Signature moves skaters are known for
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Has any other skaters done the pearl since Caroline? I've seen skaters doing Yulia's I-Spins and Adelina's camel spin variations...
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I don't think I've ever seen anyone but Deniss doing this kind of twizzle with leg movement https://youtu.be/GWfIv2F6Y4Q?t=2m39s
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Cant remember anyone else doing this kind of variation of layback. It seemed so difficult and painful to me but it was absolutely stunning.
When Madison Hubbell skated with her brother, they had two signature moves...a hydroplane where his leg was in a shoot the duck position and their double cantolever each with one foot. With her strength for a female skater and his crazy flexibility, both of those moves were amazing!
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Didn't Elena Radionova perform that in the 2015 GPF? https://youtu.be/IOJNqXd0ACQ?t=3m14s
Her leg isn't lifted as high as Caroline's was, but the back arches in the same way.
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This thread started back in 2018, so I'm reviving to include skaters/ice dancers since then 
Which skaters today have a move that's so distinctive that fans immediately associate it with them?
And do you think any current signature moves have the staying power to be remembered 10 or 20 years from now?
Which skaters today have a move that's so distinctive that fans immediately associate it with them?
And do you think any current signature moves have the staying power to be remembered 10 or 20 years from now?
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Adam Siao Him Fa and his toe arabian
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They were really good at this - especially in Shows (yes, to me the hydroblades in competition were great, in Show they were fantastic, especially Victor's).
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When I was quite little, I saw Ina Bauer skating in a show, and do her eponymous move down the length of the rink with her long ponytail trailing on the ice. I tried to get my mother to let me grow my hair that long, convinced that was somehow the secret of her extreme backbend 
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I see that we've had the same "fights"... Later I found out this already old song and got another argument: "My mother told me Antoine go and have your hair cut, I told her, Mother, in 20 years if you want":When I was quite little, I saw Ina Bauer skating in a show, and do her eponymous move down the length of the rink with her long ponytail trailing on the ice. I tried to get my mother to let me grow my hair that long, convinced that was somehow the secret of her extreme backbend
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Is the question restricted to Competitive Skaters today? Mone Chiba's Spiral out of a Double Axel has been imitated (and I'm not sorry of it, if it's well integrated in a Choreography)... I see some Skaters with "signature moves" but they're not unique to them. I should very much like to know if there are!
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I see that we've had the same "fights"... Later I found out this already old song and got another argument: "My mother told me Antoine go and have your hair cut, I told her, Mother, in 20 years if you want":
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(Sorry for the off-topic.)
She gave me a different hairstyle each school year from pre-school to about Grade 3 (when a mother has had four boys and finally gets a daughter, it's like playing with a doll for her
). That year it was French braids and she said they took quite long enough already to do each morning at shoulder-length.Peggy Fleming made spread eagle-double Axel-spread eagle a signature move, although I don't think she invented it.
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I contributed to the older thread, so I won't repeat my (fairly obvious) contributions here.
But to answer the question about moves associated with skaters, I think it helps if it is non-jump move. Jumps come and go, but spins stay forever.
Also, it is difficult because so few moves are completely unique, (I can't think of any today) some are just so well done. I do think Jason will be remembered for his Russian splits ten years from now, whether or not others do them, or whether or not others do them better. Not the point. But what will we remember. (And we can associate more than one, Toller, cough, Toller.)
I however will remember the catchfoot camel.
But to answer the question about moves associated with skaters, I think it helps if it is non-jump move. Jumps come and go, but spins stay forever.
Also, it is difficult because so few moves are completely unique, (I can't think of any today) some are just so well done. I do think Jason will be remembered for his Russian splits ten years from now, whether or not others do them, or whether or not others do them better. Not the point. But what will we remember. (And we can associate more than one, Toller, cough, Toller.)
I however will remember the catchfoot camel.
