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Ice skating is one of the world’s most beautiful and demanding sports. It requires extreme strength and athleticism, paired with grace, elegance, and the uncanny ability to make it all look easy.
Ice skating books offer insight into the challenging world of the sport. Amongst our range on Booktopia, you’ll find figure skating biographies, ice skating instructional guides, ice skating fiction, and everything in between.
Figure skating biographies
Over the years, a select number of figure skaters have made names for themselves on the international scene.
Barbara Ann Scott is one of those names. She was the first Canadian woman to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympic Games, right at a time when the world was recovering from the horrors of World War II. She became a symbol of hope and inspiration, and this new biography shares the story of how she became such a cultural icon with surprising new details.
For a more modern look at ice skating, try Tessa & Scott. Two of the most well-known figure skaters of recent years, this duo first won gold at the 2010 Winter Games, then shot to international fame following their viral – and also gold medalling – performance set to Moulin Rouge’s ‘Roxanne’ at the 2018 Winter Olympics. This book includes more than 100 photographs, as well as their full story from their early years to their post-2010 career.
Ice Skating instructional guides
Ice skating is a uniquely challenging sport, and Booktopia offers plenty of instructional guides to help everyone from beginners to experts.
Conditioning for Skating is all about getting into the right physical shape for the sport. It provides a conditioning program for figure skaters, helping them to develop the strength, flexibility, power, and endurance to perform some of the sport’s most demanding tricks.
Laura Stamm’s Power Skating is designed for those looking to progress. This is both a book and DVD, offering the technical knowledge and visual examples for learning how to develop incredible speed and agility on the ice. It comes with tips for improving balance while changing directions, exploding from a stationary position to fast skating, increasing acceleration, and much more.
There are even books for those looking to improve their skating coaching skills for others. A Constraints-led Approach to Figure Skating Coaching is a highly specialised guide for skating coaches who may struggle to find this information elsewhere.
