Your top 5 skaters in skating skills
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A shout out to John Curry and Robin Cousins. You can't look that beautiful if you don't have superior skating skills.
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I agree. She has deep edges, she uses her knees and upper body very well, constantly changing directions and well executed one foot skating.
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Ladies:
Anastasia Gubanova 10 - (Yeah, I know, sorry... don't laugh at me, she is only 14, but I can't handle myself, she is pure perfection)
Carolina Kostner 10
Adelina Sotnikova 9.5
Maria Sotskova 8
Elena Radionova 8
What's your top five?
Excuse me.Maria Sotskova
You are humiliating yourself,Sotskova has bad SS obviously.
I don't know why you mention her at this list.
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That change of edge when she turns her body around and starts skating ''backwards'' (the last one in context of whole sequence) in that spiral in 2005 GPF Nutcracker FS still bewilders me! Extremely difficult but she made it look so easy & graceful, it really takes superb skating skills to pull it of that like Mao did when she was just 15.
https://youtu.be/k_Yy7V-q5jc?t=3m21s
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And that is how a slide spiral should be properly done! It is done by sliding across the ice, not a cheat 3 turn. And she did it with a difficult and beautiful position effortlessly. No rush, no forced, just smooth and light like a breeze. #bringbackSpiralSequence
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Oh my god.
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I did a video with my top 5 skaters when it comes to artistry, in no particular order (Machida, Lambiel, Takahashi, Hanyu, Chan in the order they appear)I hope you enjoy it
Thank you, Silvia451! Your video made my day!
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Thank you so much, I am glad you liked it.
Some skaters push this sport near art. And it's nice to see they do it differently, from Dai's sensual, passionate moves to Yuzu's delicate floating and Machida's "philosophical skating" :agree2:
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I did a video with my top 5 skaters when it comes to artistry, in no particular order (Machida, Lambiel, Takahashi, Hanyu, Chan in the order they appear)
nice video
funny to see 3 of the 5 guys almost dressed the same 
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Yuka Sato, yes, but Sasha Cohen? She has among the worst SS of all ladies that medalled at worlds in the current system, but not the only one. When I saw her live I had to move further away as I got so annoied at the skratchi noise of her blades. Not effertless att all! She had a lot of god qualities, really great abilities, but Skating Skills were not among them
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I did a video with my top 5 skaters when it comes to artistry, in no particular order (Machida, Lambiel, Takahashi, Hanyu, Chan in the order they appear)
I really liked this video edit. Good job!
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Chan
Hanyu
Brown
Uno
Chen
Gold
Asada
Kostner
Daleman
Medvedeva
I honestly find Chen's skating skills on every program he does without 5 quads to be fantastic. I think if we based judgement of him just on his current long he doesn't make a top five but looking at his other programs this year and over the past few years, the kid has skills.
Hanyu
Brown
Uno
Chen
Gold
Asada
Kostner
Daleman
Medvedeva
I honestly find Chen's skating skills on every program he does without 5 quads to be fantastic. I think if we based judgement of him just on his current long he doesn't make a top five but looking at his other programs this year and over the past few years, the kid has skills.
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