A Handbook of Figure Skating Arranged for Use on the Ice: With Over Six Hundred Diagrams and Illustrations, and Suggestions for Nearly Ten Thousand Figures (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

George H. Browne

9780428349349: A Handbook of Figure Skating Arranged for Use on the Ice: With Over Six Hundred Diagrams and Illustrations, and Suggestions for Nearly Ten Thousand Figures (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 042834934X ISBN 13: 9780428349349

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Skating Club - American champion, 1896 - who is al ways on his balance, who knows just what each part Of his body is contributing, and ought to contribute, to the prosperity of the figure he is Skating, whose movements are easy, graceful, steady - not vigorous, though under perfect control - and when one sees a skater like Mr. Bacon of the Cambridge Skating Club - American cham pion, 1893 - who in his field skating is almost never on his balance, whose movements are vigorous and rapid, whose arms and unemployed leg swing with rhythmic precision, who can Spin like a top and fly like a bird, yet can hardly tell you how he does it all - though he, too, has perfect control of his edge - one sees the balance Style and the swing style admirably adapted to the American conditions of small curve skating. Few can attain the success of these proficients, but both will tell you, which ever style you prefer, that the quickest and surest road to it is to begin by acquiring a good balance.

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