Jo Jo Starbuck & Ken Shelley - 1971 World Figure Skating Championships LPLP
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- čas přidán 8. 03. 2015
- The brilliant Jo Jo Starbuck and Ken Shelley bring some much needed pizazz to the pairs event in 1971 at Lyon, France. Rodnina & Ulanov beat their main rivals Smirnova & Suraikin despite a huge error in the SP. ( Incidentally, the 1971 Worlds SP is the only event portion that Rodnina did not win in her ten year reign as the Queen of pair skating.) Rumour had it they (R&U) were not speaking at all on the day of the LP and warmed up in icy silence. But JoJo and Ken did brilliantly here to win the bronze medal and the crowd certainly enjoyed their advanced artistic skills. What a shame the judges didn't. Although judging by the shenanigans of Sapporo
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When figure skating mean't figure skating! So much more elegant and beautiful than today's skating. Jo Jo and Ken were so classy
Nowadays it's machinery- and robot-stile...
So much lovelier than today's skating where some tiny little thing gets thrown around the rink by some guy twice her size. It had unison, nice changes of direction, a pattern (raised arms), good flow - all around a lovely performance.
The beauty of skating is gone this pair represented beauty
They did alot of really interesting and unique moves. And the musical interpretations and synchronicity was perfectly lovely.
Side-by-side flying camels. They don’t do those anymore.
wow dismount of a star lift with just one foot,great Athlete Ken
WOW!..The entrance to the last spin was so unusual and dangerous.
I would love to see that entrance brought back!
First couple I remembered a favorite
Interesting... he goes to one foot before setting her down on some of the lifts. Don't think I've ever seen that before.
I saw them skate "live" in an ice show,m twice. They were special skaters, for sure. I still remember seeing them just like it was yesterday. They were so good--so personable, too.
Jo Jo had such good posture, and always looked so pleasant when she was skating.
This was the Worlds where Trixi Schuba won gold in spite of being 7th in the free skating. Janet Lynn, who was first in free skating, came in 4th overall. It was the beginning of the end for compulsory figures in competition, which wouldn't happen completely until nearly 20 years later, in 1990. Although the official reasons figures were eliminated was they had no audience, and the expense of staging them in competitions was too high, both which were true, it was really time for them to go anyway.
Figures were an anachronism by the 1930s. I think of it as a travesty that they were integral in training and competition for so many decades, unnecessarily. They were an enormous expense for skaters training them, and thwarted thousands of talented singles skaters from the opportunity to compete, because they couldn't afford to get to the required level of expertise at figures to compete at skating competitions. Of course, some of these talented free skaters went with professional ice shows, if they wanted to continue skating for a while.
I always thought of figures and free in skating as being like the difference between practicing drawing a perfect circle to making a drawing. It would take a lot of skill and practice to draw a perfect circle freehand, and it might be of some minor benefit to drawing well, but what is it really compared to a drawing. Not much.
Also, if figures were so important to the development and maintenance of good free skating, as was claimed by hundreds of coaches and skaters alike, why didn't they make pair skaters or ice dancers do them in competition also? Almost all skaters who competed in pair skating or ice dancing stopped doing figures in practice, too, as soon as they began doing those disciplines instead of singles skating. It wasn't like their skating suffered in any way from not doing figures anymore.
Today, does anyone look at a phenomenal skater like Alena Kostornaia and think her skating would be so much better if she had learned compulsory figures when she was young?
You can see a huge improvement from their 1968 program in Grenoble! Bravo 🙂
Beautiful
A much different look than that represented by Rodnina who was very tiny; a precursor to Babalonia and Gardner, also trained by John Nicks. Shelley both presented and complimented Starbuck (after all, he won the national Men's title the following year.)
Love the spiral-like one-foot skating by him on the dismount @ 1:05
They were the same height; had a really wonderful look to their skating.
Pairs teams competing today could really benefit from seeing these performances. Detail, unison, technique.. all exemplified in these performances. So much more exciting to watch than what we're seeing today.
perfect, exciting, theatrical, boy was JoJo pretty
especially like the change of direction within the beat of the music and the beautiful posture and upward hand positions of both Ken and JoJo
Robert Dunn was? still is.
Wonderful! They got a little out of synch at the end, but they were tired though. They are the first pairs team I have seen to do a throw jump and it was HUGE!! I saw them do it in a 1968 competition too. It literally jolted me when I saw it because I had no idea someone did it that early. Interestingly they skated at the same time as Tamara Moskvina and her pair. Tamara must have been so smitten and impressed with their original moves and skating that she stole some of that choreography for her future pupils and World Champions Gordeeva and Grinkov. The step sequence that JoJo and Ken did halfway through and a few other moves turned up in G&G programs in the 80s and 90s. Also, the music was also used. In watching figure skating for over 40 years, they are the best American pairs ever. I love that they used classical music as well because so many American pairs used contemporary and mostly hokey type music. They were truly elegant and had flawless posture. It is a shame they did not get their true credit and marks they should have. They definitely should be on the American Mt Rushmore of skating legends.
Tamara Moskvina did not train G&G. Stanislav Zhuk (who was accused of sexual abuse by many skaters) was their coach. I believe Tamara Moskvina and Alexei Mishin retired in 1969. I highly doubt Moskvina got her inspiration from Starbucks and Shelley, as lovely as they were. Moskvina was more senior. Belusova and Protopopov were the golden standard at the time, so if anyone took inspiration it was from the Protopopovs.
I have never seen this before. This is great!!!
I just got Jojo's signituer yesterday
Aww I remember her being a celebrity when I was little ♥️
The future Mrs. Terry Bradshaw.
The problem with skating today is the overemphasis on jumps. Specifically the focus on Revolutions. This started in the mid 1970’s.
Interesting how various pieces of music in their program would be used by future stars like Babilonia and Gardner, Scott Hamilton, and Rudu Galindo.
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Wo they deserved to win gold
Here was very simple jumps 2T and 2S, not in combos. R&U did 2A, and 2T+euler+2S
bad extension on her part on the lifts, dont you think?
metsdudenj no, not all
The Americans but using the Russian music during the cold war. Because the Russian culture the best !
Because it was comparable to ballet, I think.
A stupid comment!!
Tchaikovsky has nothing to do with the Cold War. Take a course in history !