The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 685
e thing to be done. Next for the manner ofdoing it. Again, the attitude in skating is half the battle. Imprimis, a more deliberation of movement, and consequently a greaterdignity and elegance, in the latter plan, and it seems to begrowing more in vogue than in times past. Anything iabetter than… … Fig. 4. straight knee throughout—terribly difficult this one requisite.Seconda, the absence of jerks and whirlings of the arms. Tertia,a perfectly clean-cut edge to the angle where the turn is made >no scraping of the ice with the flat of the blade, as in Fig. 11;no loops, as in Fig. 12. As to…
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