The art of skating: by Brokaw Irving

Author:Brokaw, Irving. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Skating
Publisher: New York, American sports publishing company
Published: 1913-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER IX.

SKATING FOR WOMEN.

The Perfection of Grace. Old vs. New Style. Dancing. European Experts. Costume.

Woman is truly at her best in the graceful art of skating. The critical writers of more than a century, from the observing Pepys downwards, have been enthusiastic on this point. And never in the history of skating has the art been perfected in gracefulness, and therefore in suitability to women, as it is in the new skating advocated and explained in this book.

From the double standpoint of a highly beneficial, physical exercise and a most fascinating sport, the modern style of skating ought to appeal to every woman. Without great physical strength, for artistic skating does not require such strength, the practice of figure skating results in correct, graceful carriage, supple, rounded muscles, and a general quickening of the entire physical organism which is delightful and which leaves no ill effects. As a thoroughly good sport, too, figure skating will instantly appeal to every woman who tests it for herself, under the right conditions and with the right equipment. It has the advantage of being a social pastime, in which one has company. It is sufficiently difficult to call out resources seldom employed in any pastime, while at the same time being sufficiently easy to encourage the persistent student. It contains elements of variety and intricacy and opportunities for combination which would delight the expert at any intricate game such, for example, as chess. Figure skating is done not alone with the feet; it is a sport which implies the immediate and trained connection between the intellect, the will and every muscle of the body.

Th old style of skating, popular in America up to a few years ago, was constrained and confined to the execution of small

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