You see yourself playing overseas at some point, which is why you got this audiobook. Good.
Here, I'm sharing essential tips about playing overseas basketball that you may never otherwise have been told - until you were on the wrong end of this information (which is how I learned all this stuff).
Wouldn't it be much better to know some things ahead of time?
I created my pro basketball career after graduating an NCAA Division III school, were I was a six-foot-four power forward/center who didn't even play on the basketball team as a senior.
I knew less than nothing about playing overseas when I got out of college. I went through many years and thousands of dollars of learning to know what I now share with millions of athletes worldwide. That learning, fortunately, paid off in me putting together a nine-year resume that took me through eight countries playing basketball professionally. Though it was never a perfectly smooth ride, the successes more than made up for the down times.
If I could do it coming from less than nothing and keep it going for nine years, you can, too.
You can read more about me on my website or the Overseas Basketball Blueprint course page if you wish; this audiobook is about and for you.
A lot of players ask me a lot of questions about how to play professional basketball abroad; this is your primer for doing just that. When you're ready to get the full-course meal, see The Overseas Basketball Blueprint for the entire nine-module course, which covers everything in detail.
Baseball, basketball, football, tennis, track and field — no matter the game or competition, Jackie Robinson hit it out of the park. His exceptional talents should have easily landed him a career in pro sports. But in the United States in the 1930s and ’40s, opportunities like those were closed to athletes like Jackie: his skin was the wrong color.
Jackie settled for playing baseball in the Negro Leagues but chafed at being unable to prove himself in the majors. Then in 1946, Branch Rickey, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, decided that he was going to break segregation in the Major Leagues and recruited Jackie. Jackie accepted the offer, knowing that it would be rough going. Again and again, he exhibited courage, restraint, and phenomenal talent, despite being the target of cruel and sometimes violent hatred.
In this compelling biography, award-winning author Doreen Rappaport chronicles the extraordinary courage and dignity of Jackie Robinson, who not only broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball but also changed white Americans’ perceptions of black Americans. His impact reached beyond the world of sports: he won over the hearts of all Americans and became an American hero.
This book is about fighting, learning and studying people.It’s sports psychology applied. It's about personal growth through sports, based on my training in different striking and grappling disciplines for 30 years.
Some say you can learn more life lessons from martial arts than from documentaries and journalists’ reports.
- Why fight and what can I get from it? How much effort is it worth?
- Can I become better and fulfilled through fighting?
- How to learn combat efficiently? Which martial arts are currently martial and which have become just an art?
- How can my insecurities be related to my need to fight? How being an adrenaline junkie and my ego can harm me and others?
- Why are there so many weird guys in the gyms? Where are the true sensei?
- What can meditation techniques have to do with all this?
It’s for people looking in martial arts for something more than the primitive pounding, who feel that they should be about something other than “ripping the opponent's head off”.
This book should serve as a shortcut for not wasting your time and health on some people. Instead, I hope you will take care of sensible self-improvement, both physically and mentally – for yourself and for others. It's about mindfulness plus willpower.
I don’t like to fight. But I dislike aggressors and abusers even more. I’ve been doing it all these years cause I wanted to learn all dimensions of combat and self-defense. I haven’t become enlightened thanks to this, and I still can’t levitate. And I don’t think just fighting people makes you much wiser. It is about mindfulness plus willpower. It is up to us to educate ourselves.
This new collection of 30 Scripture songs includes songs to learn the Lord's Prayer, the Old Testament and New Testament books of the Bible!
Includes: 'Give Thanks to the Lord/Psalm 107:1', 'Bless the Lord', 'O My Soul/Psalm 103:1', 'For God so Loved the World/John 3:16', 'The Fruit of the Spirit/Galatians 5:22-23', 'The Lord's Prayer/Matthew 6:9-13' and 25 more!
Musical games and silly songs are sure to be a hit at your child's party! The new 30-song collection is ideal for Birthday parties, sleepovers, classroom celebrations, summer camp, or whenever children want to have fun!
NEW! Kids worship anytime anywhere with 30 all-new praise songs recorded in contemporary live-worship style!
Includes 'Worship the Lord', 'For God so Loved the World', 'Jesus is Lord'', 'Lovin' the Lord', 'When I Needed You Most' and 25 more original songs.
