This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...edge, different direction, --60. The strokes from the Rocker, Counter, Beak, Counter-Beak, and Counter-Pirouette, --total, 276. Two hundred and four of this total of two hundred and seventy-six Once-Back strokes are illustrated by diagrams in H5, p. 74 ff. Although actual practice in the art of skating is gradually ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...edge, different direction, --60. The strokes from the Rocker, Counter, Beak, Counter-Beak, and Counter-Pirouette, --total, 276. Two hundred and four of this total of two hundred and seventy-six Once-Back strokes are illustrated by diagrams in H5, p. 74 ff. Although actual practice in the art of skating is gradually drawing nearer and nearer to the theoretically possible, at present, realization is far short of the possible in the execution of the Once-Back strokes. It will be sufficient to consider those made from the elementary practice movements (page 51), omitting the four Cross-Cuts (from which, of course, no effective stroke can be made, on account of the reverse curve) and adding the six pirouettes. These Once-Back strokes may be skated together, like the elements, to place as Eights (Fig. 83). The stroke from the Three (No. 3) is the same as the English "Once-Back;" but the stroke from the DoubleThree (No. 4. Two-Turns, the Canadian "Ransom," M, 57) is not the same as the English "Twice-Back" (Fig. 81). In order to reach the center on a forward edge from either a "Once-Back" or a "Twice-Back," the skater must perform a "Once-Back and Forward," or "Twice-Back and Forward" (Fig. 82, from S.C.J. The following tables (Fig. 84), printed together here for the first time, will show all the strokes, at present practicable, in relation to each other. The solid foot and the heavy line indicate the right foot; the open foot and the light line, the left foot. The strokes illustrated are all begun on the right foot. The edges and directions of all the strokes in each column are indicated by the letters at the head of each column. The first two columns are forward strokes, begun at the bottom of t...
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