Containing instruction and drills to learn and master basic to advanced techniques, this text covers every speedskating discipline for in-line and ice. Readers should learn the mechanics of efficient skating technique, the training methods that lead to optimal performance, and racing tactics.
A biography of speed skater Bonnie Blair, the only American woman to receive gold medals in three consecutive Olympics. Color and b&w photographs accompany the text.
If you have ever wanted to take up speed skating and wondered where to begin, this volume will show you how to choose the right club and how to test your developing skills in grassroots competition. This guide takes you step-by-step from skating fundamentals to more advanced training tips. Special features include: Long track and short track ...
Olympic champion Bonnie Blair shares with young readers the crossroads that she's faced during her lifetime, the sacrifices made, and the victories that can only be measured in the heart. Filled with color pictures and illustrations from her entire life and career, A Winning Edge reveals Blair's thoughts on achieving a productive balance in life, ...
Man of Speed Part athlete, part rock star, Apolo Anton Ohno has won fans across the globe with his charisma, his movie-idol looks, and his edge-of-the-seat victories at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Going for the Gold: Apolo Anton Ohno tells the story of this skating hero, start to finish. Here's what you'll find out about America's newestidol: ...
There's nothing more exciting and engaging than the Olympic Games. Athletes from across the globe unite to participate in the most exciting and vigorous competitions of their lives. These athletes didn't get to the Olympics by accident -- it takes years of dedication, sweat, and training to become an Olympic athlete. But you don't have to be ...
A brief overview of the sport of speed skating including its history, equipment, categories of events, and memorable performances by speed skaters at the Olympic games.
This entertaining series features fascinating quick-reference guides to all the Winter Olympic sports and events. Filled with fun facts, dramatic stories, and dynamic photographs, each book is a terrific guide to both historical and current records, as well as to the reigning Olympic champions. This sport is called speed skating for a reason - ...
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Time Inc
Date Published: 1994
Description: Photo Illustrated. Very Good. This magazine has a color photo illustrated cover and cover story within on Dan Jansen and Bonnie Blair. A magazine all about sports and related topics. Many color photo illustrations all throughout the book. 88pages. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart
Date Published: 1980
Description: Lisa Campbell Ernst. Author tells how to get started in 18 different sports from basketball to speed roller skating, how to choose a sport, how to gear up etc. Near Fine in blue boards in a Very Good unchipped dust jacket. Illustrated.128pp. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: International Speed Skating Union, Switzerland
Date Published: 1967
Description: Glossy blue hardcover with white cloth binding. No DJ. 6 3/4 x 9 5/8. 212 pages of results in speed skating. Very light wear to extremities, slight warp to front board. Spine a little darkened. Very good+. Binding tight and square. Pages crisp, clean and bright. read more
Edition: First?
Binding: First?
Publisher: A. S. Barnes and Co.
Date Published: 1960
Description: good, fair. 379, illus. (some color), maps, DJ worn and soiled, small tears and tape at bottom front DJ. This commemorates the 8th Winter Games held at Squaw Valley, as well as the Summer Games held in Rome, Italy. read more
Description: -Octavo, blue cloth titled in blue within a black rectangle on the front cover. The binding is rubbed & bumped with small stains to the covers & the spine is darkened. 171 & [6] pages. The endpapers are stained & there is an owner's name [B. M. Brough] dated 1939 on the front endpaper. Good. First edition. A memoir and history of fifty years of skating, including ice hockey, ice speed skating, roller skating and figure skating, with reminiscences and portraits of many British national, world ... read more
Publisher: Xerox / Davis Delaney Arrow
Date Published: (1979)
Description: color throughout. Very good magazine, apx. 5.5" x 8.5", 4.00. 1.50, Some puzzles, mazes worked; else, clean, tight, unmarked. Includes Laverne & Shirley centerfold. read more
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Reilly & Lee
Date Published: 1938
Description: Yes jacket. First ediiton. Small 8vo. sized volume in blue cloth stamped in silver with stylized figure of a speed skater; 127 pps. with glossary, appendix of skating records from the 1936 Olympic Games and various American and Canadian skating events from 1938. Illustrated with sequence-photos and a frontis photo plate of U.S. Pair Champions Vinson and Hill. A guide to ice skating with sections on equipment, conditioning, school and special figures, free skating, ice dancing, speed skating. A ... read more
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