Figure Skating: Championship Techniques

by John Misha Petkevich

Book Overview

As a sport, an art, and a fitness activity, nothing quite beats figure skating for excitement, grace, beauty, or fun. Now former U.S. Champion figure skater John Misha Petkevich shows how you can find... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568000707
• ISBN13: 9781568000701
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Sports Illustrated Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The travel of a book from USA to Spain

I received my book in the correct period of time, even before! And I live in Spain! The book is in perfect conditions.

A life-long manual freestyle skate

This book by Misha gives the very comprehensive description to the basic spins and back spins, jumps from single rotation to multi rotational, and of course the fundamentals of skating, ie edges and stroking. The wonderful thing about this book is that Misha provided the possible faults to the failure of execution of a particular move. So one may treat this book as a 'coach'. I personally liked the illustration of the sketches of the tracing on ice and the precision that is shown by Brian Boitano featured for the jumps and spins. You get to watch a few frames of a quadruple toe loop too A must buy for any freestyle skater in advance technique. Truly a treasure of a life-time.

Fabulous technical reference - a "how-to" book

This book is perfect for the beginning, intermediate, or advanced figure skater, and for coaches as well. However, it is not suitable for fans and other people who are only interested in learning something about this sport. It includes plenty of skating jargon, as well as descriptions of moves in the field, spins, and jumps that can get very technical and even a little confusing at times. The author covers every imaginable aspect of figure skating, from choctaws to spin combinations to axel variations, describing how to execute each move.I can't wait to get back out on the ice to try out some of the new techniques that I have learned from this book!

Great resource for all skaters

This book has every thing from 3 turns to triple jumps. Great desciptions and advice. This book has helped my skating alot.

Easily the best book readily found on skills & technique.

This is a book for someone wanting to learn about ice skating mechaniques as a singles skater. Has lots of excellent pictures and diagrams. Advanced skaters won't always agree with all his techniques but every skater can get excellent tips from this book.