{"product_id":"coffee-table-book-of-the-sport-of-wrestling-paperback","title":"Coffee Table Book of: The Sport of Wrestling (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoffee Table Book of: The Sport of Wrestling is a large-format coffee table book of wrestling, printed edge to edge in colour, one picture to a page and the widest carried across two: shoes, singlets and headgear, the mat and its circles, quiet practice rooms, wrestlers seen from far off, training, and the room through the seasons and the hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt opens with the shoes and the kit: plain high-tops on a pale bench, a shoe on its side showing the grip of its sole, laces crossing through their eyelets, a white shoe beside a black one and a kit bag tucked beneath a small bench.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the mat and its circles: an empty hall seen from high with one circle far off on the mat, a low view toward the curved boundary, the centre seen from directly above, a rolled mat standing on end, the layered edge of a roll, tape along a seam and three circles in a row in a huge hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the quiet rooms: a small bench beside an empty mat, padded walls below a high window, a patch of window light on the mat, the empty room in a wall mirror, a stopwatch with a blank dial, a whistle on a bench, and a table and two chairs beside a distant mat in a bare hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen wrestlers seen from far off, anonymous in plain kit: two standing apart inside one circle, a low ready stance, a first grip of hand and wrist, a lone wrestler repeating a stance, one kneeling at the edge beside his shoes, two walking toward the centre, a coach standing between two wrestlers and a handshake at the end of practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen training: a padded dummy on the mat, a heavy training bag, an old leather medicine ball, a pair of dumbbells, a low wooden box, an elastic band, a slow lunge, a seated stretch and a wrestler skipping.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShort notes run through the book, on the kit, the mat, the room and its changing light, and the first moves of practice: the close pattern of grip on the sole of a wrestling shoe, a rolled mat that shows its thickness, a low stance that brings the hands nearer to the mat, and the first connection, made through the hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted in full colour on heavy 150gsm coated paper at 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 inches), as a paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cedar Pine Editions","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":68151366779184,"sku":"9671456005171","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9671456005171.jpg?v=1792656749","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/coffee-table-book-of-the-sport-of-wrestling-paperback","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}