A handbook of figure skating arranged for use on the ice; with over six hundred diagrams and illustrations . 218 — One-foot Serpentine, with Swingit equilibrium is restored, falls are obviated, power and mo-mentum are recovered, and continuous skating made possi-ble. The principle is the restoration of a wilfully destroyedequilibrium by a push off and glide tn the same , Fig. 220, at the moment of thechange, riof, lean so far over to theleft that in order to keep from falling,just as you turn your bicycle wheel in,so you must turn your toe sharply in,thereby shortening the curve and r


A handbook of figure skating arranged for use on the ice; with over six hundred diagrams and illustrations . 218 — One-foot Serpentine, with Swingit equilibrium is restored, falls are obviated, power and mo-mentum are recovered, and continuous skating made possi-ble. The principle is the restoration of a wilfully destroyedequilibrium by a push off and glide tn the same , Fig. 220, at the moment of thechange, riof, lean so far over to theleft that in order to keep from falling,just as you turn your bicycle wheel in,so you must turn your toe sharply in,thereby shortening the curve and re- 219 — Continuous One-foot SerpentineChange of Edge, with swing. Theswinging foot is of course only mo-mentarily in this awkward the sidewise shoulders, a posi-tion essential to success in this fig-ure, and in many others. storing equilibrium j at the same time, by a sharp bite and pushfrom the ice with the empl. foot at the heel, catch upwith the body and, assisted by a gentle swing of the , rotate the body from l to r and straighten it into posi-.


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