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by Dick Mansfield Status: Available Easy-to-understand advice on how to get up and skating on cross country skis. Experience the fastest way to travel on cross country skis. Check out the lastest ski-skating techniques, equipment selection, ski preparation, and citizen racing. (Quantities limited.) "Mansfield has a relaxed, friendly style of writing and he's done his homework." --Ski Racing News
What the teviewers are saying: "Skating On Skis has a lot going for it. Mansfield, author of Runner's Guide To Cross Country Skiing, has a relaxed, friendly style of writing and he's done his homework. He doesn't put any distance between himself and the reader, sharing his own successes, and his failures, in a way that seems to say you, too can learn. While the book is aimed at beginning and intermediate skaters, the clarity with which it's written might benefit more experienced racers and their coaches. This is a North American book. Mansfield balances his sources and examples from both the U.S. and Canada...he includes both the US Ski Team's and Cross Country Canada's terms...The illustrations by Bill Woodruff match the text. The simple line drawings are clear, accurate, and catch the spirit of the sport. --Ski Racing News "it's hard to describe complex body movements through text, diagrams, and illustrations but Mansfield manages the task. Not only does he teach you the basic skating moves, he also translates the nomenclature and talks you through the equipment and physical training you'll need to get going in the fast track." "Mansfield presents the peripheral tidbits on skating that you'd otherwise have to learn by trial and error or by rubbing elbows regularly with top skiers and coaches. Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of skating, and Mansfield pauses to enumerate the important points. Those features make this book an easy to understand reference book." --Cross Country Skier "The author ably explains how beginners can become adept at ski-skating and covers strategies for ski-skating and covers strategies for training and entering races. A good book for interested novices..." --Library Journal "...when the conditions are right, ski-skating can be an exciting sport for racing or just fun. If you are interested in updating this sport or taking up a new challenge, Skating On Skis should cover everything you need to know. It takes you through the history of the sport, getting started, buying equipment, ski preparation (waxing), when and where to skate, improving your technique, training, and racing. The advice is logical and sensible...I read this book cover-to-cover and am awaiting the first snows with hopes of learning this new method." --The Small Press Book Review
Here's an excerpt from Skating On Skis.
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