The skater's manual, a complete guide to the art of skating; with rules for plain and fancy skating; hints to beginners; sketches of the skating clubs and ice-ponds of New-York, Brooklyn and Jersey City; rules and regulations of the Central park skating-pond; fashions for ladies' skating costumes; together with four interesting matter . a similar po-sition, and, with the toe close to the ice, commencea similar stroke ; and then these successive strokeswill describe a small segment of a very large circle,thus : Fig. 3. diverging from the straight line no more than is re-quisite to keep the skat
The skater's manual, a complete guide to the art of skating; with rules for plain and fancy skating; hints to beginners; sketches of the skating clubs and ice-ponds of New-York, Brooklyn and Jersey City; rules and regulations of the Central park skating-pond; fashions for ladies' skating costumes; together with four interesting matter . a similar po-sition, and, with the toe close to the ice, commencea similar stroke ; and then these successive strokeswill describe a small segment of a very large circle,thus : Fig. 3. diverging from the straight line no more than is re-quisite to keep the skate on its edge. CROSS ROLL, OR FIGURE OF EIGHT. The cross roll, or figure 8, is also done on theoutside edge forward. This is only the completionof the circle on the outside edge, and it is per-formed by crossing the legs, and striking from theoutside instead of the inside edge. In order to dothis, as the skater draws to the close of the strokeon his right leg, he must draw the left quite acrossit, which will cause him to press hard on the out-side of the right skate, from which he must imme- 32 The Skaters Manual. diately strike, at the same time throwing back theleft arm, and looking over the left shoulder, to bringhim well upon the outside of that skate. By com-pleting the circle in this manner on each leg, theeight is formed,. each circle being small, complete, and well formedbefore the foot is changed. MERCURY FIGURE. The Mercury figure is merely the outside and in-side forward succeeding each other on the same legalternately, by which a serpentine line is described.(Fig. 5.) The Skaters Manual. 33 This is skated with the force and rapidity gainedby a run. When the run is complete,, and theskater on the outside edge, his person becomes Outside. Inside. Outside. Fig. 5. quiescent, in the attitude of Mercury, having theright arm advanced and much raised, the face turn-ed over the right shoulder, and the left foot off theice, a short distance behind the other, turned outand po
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