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Ice & Figure Skating eBooks

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  • Figure Skating

    Championship Techniques

    As a sport, an art, 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 your full potential as a figure skater no matter what your age or ability. The lavishly illustrated volume includes:Detailed instructional-photo sequencesWhat to look for in skates, clothing, rinks, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mind Gym : An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

    An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

    Drawing on his work with some of the top teams in professional sports, noted sport psychology consultant Gary Mack shares with you the same techniques and exercises he uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle." These 40 accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes will help you gain the "head edge" over the competition. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Skating Life

    My Story

    The dazzling smile, the signature haircut, the staple spin. "America's Sweetheart" Dorothy Hamill grew up on the ice, working toward the dream she was to accomplish by age nineteen: winning Olympic gold in figure skating. But life was not the picture of perfection it appeared to be. Dorothy faced a painful inner struggle from the time she was a young girl that followed her into adulthood--though ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Frozen in Time

    The Enduring Legacy of the 1961 U.S. Figure Skating Team

    by Nikki Nichols ...
    Read the deeply moving and impeccably researched account of the events surrounding the plane crash that killed the 1961 US figure skating team.Only once has the United States lost an entire national team to disaster: 1961, when all eighteen members of the US figure skating team died in the crash of Sabena Flight 548. Sixteen family members, coaches, and friends died with them. Frozen in Time takes ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • My Sergei

    A Love Story

    The Olympic gold medalist offers a poignant, loving account of her life with her long-time partner and beloved husband, Sergei Grinkov, from their first introduction and successive world pairs skating championships, to their storybook romance and marriage, to the fatal heart attack that took Sergei's life. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Second Mark

    Courage, Corruption, and the Battle for Olympic Gold

    by Joy Goodwin ...
    It was billed as the greatest event in the history of pair skating: three of the best teams of all time battling for Olympic gold on one night in Salt Lake City. Technical ability was approximately equal. It was the artistic merit score that would decide the gold medal -- the second mark.Representing Canada, China, and Russia, the three pairs illuminated their distinct cultures. On the second mark ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Teach Yourself Karate

    by Kunal Nagi ...
    Teach Yourself Karate provides methods of teaching and spotting beginning Karate skills. Emphasis are placed on giving the teacher a guide for working with a typical physical education class and providing a basis to individuals having the ability to excel in the sport. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Eileen Peerless Power Skating Method

    The Art of Technique Applied to Hockey Skating

    Eileen Peerless Power Skating Method offers proven techniques from a power skating expert that will help hockey skaters of all ages, abilities, and levels to improve power, speed, and overall performance on the ice. Relying on her nearly three decades of experience teaching hundreds of hockey players, Eileen Peerless shares practical skills that can be used in real game situations. Peerless ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Zero Regrets

    Be Greater Than Yesterday

    by Apolo Ohno ...
    Gold medal-winning Olympic speed skater Apolo Ohno shares the inspiring personal story behind his enduring success as an elite athlete and reveals the universal life lessons he has learned through his training and competition.“Zero regrets. It’s a philosophy not just about sport but about life. School, business, academics, love—anything and everything. It’s complicated and yet not. You have to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Taking The Ice

    by Pj Kwong ...
    Canada is synonymous with success in figure skating. "Taking the Ice" tells us about some of the people who have been instrumental in creating the "Ice Dynasty" that we have come to enjoy as Canadians. It all begins with the love affair between Canadians and Barbara Ann Scott the 1948 Olympic Champion and the book takes us right up to the stories of the Canadian Champions at the Vancouver 2010 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Welcome to My World

    by Johnny Weir ...
    **In a memoir as candid and unconventional as Johnny Weir himself, the three-time U.**S. National Champion figure skater who electrified the 2010 Winter Olympics shares his glamorous, gritty, heartbreaking, hopeful, and just plain fabulous life story. How does a boy from rural Pennsylvania become an all-American original style icon on the ice and off, adored by fans around the world, and hailed as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    Figure skating is the most popular televised sport at the Olympic Winter Games and is the oldest of the winter sports, having first been contested at the Games of the fourth Olympiad in London in 1908. No other sport creates such a perfect balance between athleticism and artistry, and the athletes—many of them household names like Oksana Baiul, Brian Boitano, Nancy Kerrigan, Evan Lysacek, Katarina ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skating

    by Rob Price ...
    The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skating is the most comprehensive and up-to-date skating-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round skating-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your ... Read more

    $16.95 USD

  • Gliding for Gold

    The Physics of Winter Sports

    by Mark Denny ...
    As anyone from cold climates knows, living with lots of ice and snow can lead to a special appreciation of sports such as skiing, sledding, and skating. Prolific physics popularizer Mark Denny’s take on winter athletics lays out the physical principles that govern glaciated game play.After discussing the physical properties of ice and snow and describing the physics behind sliding friction and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Red Nails, Black Skates

    Gender, Cash, and Pleasure on and off the Ice

    by Erica Rand ...
    In her forties, Erica Rand bought a pair of figure skates to vary her workout routine. Within a few years, the college professor was immersed in adult figure skating. Here, in short, incisive essays, she describes the pleasures to be found in the rink, as well as the exclusionary practices that make those pleasures less accessible to some than to others. Throughout the book, Rand situates herself ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Don Laws

    The Life of an Olympic Figure Skating Coach

    At the 1984 Olympics, American Scott Hamilton skated into the history books when he claimed a gold medal in Sarajevo. Beside him the entire time was his coach, Don Laws. A member of the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame and a U.S. Junior Champion, Laws is one of the most respected and admired ice skating coaches in the world. In addition to Hamilton, Don was the coach of champions Michael Weiss and ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Skate

    The wonderful world of ice skating in prose, poetry and pictures

    by Pighog Press ...
    The wonderful world of ice skating in prose, poetry and pictures Foreword by Jayne Torvill of Olympic skating duo Torvill and Dean Articles by Jackie Keily and Hazel Forsyth, Curators at the Museum of London. Poems by Addison, Goethe, McCullough, Wordsworth and many more. Edited by Meredith Collins A beautiful evocation of skating through history in words and pictures. £1 from the sale of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir

    The story of Canadian Ice Dancing Champions Tessa Virture & Scott Moir as told in the pages of The London Free Press, including over 40 colour photographs!  ... Read more

    $2.40 USD

  • Just Ice Skating Photos! Big Book of Photographs & Pictures of Ice Skates, Vol. 1

    This is a wonderful collection of 30 high-quality amazing images produced by a series of today's professional photographers. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Unofficial Olympic Guidebook - Figure Skating

    Nothing quite matches the excitement of the Winter Olympics! This book will be your guide to figure skating. Learn about the history of the sport and get a recap on all the drama from Vancouver before the Sochi Games begin. Find out how the format is changing in 2014 and who will likely be the athletes on the podium when the Games are done! Enjoy this book to better understand figure skating, how ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Unofficial Olympic Guidebook - Ice Dancing

    Nothing quite matches the excitement of the Winter Olympics! This book will be your guide to ice dancing. Learn about the history of the sport and get a recap on all the drama from Vancouver before the Sochi Games begin. Find out how the format is changing in 2014 and who will likely be the athletes on the podium when the Games are done! Enjoy this book to better understand ice dancing, how it ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • An Inconvenient Wife

    by Katy Madison ...
    Brandi Yeats wants gold—Olympic gold, but she needs a new ice dancing partner. One man is available, but he's totally wrong for her, and he's the wrong nationality. Marriage is the only way they can compete for the same team. So what's a girl to do when her dreams are on the line? What she won't do is have an affair with the broody, but far too attractive, Russian, even if he is her husband ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 100 of the Top Male Skiers of All Time

    Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 of the Top Male Skiers of All Time, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating 100 of the Top Male Skiers of All Time did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at accuracy and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 100 of the Best Figure Skaters of All Time

    Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 of the Best Figure Skaters of All Time, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating 100 of the Best Figure Skaters of All Time did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at accuracy and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD