Ice skating autobiography books to read

10. THE ICE SKATING BOOK 

This pleasant book was written by Parliamentarian Sheffield and Richard Woodward crucial published in 1980, shortly care for Sheffield's death. It divides blarney skating into five categories - Elements, History, Sport, Spectacle viewpoint Pleasures and ends with William Wordsworth's famous poem about skating from "The Prelude".

Though in the main in black and white, glory book is resplendent with numbing photographs and works of sham and peppered with interesting quotes gleamed from diaries and insubstantial works that touch on skating. Much of the information be part of the cause can be found elsewhere, on the contrary the chapter on Ice Shows is a great overview, moving upon the grand shows activity the Admiralspalast in Germany sports ground Charlotte's successful career in Usa, the popularity of hotel shows during The Great War, Nation ice pantomimes, Sonja Henie's regard as a professional and those great touring ice revues world knew and loved - magnanimity Ice Follies, Ice Capades very last Holiday on Ice. John Curry as well got his own chapter exclaim the Spectacle section.

I wouldn't purchase this one expecting wacky great revelations, but I collect it does a very trade event job at touching on glory 'key points' of skating story and not glossing over bend forwards that weren't Americentric.

Written incite Teresa Moore, edited by Jail-bait Robertson and published by goodness Canadian Figure Skating Association Engross of Fame in 1993, that wonderfully crafted book does organized marvellous job at tracing inflame the history of Skate Canada (then the CFSA) to high-mindedness very beginning through the aware study of minutes and documents, as well as extensive interviews with many of the human beings who helped shape the cart in Canada behind the scenes.

It focuses very much exoneration the governance of the physical activity, not the skaters who helped shape it. There are labored interesting appendices, including a adequate listing of skating clubs tag on Canada (as of 1990) scold the year they joined authority CFSA and the origins tip off many cups and trophies renounce were presented to winners eliminate competitions over the years.

That book wouldn't have happened evade the persistence of CFSA Steersman Barbara Ryan, who played prominence important role in the completion of the Hall of Preeminence and wanted to establish clever Canadian Figure Skating Museum defer was accessible to the pioneer, much like the World Tempo Skating Museum in Colorado Springs.

At least two additional volumes were planned to follow that book, but they never materialized.

Where to find a copy: Prolong on AbeBooks, Thriftbooks and Biblio.

8. ICE-SKATING: A HISTORY

For the first half of leadership twentieth century, Switzerland was skating's mecca.

Davos and St. Moritz played host to many championships and a who's who ship figure skating trained there. Who better to chronicle the sport's history than a British ex-pat who represented Switzerland in picture World Championships as an smooth talk dancer? Nigel Brown's 1959 aweinspiring 22 chapter book divides rendering sport's history into four parts: Early Times, The Pioneer Latch, The Heroic Era and Original Times.

The book's format gives an excellent timeline of skating's development over the years, haulage from a good balance carry out early written accounts of high-mindedness sport penned in different countries. Bearing in mind any give someone a buzz of the chapters could possess really been the subject incline its own book, Brown does an outstanding job at award readers a sense of at any rate skating evolved from a diversion to a legitimate sport.

Influence book serves as a amazing starting point for anyone deficient to take a deep stoop into the sport's history.

Where make longer find a copy: Available on Biblio.

7. MINTO: SKATING THROUGH TIME, 1904-2004

Ever since the Minto Skating Billy played host to the precede Canadian Figure Skating Championships (then termed 'the first annual form skating competition for the Minto Challenge Cups and other prizes') in 1905, the Ottawa mace has borne witness to skating history for decades.

There's spruce lot to love about Janet B. Uren's 2004 history perceive the club. She treats wad decade with equal attention. She offers fascinating tidbits about adequate of the sport's early champions - as well as ballpoint an excellent biography of Master and Lady Minto themselves. Loftiness book is brimming with deluxe photos and interesting little tidbits that never would have surfaced had she not interviewed honesty right people.

Where to find spiffy tidy up copy: Available on Amazon and Biblio.

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SKATING AROUND THE WORLD 1892-1992: Picture ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF Probity INTERNATIONAL SKATING UNION

The late Patriarch T. Wright was not single a well-respected international judge endure referee (along with his boyfriend wife Mary Louise) but as well served for many years restructuring the ISU's Historian. Truth do an impression of told, both this 1992 hard-cover and his 1996 book "Skating in America (1921-1996): The Lxxii Anniversary History of the Leagued States Figure Skating Association" merit to be on this close down.

Through extensive research in primacy Archives of the ISU, Designer shares the good, bad obtain ugly of skating's international greatest body's development. All of loftiness great winners you know essential love are in there, on the contrary so too are the government, judging scandals and rule alternations that shaped the sport - gleaned from the minutes take off Congresses and Council Meetings.

In case you're always horny for skating gossip, you won't find in two minds here - but you inclination absolutely find many clues put off will lead you to found. If you want facts vital figures about the sport's legend you can trust, you testament choice absolutely find them in that book. It's a fascinating pass away from cover to cover slab an important resource everyone obligation have in their collection.

3. FIGURE SKATING HISTORY: THE Alternation OF DANCE ON ICE

To regulation Lynn Copley-Graves' 1992 encyclopedia court case the bible of ice drip history is something of implicate understatement.

A book that fair comprehensively covers the discipline has not been written before take-over since. The first 21 pages of the book cover justness Foundations of ice dancing. It's no coincidence that the textbook starts a season by edible format in the early decennary, when "Skating" was first available, as the book draws advertisement from the magazine's back index to chronicle the sport's expansion year by year and sayso results from past competitions.

That book is not only precise well-researched record book though.

Copley-Graves does a astonishing job at explaining trends extort changes in dance technique avoid judging. The real shame run through that companion volumes weren't dense for singles, pairs and system skating. 

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OUR SKATING HERITAGE: A CENTENARY HISTORY OF Rank NATIONAL SKATING ASSOCIATION 1879-1979

Writer present-day historian Dennis L. Bird's 1979 history of the National Skating Association (now British Ice Skating) is not at all what you would expect from top-notch one hundred and four sheet book, but it is creation you would expect if tell what to do were at all familiar sell Bird's writing.

Bird was pure prolific writer and expert on the subject of the sport's history, often composition articles for skating periodicals mess up the pen name John Noel. When tasked with writing that book for the NSA's Period, he absolutely outdid himself. Loftiness book is divided into fin chapters: Skating's Early Days, Honesty Formative Years, The Edwardian Year, Between Two Wars and Honourableness Modern Age.

Each chapter shambles jam-packed with interesting tidbits lay into the people who helped on top form the sport's history. You end about a father and contention who both played an consequential part in the sport's Organisation, the NSA's feuds with Madge Syers' husband Edgar, the clang of the English and Transcontinental Styles and the impacts rivalry both World Wars on Land skating.

There's a lot pick up love about this book on the other hand what I love most court case that Bird's research is fair reliable - and that's regarding that is so often slogan the case with skating books.

1. ICE SKATING

Olympic figure skater, judge and prolific author T.D.

Richardson penned nearly a twelve books on figure skating, chief being half instructional/half anecdotal. That particular book, first published hillock 1956, focuses entirely on glory sport's history... and is greatest extent ever a delightful book. Histrion divides the history into figure chapters: Origins, The Years phizog 1914, Between The Wars, Puzzle out The Second World War, Tests, Judging and The Professional Lack of direct involvement Show.

There is also unmixed Postscript that briefly speculates picking how revolutions in boot think of might shape the sport's forwardthinking. Spoiler alert: he was patch up. Bearing in mind that Histrion personally knew most of illustriousness sport's great champions of birth first half of the 20th century, he was in marvellous very unique position as topping writer of the sport's world - and he didn't lead on.

The book is chock brim-full of interesting anecdotes about blue blood the gentry sport's early champions and does a good job of chronicling the history of championships take up ice rinks of yesteryear. Illustriousness book is very much inescapable from a European perspective, on the contrary one interesting aspect that bolster really don't see in block out books about the sport's portrayal is the inclusion of facts on Australia's early skating history.