A handbook of figure skating arranged for use on the ice; with over six hundred diagrams and illustrations . 285—Beaks. Rockers and Counters, without anyforced curves inclination and edge, the troublesome forced curve disap-pears and new skating elements appear. Again, the side-wise shoulders and spread-eagle ankles are essential to theattainment of the balance that enables a skater to let hisfoot get ahead of his body, forward or backward, come toa full stop, and by a strong push from the ice recover hisequilibrium without any help from the unempl. leg, andwith almost no rotation of the body.
A handbook of figure skating arranged for use on the ice; with over six hundred diagrams and illustrations . 285—Beaks. Rockers and Counters, without anyforced curves inclination and edge, the troublesome forced curve disap-pears and new skating elements appear. Again, the side-wise shoulders and spread-eagle ankles are essential to theattainment of the balance that enables a skater to let hisfoot get ahead of his body, forward or backward, come toa full stop, and by a strong push from the ice recover hisequilibrium without any help from the unempl. leg, andwith almost no rotation of the body. If the second curve comes directly back over the first,the figure is called a hook (Fig. 29); if to one side, arocker beak or V (Fig. 285, 1 ), or a counter beak or V(Fig. 285, 4). The introduction of rotation produces avarietv of rocker and counter,which some skaters think 104. rof 291 DoubleCross Cut the only legitimate rocking turn, because there is njforced curve (Fig. 285,3, 6). A beak combined with a change of edge (a beak -(,)) is called a pigs a^f ear (Fig. 286). A J I combination of two \ J beaks produces other varieties of cross-cut —the curved (rocker-counter, crossing twice,Fig. 287), the counter cross-cut (counter-rocker, short cut, Fig. 288), the Swedish(counter-rocker, long cut, Fig. 289),, and the double (Figs. 290-92). TheDiamond Cross-cut, Fig. 293, may beskated without a change of edge. TheStar, Fig. 294, is a cross-cut,done on the flat. Fig. 295 is a PigsEar Star by H. S. Evans; combined withthrees, makes the Mill-wheel, Fig. 357, No. 36.
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