Rikki Rendich Samuels
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Rikki Rendich Samuels is an American professional figure skating coach at the Rink at Rockefeller Center and at Chelsea Piers[citation needed], both in New York City. She was awarded 3 master ratings from The Professional Skating Association[citation needed] and two gold medals from the United States Figure Skating Association[citation needed] and she won the gold medal of the Middle Atlantic Senior Ladies Championships both in 1958 and in 1959.[citation needed] She also competed in the U.S.F.S.A. Nationals from 1955-1959.[citation needed] Rikki Rendich Samuels pioneered what was known as the "Rickie Step" -- a diagonal step from one end of a standard sized ice skating rink to the other side of the rink performing all the possible turns (three turns, brackets, rockers and counters) backwards and forwards on one foot.[citation needed] She trained with coaches Gus Lussi in Lake Placid, New York and with Maribel Vinson in Boston, Massachusetts.[citation needed]
Ms. Samuels is the author "Kids Book of Figure Skating" published in 2004 by Citidel (Kensington Books)
