Figure Skating: Championship Techniques (Sports Illustrated Winners Circle Books)
Jul15
Figure Skating: Championship Techniques (Sports Illustrated Winners Circle Books)
- ISBN13: 9781568000701
- Condition: New
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As a sport, an art, and 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.
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Review by paulsen@geocities.com for Figure Skating: Championship Techniques (Sports Illustrated Winners Circle Books)
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This book by Misha gives the very comprehensive description to the basic spins and back spins, jumps from single rotation to multi rotational, and of course the fundamentals of skating, ie edges and stroking. The wonderful thing about this book is that Misha provided the possible faults to the failure of execution of a particular move. So one may treat this book as a ‘coach’. I personally liked the illustration of the sketches of the tracing on ice and the precision that is shown by Brian Boitano featured for the jumps and spins. You get to watch a few frames of a quadruple toe loop too A must buy for any freestyle skater in advance technique. Truly a treasure of a life-time.
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This book is perfect for the beginning, intermediate, or advanced figure skater, and for coaches as well. However, it is not suitable for fans and other people who are only interested in learning something about this sport. It includes plenty of skating jargon, as well as descriptions of moves in the field, spins, and jumps that can get very technical and even a little confusing at times. The author covers every imaginable aspect of figure skating, from choctaws to spin combinations to axel variations, describing how to execute each move.I can’t wait to get back out on the ice to try out some of the new techniques that I have learned from this book!
Review by Sarah Linke for Figure Skating: Championship Techniques (Sports Illustrated Winners Circle Books)
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This book is excellent for both beginners learning basic figure skating techniques and more advanced skaters who want to improve their overall ability on the ice. It includes helpful advice on improving your technical ability and provides possible mistakes that may slow your progress, so you can treat this book as a sort of “coach”. It also includes pictoral descriptions for executing many of the moves, which I found very helpful. However, one downside is that this book was written in 1988 so it is a little old fashioned (there’s mention of compulsory figures, which have since been eliminated from competition). However, it still contains all you need to know to improve your skating and I would highly recommend this book as one of the best I have read for skating instruction for both beginners and advanced skaters alike.
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This is a book for someone wanting to learn about ice skating mechaniques as a singles skater. Has lots of excellent pictures and diagrams. Advanced skaters won’t always agree with all his techniques but every skater can get excellent tips from this book.
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This book has wonderful descriptions about just about everything in skating, except for take off technique. I dont understand why the author goes into extreme detail explaining how to do a three turn before a flip, but barley mentions how to take off into the actual jump.(This has been the case with just about every skating book I have read) Also the pictures are in black and white. The book has some very helpful tips and I think it is worth reading I just wish he would explain take off in a lot more detail.