Tips for Success
- Ice Skating" is a clear & easy-to-grasp guide to the fundamental principles of the figure-skating ice-dance speed-skating & ice-hockey disciplines. It illustrates many different possible variations on ice both in movement & creative structure all of which can be carried out without much previous experience. Beginning with a short historical summary of ice-skating the author then gives some advice about equipment as well as tips for preventing accidents. The chapters following look at the different age groups from toddlers to seniors & give suitable practical advice on how to master several techniques & movements. Whether for artistic pirouettes elegant dance steps or steering techniques for speeding around corners
- useful tips & advice are given for all sports in ice. The numerous ideas for games & enjoyable exercises either with a partner or on different pieces of apparatus show just how much fun ice-skating can be. This book is targeted at hobby skaters of all age groups: toddlers & children as well as their parents who would like to skate among them older children & teenagers who want to learn or improve their ice-skating skills & finally adults & seniors who wish to take up this sport again. & the great thing about this book is that all the tips & ideas given can be put into practice on inline-skates in the summer."