Examples of Trio skating?

[Mathman]

I came across this article from the USFSA site reporting on the recent National Showcase event in San Jose..

https://www.usfigureskating.org/news/article/new-and-returning-champions-impress-national-showcase

One of the categories in the competition is duets-trios. Can anyone post some examples of trios?

This competition featured my favorite local skater, Ashlyn Olson, winner with Ashlee Pantano in duets. Here is an article on the 2022 Showcase.

https://usfigureskatingfanzone.com/...onal-showcase-senior-parade-of-champions.aspx

 

[gkelly]

Here are a few examples at various skill levels:

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[BlissfulSynergy]

The most famous trio:

Johnny Weir, Melissa Gregory, Denis Petukhov skating their Fallen Angels trio program to Sarabande Suite by Globus. This was circa 2008, I believe.

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ETA:
Melissa and Denis are currently coaching the amazing new young ice dance team, Hana Aboian & Daniil Veselukhin.

 

[BlissfulSynergy]

@gkelly, I clicked on your examples to make sure I didn't post repeats. But it looks like you have posted repeats of the same performances?

At a Young Artists Showcase circa 2012 or 2013, Rockne Brubaker and his then new partner, Lindsay Davis, skated an experimental trio performance with a lesser known female skater whose name I can't recall. I also cannot locate the video of their performance on YouTube.

Meanwhile, here's a brief but cute SOI trio exhibition performed by well known champion skaters, Ryan Bradley, Tanith Belbin, and Charlie White:

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[BlissfulSynergy]

Not a trio performance, but an interesting same gender performance, filmed by OIP:

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Here's a young duet performance that was part of a National Showcase Duet/Trio competition or exhibition:

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And here's a trio performance that must have occurred during the COVID mask-wearing time period:

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[Mathman]

Thanks for the responses. That kind of skating is very entertaining to me. I wonder if there is any opportunty in this category to do something more in the directionn of this:

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[Diana Delafield]

I was sorry when Fours died out. It was an event at the Canadian championships at least until the late 1990s and was fun to do -- two pairs with some elements unique to fours, like the no-handed platter passover of one of the women from, usually, the shorter man in front to the taller man behind him. (I've done it the other way around and you really don't want to do that passover going downhill to a shorter partner!). Fours, at the national level, continued in Canada for quite a while because of David Dore's enthusiasm for it. He'd been a Canadian Senior Fours champion himself and had a soft spot for the event.

But I suppose if alternatives are being sought because of the dearth of male pairs skaters, that would certainly work against Fours being revived. You need two pairs who are at the same level of ability for it to work.

In acrobatic gymnastics they have trio events as well as duets, with any combination of genders, so I can see that working for skating as well.

 

[iluvtodd]

The most famous trio:

Johnny Weir, Melissa Gregory, Denis Petukhov skating their Fallen Angels trio program to Sarabande Suite by Globus. This was circa 2008, I believe.

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ETA:
Melissa and Denis are currently coaching the amazing new young ice dance team, Hana Aboian & Daniil Veselukhin.

We got to see that "Fallen Angels" program in person @ a springtime Marshalls Skating event in Reading, PA, circa 2004/2005 (?). It went over so well that I think the trio got to perform it during a Champions on Ice tour as well?

 

[sadya]

This is the first program that came in my mind, after reading the thread title:
John Curry Trio

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And then this program:
Toller Cranston - 1992 Canadian Stars on Ice

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[BlissfulSynergy]

We got to see that "Fallen Angels" program in person @ a springtime Marshalls Skating event in Reading, PA, circa 2004/2005 (?). It went over so well that I think the trio got to perform it during a Champions on Ice tour as well?

It could have been 2006 or 2007, but not 2004-05. The latter date seems too early. Johnny became close friends with Melissa & Denis later. And this trio Fallen Angels theme was a precursor, as I recall, to Johnny's free program with a similar theme. Johnny did his Fallen Angel fp in 2009-2010. I think this Marshall's event was most likely in 2007. I initially thought 2008 after Johnny won the bronze medal at Worlds. But it was more likely 2007...

It is incredible how hard it is to recall things now, such as dates and chronologies of events that I never thought I would ever forget. Time is passing so quickly these days.

 

[Mathman]

Toller Cranston - 1992 Canadian Stars on Ice

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The reason that I am intrigued by this type of performance is this: what can figure skaters do that no other athletes can offer? First, the main thing about skating is that at base it is a participatory, recreational and social activity. During the Golden Age of Skating (the first few decades of the twentieth century) children would get a new pair of skates for their burthday and couldn't wait to rush out to the local frozen pond.

OK, so now here is something that people do. Quite naturally some people can do it better than others and it turns into a competition and then into a spectator sport. So I ask myself, what is it about figure skating that would induce me to pay money to watch someone else doing it? For popular team sports like football, the answer is clear. Competition, Beating the other guys. Rooting for the home team or for my favorite player. Hating on the guys that beat us every year.

Other than than, I don't know, taking away the "I won, you lost" aspect, is it really all that interesting to watch spmeone swim fast or toss a heavy pole? (In June this fine lad set a world record by tossing 26 cabers in three minutes.)

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[Mathman]

I was sorry when Fours died out...

To me, fours has two advantages. First, there is a great abundance of specific pairs skills to work with. And second, as you detail, there are opportunities to adapt these skills into some sort of menage a quatre version -- like a double death spiral.

I wonder if trios offers any comparable natural and unique possibilities. (Don't do this: two male pairs skaters carrying a singles skater along in a basket carry.)

 

[BlissfulSynergy]

I think the wonderful thing about figure skating is its depth and variety of possibilities. Not to mention its rich, largely unplumbed and forgotten history, waiting to be rediscovered.

It is such a shame that the sport in its main eligible, traditional-based construction and organization is so hidebound tied to the ISU, in a choke hold at that.

 

[BlissfulSynergy]

This is the first program that came in my mind, after reading the thread title:
John Curry Trio

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And then this program:
Toller Cranston - 1992 Canadian Stars on Ice

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Wow! There are so many tour exhibition performances I missed seeing over the years! When I met Toller in-person at an event he commentated in 1993, and he wryly told me, "I still skate," this is what he meant!!

Viewing and keeping track of skating events was difficult back then.