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Figure Skating: Championship Techniques Figure Skating: Championship Techniques
(Sports Illustrated Winners Circle Books)
by John Misha Petkevitch,
Heinz Kluetmeier (photographer)
Paperback (March 1998)
This is one of the first skating books I owned - and I taught myself a fairly decent waltz jump, salchow and various edges and stops using it. It is a useful reference for skaters who are interested in learning the basic elements and single jumps. For higher elements, I find that it is good as a general reference, but I prefer Skate Your Personal Best (See below) for details and nagging problems.
Skate Your Personal Best:
A Guide For Mastering Intermediate And Advanced Technique, Achieving Optimal Performance Skills, And Skating Excellence
Skate Your Personal Best:
A Guide For Mastering Intermediate And Advanced Technique, Achieving Optimal Performance Skills, And Skating Excellence

by Sandra Foster, Tracy Prussack
Paperback, 264 pages (December 1998)
This book is my current reference of choice. I use it to complement my freestyle lessons since the techniques used in the book are similar to the ones used by my coach. I have found this book to be extremely useful with my flying spins and double jumps (up to double loop). It is very well written with excellent photographs.
My Sergei:A Love Story My Sergei: A Love Story
by Ekaterina Gordeeva,
E.M. Swift (Contibutor)
Paperback, 352 pages, reprint edition (October 1997)
Review to come!
Passion to Skate The Passion To Skate:
An Intimate View of Figure Skating

by Sandra Bezic, David Hayes
Paperback, 176 pages (February 1998)
Review to come!
Zero Tolerance:An Intimate Memoir by the Man Who Revolutionized Figure Skating Zero Tollerance:
An Intimate Memoir by the Man Who Revolutionized Figure Skating

by Toller Cranston,
Martha L. Kimball (Contributor)
Paperback, 320 pages, reprint edition (October 1998)
Review to come!