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The Ultimate Athlete: re-visioning sports, physical education, and the body by George Burr Leonard is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Ultimate Athlete: re-visioning sports, physical education, and the body about?
We are born with the God-given right to move efficiently, gracefully, and joyfully. We lose this right only through society's mind-body split, faulty modes of physical education, and overemphasis on winning. George Leonard's simple and radical notion is that within each of us, regardless of age, sex, or physical condition, there exists an ultimate athlete waiting to be born. With a poet's passion, fifth-degree aikido black belt Leonard evokes the transcendent moment in sport--the catch that defi
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- George Burr Leonard
- Publisher
- North Atlantic Books ; Distributed by Publishers Group West
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781556433498
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Medical, Mind & Body, Biography
- Rating
- 3.59 / 5 (30 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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