This was a tear jerking champion. I was broke that B. Boitano had a miss...but when i saw the emotion burst and pour our of B. Orser i understood. Everything happened a it should have and...the spirit of competition is layered.
funny how they complained about the loss of artistry in skating 25 years ago, and we now in 2014 look back at that time as the golden age of figure skating :)
I have part of the 1988 Olympics on DVD but for some reason had cut out the "history of figures" part when taping them, it's nice to see that VERY old footage. He moves so fluidly through the edges, beautiful.
I agree that the school figures need to come back, but for the junior levels. By the senior level they should have already proven proficiency at the figures, so not necessary. But it might improve overall skating at the top, especially since we see almost no great edge moves but all jumps now.
nightswimmer99 nonsense...that's liking saying professional dancers should stop doing barre work when they get the job. The fundamentals, figures, need to be done everyday.
I agree that the majority of 6.0 step sequences didn't contain the difficulty of the top programs today, but I always get so annoyed that people take this sort of argument and then put down past skaters. The people in this video (Alexander Fadeev, the Brians) were all great skaters with great control and many fantastic elements in their programs, and I always doubt that people who leave this type of comment have actually watched them skate.
The difference is that today, it's all about intricacy in the step sequence. Under the 6.0 system, the emphasis was on flow and speed, which is why the steps and turns aren't as intricate. Ask most die hard skating fans, and they'll say that under the 6.0 system, the masters of footwork are Scott Hamilton, Paul Wylie, Kurt Browning, David Liu (although he showed mastery on one foot rather than with speed), and Yuka Sato (who could go from one end of the rink to the other in 3 seconds while performing footwork), to name some.
It's going to happen, friends :) One of my two coaches (I'm a new figure skater but use two coaches in an approach to compensate for lack of ice time due to other obligations) told me that she has heard that compulsory figures are beginning to make a comeback in order to bring figure skating back to what it used to be, and apparently the USFSA wants a remedy for all the 'jumping' competitive figure skaters seem to want to do nowadays. Figure skating needs to be an art again.
my goal. once I pass Delta and start Freestyle, is to take a figures class in Highland park, IL....the only place around me that teaches it.....it's 3 hours away from where I live now, via the CTA, but it will be SOooooooo worth it.
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Compulsory Figure very important for figure skating..today's many skaters lost edge accuracy..
This was a tear jerking champion. I was broke that B. Boitano had a miss...but when i saw the emotion burst and pour our of B. Orser i understood. Everything happened a it should have and...the spirit of competition is layered.
Wooooow
Thank you
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Battle of the brians is like bird v magic, Palmer v nicklaus or Ali v Frazier
funny how they complained about the loss of artistry in skating 25 years ago, and we now in 2014 look back at that time as the golden age of figure skating :)
I have part of the 1988 Olympics on DVD but for some reason had cut out the "history of figures" part when taping them, it's nice to see that VERY old footage. He moves so fluidly through the edges, beautiful.
I agree that the school figures need to come back, but for the junior levels. By the senior level they should have already proven proficiency at the figures, so not necessary. But it might improve overall skating at the top, especially since we see almost no great edge moves but all jumps now.
+nightswimmer99 Figures are now a separate competition governed by a separate organization. Next ones will be in Toronto in December.
nightswimmer99 nonsense...that's liking saying professional dancers should stop doing barre work when they get the job. The fundamentals, figures, need to be done everyday.
David G David, I was talking about competing the school figures at the junior level, not dispensing with them entirely in practice as a senior.
I agree that the majority of 6.0 step sequences didn't contain the difficulty of the top programs today, but I always get so annoyed that people take this sort of argument and then put down past skaters. The people in this video (Alexander Fadeev, the Brians) were all great skaters with great control and many fantastic elements in their programs, and I always doubt that people who leave this type of comment have actually watched them skate.
The difference is that today, it's all about intricacy in the step sequence. Under the 6.0 system, the emphasis was on flow and speed, which is why the steps and turns aren't as intricate. Ask most die hard skating fans, and they'll say that under the 6.0 system, the masters of footwork are Scott Hamilton, Paul Wylie, Kurt Browning, David Liu (although he showed mastery on one foot rather than with speed), and Yuka Sato (who could go from one end of the rink to the other in 3 seconds while performing footwork), to name some.
@kaycutie1 Totally agree. Figures taught us edges and blade control which most of today's skaters lack.
It's going to happen, friends :) One of my two coaches (I'm a new figure skater but use two coaches in an approach to compensate for lack of ice time due to other obligations) told me that she has heard that compulsory figures are beginning to make a comeback in order to bring figure skating back to what it used to be, and apparently the USFSA wants a remedy for all the 'jumping' competitive figure skaters seem to want to do nowadays. Figure skating needs to be an art again.
Bring the figures back.
Scotty Hamilton...
I wonder what the lady that was commenting about lack of artistry back then would think of figure skating today, & the new scoring system
I think she'd probably throw her lingonberry breakfast up all over it
my goal. once I pass Delta and start Freestyle, is to take a figures class in Highland park, IL....the only place around me that teaches it.....it's 3 hours away from where I live now, via the CTA, but it will be SOooooooo worth it.
They really need to bring the school figures back. The skaters just don't know how to use their edges properly any more.