New York Beacon

Vol. 17 o. 14
April 8, 2010 – April 14, 2010
Bookin’ It

Anita Jones pens Ice-Skaters book

Compiled By Don Thomas

Harlem native and author Anita Jones, the internationally renowned Ice-Skating Champion and Model has written a bork title “how To Become A Prize-Winning Free Style Ice-skate In Your Free Time Year Round.” Endowed with more than 60 medals and ribbons, she currently resides in New Jersey and is the first Black Ice-skater, penning an ice-skating, training brook that inspires African Americans, among other endeavoring to ice-skate.

According to research, internet blogs and associations, too few ethnic, ice-skating trainers exist.  Although she has a forth-coming video, her astounding compilation of proper ice-skating, proper gear, equipment and ice-skating history, is timely consider how well the United States reclaimed it’s ice-sport leadership in this year’s recent Internantional Olympics Competitions.

I love the 2009 collaboration between harlem area schools and Central Parks’ Wollman Skating Rink.  I wish I had been there, last spring when Rachel Flatt, the U.S. “teenage, ice-skating champion announced Harlem’s new Ice-skating student program, providing free-ice-skating lessons, together, with academic studies, for Harlem’s teenage girls.  She also confirmed Debi Thomas, the first Black U.S. femalre, Olympics figure skating medalist, who helped inspired her ice-skating feats” said ones.

Upon observing how physically fit Jones, the 5 ft. 9 inch, 23-inch waist, free-style, ice-skater-model happens to be, her pleasant demeanor, also reflects a wise woman with a B.A. Degree from New York Baruch College and Manhattan Community College’s Secretarial Sciences Associate Degree.

Though completing her forth-coming, ice-skating training video, in 2007, Anita’s skating expertise resulted in karl Nelson, her assistant manager, advising her to write a book, inspiring youths and adults to ice-skate.

“It’s incredible.  I’m starting to see more middle-aged and senior ice-skaters.  Just thinking about missing the thrill of learning to ice-skate, as a young adolescent, makes me wish someone had offered me free-ice-skating classes to encourage me to become a scholar.  Many of those girls are going to benefit from improved dexterity and breathing  They’ll become more focused, patient and disciplined,” said Jones.