John Curry - 1972/73 British Figure Skating Championships FS
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2022
- Held in late 1972, John won the second of his five national titles here, defeating Glyn Jones and a very young Robin Cousins who at just 15, was making his senior national debut. John was pretty consistent in this 1972-73 season and the work he was doing with Alison Smith was paying dividends. He emulated this performance at Europeans (with just the double three out of the loop) before skating a clean long in Bratislava at the 1973 Worlds.
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Wonderful John!
Beautiful. Forever in our hearts. 🖤
Terrific! He was such a breath of fresh air in men's skating.
floskate, thank you for sharing John Curry's beautiful free skate. I really like his music choice especially for the slower middle section of his free skate. 🙂❤
This is excellent quality for a video from that early on, when videos weren't really available on the domestic market. Excellent camera work too. In the opening section I get the feeling John doesn't feel very confident, but when it gets to the slow section the real John Curry shines through. Love the costume - that wouldn't have looked out of place in a producution of Giselle or Les Sylphides
Wow, very impressive. Did you guys notice not one triple toe.
John only started to do triple toe towards the end of his amateur career, in fact 1976 may well have been the only year he did a triple toe in competition. Before that he always did triple salchow and triple loop. I think he preferred edge jumps to toe jumps and it was only after moving to America to have his jumps taken apart, dissected and rebuilt by Gus Lussi did he have a triple toe. It's not unusual for a skater to prefer edge jumps to toe jumps and vice-versa. I speak from my own personal experience in that I always preferred edge jumps to toe jumps - I loved loops, salchows and axels, was kind of ok with flip and lutz but for some reason I hated toe loops and didn't have a good double toe - just one of those things.