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Title: A handbook of figure skating arranged for use on the ice; with over six hundred diagrams and illustrations
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Browne, George Henry, 1857- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Figure skating
Publisher: Springfield, Mass., Barney & Berry
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Two Feet. I The Lily, the Lilac, etc, 2 Combination Grapevines II On One Foot Rockers and Counters, without forced CurveBeak-Qj, or figs EarsNew Varieties of Cross-cutSpins — I On Two Feet. 1 Whirls (Edge and Flat) . 2 Cross-foot Spins (Edge and Flat)II On One Foot. 1 Ringlet Spins (Edge) 2 Flat-foot Spins (Flat) Combination Spins 3 Pirouettes (Point) .Toe and Heel Movements—Pivot-CirclingHand-in-Hand FiguresPair Skating FiguresContinuous One-foot Figures Appendix — The Rules of Hockey 899090919394 95 9799 100100101101 IOI 102IO3IO4IO4IO5 I05I06 I06 IO7IO7I07I08II 1I 12114 123 Illustrations—The 660 illustrations comprise 20 half-tone per: raits of American and Foreign Skater*, chiefly inaction 5 550 diagrams of skating movements, ail but a fewproblems and strokes from actual marks on the fcej and90 outline tracings from instantaneous photographs ofskaters in action. Let every man now task his thoughtHow this fair action may on foot be brought.— Shakspere, Henry V, 1,3, 310.
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t i PART I * WHAT TO DO General Introduction on National Styles andRequirements. What is expected of the bestSkaters, and how competitions are conducted.Official Schedules. The development of the artof Skating at home and abroad up to the pres-ent day. History and literature of the art. T^^^HE best and quickest way to learn to skate isto imitate the best skaters. But good modelsare not always at hand. Fortunately, theskating books of the present day are so goodthat it is quite possible to learn from them,provided the reader has interest enough to takea little pains beforehand, and practical experience enoughto interpret the diagrams and figures correctly. The dia-gram of a skating movement is only the record left on theice by the skate; the position of the skaters head, should-ers, and arms, and the functions of his hips, knees, ankles,aud unemployed leg, in making the mark, are mostly un-recorded ; yet any one of these elements may be said to bemore important than the marking foot it

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