A handbook of figure skating arranged for use on the ice; with over six hundred diagrams and illustrations . e lead; the turn,however, must be made by both at the same time. Thatthe stronger skater may always lead, the positions, whichchange after a turn, may be restored by a pull and a pass,the hands being loosed at the pull and joined again just be-fore the stroke is taken up on the other foot, when theskaters will be in the same relative position as before. Some-times hand-in-hand skaters are in a false position for thenext stroke; for example, if at end of a Forward-Threewhen both are on r
A handbook of figure skating arranged for use on the ice; with over six hundred diagrams and illustrations . e lead; the turn,however, must be made by both at the same time. Thatthe stronger skater may always lead, the positions, whichchange after a turn, may be restored by a pull and a pass,the hands being loosed at the pull and joined again just be-fore the stroke is taken up on the other foot, when theskaters will be in the same relative position as before. Some-times hand-in-hand skaters are in a false position for thenext stroke; for example, if at end of a Forward-Threewhen both are on rib,gentleman leading, lady on his right,a lob is taken, the false position may be remedied in twoways: 1, the gentleman without loosing hands may swinghis partner around into the leading position, both on thelob ; or 2, the skaters may as soon as both are on the lobloose hands, turn their bodies into the correct position, andthen, joining hands on the other side, continue on the is called a Reverse. Lock passes and reve-ses aremade without loosing h?nds, Echelon fashion. See 6<. 3 , nF ^ LOP 110-14—Hand-in-Hand Skating (from H-H, kindness ofLongmans & Co.)Fig. no, Once-Back with Swing, and forward (side byside); 111, The Rocker-Pass (side by side); 112, Once-Back,with Swing and Pass, and Once-Back with Reverse (sideby side^; 113, The Q_Lock Reverse (Echelon); 114, TheDouble Mercury (face to face). Cf. Fig. 115. The simplest form of side-by-side skating is the outsideedge-roll and the cross-roll forward, then the promenade(varied by the insertion of Mohawks, turns, and changes ofedge), and the once back and forward (waltzing); of theface-to-face skating, the same rolls (one skated forward, theother backward), the Mercury, the Pigeon Wings, or QScuds. (Figs. 115-117, from M-W. 272, by permission. )66 In the Mercury,one partner skatesOnce-back and f,the other Once-back and b; so thatone is skating thef cross - roll whilethe other is skatingthe b cross -
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