Throwback Tuesday: A time when your favorite skaters were cuter ... | Golden Skate

Throwback Tuesday: A time when your favorite skaters were cuter ...

aftertherain

Record Breaker
Joined
Jan 15, 2010
Michelle Kwan (1992) - And here I thought Concerto in F was Yuna's music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42l8lZ7m9qY

Jenny Kirk (1998) - Once upon a time, before "Chicago" ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcGFpcAQSkY

Davis/White (1999) - 6.0s for cuteness!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPO7FjnohJk

The Canadian Team, including Patrick Chan, Kevin Reynolds, and Virtue/Moir (2001) - More 6.0s for cuteness! AHHHHHHH!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy38EleBZ2s

Daisuke Takahashi (2001) - This fifteen year-old was already testing his powers of enchantment over a relatively empty arena. Little did he know that he would be skating to a sold-out crowd of screaming Daisha Fierce fans in a little less than a decade ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-lbt1Cwl3U

The Sisterhood of Mao Asada and Kanako Murakami (2001, aired 2010) - THEY ARE SO CUUUUUTE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl4o60yNwBQ&t=01m02s

Yuna Kim (2002) - Innate musicality, this one. And that pesky loop jump!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVpl2eo7CCg

Patrick Chan with his esteemed elders (2002) - That's right, little Patrick. Listen to Brian Orser ... and then you say "thank you" and laugh adorably.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tPJiIUVtSs

Mao Asada (2003) - Even from a young age, Mao Asada was ambitious, as shown by this 3-jump combination. Also features Mao serving her classmates Japanese curry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWJ9brFg4FU

Mirai Nagasu, Caroline Zhang (2008) - It's called the pearl spin, not the oyster spin ... because oysters are gross.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MObZCjKHFaY

**Bonus: Team Japan goofiness (pre-2012) :rofl: - Yeah, you wish you had friends like these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g049so2s718
 
Joined
Jun 21, 2003
I can't believe Danis and White's unison and attention to choreographic detail at the that age!
 

Cherryy

On the Ice
Joined
Aug 27, 2012
This competition is definitely won by Davis and White. Meryl had such a good posture! :love:
 

dorispulaski

Wicked Yankee Girl
Joined
Jul 26, 2003
Country
United-States
:love: way too cute, all of them! Amazing to recall that Meryl & Charlie and Tessa & Scott competed under 6.0 :eek:
 
Joined
Aug 16, 2009
Okay, I can't choose a favorite. What a wonderful clutch of videos. Our two ice dance teams were stunning at an early age. Meryl looked as if she was nine years old, tops--and Thumbelina would be taller! I love the solidarity of the Japanese team. And oh, my gracious, Michelle as a pipsqueak of eleven or so. Look how smoothly she skated even then.
 

aftertherain

Record Breaker
Joined
Jan 15, 2010
Okay, so they weren't so young back then, but still pretty awesome to see that there are raw practice videos of them out there:

Elvis Stojko, Kurt Browning and Brian Orser practice at the TCS&CC (1996)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39pzKImD7hg

Side note: I find that muting the music of ^ that video and playing some song that you like makes it more tolerable (unless you don't mind it, of course).

THEY ALL HAD THE SAME HAIR.
 

gourry

Final Flight
Joined
Nov 7, 2007
Yuna Kim (2002) - Innate musicality, this one. And that pesky loop jump!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVpl2eo7CCg

I think this link works better. :) Same program 5 months later. You can watch the whole performance instead of parts, and this was clean.

Yuna Kim (2003)
http://youtu.be/Q_LtIICJI50

I think 2003 is the oldest footage of Yuna we can find on Youtube. I really wish there are more videos of her we can access.

And thanks for this thread! They are all sooooo adorable. :)
 

Kuan

Final Flight
Joined
Jun 27, 2012
I think this link works better. :) Same program 5 months later. You can watch the whole performance instead of parts, and this was clean.

Yuna Kim (2003)
http://youtu.be/Q_LtIICJI50

I think 2003 is the oldest footage of Yuna we can find on Youtube. I really wish there are more videos of her we can access.

And thanks for this thread! They are all sooooo adorable. :)

This is even older, but unfortunately just some short recordings. Not a whole programm. :-(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l33Ia8pUVgU
 
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