A handbook of figure skating arranged for use on the ice; with over six hundred diagrams and illustrations . ? Odly poisedIn this wild action.— T. C, 1,3,340. 282—Maltese Cross (J. F. Bacon) BEAKS AND PIGS EARS 244-24965-2 5 MxW. 297-30i2i9273 5 B ?. If rockers and counters are skated, not as progressive field figures, but more like cross-cuts, with strong M-W 123-25. 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 the
A handbook of figure skating arranged for use on the ice; with over six hundred diagrams and illustrations . ? Odly poisedIn this wild action.— T. C, 1,3,340. 282—Maltese Cross (J. F. Bacon) BEAKS AND PIGS EARS 244-24965-2 5 MxW. 297-30i2i9273 5 B ?. If rockers and counters are skated, not as progressive field figures, but more like cross-cuts, with strong M-W 123-25. 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
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