Reddit mentions: The best sports health & safety books

Physical books are good, but finding the right ones is key. Having a huge library of physical books will be a problem if you have to bail on your place. I've had this for a couple of years and it is invaluable:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061992860?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00
If electricity isn't a problem, then having a good e-reader or tablet can save a lot of space. I have a 64gb stick with all of my survival books and videos on it. I have scanned version of all personal documents as well; still have plenty of space for a lot more information.
Having certain skills mastered and practiced frequently is better than having to rely on your library every time you need to. Having a library, means that there is less stress on having to remember everything. I've found that aquiring certain books with adequat information and keeping the library small is best.
If you have a secure location and don't plan on leaving then it's not an issue. I would have a digital version/backup just in case. I'd also scan all personal documents into folder as well.

Discipline Decoded: How You Can Take The Quality Of Your Life Several Notches Higher

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07STSJLB9

FREE until July 17th

> Do you want to look back at your life without regrets knowing you’ve achieved your full potential?

>Then you need to train your mind to become DISCIPLINED.

>This book will show you what every successful person already knows about developing discipline, habits and the right mindset for a better life. Now is the time to take full control and ownership of your life.

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Home Grown Legacy: Life, Ladders and Learnings in the World of Home Improvement

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TWJHVTG

FREE until July 17th

> Home Depot is one of the most iconic, admired, respected and profitable companies in the U.S. The company founders, Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank created a brand – and a culture that changed everything in the world of home improvement.

>In this brand new book, Home Grown Legacy, 33-year Home Depot veteran and author, Erik Dardas, boldly shares the ups, downs, as well as the dirty and often shocking details and tales of climbing the Home Depot corporate ladder; from dealing with the public to managing employees, to learning to control one’s own ego and behavior.

Here's a few of mine that I really like. I have way more than these, but I'm not sure I'd recommend all of them, per se. Anyhow, should give you some ideas.

Security - Talks about small unit tactics with small arms and so forth.

Butchering and cooking wild game - If you hope to hunt for food, you gotta know what to do with it after shooting it.

SAS Survival Guide - Really tiny dimensions that make this easy to toss in my BOB.

Composting - If you plan to garden, you're gonna need to compost. I also have various gardening books such as container gardening, organic gardening, gardening according to the Mormons, etc. The Mormons have a lot of great homesteading-oriented books. Here's one called The Forgotten Skills of Self-Sufficiency Used by the Mormon Pioneers


Bushcraft - Never hurts to learn some knots and be able to make simple things out of natural materials.

Organization and Planning - I'm reading this one now. Touches on a lot of areas of things to think about that you gotta plan for. A good amount of stuff I hadn't really thought about before.

I'm in the process of buying it but perhaps he'd like the SAS Survival Handbook There's a regular large paperback version as well as small pocket edition for on the go. It's perfect for those interested in hiking, camping and other outdoor adventures in the wilderness.

That's a great book. I've had it for years too. Has a lot of great LandNav and climate survival info.

For anyone interested (Only $8):

• http://www.amazon.com/SAS-Survival-Guide-Collins-Gem/dp/0061992860/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1344958034&sr=8-2&keywords=sas+survival+handbook

As others have said, climbing is the best training do climbing. That said, it can cause some imbalance. Check out this book, it's a bit old now but the advice is pretty good

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Climbing-Training-Performance-Mountaineers-Outdoor/dp/1594850984

I'd going to answer in two posts here, this one will link stuff to websites or amazon for physical books. The other will be more discussion based. (e.g. this is just a raw data dump.)

I have used some google foo and I'm willing to post links, note that many of these will overlap (that is they have the same free PDFs or HTML pages etc.) Others are a bit further out there, e.g. magnetic pole reversal etc.

You get the point though people compiled whatever they though the world might need after aliens, the clintons took your guns, or trump and putin nuke everybody, global warming, plague, etc. Since it takes a massive amount of work to put these together and most people are not dedicated enough to do so, they all have the flavor of whatever the person building them thought was most important.

Here is a list, use from it what you can. Including in the list are things like RACHEL, hardware hotspot for wifi that any computer can connect to, like a library box or pirate box. Many of these resources are focused on and in use in 3^rd world nations. things like the one laptop per child might be a perfect resource to allow some technology designed cheaply but ruggedly to have to access this stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD3WD

https://worldpossible.org/rachel

http://librarybox.us/

http://one.laptop.org/

http://www.appropedia.org/Welcome_to_Appropedia

http://www.fastonline.org/CD3WD_40/CD3WD/INDEX.HTM

cd3wd torrent magnet link. 2012 version

dropbox link for torrent files for the above if the magnet or trackers aren't working.

http://oer2go.org/

Pole shift library magnet link

Need 55 gigs of wikipedia offline? get it at this link

http://www.cs.amedd.army.mil/borden/Portlet.aspx?ID=cb88853d-5b33-4b3f-968c-2cd95f7b7809

http://hesperian.org/books-and-resources/

https://modernsurvivalonline.com/survival-database-downloads/

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061992860

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452295831

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1570618402

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933392452

https://graywolfsurvival.com/3083/documents-need-bugout-bag/

https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/

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After reading Jeff Passan's "The Arm", even as a Sox fan I have stopped wishing TJ on Tanaka. Glad to see he's been able to play without it. Seriously.

BTW, if you haven't read The Arm, you should.
http://www.amazon.com/Arm-Billion-Dollar-Mystery-Valuable-Commodity/dp/0062400363

I agree with this list of Top 10 Documentaries on Mountaineering. Not exactly on point for what you wanted. Not sure it really exists at this point.

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I really liked Meru. If you don't mind reading here are a few books that got me into it:

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Into Thin Air.

No Shortcuts to the Top.

The Climb.

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Training Books:

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Training for New Alpinism

Climbing: Training for Peak Performance.

I forgot to add this book. It's tiny enough to pack easily and got me out of the sticks a few times. It also makes for a fun lecture to pass some time.

These two books are great
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0061992860/ref=yo_ii_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1885071620/ref=yo_ii_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I'd say the SAS Survival Guide book is a good one to have. This one is small enough to fit in a pocket too.

I've got the best one. This. Mine came in the mail today. It's by far the #1 survival book.

in theory, you ride as if you were just another vehicle on the road, following the same rules of the road as any other vehicle.

in practice, it's a bit more nuanced than that. just choosing which part of the traffic lane to ride in is almost an art, and this art is a subclass of communications --- by picking where in the lane you ride, you're signalling something or other to the other road users, including cars. what's being signaled and how, is a complicated story.

i'd recommend reading Robert Hurst's The Art of Cycling --- not because it's perfect (it isn't) or because Hurst's always right (it's easy to disagree with a lot of his points), but because he gets that nuancedness, that sort of art, and tries to explain it fairly well. and he gets closer to right than to wrong most of the time, too.

EDIT: Hurst's book has apparently received a new edition since the one i got and liked. from reading the new edition's preface, i think it's worth updating the link.

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Happy happy cake day! and this.

League of Denial is a really excellent (and heartbreaking) book on this subject.

While NFL players likely knew about the risk of injuries like broken bones and ACL tears, I don't think they knew that football might cause prolonged mental issues.

The issue is that the NFL tried for years to hide that connection..

I see the conflict many NFL fans have. On the one hand, everything the NFL does is driven by profit, even if its decisions put people at risk. Any altruism it displays (pink breast cancer gear, military salutes, "No More" ads) is completely opportunistic.

On the other hand, Goddamn I love watching pro football. What a great sport and what a great production.

SAS Survival Guide

https://smile.amazon.com/SAS-Survival-Guide-Collins-Gem/dp/0061992860/

ACEP First Aid Manual

https://smile.amazon.com/ACEP-First-Aid-Manual-5th/dp/1465419500/

Prepper's Long-Term Survival Guide, because super cheap digitally

https://smile.amazon.com/Preppers-Long-Term-Survival-Guide-Grid-ebook/dp/B00I2G2X9K/

SAS Survival Guide: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0061992860/

I've admittedly only used the iPod App, but I'd recommend it on that alone and I'm led to believe the book is just as good if not better.

The SAS Survival Handbook

More useful than you'll ever realize.

The SAS survival handbook has a good food section. Essential book if you don't already have it.

http://www.amazon.com/SAS-Survival-Guide-Collins-Gem/dp/0061992860

Most people who support football, never played the sport or were terrible players, cause good players cant avoid the headaches.

https://www.amazon.ca/League-Denial-Concussions-Battle-Truth/dp/0770437540

https://www.amazon.com/SAS-Survival-Guide-Collins-Gem/dp/0061992860/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?keywords=pocket+sas+guide&qid=1559044608&s=gateway&sr=8-2

I like this pocket survival guide

Here you go.

Left Side: Thin sharpie, small single blade pocket knife, gel pen, nail file, lighter, dental floss, burt's bees chapstick, tweezers, two mini clif bars, small blade/can opener/screw driver, carabiner tool included with the leatherman sidekick

Right Side: toothbrush (cut off about 1/3 to fit, use for cleaning things), bandana, leatherman sidekick, altoids first aid kit, small lighter, 5 in 1 whistle (inside is a bunch of generic box matches with the striker panel included that I took off the box and a cotton ball, camping tool

Outside (goes in right zipper pocket): 12 feet paracord, plastic bag of bandages and qtips, firesteel

SAS pocket survival manual

Also (not pictured): scarf (doubles as a blanket) and boonie hat I found at walmart for $7 (looks similar to this), 4 pack of AAA batteries (in outside flap of maxpedition fatty)

I know they're pretty generic, but if you haven't read them, try out Lord of the Flies, Life of Pi, or Robinson Crusoe.

Additionally, if you find technique intriguing, look for a copy of SAS Survival Handbook

I'm not a WC practitioner, just find the topic interesting. But I recently read a book about the physics of martial arts that made an interesting point about gloves.

It said there are two ways to do strikes: by emphasizing momentum, or by emphasizing energy (i.e. physical energy, not woowoo "energy").

Momentum is mass velocity. A momentum strike has a lot of mass behind it but doesn't necessarily have to move super fast. The point of it is to transfer momentum to your opponent, moving their body. It's how you knock people out, by rotating their head. Gloves don't reduce the effect of momentum strikes.

Energy is mass the square of velocity. Since velocity is squared but mass isn't, an energy strike emphasizes high speed over getting a lot of weight behind the strike. The point of an energy strike is to do local tissue damage. Gloves dramatically reduce the effectiveness of energy strikes, by spreading out the area and time of impact.

My impression as an outsider is that WC strikes are more on the energy side of the spectrum; if that's true, then maybe the glove objection would have some validity. Boxing and muay thai are heavily momentum-based, which explains why competitors with gloves always end up using those types of strikes.

(Feel free to call me the worst neckbeard, here I am talking about geeky physics and I don't even practice WC.)

League of Denial. Excellent journalism, extremely depressing.

http://www.amazon.com/League-Denial-Concussions-Battle-Truth/dp/0770437540

SAS Survival Guide

Here's the book that you shouldn't read. Remember, don't read it.

SAS Survival Handbook
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0061992860?pc_redir=1405342696&robot_redir=1

Bushcraft, by Mors Kochanski


https://www.amazon.com/Bushcraft-Outdoor-Skills-Wilderness-Survival/dp/1772130079


SAS Survival Guide, by John 'Lofty' Wiseman


https://www.amazon.com/SAS-Survival-Guide-Collins-Gem/dp/0061992860/ref

What do people think of the survival tin as suggested by Lofty? https://www.amazon.com/SAS-Survival-Guide-Collins-Gem/dp/0061992860

http://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Perfection-Behind-Scenes-High-Stakes/dp/0306824027

http://www.amazon.com/Arm-Billion-Dollar-Mystery-Valuable-Commodity/dp/0062400363/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458068653&sr=1-1&keywords=jeff+passan

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017CI54K8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

SAS survival guide.

https://www.amazon.ca/SAS-Survival-Guide-Collins-Gem/dp/0061992860

One book? I don't think you'll find that all in one book. Some to consider:

• SAS Survival Guide
  
• US Army Survival Manual FM 21-76
  
• Pocket Ref 4th Edition
  
• Where There Is No Doctor
  
• Where There Is No Dentist
  
• Foxfire series (though it does contain faith healing, advice on how to handle deadly snakes and not die by faith alone, etc)
  
  
  

> SAS Survival Guide, by John 'Lofty' Wiseman
> https://www.amazon.com/SAS-Survival-Guide-Collins-Gem/dp/0061992860/ref

Hell this thing has a little bit about everything, including surviving sharks.

I never assumed anything, just that it is possible.

It's kinda weird that you keep trying to downplay CTE and how damaging it can be. Benoit was pretty weird before he killed his wife and kid, but he wasn't "kill my wife and kid" weird until he killed his wife and kid. They then looked at his brain and realized it was pretty messed up.

I would highly suggest you read the book League of Denial. CTE is not just something that can be brushed under the rug.