AMAZING moves people should know about

[Charlotte 71]

I'll just leave this and thishere. The amazingly (crazy) one and only, Ryan Bradley.


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I'll see your Ryan Bradley 3t-euler-back flip-3t and raise you a Brian Orser back flip-3t at 2:33:

Brian Orser - Against All Odds

Brian Orser skating to "Against All Odds" at the Hershey Figure Skating Challenge in 2000.

youtu.be

 

[Charlotte 71]

I've got to say, this Midori 2x entrance never goes away for me...

Midori Ito 1988 Olympics SP (UKTV)

. Midori Ito 1988 88 Calgary Olympic SP short program UK British English figure skating skate

youtu.be

 

[ice coverage]

Andrew Torgashev's flying "whatever" jump in his Bloodstream SP ...

Tomoki’s flash split jump

... I've never heard of anyone but you call it "The Flying Torg", so I'm guessing that's not it, nor do I see it ever catching on. ...

Thanks to snowflake for bringing the awesome Tomoki into the thread.
It is unfortunate that Tomoki's SP from the 2020 Colorado Springs Invitational livestream on Sep 11 was not saved anywhere (AFAIK). IMO, on that day, both his Russian split and his "Flying Whoever/Whatever" were second to absolutely none (whether examples from anyone else or from Tomoki's own spectacular executions of these jumps in the past).

I think Andrew is great, and I think his "Flying Whoever/Whatever" is/was great (this season he is making a change, IIRC?), but even among last season's skaters, that type of jump did not originate solely from him. As a sample of one , I will continue to steer clear of using "Flying Torg" as a reference to that type of jump.

 

[Imagine]

Sasha Cohen's split jump into an arabesque spiral

 

[Ic3Rabbit]

I'll see your Ryan Bradley 3t-euler-back flip-3t and raise you a Brian Orser back flip-3t at 2:33:

Brian Orser - Against All Odds

Brian Orser skating to "Against All Odds" at the Hershey Figure Skating Challenge in 2000.

youtu.be

But that's not really "raising" anything. Esp since one of the links I posted he was landing his backflip on one foot. Also, since often Bradley is jumping opposite to his usual direction.

 

[Skatesocs]

THIS layback by Akari Matsuoka: https://youtu.be/OPVs9PTqzsc?t=165