The Skater's Manual

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Excerpt from The Skater's Manual: A Complete Guide to the Art of Skating One of the foremost pleasures of the active and exhilarating kind is skating. Next to riding on horseback, there is nothing in the shape of exercise which gives such a fillip to the spirits and such a glow to the blood, as riding on a pair of skates. Skating is a positive luxury of diversion - a carnival of fun and frolic - a jubilee of enjoyment! What life, what elasticity, what gliding energy, what swift and airy motion, what gay, and free, and blithesome activity does it embody! A swift skater makes the nearest approach to flying which we denizens of this mundane sphere can achieve with our own organs of motion. Dancing has been called the poetry of motion, but the phrase belongs with far greater propriety to skating. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.