Everything just flowed--no pauses to set up a jump--from the slow lyrical parts to the fast dynamic parts, back to the slow parts, to the explosive lightening-fast parts. The whole piece is a work of art.
wow! loved this performance! she starts off so light and soft and then goes into an amazing seqence of jumps and flying spins. what a perfect marriage of grace and power on ice!
When Brian Boitano was shown film of Janet skating, he was amazed at her technique, especially her step sequences, and wanted to incorporate them into his routine.
I got to see her in person in 1976 and was too chicken to ask her for an autograph.She was like 7 months pregnant with her first son then and was in my town to judge a small local ice skating competition.I imagine she is a grandmother now.I also wonder if Mr.Craker is still living?He had the great opportunity to see Janet sking live.Gosh I feel old.
I miss the "honest" skating by Lynn, Hamill, Yuka Sato, etc., with strong edging and clean lines. Of course, under the new scoring system/CoP, these skaters will be SLAPPED with low PCSs for the simplicity... How unfortunate is it that we will never see this type of skating under the new system...
It wasn't until Alena Kostornaia came along as a junior level competitor that I saw a female skater who really stuck out much like Janet did for her time -- Janet and I are the same age -- as something so extraordinary to watch, the way she moved on the ice.
Peggy Fleming was my favorite before Janet, but Janet added another dimension and superseded Peggy although they were both the best. I don't think anyone has equalled the magic that Janet had on the ice. Yuna Kim perhaps is in the ballpark. But Dorothy Hamill was a let down compared to Janet, although Dorothy got very good as a professional. Kristi Yamaguchi also got better as a professional, more artistic.
I wasn't familiar with Alena Kostornaia but I just watched free skate at Rostelecom Cup 2020. She is very fluid, skates fast like Janet did, I wonder why she hasn't gottten as much attention as the teenage Russian triple axel and quadruple jumpers. Another skater whose form and style on the ice I like, although she suffers from inconsistency, is American skater Amber Glenn, who also skates fast.
It seems like you deleted your long interesting reply to me--I have it in email notification but it's not here on channel page. You are correct that Janet's skating still holds up and has something special, and that to coaches and other skaters she was considered a legend and the gold standard. Dick button found her special, and John Curry, and Toller Cranston, and Michelle Kwan's coach Frank Carroll, while he was coaching Kwan, said that Janet was the best female figure skater he'd ever seen, that she was poetry. You mention your trouble finding video of Janet maybe 50 years ago and apparently, even by the time Brian Boitano came around, there was no video available, and someone I forget who, showed him, maybe in the late 1980s or 1990s, some video of Janet skating, and he was amazed at her technique, and said that he was going to incorporate some of her step sequences into his routine. PS I'm not sure who you considered Janet's main rival and 1972, Beatrix Schuba or Karen Magnussen--I assume the latter.
I just watched a clip of Elena Shcheglova from the 1968 Olympics. She seems solid although she put her hand down on a spin, but of course she didn't have the grace and elegance of the Olympic gold medalist Peggy Fleming, who was unbeatable, enen if she fell in the free skate, because of her style and technique and also being the best at school figures. Not being the best at school figures was the reason Janet never won a World or Olympics championship--she happened to be competing against Trixi Schuba--one of the best ever in school figures.
@nondescriptnyc Well said, and thank you for including Yuka Sato in such illustrous company. I've seen her perform 2x in the past 5 yrs. with stars on ice and both times she was the finest skater in the lineup. Very reminiscent of Janet Lynn.
Everything just flowed--no pauses to set up a jump--from the slow lyrical parts to the fast dynamic parts, back to the slow parts, to the explosive lightening-fast parts. The whole piece is a work of art.
wow! loved this performance! she starts off so light and soft and then goes into an amazing seqence of jumps and flying spins. what a perfect marriage of grace and power on ice!
Like looking at an exquisite painting in a museum.
When Brian Boitano was shown film of Janet skating, he was amazed at her technique, especially her step sequences, and wanted to incorporate them into his routine.
I got to see her in person in 1976 and was too chicken to ask her for an autograph.She was like 7 months pregnant with her first son then and was in my town to judge a small local ice skating competition.I imagine she is a grandmother now.I also wonder if Mr.Craker is still living?He had the great opportunity to see Janet sking live.Gosh I feel old.
I miss the "honest" skating by Lynn, Hamill, Yuka Sato, etc., with strong edging and clean lines. Of course, under the new scoring system/CoP, these skaters will be SLAPPED with low PCSs for the simplicity... How unfortunate is it that we will never see this type of skating under the new system...
It wasn't until Alena Kostornaia came along as a junior level competitor that I saw a female skater who really stuck out much like Janet did for her time -- Janet and I are the same age -- as something so extraordinary to watch, the way she moved on the ice.
Peggy Fleming was my favorite before Janet, but Janet added another dimension and superseded Peggy although they were both the best. I don't think anyone has equalled the magic that Janet had on the ice. Yuna Kim perhaps is in the ballpark. But Dorothy Hamill was a let down compared to Janet, although Dorothy got very good as a professional. Kristi Yamaguchi also got better as a professional, more artistic.
I wasn't familiar with Alena Kostornaia but I just watched free skate at Rostelecom Cup 2020. She is very fluid, skates fast like Janet did, I wonder why she hasn't gottten as much attention as the teenage Russian triple axel and quadruple jumpers. Another skater whose form and style on the ice I like, although she suffers from inconsistency, is American skater Amber Glenn, who also skates fast.
It seems like you deleted your long interesting reply to me--I have it in email notification but it's not here on channel page. You are correct that Janet's skating still holds up and has something special, and that to coaches and other skaters she was considered a legend and the gold standard. Dick button found her special, and John Curry, and Toller Cranston, and Michelle Kwan's coach Frank Carroll, while he was coaching Kwan, said that Janet was the best female figure skater he'd ever seen, that she was poetry. You mention your trouble finding video of Janet maybe 50 years ago and apparently, even by the time Brian Boitano came around, there was no video available, and someone I forget who, showed him, maybe in the late 1980s or 1990s, some video of Janet skating, and he was amazed at her technique, and said that he was going to incorporate some of her step sequences into his routine. PS I'm not sure who you considered Janet's main rival and 1972, Beatrix Schuba or Karen Magnussen--I assume the latter.
@@fredbloggs6080 I deleted it. Sometimes I do that with long posts. Yes, Janet was a real skater's skater.
Великолепно! В Линн есть все то, чего не хватает современным фигуристкам, программы которых перенасыщены акробатикой и технологичными трюками.
John Curry called her the greatest of all skaters.
У нас в те времена,была вечно спотыкающаяся Щеглова...
I just watched a clip of Elena Shcheglova from the 1968 Olympics. She seems solid although she put her hand down on a spin, but of course she didn't have the grace and elegance of the Olympic gold medalist Peggy Fleming, who was unbeatable, enen if she fell in the free skate, because of her style and technique and also being the best at school figures. Not being the best at school figures was the reason Janet never won a World or Olympics championship--she happened to be competing against Trixi Schuba--one of the best ever in school figures.
@nondescriptnyc Well said, and thank you for including Yuka Sato in such illustrous company. I've seen her perform 2x in the past 5 yrs. with stars on ice and both times she was the finest skater in the lineup. Very reminiscent of Janet Lynn.
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