num_pages: 254
description: Everything many of us know about figure skating we learned from the man whos been called the Voice of Figure Skating. Now Dick Button the Emmy Award-winning skating commentator famous for his precise passionate opinionated rinkside analyses and for his historic career as a two-time Olympic gold medalist five-time World Champion and seven-time U.S. Champion (plus being the inadvertent inventor of the flying camel the first to successfully land a double Axel in competition and the first ever to do a triple jump) demystifies this art and sport beloved by millions.In Push Dicks Button you'll learn about the difference between a Lutz and a Salchow . . . performance highs and lows . . . memorable entrances exits and falls (including his own) . . . costume delights and disasters . . . the new judging rules . . . and nuggets of skating training and history PLUS stories about Katarina Witt Peggy Fleming Johnny Weir Brian Boitano Dorothy Hamill and more including todays champions such as Evgeni Plushenko Davis and White and the latest sensations. Droll dishy dramatic and dead-on this book is like a one-on-one conversation with the man whose unsurpassed knowledge experience and love of figure skating have influenced generations.
language: English
title: Push Dick's Button
publisher:  CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform