Secrets of Skating

By Oksana Baiul

Book Overview

Offers the Ukrainian skating star's views on beginning to skate, acquiring technique, the Olympics, professional skating, going on tour, developing routines, and the lessons to be learned from the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789301040
• ISBN13: 9780789301048
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

Entertaining read and a treat for skating fans

Who can fail but sympathize with Ms. Baiul, an anomaly in this glittering sport of young women who usually have it all - looks, money, and loving families. That Oksana managed to achieve greatness with none of the above says it all about her talent. Oksana's fans won't be disappointed.

A Must for the skater!!!

This book is fulled with beautiful photos and tips

Oksana's is a Jewel. A Figure Skater. An Actress. A Dancer.

Oksana has a secret that she will keep because her secret is her. She is an actress who makes a song reality in through her own visions. She's a dancer who captivates. There has been no one else to impress the world of ice skating before or after Oksana. She will leave a strike on the ice for a lifetime. This book is Oksana's words and is a an item of figure skating history, but Oksana is still the real treasure. We have all been blessed to have been able to experience the way Oksana peforms through her vulnerable spirit.

I enjoy Oksana and mostly think she can do no wrong.

I would have liked more indepth coverage of her life, but I don't think she was ready to share it at the time she wrote the book. Hopefully, her next book will have more details of how she is now handling her sobriety and how she still went on when she lost most all of her loved ones. She is very talented and has a dynomite smile and fantastic laugh. Like Scott Hamilton said aabout her once, "she doesn't even have to leave the ice (jumps) and the audience will still love her." I personally think of her as my fifth child.

Great photos overshadow lacking text

I managed to get an autographed copy of this book last year, and I have to say the photos and illustrations in this book are fabulous, although some more text would have been nice. Oksana takes the "reader" into the backstage world of ice shows, competitions, shows how a costume is made, and even has pictures of herself as a child....but she has such an interesting/inspirational life story something more along the lines of a biography would have been more interesting. All in all, it's a very attractive book and I give it a solid 7.