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[skateycat]

The plaza in nearby Arcata, California is plagued by vandals on big holiday events like Halloween. Little skateycat heard about this and wanted to make a public service announcement asking the big kids to play nice on New Year's Eve.

http://youtu.be/91r8QDQ-46s

 

[vivika1982]

Art on Ice
Monserrat Caballe and Susanna Rahkamo & Petri Kokko -"Hijo de la Luna "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok0XAvglVTk

Monserrat Caballe and Denise Biellmann-" Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uxu62C7-b0

There are other nice videoclips :
http://www.youtube.com/user/santuzza11

 

[sadya]

Vivika1982, thank you so much for these links. Especially the Rahkamo/Kokko one. I've been looking for this gala for years. I taped it when Eurosport first aired it. Then when I moved from France back to Holland, I lost many items, including a tape of this gala. :-( Wasn't this the first Art on Ice? If I remember correct this was a new Idea from Oliver Hoener according to British Eurosport commentators. I could be remembering wrong though.

 

[snowbird]

Talk about the finnstep in another thread prompted me to take a peek at how it's done. The first return from Youtube was this one by Cappellini/Lanotte.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIISlu62Mw4

 

[Vash01]

Midori's NHK 92 SP.

This is the first time I've seen a clean performance of this SP. WOW! If only she had been able to skate with this kind of freedom in Albertville.

Thanks so much for this! This was her best SP performance, I think.

 

[snowbird]

Lady does throw cantilever in exhibition. About 2 mins. and 45 secs.into clip. Also a closeup at the end. I'd like to see one of these done in competition. A lot more interesting than those boring death spirals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=TBdvp_WQCuQ

 

[snowbird]

Whoops! My mistake. It wasn't a *throw* cantilever.

 

[Tarasirius]

Here is a video of 1974 worlds,Jan HOffmann, Christine Errath and other skaters
http://www.kronikarp.pl/szukaj,55881,strona-3

1970, Sonja Morgenstern, Pakhomova Gorshkov and others:
http://www.kronikarp.pl/szukaj,11152,strona-2

Here is a nice channel at youtube with very old clips.
Liselotte Landbeck 1934
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEIuA444ihE

if you search for "pattinaggio" within this channel you would find a lot very old movies.

 

[Triple Axel]

One of the best FDs ever IMO, and under COP.
Gregory/Petukhov GPF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFfKF300k6A

This is the only FD of theirs that really made me sit up and pay attention. It was just gorgeous. Question though, why did they change their costumes for Worlds? The ones at the GPF were so pretty and the ones at Worlds were so...not pretty.

I absolutely adore this program!! The music was used, in part for their "fallen Angels" program, skated with Johnny Weir!! It was absolutely incredible as well. When I first saw that they were going to do it, I thought.."Oh, NO..what a nightmare this is going to be". I couldn't take my eyes off of it!! It was mesmerizing...

 

[Triple Axel]

Has anybody ever posted a link to this person's channel on YouTube?
http://www.youtube.com/user/3Axel1996#p/u

I ran across it searching for vids posted today and he/she had just uploaded a bunch of stuff from 78 Worlds. Looks like hundreds of vids: Various Olympics and Worlds, NHKs, SkateAms ...

It's the more CELEBRATED legend of the vids, our own TripleAxel1996!!

 

[bardtoob]

Wow!!! An SP from the 70's. They are so rare . . . and a woman doing a good 3S-2Lp, no less.

Linda Fratianne - 1977 World Championships - SP

 

[leapfrogonice]

Wow!!! An SP from the 70's. They are so rare . . . and a woman doing a good 3S-2Lp, no less.

Linda Fratianne - 1977 World Championships - SP

Her triple sal double loop at Lake Placid Olympics SP was also amazing

 

[orbitz]

Wow!!! An SP from the 70's. They are so rare . . . and a woman doing a good 3S-2Lp, no less.

Linda Fratianne - 1977 World Championships - SP

Linda's 76 Nationals LP and 77 Worlds SP were her two best performances, IMO. Everything else after that was Pffffft. I find it's interesting that the footwork she had in the 77 SP was more complicated than what she did in her 80 Olympic SP. I think Linda would've grown much more artistically and technically if her chief rivals were excellent free skaters like Denise, Wantanabi, etc.

 

[bardtoob]

I wonder if Manley and Fratianne have ever gone out for drinks because it's clearer and clearer to me that they were the best two performers across all three portions of the competition in their respective Olympics ... Ito and Beillmann should also have drinks ... Thomas and Potzch should have gotten similar placements, whatever that should have been.

 

[bardtoob]

Dianne De Leeuw - 1976 World Championships - SP

Lovely. Maybe it is the low quality of the video, but I don't know what Uncle Dick was talking about regarding the 2A. Any lady today would love to do it that way

I love the serpentine footwork. It is great to see good footwork in pattern.

ETA: I never realized how relatively tall she is.

 

[bardtoob]

Christine Errath - 1976 Olympics - Short Program

The video is out of synch, but you can see she is a very good quality skater. Very sturdy.

 

[floskate]

De Leeuw, despite being American herself but representing the Netherlands, was Hamill's closest rival for the OGM so the ABC hype 'n' trash machine went into overdrive on her skating, pointing out every minute flaw. She did have a strange technique on her double axel where she brought the free leg up and to the side as she rotated - kind of like a jazz pirouette position. She never crossed her ankles on it. Worked for her but it would be deemed horendous technique today. Here's a better view:

Dianne de Leeuw1976 Olympics LP

Errath was wonderful - sturdy yes, in the style of Gaby Seyfert, although they had different coaches, but she really was a great skater with a wonderful double axel she could do out of just about anything and one of the few ladies to start trying triples in the early 1970's. I have a fair bit of Errath on tape - I really need to get some of her stuff on youtube sometime!

 

[Nours]

Some old ice dancing !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfd_Tvj-Ckk

 

[skatesindreams]

Thank you!

 

[Nours]

Another one ! Interview with Helmut Seibt, it says winter 1948 but I don't know which competition it is. Footage is played while the interview is going on.

http://www.mediathek.at/atom/134AC712-0A8-000AA-00000C78-134A0539

 

[bardtoob]

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

Yamaguchi showing Oksana and Katarina how its done.

 

[sadya]

^
Thanks for sharing that one. It's my favourite Yamaguchi program.

 

[skatesindreams]

^^^
Mine, as well!

 

[Seerek]

1970 World Championships Ladies Free Skating segment

Gold Gabriele Seyfert (GDR) (1st in Free)

Silver Trixie Schuba (AUT) (7th in Free)

Bronze Julie Lynn Holmes (USA) (5th in Free)

4th Karen Magnussen (CAN) (3rd in Free)

5th Zsuzsa Almassy (HUN) (4th in Free)

6th Janet Lynn (USA) (2nd in Free)

7th Dawn Glab (USA) (10th in Free)

8th Rita Trapanese (ITA) (6th in Free)

9th Patricia Dodd (GBR) (12th in Free)

 

[bardtoob]

Omg!omg!omg!

Once you get past the bad hair and dreadful costume, you can see Almassy had remarkable even proto-CoP content for her time, such as the A-2S and catchfoot upright spin with high foot position ... And look at those clean Arabian cartwheels!

 

[Seerek]

One other observation - After reading so much from people criticizing Trixie Schuba's free skating skills over the years, now having seen Schuba's programs relative to the rest of the field, her free skate placements (usually 6th or 7th) in my opinion were pretty much correct (The skaters placing behind her were struggling on 2 lutzes and 2 flips).

 

[all_empty]

Omg!omg!omg!

Once you get past the bad hair and dreadful costume, you can see Almassy had remarkable even proto-CoP content for her time, such as the A-2S and catchfoot upright spin with high foot position ... And look at those clean Arabian cartwheels!

Nonsense! That is a +3 GOE bouffant.

The wally-spread eagle-2A is spectacular.

ETA: Those Arabians!!!

 

[robinhood]

you know, Janet Lynn was wonderful here but I sometimes wonder about the media hype in certain skaters...watching this competition I found myself enjoying Karen Magnussen and Gabrielle Seyfert the most. Seifert was particularly surprising for me, because she had all the beautiful qualities of the American girls and killer jumps too. She had amazing presentation skills, and I thought Juta Muller students were more technical than artistic. She was strikingly beautiful, that helps...

And thanks to the video uploads! It's wonderful to know about the figure skating history

 

[Foolhardy Ham Lint]

That is a +3 GOE bouffant.

Do you know why Almassy's hair was so big? It was full of secrets.

 

[bardtoob]

Do you know why Almassy's hair was so big? It was full of secrets.

Like is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets?