Your favourite leg wrap

[essence_of_soy]

There's something about leg - wraps that gets me.

Whether it's a skater's ability to muscle a jump, or that their leg is parallel to the ice during rotation, it's kind of funky.

Anyway, here are a few of my favourites:

Claudia - Kristofics Binder

and her daughter, who also skates:

Delphine Kristofics - Binder

Sanda Dubravcic

Erin Pearl

Kyoko Ina

[Rob]

My favorite leg wrapper is definitely Yukari Nakano. I can tolerate it on her. The rest is so good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhqMx2HE_UI

[Ziggy]

Nakano. Can't believe she can actually rotate those triples with such a huge wrap.

[essence_of_soy]

Ah, I forgot about Yukari. Funny that she doesn't wrap on the triple axel, though.

Ito wrapped as well, IIRC.

[Marco]

ITO! Please. She was the only one to have big and rotated jumps despite the wrap.

(of course her wrap wasn't too bad, definitely better than Nakano's)

[pollyanna]

Midori Ito. Nakano comes in 2nd for me.

[essence_of_soy]

I'l have to upload Twana Rose's free skate from the 1992 Canadian Nationals. On top of a very pronounced leg - wrap, she must have the scariest double axel technique ever.

[flowerpower]

Absolutely Midori Ito. Loved her incredible jumps, and the wrap didn't bother me at all.

My favourite Midori performance - 89 Worlds - just such joy and exuberance, she launches into those jumps with total abandon. Especially love the speed and flow of the triple toe-triple toe at 3:35!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKGasODrAcU

[MikiAndoFan#1]

Definately Yukari!

Ah, I forgot about Yukari. Funny that she doesn't wrap on the triple axel, though.

She also doesn't wrap her leg on the Salchow and Toeloop.

[Marco]

She also doesn't wrap her leg on the Salchow and Toeloop.

But she toe-axelled. Which is another kind of bad technique.

[IceJunkie]

Yukari hands down has the best leg wrap.

[Kati]

Silvia Fontana had quite a big wrap, too.

[MikiAndoFan#1]

But she toe-axelled. Which is another kind of bad technique.

This thread is about leg wraps, not toe-axels.



But you're right.

[Polymer Bob]

Here is an interesting leg wrap.

http://anathan.files.wordpress.com/2...nd-posters.jpg

[Rex]

What about AMBAH Corwin?

[MikiAndoFan#1]

Here is an interesting leg wrap.

http://anathan.files.wordpress.com/2...nd-posters.jpg

[Seerek]

Would one consider Oksana Kazakova as having a leg wrap too (even though she didn't skate in singles)?

[robinhood]

kyoko ina had a wrap?

[skatefan]

Nakano. Can't believe she can actually rotate those triples with such a huge wrap.

Ziggy, how could you not give an honourable mention to Stacey Kemp's thrown triple loop

[Firefly123]

Well, you didn't specify that it had to be on ice. Here's something a little different: A man with a leg wrap. (World Roller Artistic Champion Scott Cohen). Wow!! Look at all those triples done with a wrap.
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I never could understand why ice is so down on wrapped jumps. Admittedly, it is less areodynamic, but as these skaters demonstrate, jumps certainly can be done that way....I think it goes back to the idea of ballet. The whole skating = ballet on ice thing and the pointed toes on tours l'air in ballet...

Anyways, this clip is worth watching for just for the costume malfunction. I can't believe he skated almost the whole routine that way and it didn't distract him enough to mess up.