There is a video on you tube of Midori doing her final practice session before the 1992 albertville olympics LP. She does 8 double axels in a row. Surya Bonaly is in the video standing at the barrier watching Midori.
A technical controller’s best friend! All jumps need no review!!! They’re high and clean! Lovely!
@corgeousgeorge2 жыл бұрын
but they'd downgrade everything b/c of that leg wrap. So unfair. I liked leg wraps, they made jumps look bigger!
@Yurito1211 ай бұрын
@corgeousgeorge they accually slow down the skater alot and cause axis problems sometimes, obviously speed being lost didnt affect her since her jumps are hugee
@figskate9314 жыл бұрын
wooow..!!
@sherylejeffers94916 жыл бұрын
OH my goodness this girl is so so talented....adorable...!!!
@akirasekiguchi07142 жыл бұрын
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@EngineeringFun6 жыл бұрын
Amazing. Thanks for putting this up.
@victoriagill33374 жыл бұрын
Height, speed and rotation are amazing but the leg wrap ruins it for me 😞
@srishtibadaya47873 жыл бұрын
i don't know much about fs but i actually really liked the leg wraps, as compared to the tight crossed legs air position
@brianmccartney3262 Жыл бұрын
The legs wraps? Really? She's jumping inhumanly high and far and fast with unquestionable rotations... As opposed to....? These little pencil stick 14 yr old Russians that are doing these weird quads and triple axles that are 6 in off the ground and questionable from start to finish? Who last two years in competition. She competed from the early '80s up until 92 officially. But she was doing the triple axles in '93 and 94 and 96 even I believe.
@victoriagill3337 Жыл бұрын
@@brianmccartney3262 I never said I liked the style of the current quad jumpers who achieve no height or length with juddered landings and questionable take off and landing edges and both on the quarter, BUT leg wrap is technically a fault and in an aesthetic sport back at that time she would have been penalised for it. The feet are supposed to cross at the ankles
@brianmccartney3262 Жыл бұрын
@@victoriagill3337 are they really though? I really don't know about technical judging of artistic skating. I was a gymnast so there are actual technical diagrams and documents of how to execute acrobatic moves with textbook perfection. And if skating at that point in time or now has technical documentation that says this should be the body position then so be it. But the cross leg tighter position just speeds rotation. So the fact that she's wrapping a leg and still doing triple axels is quite astonishing. Which is probably why she jumps so hard and jumps so high and fast. Because she had to overcompensate for the fact that she wasn't rotating all that fast in the air. But she certainly got the job done that's for sure.
@brianmccartney3262 Жыл бұрын
@@victoriagill3337 I mean there's preference I guess. Do you like Tonya Harding or do you like Tara lipinski? Do you like mao asada or do you like midori ito? Those are two different ways of accomplishing the same goal I guess. One is thru sheer brute strength and power and speed, and the other is through precision technique that is maximizing the limited laws of physics that are at your disposal which are nowhere near operating at the same level of power and strength.