Adventures in skating historiography
Courtney Jones is being the third Jones discussed on this blog, after Robert Jones and Ernest Jones. I have no idea whether they are related. This Jones’s achievement is the publication of a memoir, Around the Ice in Eighty Years: An Irreverent Memoir by an Accidental Champion, currently for sale only in the UK. It… Continue reading Courtney Jones, Around the Ice in 80 Years
Readers of this blog and everybody else who’s interested in skating history already know about Robert Jones’s Treatise on Skating. But there’s another book, a much more recent one, by a Jones. Ernest Jones is well-known in psychoanalytic circles as a disciple of Freud, and his background on psychology provides the foundation for his book,… Continue reading The other Jones
These resources will help you learn how to skate figures. One day, I hope to create a more exhaustive database. This is a start. Online groups and websites The Compulsory Figures Project on Facebook Memories of Patch on Facebook Bring Back Compulsary [sic] Figure Skating to Europe Skatingforums.com occasionally has a thread on figures The… Continue reading Some resources for ice figures