The author explains how to choose music and choreograph an ice-skating routine based on individual personality and abilities. Training techniques are included.
A nine-year-old girl goes ice-skating to strenghten her legs, befriends the orphaned daughter of a great figure skating star, and finds encouragement to become a great champion.
Discusses the past and future of women's figure skating and presents biographies of eight of the sport's most famous skaters: Oksana Baiul, Surya Bonaly, Nancy Kerrigan, Michelle Kwan, Tara Lipinski, Chen Lu, Katerina Witt, and Kristi Yamaguchi.
Olympic champion Oksana Baiul offers her perspective on all aspects of figure skating, discussing her career in the years leading up to the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, the technical aspects of skating, costumes, touring, and life as a professional skater.
A girl takes lessons in ice skating and gradually learns to skate. Highlights such aspects of the sport as professional skaters, figure skating, speed skating, ice hockey, and ice shows.
Samantha is determined to win the ice-dancing championship, but nothing is going right. Her parents don't want her to skate, and she is having difficulties with her partner. Will she win the Gold?.
Figure-skating researcher Bex Levy has witnessed the behind-the-scenes drama of the cutthroat world of competitive figure skating. The drama peaks at the World Championships in San Francisco when the judges award the gold medal to a Russian over America's sweetheart in a controversial decision. The judge who cast the deciding vote is found dead the next day and Bex investigates the murder.
