Figure Skating School

by James Young and Peter Morrissey

Book Overview

The budding Elvis Stojko or Josee Choinard in your family will love this guide with diagrams and instruction on jumps, steps and other recommendations. Figure Skating School is for people of all ages... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155209166X
• ISBN13: 9781552091661
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Firefly Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 2.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.1" x 12.0"

Customer Reviews

Easy to Understand

I like the ease of understanding of the various techniques involved. Explanation's good. Pictures' very helpful.

excellent for beginners and the budding Olympic hopefuls!

This book is very comprehensive. If you are in the UK, it is one of the best books you can buy. It does not go into details about skating background/history in other countries. It is a book for skaters. It tells and shows you with excellent diagrams how to get basics right, it takes you, using 'step' diagrams, from single through to triple jumps, it also gives you 'step' diagrams for the basics of field moves and extensive details on spins and spirals. My daughter found the book extremely helpful, particularly the double and triple jump diagrams and is now more able to understand what her coach is trying to get her to achieve.Many thanks to Peter Morrisey and James Young for providing a wonderful off-ice coaching tool!

This book is almost as good as having a personal coach !

This book is great ! Its diagrams shows all the important points pertaining to the different moves in figure skating. I'm an inline speedskater who admires figure skaters. But I have come to believe I'll never be able to figure skate properly because of scoliosis of the spine, a flat footed left foot and a high-arched right foot. Furthermore, the technical terms of figure skating is just confusing. I could never understand why figure skating is so much more confusing than say, the relatively easier Double-Push technique for speedskating. Thanks to Figure Skating School, all that has changed. Within two months, I've progressed from basic Three Turns to the Single Axle ! And all that was without any coaching. I simply read the book ! Isn't it amazing ? There's much more advanced moves to be learnt from this book. So get your copy now !

the best technical figure skating book

I have at least a dozen technical figure skating books, and this one is by far the best one. You can see it right away, that it was written by professional COACHES, not SKATERS.

An excellent book for figure skating fans.

Having read this book through I was delighted to read such a well detailed and easy to read book without the usual complicated jargon. My children have read the book and enjoyed the pictures and diagrams and have said that what their Coaches have been saying to them has become much clearer. Many thanks to Peter Morrissey and James Young for an excellent book.