Skaters with great basics plus musicality

[gotoschool]

Mao Asada, Lu Chen, Victor Petrenko and Kurt Browning

 

[excessmotion]

Yuka Sato and Lu Chen are the first 2 that come to mind for me.

 

[coppertop1]

She reminds of Mao Asada. Mao seemed to just float across the ice in the most graceful and ethereal way... Marin has that similar quality. It's going to sound weird, but I also love Marin's hands. She performs her movement all the way through to her fingertips and it's so beautiful to me.

I'd love to see her breakthrough this year as well...or at least find some consistency and have strong competitions.

I don't think it's weird to love a skater's hands. It's part of the interpretation and Marin really does interpret it so beautifully.

I would say so many Japanese skaters, especially the ladies, have great basic skating technique and musicality. They're so soft and fluid.

 

[screech]

Liam Firus.
And speaking of Canadians with 3A issues, the brilliant Sebastien Britten

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

I probably already said this before.

But Miss Liquid Gold herself... All Hail, Angela Nikodinov!!!!!

 

[AxelAnnie]

Carolina has great skating skills and she is artistic. I just never thought of her as having great musicality.

She grew into musicality. I don't thik we will see her kind of skating again!.

 

[coppertop1]

Liam Firus.
And speaking of Canadians with 3A issues, the brilliant Sebastien Britten

It's a shame Sebastien Britten could never do that triple axel. He had everything else. He was one of my favourites.

Firus was the Sebastien Britten of the most recent quadrennials. Wonderful skating but struggled with the jumps.

 

[JasperBoy]

Jeff Buttle had it all, as well as a magnetic smile. Still does. One of my life's highlights was seeing him win 2008 Worlds live.

 

[sap5]

Virtue Moir's Valse Triste

 

[screech]

Watching the Skate America SP, I always forget how good Keegan Messing's basics are - he has a major ease of flow across the ice, and he twists and turns and moves his feet so well. His musicality is up for debate, but there's no denying his showmanship!

 

[tafattsbarn]

Yuzuru Hanyu. I could watch him do stroking exercises in practice forever, it's glorious.

 

[canbelto]

Johnny Weir? He wasn't very consistent but his basic stroking and edge takeoffs and landings were a thing of beauty.

As for others: Gordeeva/Grinkov, Virtue/Moir, Gracie Gold ... when she wasn't imploding the speed and height and smoothness to her skating was a real wow.

 

[Polaris]

Johnny Weir? He wasn't very consistent but his basic stroking and edge takeoffs and landings were a thing of beauty.

As for others: Gordeeva/Grinkov, Virtue/Moir, Gracie Gold ... when she wasn't imploding the speed and height and smoothness to her skating was a real wow.

Gracie wasn't musical though. There's been so much criticism about her dead face and lack of artistry.

 

[Polaris]

Yuna Kim, Yuzuru Hanyu, Patrick Chan.