the exhilarations, of (among others) mass sky-dives and cross-terrain treks illustrate the motivations and rewards that drive these adventurous competitors. Some are household names like Picabo Street while others compete in (often happy) obscurity. Their very real stories and observations give flesh to the "bones" of the book; i.e., information on each salient aspect of the sports, from training and nutrition for endurance (and survival) to preparing for competition with the right gear and the right attitudes. "Lessons From The Edge" also explores how the cutting edge of technology has fostered the development of new extreme sports and made both old and new ones more exciting, less dangerous and available to a larger number of participants and spectators. All the while, David Brooks's photography catches the athletes at their breathtaking best. Finally, Karinch also demonstrates how even the non-extreme athlete can incorporate some of the valuable lessons learned on the edges of competition into his own game and into the game we all play -- the game of life.
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