A handbook of figure skating arranged for use on the ice; with over six hundred diagrams and illustrations . causing a change of front. There is another way of connecting two curves by acombination of these motions, hinted at above: on twofeet, the spread-eagle jump (Fig. 132) ; on one foot, theflying-turn. One can take wings, as it were, and accom-plish the change of position in the air, and come down uponthe ice on either edge in either direction, according to theamount of rotation. (See Salchows famous jump, p. 37.) (In the following diagrams the long, solid arrow marksthe beginning of the
A handbook of figure skating arranged for use on the ice; with over six hundred diagrams and illustrations . causing a change of front. There is another way of connecting two curves by acombination of these motions, hinted at above: on twofeet, the spread-eagle jump (Fig. 132) ; on one foot, theflying-turn. One can take wings, as it were, and accom-plish the change of position in the air, and come down uponthe ice on either edge in either direction, according to theamount of rotation. (See Salchows famous jump, p. 37.) (In the following diagrams the long, solid arrow marksthe beginning of the movement 5 the dotted arrow, the ro-tation of the shoulders; the short, straight, solid arrowpoints with the face.* r — Right, l = Left; o = Out-side Edge, outer, 1 = Inside Edge, inner; f r= Forward,b = Backward. Although most of the diagrams are be-gun on the rof, right outer forward, the same curve maybe left outer backward, left inner forward, or right innerbackward, as indicated in 16 and 17). *This symbol is used only in connection with the longerarrow, chiefly in the grapevines in Part III. 43. ig, 20 THE ELEMENTS OF FIGURE-SKATING I. Single Curves, or continuous. I a Simple. Rotation uniform,b Forced. Rotation Curves. A. Change of Edge, or cmtinu Serpentine. Two curves joined by a change of edge; no change of direction or A reflex serpentine, all in one direction, hut with change of edge and Same as 3, but with opposite or counter-rotation. B. Change of Direction. Turns orCurvilinear Angles. Progressioncontinuous. Half rotation. 5 Turn, or Three. Change ofdirection, edge, and front. 6 Counter - Three, or forced curves, with changeof direction and edge, but nochange of front. 7 Rocking - Turn, or Rocker. Change of direction and front,but no change of edge. Rotationlike 5, (a) with forced curve ;(£) without forced curve. 8 Counter Rocking - Turn, orCounter. Change of dir
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