A System of Figure-skating: Being the Theory and Practice of the Art as Developed in England, with a Glance at Its Origin and HistoryMacmillan, 1869 - 266 من الصفحات |
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... learner would take long in finding out for himself . It does not suggest itself to the untutored mind that half the work is prac- tically done by the foot which is off the ice . Ease in crossing the legs , uprightness , and , still more ...
... learner would take long in finding out for himself . It does not suggest itself to the untutored mind that half the work is prac- tically done by the foot which is off the ice . Ease in crossing the legs , uprightness , and , still more ...
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... learners , who having , with all respect to them , but hazy ideas how to acquire this art properly , arrive only at a certain low degree of skill , and never seem to progress as they ought to do . The truth is that the deep mysteries of ...
... learners , who having , with all respect to them , but hazy ideas how to acquire this art properly , arrive only at a certain low degree of skill , and never seem to progress as they ought to do . The truth is that the deep mysteries of ...
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... learner must lean very considerably off the centre of gravity before he properly reaches the outside edge , and he leans to that side where he is deprived of the aid of the other foot . It would be quite impossible to stand in this ...
... learner must lean very considerably off the centre of gravity before he properly reaches the outside edge , and he leans to that side where he is deprived of the aid of the other foot . It would be quite impossible to stand in this ...
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... learner to avoid practising the inside edge forwards , as , he says , it is never used by good skaters , and he fears it rather impedes the acquirement of the outside , but backwards , he says , it is a different thing ; yet he insists ...
... learner to avoid practising the inside edge forwards , as , he says , it is never used by good skaters , and he fears it rather impedes the acquirement of the outside , but backwards , he says , it is a different thing ; yet he insists ...
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... learner to attain the summit of excellence in the shortest possible time , accord- ing to his natural abilities , whilst a foundation is laid upon which may be built anything novel and difficult . Yet we will not go so far as to say ...
... learner to attain the summit of excellence in the shortest possible time , accord- ing to his natural abilities , whilst a foundation is laid upon which may be built anything novel and difficult . Yet we will not go so far as to say ...
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