Choreography and Style for Ice Skaters

Choreography and Style for Ice Skaters
Author: Ricky Harris
Publisher: St Martins Press
Total Pages: 149
Release: 1991
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780312054014

Explains how to create a unique, personal skating style and foster creativity, charisma, and excellence on the ice, and covers topics from choosing the right music to off-ice exercise, warmups, and nutrition

Culture on Ice

Culture on Ice
Author: Ellyn Kestnbaum
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2003-05-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780819566423

The first in-depth, critical look at figure skating.

Coach's Manual

Coach's Manual
Author: Ricky Harris
Publisher: Focus
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-07
Genre: Figure skating
ISBN: 9781585100705

A concise text on dance techniques for Ice Skaters by one of the foremost authorities in the world. The work specifically provides direction for those who would coach young skaters in the essential aspects of choreography on the ice.

Sequins, Scandals & Salchows: Figure Skating in the 1980s

Sequins, Scandals & Salchows: Figure Skating in the 1980s
Author: Ryan Stevens
Publisher: Ryan Stevens
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2024-08-10
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1738198227

Sequins, Scandals and Salchows: Figure Skating in the 1980s is an extraordinary history of a decade when figure skating was the talk of the town and its stars were household names. This one-of-a-kind book expands far beyond iconic moments like Torvill and Dean's Bolero and The Battle of The Brians, exploring intriguing connections between figure skating and real-world events that shaped the decade, including The AIDS Pandemic, The Cold War and The Fall of The Berlin Wall. Brimming with fascinating facts and eye-opening insights, the book chronologically highlights the competitions, shows and skaters that made figure skating everyone's favourite winter sport. A must-have collector's edition for any knowledgeable fan of the sport who came of age in the 80s - or wishes they did.

Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating

Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating
Author: James R. Hines
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2011-04-22
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0810870851

Figure skating is the most popular televised sport at the Olympic Winter Games and is the oldest of the winter sports, having first been contested at the Games of the fourth Olympiad in London in 1908. No other sport creates such a perfect balance between athleticism and artistry, and the athletes—many of them household names like Oksana Baiul, Brian Boitano, Nancy Kerrigan, Evan Lysacek, Katarina Witt, and Kristi Yamaguchi—spend years in training to make it look effortless. The Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating relates the history of the sport through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, appendixes, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries on hundreds of skaters, past and present, but also on skating countries, governing bodies, skating disciplines, technical elements, skating styles, and many other subjects. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the history of figure skating.

Figure Skating

Figure Skating
Author: John Misha Petkevich
Publisher: Sports Illustrated
Total Pages: 287
Release: 1988-11-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1461664403

As a sport, an art, a fitness activity, nothing quite beats figure skating for excitement, grace, beauty, or fun. Now former U.S. Champion figure skater John Misha Petkevich shows how you can find your full potential as a figure skater no matter what your age or ability. The lavishly illustrated volume includes: Detailed instructional-photo sequences What to look for in skates, clothing, rinks, and instruction Getting started 6 basic turns that every figure skater should know 15 spins that you can master The keys to preforming 19 clasic figure skating jumps and splits

Figure Skating Now

Figure Skating Now
Author: Gérard Châtaigneau
Publisher: Firefly Publishing
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

A tribute to over 70 of today's Olympic and World Stars.

The Complete Book of Figure Skating

The Complete Book of Figure Skating
Author: Carole Shulman
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2002
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780736035484

The executive director of the Professional Skaters Association (PSA) provides proven technique instruction for more than 100 skills, presenting them progressively from beginning to advanced levels of expertise. 170 photos.

Artistic Impressions

Artistic Impressions
Author: Mary Louise Adams
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442643188

In contemporary North America, figure skating ranks among the most 'feminine' of sports and few boys take it up for fear of being labelled effeminate or gay. Yet figure skating was once an exclusively male pastime - women did not skate in significant numbers until the late 1800s, at least a century after the founding of the first skating club. Only in the 1930s did figure skating begin to acquire its feminine image. Artistic Impressions is the first history to trace figure skating's striking transformation from gentlemen's art to 'girls' sport.' With a focus on masculinity, Mary Louise Adams examines how skating's evolving gender identity has been reflected on the ice and in the media, looking at rules, technique, and style and at ongoing debates about the place of 'art' in sport. Uncovering the little known history of skating, Artistic Impressions shows how ideas about sport, gender, and sexuality have combined to limit the forms of physical expression available to men.