writing – Pagophilia

I haven’t been writing much here lately, but some new things are up on Schaatshistorie.nl:

Two videos from my new Evolution of Skating series: Bone skates and Archetype skates. Those links are to the English versions, they are also in Dutch here and there.
“Whither bone skates research?”, a short article summarizing the state of research on bone skates and suggesting directions for future research. This is a revised version of a presentation I gave at the 13th meeting of the Worked Bone Research Group in Montréal in 2019. In English with Dutch to come.

And my article on the figures events at ISI Worlds last summer, “Figuring it out at 2020ne Worlds,” just appeared in Recreational Ice Skating. They haven’t posted the Fall 2021 issue yet, but maybe they will have by the time you read this. It’s on pages 23–24.

The final manuscript atop the archive notes and drafts.

The final manuscript of my book on bone skates is now on its way to McFarland, who will publish it. Watch for it in bookstores later this year.

Now I’m ready to get going on my next big writing project, a history of figures. As part of it, I’ve started a page of resources for people interested in skating them now. Along the way, I plan to produce a few more Skating History Press editions. Next in line is Lowther’s set of three little books: Edges & Striking, Principle of Skating Turns, and Combined Figure-Skating. Only an handful of copies survive in libraries around the world.

You’ll probably see more about figures than bone skates in future blog posts. But I’m sure I’ll find more to say about bone skates—they’ve been on my mind for nearly 20 years.

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