Figure Skating: Championship Techniques (Sports Illustrated Winners Circle Books)

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Summary: A life-long manual freestyle skate
Review: 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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Summary: This was one of the better skating books...
Review: 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.

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Summary: "Excellent Instruction"
Review: 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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Summary: If you're a skater this is for you!
Review: This book is THE BEST! it's got everything you need to know about the jumps spins and techniques of this sport! READ IT AND YOU'LL WANT TO KEEP IT WITHIN REACH FOREVER (if you're a skater) haha no really, it's great! BUY IT!

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Summary: If you're a skater this is for you!
Review: This book is THE BEST! it's got everything you need to know about the jumps spins and techniques of this sport! READ IT AND YOU'LL WANT TO KEEP IT WITHIN REACH FOREVER (if you're a skater) haha no really, it's great! BUY IT!