Arthur Drechsler – The Weightlifting Encyclopedia Video Companion

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Summary

• Arthur Drechsler – The Weightlifting Encyclopedia Video CompanionDescriptionHaving been an international-level athlete, coach and judge, Arthur Drechsler brings a wealth of experience and love to this book.

• Is it possible that too much love and experience went into this book?

• At over 400,000 words it’s tempting to think so,but the book’s depth of coverage isn’t a fault.

• It’s the text’s development and execution that are suspect here.

• The book is “encyclopedic,” but only in the sense that it attempts to cover every aspect of the sport of Olympic-style weightlifting (It does not run through an alphabetized list of concepts and terms.).The editors at A is A, in their zeal to publish an “instant classic” (their own Words), failed to reign in Drechsler’s prose (a good copyeditor should have lost 10,000 words) or focus Drechsler on one task (he could have written an encyclopedia and a training guide).