Midori Ito Triple Axel & Combination Jump

Midori Ito Triple Axel & Combination Jump
※3:55の濃いピンクの練習着の映像は着氷時の動作から3A-2Tを跳んだものと思われますが、元の映像が3Aを跳んだところで切れているのであえて3Aのところに入れました。

[@manuocki]

彼女が女子フィギアスケートでおそらく初めてメダルが狙える選手という立場で注目されたゆえに、彼女が素人目に軽々とトリプルアクスルを成功させるのを見て当時の日本人目線だとトリプルアクセルは割と普通のジャンプだと認識させてしまったことは不幸だったと思う。 当時より栄養学やトレーニング論や機材が発展しても3Aを競技レベルで成功させる選手はほとんどいないし、彼女よりもレベルの高い3Aをメイクできる選手はいない。 本当にレジェンド。 たぶん。

[@株式会社伸栄]

manuocki 多分ではなく絶対^ ^

[@gulnaraahkoy7257]

The text book 3A,she is a LEGEND!

[@skatefan9495]

In a sport that usually progresses technically, it has been over 20 years since Midori Ito did her triple axels. No one else has come close in consistency or rotation. And the height she gets on those jumps seems super-human. She didn't need a bunch of gold medals to become a legend.

[@kissessaywhat]

@@analluver I definitely agree with that.

[@AmusedChild]

You are absolutely right!

[@佳代子-x5o]

伊藤さんのトリプルアクセルは文句なし!! それにあの高さ!今だに、あの高さを越える人は 男子でも見たことがない。

[@magyomagyo]

まわりスギィ！ 女子で演技後半に3A成功は未だに伊藤みどりだけ！

[@yb3542]

she never got a down grade,, most exellent 3A in women history

[@kourobou]

真央ちゃんが憧れてやまず、強みににも悩みにもなったトリプルアクセル。すべてはみどりさんから始まったんですね。平昌後、ルール改正がどうなるのか分かりませんが、トリプルアクセルが女子選手たちの励みになって欲しいですね。しかしやはりみどりさんのジャンプは人外の凄さ。トーニャやみどりさんみたいにダイナミックなジャンプがまた見たいです。

[@JYoder]

I love Midori!!! I wish the compulsory figures were thrown out much earlier during her skating career. Should would have had so many more world and Olympic medals. She is so special! There will never be anyone like her.

[@ruslanmg]

She NEVER gets under-rotated!!

[@jondavwal13]

People don't understand that there is true artistry in her jumping. How the knee reacts to the landings, the height, the speed, or lack thereof, of rotation. This is all art. You just have to compare it to Harding to see someone whose jumps are just jumps. Yes, she was fast, jumped high, but she was all over the place in the air and landed with a thud almost every time. I think Ito was by far the greatest figure skater (not just female) of all time. I can't think of any other skater who could land a double axel and go right into a spin off of the other foot. Pure genius.

[@theninjacat7200]

Midori Ito was cuter than a button but she did not have the complete skater's body. Her legs were solid (as the years went on, she started to look like a linebacker - not slender. She did power jumps with accuracy - more accurate than Tonya Harding - but neither skater brought full artistry to competitions.

[@jondavwal13]

I would just say again that you have a very limited view of what artistry is in skating. It's like the talk about Carolina Kostner and her amazing artistry. She skates like a skinny hippo but she flails are arms a lot. And the Russians are too skinny and have absolutely no athleticism in their skating. We are supposed to care that they put their hands up in the air when they jump. It's just a gimmick. It's not art. To me they are incomplete. Midori's athletic ability and reckless abandon was breathtaking. That was her artistry and her genius.

[@lsrasr158]

I read that when Christopher Dean was doing the commentary for australian tv during the 1988 Calgary Olympics he said of Midori's LP that her artistry was the skating itself. In the same commentary, Dean predicted that Midori would be the 1st woman to land a triple axel in competition. Regarding artistry, I read that artistry during Midori's time was meant to be arm movements and musical interpretation. When it was later changed to presentation. it was meant to be ice coverage, speed and general skating quality. Back in her day, Midori would have strong presentation marks.

[@alexsdb9712]

The huge error by the skating people, including the media, was going focusing solely on her jumps, which was expected. However, they then labelled her as an athletic skater. That was false. Ito was the complete package. The huge jumps were there, but there was always strong interpretation to the music, everything well thought of, even to all of her choices in music selection which was always great classical pieces. She had a lot of transitions, not just moving from jump to jump, and Ito had lots of edgework reflecting the figures she was trained in. Her interpretative moves on the ice were also not cliché or the typical, and this goes for her placements and directions on the ice. Ito was clearly very musical and a sensitive figure skater who simply loved her sport, and it showed.

[@no-hl4sv]

Thanks for saying that!! As a huge fan of Midori, I have been annoyed by people saying she is a strong jumper/an athletic skater but lack of artistry. All of her jumps match the music, and transitions between the elements are all exquisite. Her skating is an art, including her jumping technique.

[@bambi3501]

高さと幅がえげつない。 現役の伊藤みどりが今のスケート靴履いて今の時代に現役だったら4アクセル余裕でとんでそう。

[@Manzawa-ChinChinta]

最近りかちゃんやロシアのジュニアが大技を取り組んでるのでまたこの動画に帰ってきたけど、いつ見ても規格外すぎる。

[@수댕구-j7o]

She still can double axel with a perfect quality

[@Google-U]

She succeeded 2A in 2018 Adult Figure Skating competition(warm up) kzbin.info/www/bejne/jF69l6lnptOcfrc Trying 2A and 2A-2T in 2019 (but failed) 2020 she is 51 years old. she is legend!

[@久子藤林]

スピード、高さ、華麗に舞った素晴らしいジャンプ。スピードを利用して高さ流れがあるトリプルアクセルは今後女子では難しいでしょう‼ 今は、女子でトリプルアクセルを飛ぶ時代が来ているけど伊藤みどりの様なジャンプは出て来ない。アルベールの金メダルになれなかったのが、残念です‼

[@summer19622]

the height is amazing.

[@hirosushi]

みどりさんの３Aは、本当に素敵です。 何度見ても最高ですね。 真央ちゃんがいなくなったら、誰が飛んでくれるんでしょう？ 寂しい女子フィギア界ですね。

[@さとちゃんさとちゃん-q6s]

+hiroyuki okahashi 浅田さんの回転不足なんちゃって3Aとは次元が違いますよw 3ルッツもまともに飛べない浅田さんとみどりさんを比べる事自体が失礼w

[@bird-xf6qy]

紀平

[@tenshin-okakura]

It has been 29 years since Midori Ito retired. No more jumpers than her have appeared yet. Moreover, at the time skate shoes were much heavier than they are today. In sports competitions, are there any other athletes whose records haven't been broken for 29 years?

[@rop888]

Her 3A is insane and she had a leg wrap too. I bet she could have done a 4A eventually.

[@npe1]

Simply the best lady free skater in the history of our sport.

[@RrkmMr]

どれも凄まじいけど2:10頃のやつが特に高さと幅がすごく見える ジャッジ席からの角度かな？その辺も計算してジャンプの位置とか決めてるのかな？ 他の女子選手もトリプルアクセル跳ぶ人は跳ぶけど伊藤みどりさんが凄まじすぎて霞んで見える。。 ほんとに圧倒的なスピード、高さ、幅だわ 今の時代ならジャンプに+3ばっかついてとんでもない点数叩き出しそう

[@まーぶる-m6x]

ちゃんと回り切ってから降りてきてるすごい、、、 回転不足なんて言葉まったく無縁なジャンプ。 当時は靴がかなり重かったらしいので、今のスケート靴なら軽々四回転も跳べていただろうなぁ、、！

[@guieal]

With that high? She can do a QUAD DAMN

[@ぽぽぽ-e2j]

練習中とはいえ、20年前に3A+3T跳ぶオモシレー女

[@robertaglass]

Thanks for posting this! AMAZING!!!! Those jumps! The height! Ito was out of this world.

[@frozenicestar7293]

*I swear she has some sort of rocket technology on her skates*

[@CrownRiptideGD]

She is the best!!

[@Tfontaine209]

her jumps were magnificent

[@ベーコン-j7l]

GOE +10

[@Daphnis_et_Chloe]

滞空時間がほんとに長い！

[@ziarziar725]

true 3a woman's champion

[@biterpro7567]

別の競技みたい。氷の上で体操の床運動をやってる様な。

[@yutera7265]

アングルのせいなのかもしれないけど0:25～の3Aはとてつもない高さ。確か84年のNHK杯のEXでの成功だったと思います。当時15歳（中3）。この後、骨折してしまい脚への負担を考えて封印、再び彼女の３Aを目にするのは4年後になるのですが、怪我さえがなければもっと早く国際試合で成功していたでしょう。タラレバですが。本当に彼女は不世出の超天才フリースケーターだったと改めて思います。

[@kev7978]

It's been more than 20 years and not even Yuna Kim can come close to her technically.

[@2008avf]

Only for the 3A and her height? (wich is outstanding I agree, thats what I like about her) I'm sorry but yuna was also a textbook consistent jumper and great on the technical too. Both have qualities but for me yuna is better.

[@christiana1137]

+kev7978 Ito was a great jumper but Yuna has a lot more artistry. Midori was a chearleader on ice, the only thing that was great about her was the jumps... And Ice Skating isn"t only about the jumps ;)

[@kev7978]

+Christiana Popovici I didn't say Ito is better than Kim artistically. I said "technically".

[@kev7978]

+Ara Flores I don't disagree that Kim is a better overall skater, but I'm talking about merely technical aspects of skating, which Ito is obviously heaps better at.

[@2008avf]

+kev7978 I really don't understand why do you said that since yuna was known as a texbook jumper with a great quality in her jumps, maybe she was not flexible like cohen but in jumps she was very consistent. I admire midori dont get me wrong, that height she takes is sick! but I dont see why she was better on the thecnical aspect than yuna, well everybody has their own tastes after all :)

[@iomoon3608]

I just feel sad she didn't have proper training in figures. Lol at the comment at her not pulling in enough... I wonder what would have happened if she fixed that?

[@АнонимЧик-ш5э]

На 3,5 Мидори можно смотреть вечно.

[@lamcy1731]

It looks like she's jumping twice the height of her own height

[@jawillett1]

some of the jumps she landed weird but at least she landed it!

[@MANMARTRE]

You didn't include the Tanya Harding Triple axel into a left hook, bar brawl with a jug of bootleg trailer trash label mash whisky in the right hand...

[@2008avf]

With a little more speed in rotations and that height she could have landed a quat! :D

[@mackintoshmuggleton1639]

Ang taas!!!

[@chrslao]

Evgenia’s axel left the chat

[@vintagebleachedblonde4322]

She had it Harding just got lucky

[@erqw8457]

타카이

[@차영서-u2w]

진짜 잘뛴딘 나도 저러면 좋을뜻

[@Nova1-]

Comparing Ito's 3a to that of Asada's, Asada's 3A is a joke.

[@theninjacat7200]

It depends on what you're looking for...Midori was cuter than a button and a prototype 3A skater as far as technique. Her execution of the skate was not flawless. It always appeared wobbly. Asada is graceful in her skating while Nagasu is the most elegant of all three ladies. Nagasu is the next evolation - she has speed, the power jump and artistry when landing.

[@mkoh8778]

Mao squeaked her way out of her most of 3A's, barely getting through her final rotations. The only reason why we're talking about Mao is because she was the only person attempting 3A's regularly at the time, which by default, makes her special. And Nagasu doesn't come nowhere close to the consistency of Midori with this jump.

[@hantingchen5497]

both legends of japan, of the sport, and of the jump. Where Ito surpassed in height, Mao surpassed in speed and aesthetics. Some of Mao's were questionable but many were not, takes nothing away from their incredible achievements :)

[@cherrykotori]

@@hantingchen5497 Mao never surpassed Ito in speed

[@11Huy]

the height of her jump is just sick. look at that.

[@kh3205]

According to her coach, Midori was able to jump from the Day 1. In Japan, some researchers examined her. Midori had three physical advantages: Her extremely short height (she is around 4'09"), the strength of her back (much stronger than an average man) and the proportion of fast and slow twitch muscle fibers (9:1). The last one seemed shocking to the researchers as even Carl Lewis was like 8:2, which was already extremely unusual.

[@Google-U]

She is a special player who flew 3A until 31 years old!

[@paulsumiso2248]

最近の選手達はギリギリまでフリーレッグを軸足に巻き付けて回転速度を稼ごうとするあまり、着氷の瞬間に軸足の膝に押し出されるようにフリーレッグが後から放たれる印象だけど、みどりさんは着氷寸前でしっかりフリーレッグを解いている。高さに余裕が無いとこうはいかない。

[@olenakhomenko4386]

She could have jumped a quad axel she had so much height.

[@tomokoogawa351]

彼女のトリプルアクセルはスピードもあり、何より高さもあり、いまだ、彼女のようにきれいで完璧なトリプルアクセルを飛べる女子はいないと思います！

[@いとうひろえ-k1x]

以下同文

[@akirasekiguchi0714]

男子もいません

[@no-hl4sv]

Not only female skaters, but male skaters, no one on the earth can match her 3A. She had gorgeous 3Lz and 3F, too. Probably what she didn’t do was the second 3Lo combinations only. If she was in today’s competition, she would be the first person landing clean 4A. ☺️

[@coreyadkins8775]

@@no-hl4sv I believe she could too 4A but to me they aren't pretty at all - even clean.

[@supersassa1806]

伊藤みどりの3Aって何故か立体的に見えるだよなー

[@castor22pollux]

The best female ice-skater EVER! Best 3A EVER!!!

[@月明かりが綺麗でして]

圧巻！！！！ の一言に尽きる

[@tappudansuyanagi]

伊藤みどりが練習で成功させてから 紀平梨花が試合で成功させるまで 25年程の歳月がかかりました。

[@zeel5689]

And her landing it at the olympics... the expression on her face and the crowds reaction.... just historic.

[@lesliebarry-dawson4123]

What a gift to be able to see these today. Her jumps are as wonderful as her delight that she has landed it to her liking! Her joy shines through.

[@Kevinsf]

There will never be another female skater with this kind of jumping ability.

[@opinionchannel4912]

Kevin Nguyen tonya

[@catloran3860]

Tanya only did triple axel once in a competition but Ito did it dozens of time.

[@opinionchannel4912]

cat loran but the tonya one looks better than hers its more powerfull and smooth i dont care if she did it a dozen of times hers still not better than tonya

[@catloran3860]

Janay you probably have zero knowledge about skating. go look at Tanya's axel and see the landing almost was a miss and flat while midori land almost always on the outside edge which is most technically sound. there is no way in hell that Tanya's axel comes to the near quality of midori's even though I am a fan of Tanya.

[@opinionchannel4912]

cat loran wow idc both of them is good tonya axel was good also

[@akaidensya2000]

滞空時間と高さがおかしい。 男子選手並かそれ以上。 右足を振り上げるタイミングなのか 腕を締める強さなのか 助走のスピードなのか………

[@いとうひろえ-k1x]

この高さと幅と流れが凄い。しかも、当時の重いスケート靴で、完璧に回りきってからのランディング。 正直、今の時代でも、この伊藤みどりさんレベルのjump翔べる人はいないはず。

[@jojoreta]

I don't know all the figure skating terms but I do know this is one of the hardest jumps to perform and this girl blew my mind. She definitely has some insane power!!

[@彩山-y7c]

みどりさんが引退してから余りスケート見なくなった。

[@きらめく流れ星]

何と勇気ある　チャレンジャーとも言えるジャンパー　何なくこなしてしまう天才スケーター伊藤みどり🎉❤

[@Curtis45100]

Yup, Like Scott Hamilton says, 25 years later and nobody can come close to making this jump seem as effortless as Midori does. The height she gets in all of her jumps are amazing to watch. I don't know how she ever missed the 3axel in competitions? I guess she's human....Lol...She is for sure a natural born talent. Ito is a legend that has left a very high bar to reach. In my opinion, it hasn't happened yet and probably never will.

[@Isteveh]

i know nothing about skating at all, but damn she can jump high.

[@株式会社伸栄]

今のフィギュアスケートが お遊戯にしか見えん

[@lsrasr158]

Watch Midori's 1990 Halifax Worlds LP Canadian version. She does an incredible triple axel. Listen to Toller Cranston, the 1976 bronze medalist, commentary on her throughout her skate. "There is simply nobody like her, she is simply beyond 6.0, nobody is in this league". She was truly an extraordinary talent.

[@akiesasaki3879]

ジャンプ高過ぎぃ！ 男子より飛んでるわ👀

[@TaikogeMan]

The legend of figure skating!!!

[@lb4585]

so yall telling me she DOESNT have 3 gold medals?????? the olympics did her wrong

[@ginabataille1796]

Her jump is so high, it's unreal.

[@sakurasoh]

Look at that height!!

[@EscargoTouChaud]

Thank you for this! I was gawking my way through it. Absolutely stunning. Now I feel like a loser.

[@andremichaels3804]

Pick out the flaws in her game all you want. That triple axle transcends figure skating. It's a work of art, majestic, buried in a time capsule awaiting applause and envy for generations to come.

[@bnao430]

さすが、高さがすごいよね。＼(^o^)／

[@alexsdb9712]

4:08 During the warm-up, Ito executes one of her flawless and powerful triple axels right in front of Yamaguchi. And Yamaguchi had to wait and watch that!

[@나르시카]

Wow...awesome

[@anthonymugg7948]

she has one of the best triple axels

[@opinionchannel4912]

Anthony Mugg no tonya

[@sambitachoudhury5905]

Ito legit has the best triple axel!

[@zeel5689]

Her technique is incredible. She and Tonya Harding were the only ladies of their time who could jump the way they did, so much power. Now the technique has changed, the focus is leas on height but more on rotational speed and axis stability in the air. Ito and Harding did an interesting kick out to the side and pulled into the axis, rather than up and through with the knee... gave the jumps so much height! So amazing to watch.

[@pueraeternus111]

Pretty incredible when you consider the fact that she was only 4'7" in height.

[@christiannainer4526]

I'm pretty sure that helped her be so good at the triple axel

[@nettask81]

haha its like she OVER rotates.... if she actualy pulled in she could probably do a quad axel :D

[@test-ru3cw]

3:05 他の選手達がゆるーっとしているところにいきなり爆速で入ってくるのでびっくり。あの助走スピードあってこそのあの高さなんだろう。

[@yutera7265]

在来線とN系新幹線くらいの差？いやプロペラ機とジェット機の差？とにかく次元が違う滑り…伊藤さんは、小学校低学年のころ、中高生のスピードスケートの選手と競争していたそうです。もちろんフィギュアの靴＋バックスケートでw

[@johnmarek4208]

Nobody can ever outdue her

[@xilomp3]

easily the best triple axel of all time by any woman. the height, the power, the speed coming out of it, her position in the air, and not to mention her consistency with it, is just unparalleled.

[@it_so_good]

저 높이.. 정말 사람이 뛴게 맞아...? 엄청나네....

[@badata69]

timing is VERY important....Kristy Yamaguchi is not "powerful" so to speak but her timing is impecable....you need to have the rotation also....(know when and how hard to "pull in").......I'm sure that Midori would have an easier time of it if she didn't "wrap" her leg.....she could probably do a quint!!! LOL she is awesome!!! Yuka also had this talent of knowing when to "pull in"...

[@kenmoreSF]

Love how she just air-borned into each jump. Incredible

[@mlc2005]

Fabulous fabulous! The legendary Ito!!!

[@jondavwal13]

Midori Ito was the greatest technician in the history of the sport. Her jumping ability is unrivaled. The only reason she didn't perform quads was because she didn't try. They would easily have come to her. It's a shame she didn't win Olympic gold but she didn't perform in 1992 and Kristi walked through the door. Nobody handed it to her. A lot is made of the comparison to Kim, but Kim is a huge bore albeit more graceful than Ito. When you watch Ito skate you sit at the edge of your seat. I get up to get take a leak when Kim skates. Yamaguchi's Malaguena was far superior to Kim artistically as was everything else she did. It's a shame the two greatest of the era had to skate at the same time.

[@DeepSeas..]

Jonathan Wallach Yuna Kim is the greatest.

[@jondavwal13]

No, not even top ten.

[@kev7978]

She did attempt quad, but she broke her ankle. Twice. That's why she stopped trying it. Given the height she could reach I think she would've gotten the rotations but the landing might had been too powerful for her ankle to sustain.

[@jondavwal13]

I think she stopped trying relatively early in her career. I suspect with more mature bones she would have managed. She didn't need it at the time. However, if she did I think she would have outskated anybody for 50 years. A quad lutz wouldn't have been out of the question for her based on the size of her triple.

[@kev7978]

Agreed. She's still technically unparalleled in women's skating. Her athleticism is what catalysed the technicality in women's skating. Without her the women today wouldn't be doing triple-triples or landing 7 triples, let alone attempting a triple axel. And putting any female skater, even Yuna Kim, next to her is plain absurd.

[@lingsy81]

Her triple axel is much more solid and well executed than mao's.

[@alicegreit7284]

Какое эстетическое удовольствие от 3А в исполнении Мидори!

[@조현태-e3q]

Awe-inspiring

[@misamarie891]

An awesome montage! Thanks!

[@18kurama]

Queen of 3-Axel! ❤️💚💙

[@Saucyakld]

Wow, amazing!

[@cyrra8865]

Her and Tonya (and maybe Elizaveta) are the only women whose triple axels you don't have to question. I won't be impressed by any other women's triple axel unless they are of the same quality as Midori or Tonya.

[@slater4cc]

One of the finest triple axels!

[@Google-U]

She should have successfully practiced 3A-3Lo. But no video found :-C

[@blueviolin1]

이토미도리 너무 좋아~^^

[@AmusedChild]

I love her to pieces. I've adored her since I laid eyes on her. One of the greatest figure skaters ever.

[@michaelshelley1289]

i bet if she wouldn't have wrapped her leg like she does she would have been able to do quads easily also....she is awesome!

[@lttttttt]

Can you explain what's the meaning of "wrapped leg"?