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A handbook of figure skating arranged for use on the ice; with over six hundred diagrams and illustrations . 18301831 Skaters Manual, by a member (London, 1831),formulated rules and printed thirteen combined figures. That the style, however, was more like our ownearly skating than the later stiff English style, the tracingsffrom Walkers Manly Exercises (London, 1834)will show, Figs. 4, 5. By 1852, however, the formsand rules were becoming more rigid (The Art ofSkating, by Cyclos—George Anderson, presidentg__ of the Glasgow Skating Club—1852, second edition1868) ; and in 1869, the modern Englis
A handbook of figure skating arranged for use on the ice; with over six hundred diagrams and illustrations . 18301831 Skaters Manual, by a member (London, 1831),formulated rules and printed thirteen combined figures. That the style, however, was more like our ownearly skating than the later stiff English style, the tracingsffrom Walkers Manly Exercises (London, 1834)will show, Figs. 4, 5. By 1852, however, the formsand rules were becoming more rigid (The Art ofSkating, by Cyclos—George Anderson, presidentg__ of the Glasgow Skating Club—1852, second edition1868) ; and in 1869, the modern English style waspractically fixed by the important publication of Van-dervell and Wlthams System of Figure Skating. Inthe ten years preceding (1859-1868), modern Americanskating (page 19) had been developed and carried to Canadaand Europe. *Graydon, Alex: Memoirs of a Life, Chiefly Passed inPennsylvania,etc. Harrisburg-, 1811. QuotedbyLewis, 18341852 1869 tMaie for us bv K 1 ? -. K-q., London. Approximate dates can now be given to the first perfor-mance of familiar movements. Counter-rocking turns
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