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The Figure Skate: A Research into the Form of Blade Best Adapted to Curvilinear Skating

The Figure Skate: A Research into the Form of Blade Best Adapted to Curvilinear Skating

Paperback

General World HistoryIce SkatingPhysics

ISBN10: 1948100061
ISBN13: 9781948100069
Publisher: Skating History Press
Published: Mar 15 2020
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

What makes a blade good for figure skating? How curved should it be?

Henry Eugene Vandervell, the father of English figure skating, asked these questions over a century ago and used his knowledge of mathematics, physics, and skating to answer them. This book presents an account of his experiments and calculations. The results strongly influenced the development of figure skate blades. Most of today's blades are not far from Vandervell's recommendations.

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