Olympic skater Scott Hamilton, who has literally transformed modern figure skating, vividly recounts his life story in a powerful, inspiring portrait of an athlete fiercely dedicated to the sport he loves, peppered with personal stories about such close friends and colleagues as Katia Gordeeva, Kurt Browning, and Kristi Yamaguchi.
Figure skating is one of the most popular spectator sports in the USA, yet it eludes definitive categorization. In this work, Ellyn Kastnbaum examines figure skating from multiple perspectives: as sport, as performance, and even as spectacle, guiding the reader through both the technical aspects of skating and the sometimes convoluted roles of ...
This work provides proven technique instruction for more than 100 skills, presented progressively from beginning to advanced levels of expertise. It contains special training tips and teaching exercises to help skaters understand and master correct technique, plus information on creating and refining programmes, including tips on music, ...
In this candid and provocative memoir, charismatic artist and six-time Canadian skating champion Toiler Cranston amuses and often shocks readers with revealing stories of the international skating and art scenes, and the people -- including many famous skaters and off-ice celebrities -- he has known. Included is the story behind his fabulous ...
He has been described as "bold, brazen, and totally unabashed, " "one of a kind, " and "clearly a genius." He won the Canadian figure-skating championships six times and brought back a bronze medal from the 1976 Winter Olympic Games. He revolutionized men's figure skating, single-handedly transforming an athletic competition into a modern art form ...
This official, comprehensive, and fully illustrated guide to the second most popular sport in North America, its stars, and its greatest moments includes profiles of Dorothy Hamill, Kristi Yamaguchi, Michelle Kwan, Elvis Stojko, and many others. 235 photos & illustrations, 125 in color. Online feature.
Finally, a conditioning program for figure skaters that meets today's competitive requirements of the sport. Figure skating has evolved dramatically in the past few years, with a greater emphasis on triple and quadruple jumps, jump combinations, and dramatic lifts. And to stay competitive, skaters must spend hours developing their strength, power, ...
"Kristi Yamaguchi knows skating...Her experience and passion for the sport come through on each page." Dick Button, Two-Time Olympic Gold Medalist "Kristi truly explains it all ...from sit spins to death drops, from the kiss-and-cry area to center ice." Mark McDonald, Senior Olympic Correspondent, Dallas Morning News Covers Everything from ...
This is a guide to ice skating which shows beginners and recreational skaters the fundamental skills of the sport. The author, seven-times Swiss National Champion, shares with readers the steps she and her students learned to become competitive skaters. The 11 steps progress from basic to intermediate skills, and illustrations show the proper form ...
Figure skating, unique in its sublimely beautiful combination of technical precision, musicality, and interpretive elements, has undergone many dramatic developments since the only previous history of the sport was published in 1959. This exciting and information-packed new history by James R. Hines explains skating's many technical and artistic ...
It's no secret that the most neglected fundamental in the sport of hockey is skating. While most players and coaches emphasize stickhandling, passing and shooting, it is the best skaters who become the most valuable hockey players. As the top skating coach for the NHL since 1979, Stamm has helped over 300 NHL players develop power skating ...
An Olympic skating champion-turned-sports broadcaster, whose triumphs on and off the ice endeared her to America, relates the highs and lows of her life--from her rise to celebrity status to her diagnosis of breast cancer in 1998. Two 16-page photo inserts. Author lectures.
Sports reporter Christine Brennan reveals the hidden world of figure skating, a sport loved for its seductive grace and artistry--as it becomes ever more popular following the clash between skaters Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan--showing that what might appear to be all sequins and lace on the ice is as competitive and brutal as any game played ...
Scott Hamilton, an Olympic gold medal-winning skater and now CBS commentator, shares a lifetime of reaching for the stars and always beating back the odds, including his battle with cancer. This book includes personal stories about his close friends and colleagues, including Kristi Yamaguchi, Brian Boitano, and Tara Lipinsky. of color photos.
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.
From the journalist who gave readers "Inside Edge" comes an intimate look at the major skaters as they prepare for and compete in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Includes the final results from the 1998 Olympic Games. of photos.
A look at the world of figure skating, from the latest techniques and how they were developed, to details on how competitions are judged, to thorough information on each of the sport's four disciplines: Women's, Men's, Pairs, and Ice Dance.
During the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, figure skating nearly lost its edge. The Russian gold medal debacle in the Pair Event publicly revealed the hidden world of bribery and collusion that is standard operating procedure across the sport. In On Edge, former Olympic level judge and competitive figure skater, Jon Jackson, bares the facts of the ...
SKATE TALK, takes readers on a insider's voyage to the heart of the sport. In their own words. Skaters like Elivs Stojko, Toller Cranston and Lu Chen offer their inner-most thoughts of figure skating.
FIGURE SKATING SCHOOL is one of the very few books available to teach novices and enthusiasts alike the basic and advanced techniques of figure skating. Complete with diagrams, figure illustrations and photographs of today's skating stars.
Defining the tradition, discipline, moves an d rules of figure skating, Malone adds anecdotes and quotati ons from famous personalities to his detailed definitions of all the jumps, spins, pair lifts, dance sequences, school f igures, and more. '
Exhaustively researched by a skating insider, this book details the dramatic behind-the-scenes story of the controversial 2002 Olympic pair skating competition and the scandal that made front-page headlines around the world.
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