Sara,
I tried to email you the book list, but the email came back......

So since others are interested, I will post the books I used for 'Special Figures.' If anyone has Alice Berman's "Skater's Edge Sourcebook, Vol 2" it has a fabulous biblio section that you could get more details than what I am about to list (author, title, date of publication

Adams - 'Skating' Rev. Ed 1892
ISU of A - 'Internatinal Skaters Handbook' ?1911
Monier-Williams - 'Figure Skating Simple & Combined, Vol II
Benson - 'English Figure Skating' 1908
Revel - 'Das Eissport Buch' 1928
Brokaw - 'The Art of Skating' 1926
Meagher - 'Guide to Artistic Skating' 1919
Brokaw - 'The Art of Skating' (Spalding red cover)
George Browne - 'The Handbook of Figure Skating for use on Ice' 1910
George Brown - Cambridge Skating Club
George Helfrich - Berliner Schlittschub Club

As you can see most of these books are about 90-100 years old now. Some of the more famous special figures have appeared in various books over the decades as part of 'skating history.' The only 'modern' skater that I ever heard of doing 'special figures' was Gary Beacom.....

The argument continues over the value of doing school figures versus MIF. Sadly, as time passes, many coaches are no longer teaching that were raised on figures and could pass them on to their students. The current PSA magazine has the full text of Janet Lynn's speach at their conference, that Tom Dickson so highly referred to recently.

Weird re the email Flo - I sent you a PM

Jennifer Robinson did a maltese cross at the start of a program within the last few years - I'll have to look at the video I have to see what competition it was for -

Thanks for the list!

Sara

I still mess around sometimes with writing my name...in script of course...the trick is to do the whole thing in one shot on one foot. The creative part is figuring out which transitions are best for each letter...loops, three turns, brackets, ect. I'll try and get a pic posted...