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2013 Four Continents Gala Exhibition

Ilvskating

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Han Yan really needs to up his presentation, or understanding of music. Come on, it's la vie en rose, he didn't even crack a smile. Such beautiful program, great edge work and flow, just a pity his emotion/expression was not there. Nice body-line and body language though. Maybe he does not understand the lyric made a difference, but at least the rose should give him a clue at least:)
 

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Nice photo courtesy of Alex Shibutani with the caption: "Backstage at the exhibition. #4CC2013"

Great to see the mingling of smiling faces from different countries and different disciplines. :)

And courtesy of Misha Ge ‏@Sk8Prince, a wider backstage shot capturing an additional section of the much larger group casually posing together :cool::
 

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I loved the cool move that Zhang/Moore-Towers/Bartholomay/Moscovitch performed near the end of the gala in Osaka. :)

All four were interconnected into what I would call one death spiral (as opposed to side by side death spirals of separate pairs).

Does the move have an official name?
 

dorispulaski

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I'm not sure, but the move used to be done in a competitive discipline we no longer have called Fours.

So it might be a Fours Death Spiral.

It keeps showing up in Galas every few years.
 

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Thanks, Doris. :bow:
The Fours Death Spiral was enjoyable to watch, esp. because Zhang/Bartholomay have recently gotten my attention. :)
 

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Here's one such from the 1980 Olympics gala with Pestova & Leonovich and Cherkosova & Shakrai as the Fours. Dick Button (as a relative youngster) can be heard discussing fours, sixes & eights having been competed in the 1930's or so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prnnnpR6xCY

Thanks, Doris!
Am always amazed at and appreciative of the seemingly infinite number of links at your fingertips, the magnitude of which is surpassed only by your encyclopedic memory. :)

I thoroughly enjoyed your Olympic Fours video. :popcorn:

But ... I did not see an "intertwined" (my unofficial word) death spiral like the one performed by Zhang/Moore-Towers/Bartholomay/Moscovitch at the Four Continents gala a week ago.
That one starts at approx. 1:06:35 here:

(And BTW, thanks to Doris also for explaining way back when how to link to a YouTube video that is already cued up to a specific point. My first attempt to do so.)
 
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dorispulaski

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Herei's the fours vid you really want.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpfBn0KmaR8

It ends with the Fours Death Spiral.

The performers are Lyndon Johnston & Denise Benning and Christine Hough & Doug Ladret, both teams representing Canada at the 1988 World Championships.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpfBn0KmaR8

BTW

http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=40412&mode=P

Lyndon Johnston is one of the coaches of Zhang and Bartholomay, so I think I can guess where the kids learned the trick :)
 

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Doris, thanks for the great historical video of Johnston et al. performing the Fours Death Spiral.

And thanks for connecting the dots that Zhang/Bartholomay must have learned the move from him. :bow:

(Although I had posted a version of this comment before the server upgrade, yet another mind-boggling example of your expertise and research deserves a re-posting of my gratitude. ;))
 

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Herei's the fours vid you really want.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpfBn0KmaR8

It ends with the Fours Death Spiral.

The performers are Lyndon Johnston & Denise Benning and Christine Hough & Doug Ladret, both teams representing Canada at the 1988 World Championships.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpfBn0KmaR8

BTW

http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=40412&mode=P

Lyndon Johnston is one of the coaches of Zhang and Bartholomay, so I think I can guess where the kids learned the trick :)

A belated thank you for this, Doris! I had not seen it before.
 
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