favorite skater/move

[WildRose]

Kurt Browning's footwork.

[yesac43]

Patrick Chan's edges

[lakewood]

Don't you mean 3L 3T? If so, I think she has the biggest combo of all skaters, men included!

No, 3f-3t with breathtaking entering speed.
3Lz-3t is another great combo though.

[operagirl]

Ana Ceclia Cantu's catchfoot sit spin.

Yukari Nakano's crossfoot spin.

Adam Rippon's Lutz

Tonya Harding's 3A

[Tanja90]

Carolina Kostner 3-3-2 and spirals and steps and the second spin she does in her free were she jumps and goes in a layback
Stephane Lambiel...well...everithing
Evgeny Plushenko quad and 3a and the circular steps of the Tosca
Alissa Cziny layback
Virtue moir...everithing
Davis White twizzels and lifts
mao asada steps and 3a
Shizuka Arakawa Ina bauer
Kurt Browning steps
Daisuke Takahashi steps

[Frau Muller]

Michael Weiss: The Mike Pike!!! (basically, a shoot the duck...but Mike milked it for all it's worth)

[Wiery]

Love this thread!

Since most of my favourites have already been mentioned, how about:

Alexander Abt's camel spin-not the speed of his spin, but his back and leg position (it was the only time he ever pointed his toes, I think).

Also, Alexander Abt's flying sit spin combination from his 2002 LP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86g-lZbNauU


Johnny Weir's posture and grace-not any particular move, rather the way he moves on ice-like a ballet dancer.

Anything Rudy Galindo did that utilized his amazing flexibility-layback spin, spiral, etc...

[ks777]

Sano Minoru's flying sit spin
Shizuka Arakawa's 3s-3t-3loop
Kozuka's edges
Yuka Sato's edges, 3s and 3loop
Sebestyn's 3lutz
Scott Davis's sit spins
Joannie Rochette's muscle

[giselle23]

Michelle's COE spiral and her split falling leaf (the best in the business, as Dick Button said)
Michelle's spread-eagle across the length of the rink in her '98 World Pro EOE program
Michelle's straight-line footwork in her '04 Tosca program at Nationals
Alissa Czisny's spins
Lambiel's spins
Yagudin's straight-line footwork
Yu Na's 3-3
Midori Ito's 3-axel
Shizuka Arakawa's Ina Bauer

ETA: Shen and Zhao's throws (and their passion)

[PrincessLeppard]

Since most of my favourites have already been mentioned, how about:

Alexander Abt's camel spin-not the speed of his spin, but his back and leg position (it was the only time he ever pointed his toes, I think).

This. He had an exquisite camel spin. All the Russian men do them well, but his was just


Also, I love Plushenko's 3A-half loop-triple flip. It makes me sad that we don't see stuff like that anymore because a sequence is deemed "easier" and thus only worth .8 of total elements. Ridiculous.

[Oldsk8ter]

Alissa's spins and Michelle's spiral.

[aliceanne]

Lots of good posts. I would add:

Robin Cousins - slide spiral

Gary Beacom - weird edges

Nicole Bobek - spiral

David Liu - style and choreography

Rory Flack - split jump

Toller Cranston - reverse camel spin

[AliasJohnDoe]

Rory Flack - split jump

Ohhh.... I forgot about Rory Flacks split jump!!!

Her skates go higher than her head while in the split jump, I believe.

[npavel]

Carolina Kostner all of her footwork and spirals, the 3F-3T-2L (also 3F-3T-3L she did in practice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y98pNQBU02I), the donut spin

[ryanbfan]

Ryan Bradley (duh?)

Sasha's I spin
Mirai's Ina bauer
Jonathan's spread eagles
Keegan's spins in general, and the squat change of edge thing he does (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NmwdEbxOM8 2:51)
Sasha or Mirai's layback spin
Ryan's spin that I don't know the name of
Davis/White's Phantom lifts
Sasha's charlotte
Boitano's Boitano Lutz

[Satellitegirl]

Michelle's Spiral
Alissa's layback
Mirai's spins.
Lambiel's spins.
Kurt Browning's Spread Eagle and footwork.
Adam Rippon's double hand 'tano lutz
Johnny Weir's footwork
Boitano's 'tano lutz.
Michelle's split falling leaf.

[vivika1982]

Kurt Browning's footwork.

ITA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEmre4LkNf8

[Extranjera]

No, 3f-3t with breathtaking entering speed.
3Lz-3t is another great combo though.

Her speed into 3f-3t was better? I thought both combinations had similar speed.

[Nan]

Robin Cousins - slide spiral

This one.

[Simone411]

ITA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEmre4LkNf8

Thank you for sharing the video. I love Kirk's footwork.

One of my all-time favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXtd7xq7URM