Sports for girls / edited by Howard Spicer ; with an introduction by Ada S. Ballin.

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[1900]
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Credit: Sports for girls / edited by Howard Spicer ; with an introduction by Ada S. Ballin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Being proficient in these preliminaries to skating, and having paid due attention to doing those things which we ought to do, and to leaving undone those things we ought not to do, the skater now, we will suppose, cherishes yearnings after cutting figures. The initial step to the performance of all fancy skating is skating on the “outside edge ’—which, being interpreted, means skating on the outer of the two edges of the skate you are striking out on, ue. the right-hand edge of the right skate and the left-hand edge of the left skate. It seems as if it should be very easy to get on the outside edge of the skate-blade by simply bending the ankle outwards. In reality a little perseverance is necessary. | A good way to learn the outside edge is to skate quickly in a circle, always crossing the outside foot in front of the other. The inside foot will then be on the outside edge. Study to lean on the inside foot, and remain on it as long as possible, and soon the glides on the outside edge will grow longer and longer, and you will complete a whole stroke. Having mastered the outside edge on one foot, skate round in a circle in a contrary direction, and so educate the other. } Some people prefer to learn the outside edge by doing the ordinary forward roll, in which the two feet are kept continuously on the ice. This serpentine skating may serve as a preliminary to the outside edge, if, instead of leaning, as is natural, on the foot which is doing the inside edge, they rest the weight
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