HANDBOOK OF FIGURE SKATING ARRANGED FOR USE ON THE ICE
Author: GEORGE H. BROWNE
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Published: 2018
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ISBN-13: 9781033020951
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Published: 2018
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: George Henry 1857 Browne
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Published: 2016-08-26
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781362642671
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Author: George H. Browne
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-07-17
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780282355753
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from 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 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.