This was when this sport was the sport. And skating was skating. And the Spiral meant everything. We were young, and we were improvin. MK is the Bomb. The G.O.A.T.
i think the thing that i love most about this program is how she uses the music, she really listens to the nuances and the intricacies and it shows in her choreography.
2003 is my favorite of her World Championships--she was so solid and clearly dominant the entire year while everyone was screaming retirement. Way to go Michelle!
Your so right! standing ovation is for people who give heart to what they are doing.. like this program of michelle! she gives all her emotions in her skating.. no one can give such heart to skating as michelle.. she's Wonderfull!
I had stopped watching figure skating since Michelle hasn't been on tv. I cant wait for her return! Even today's jumping and axels, no one skates as finesse as Michelle. She makes her audience focus, feel and cry. The only ones that cry in figure skating today are the skaters themselves, not the audience. These skaters suck! I so miss Michelle Kwan. Pls come back!
@@jblackinc Amen to that. we will never see another MK, not in this lifetime anyway. At least we were lucky to witness all the magical moments she provide for us in this lifetime.
More than 20 years now, missing her like crazy. She is truly a once in a lifetime, lightning in a bottle skater that we were lucky enough to have witnessed.
@starwarshalo123 Remember, when she began doing that spiral, she was one of very few skaters to do a spiral on an inside edge, let alone switch seamlessly to an outside edge while holding the leg in the same stretched position with the foot turned out. Later every skater began doing the inside-out spiral, and none of them IMO were nearly as elegant as Kwan's. She made a very difficult spiral look easy. Then of course there's the aspect of consistently performing 6 and 7 triple programs...
my jaw literally dropped. its not just about her artistic-ness or her capability of completing evrything, its her ability of making it all look completely effortless! im speechless
This short program gives me the chills...usually we see Michelle very light and graceful, but this time (she's still very graceful) she's more heavy on the intensity, which is why it makes this program so chilling because we're not used to that fire that seemed to burn in her eyes.
such power and poise, She will always be remembered for great artistry and technique. I hope she will give great inspiration to future american skaters like Caroline, Mirai, And Ashley.
What I really like about this is how she improved her spins. She held the camel on the combination spin for more rotations and spun must faster than she did earlier in her career.
Michelle Kwan's a natural born athlete! Her parents were just doing what comes naturally for their daughter Michelle! They did the right thing in letting her take her passion take flight with figure skating.
i am sure most of us agree that we miss michelle kwan badly, but I think michelle would be proud that she has greatly inspired a new generation of skaters like yu na kim (age 17), who have a lot of potential and time to mature.
I love Michelle Kwan . . . hahah . . . but one of my favorite things that she always did was the footwork in her skating . . . extremely difficult to do . . . she always had a flow and fire in that part of her skating
bestfiction: Thanks for the update! Im so happy Kwan will be performing. I just haven't been able to get into skating since 2005. Maybe it's the judging system, but I think more than anything it's that Kwan is no longer competing. I watched skating for the excitement AND for the emotional impact, and I think we can all agree that Kwan had the whole emotional impact down to a T. She raised the bar so damn high that everything else dissapoints.
I agree with you to some degree, but Yuna presents her performances very good as well. She's one of the few top skaters today that gets into a character role very well and expresses it with artistry and elegance, along with her very technical jumps which is why she gets such high praises from Michelle herself and many other famous figure skaters, let alone the judges. But yeah, there are too many skaters nowadays who look too concerned and focused on their jumps rather than there presentation.
Shut up. People dont give standing ovations just because someone's pretty. They give michelle standing ovations because she has passion and courage and an amazing ability to connect with the audience during her performances.
I feel like no one had good fashion sense on the ice before Michelle Kwan. Michelle always had such beautiful style.... she changed figure skating in a sense.
I do agree that certain skaters skate faster than Kwan, but that doesn't mean anything really. Carolina Kostner, for example, skates very fast, but she falls half the time. I don't see why people are arguing about speed. Kwan doesn't skate slowly, and she's certainly the most consistent skater of the last several decades. She's got the whole package. I love people who try and point out a "flaw" in Kwan's skating, as if that changes her record or accomplishments.
I'm skating to this music... but I don't think I can be this good but I love the music... I'll keep skating to this music.. can't wait for Adult Nationals in 2008
allenglandlawns: You just can't make a valid argument for Kwan, can you? She was NOT held up if you actually look at the facts. As others have said: When she made mistakes in the short, she was never placed first at either Nationals or Worlds. She won her 9 Nationals and 5 Worlds b/c she had to skate perfectly in the free to win them, which she did. Even "getreal" acknowledges that Kwan deserved 2000 and 2001 worlds titles, but you can't. Your blinders are unreal.
the statement made absolutely no mention that she was retiring. She's not going for the 2010 olympics that's all. Sure she might be moving onto the next phase in her life, sure she's going to graduate school, but seriously, it's Michelle Kwan we're talking about. I wouldn't be surprised if she fired off for the 2014 olympics. Whatever she does, we LOVE her and would root her on like crazy!!!
Oh I totally agree... I think Kwan is the greatest skater of all time. Don't get me wrong. I was just commenting that she might have tried 3/3 combos aside from her toe toe. That would have kept her up with some of the younger ones. But seriously, she's awesome
@BunniechanG You're right. The commentators from the network said the same thing. You can see, though, how she had to rush just to get everything in. I'm impressed that any skaters can hold each position for 3 seconds and still get all the moves in. When you think about it, it makes sense. They've added more rotations to spins, more intricate footwork, longer spirals -- but the same two minutes, forty seconds to get it all in.
you are going backwards, but what makes a lutz is the take off. Back outside edge before picking into the ice for the jump. A lot of skaters swirch to an inside edge, hence the flutz.
@allenglandlawns: If falling and failing are things that "delight" you (which is sad frankly) I can see why you dislike Kwan and love Cohen: Kwan almost never fell, and Cohen almost always did. Honey, have you taken my advice and sought professional help yet?
@purpleblumoon: I always wondered what 2002 SLC would have looked like had Kwan thrown in, say, a triple flip-triple toe at the end of the program. Kwan is the greatest ever to me, but a small part of me wishes that she had gone for it after making a mistake. Of course, on the other hand, Kwan almost never made mistakes, so I guess there aren't too many examples of when she didn't go for it. Imagine her, out of nowhere, throwing in a triple-triple at 2002 Olympics at the end!
Since there seems to be some good discussion here, I'll also say that she can be criticized for not advancing her technical ability as much as she should have. But she did have logic: If it aint broke, don't fix it right? If you want to see someone, recently, who was always trying to keep up with the times, I would say Maria butyrskaya. Although not always consistent, she stayed competitive until age 29, and could still do triple triple jumps.
I do agree with you to some degree that others were favored in the 2006 Olympics. HOWEVER, after watching how the "favored" skaters performed in the 2006 Olympics, Michelle DEFINITELY would've given them a run for their money!
I'll be skating to the same music, as an adult competitor. Though there will be no triples for me, I will try to represent the Adult Skating community the best I can. This is my favourite program of hers. I won't be able to better hers but hopefully close and give it justice. Will pst the vid when program is complete.
That level-one at 2005 Worlds made me furious. (Not that sport should ever be a reason for anger.) LIke it doesn't matter that her position is better than anyone else's. She gets fewer points because she doesn't stretch her body into awkward point-getting positions. I'm learning to accept the COP regime, but I'm still mad about that.
I think that the best skaters I've ever seen are Kristi Yamaguchi and Michelle Kwan... Both of them are totally fun to watch. I'm not saying that the others like Sonia are not good enough, but when it comes to performing, I still prefer Kristi and Michelle.
This was a pretty remarkable programme. For once I liked her step sequence too. But that is not a proper triple Lutz. When you think of how some skaters achieve a very deep outside edge through a prolonged curve into the take-off this does not compare. I’m thinking of what Chen Lou used to achieve, Oksana Bayul too, even Michelle around 1995/1996.
I was there and saw this live. We were all mesmerized at the performance. However, I think the problem folks have with Michelle is that her degree of difficulty here was the exact same as it was in her 1995 Worlds Short Program. While the artistic growth is most certainly obvious, there just doesn't seem to be much growth athletically.
While Meissner may have been extremely artistic, the rest of her skating comes no where near Michelle Kwan's, and not only is Kwan an ALL AROUND better skater, She's won HOW many world titles compared to Meissner. AND Michelle is not only a wonderful skater, but a severely Iconic one as well. ANd ontop of that, she is a solid skater. She is very very consistant. She is artistic and Id like to see you do better.
This was when this sport was the sport.
And skating was skating.
And the Spiral meant everything.
We were young, and we were improvin.
MK is the Bomb.
The G.O.A.T.
no other skater makes me feel so much joy as michelle kwan. she is heaven on ice.
She's will always be the best in ice skating history to me! Love her!
i think the thing that i love most about this program is how she uses the music, she really listens to the nuances and the intricacies and it shows in her choreography.
This is a devastatingly gorgeous performance!!! Miss this girl sooooooo much!!
2003 is my favorite of her World Championships--she was so solid and clearly dominant the entire year while everyone was screaming retirement. Way to go Michelle!
2003 was huge worlds in all disciplines. 2017 was also inncredible.
Michelle Kwan owns the ice and is in control of her destiny.. No one can deny that!
Your so right! standing ovation is for people who give heart to what they are doing.. like this program of michelle! she gives all her emotions in her skating.. no one can give such heart to skating as michelle.. she's Wonderfull!
I had stopped watching figure skating since Michelle hasn't been on tv. I cant wait for her return!
Even today's jumping and axels, no one skates as finesse as Michelle. She makes her audience focus, feel and cry. The only ones that cry in figure skating today are the skaters themselves, not the audience. These skaters suck!
I so miss Michelle Kwan. Pls come back!
Gorgeous and powerful. A true legend. It's amazing how much she is still missed 10 years later.
14 years (and counting).
15 years, and still crying due to me missing her 😢😍😍
@@jblackinc Amen to that. we will never see another MK, not in this lifetime anyway. At least we were lucky to witness all the magical moments she provide for us in this lifetime.
19.....
More than 20 years now, missing her like crazy. She is truly a once in a lifetime, lightning in a bottle skater that we were lucky enough to have witnessed.
@starwarshalo123 Remember, when she began doing that spiral, she was one of very few skaters to do a spiral on an inside edge, let alone switch seamlessly to an outside edge while holding the leg in the same stretched position with the foot turned out. Later every skater began doing the inside-out spiral, and none of them IMO were nearly as elegant as Kwan's. She made a very difficult spiral look easy. Then of course there's the aspect of consistently performing 6 and 7 triple programs...
Change of edge spiral is Michelle's signature move. Michelle had the best spiral ever.
my jaw literally dropped. its not just about her artistic-ness or her capability of completing evrything, its her ability of making it all look completely effortless! im speechless
This short program gives me the chills...usually we see Michelle very light and graceful, but this time (she's still very graceful) she's more heavy on the intensity, which is why it makes this program so chilling because we're not used to that fire that seemed to burn in her eyes.
She's absolutely amazing!!! I miss watching her compete!!
NO ONE has control over their spirals like Michelle. Her forward inside to back outside it seamless.
Simply mesmerizing!!
She is the GOAT. it’s not about jumps she has the whole package.
my favorite short program!
@Dylvente ...at the highest level of competition, with beautiful artistry to boot. You don't win 5 Worlds and 9 Nationals if you're not great.
such power and poise, She will always be remembered for great artistry and technique. I hope she will give great inspiration to future american skaters like Caroline, Mirai, And Ashley.
are u alive?
What I really like about this is how she improved her spins. She held the camel on the combination spin for more rotations and spun must faster than she did earlier in her career.
My favorite routine of her's in terms of music and choreography.
one of my favorite short programs!!! her jumps and footwork were perfect to the music.
the crowd was with her and chanting for 6.
usually she smiles during her spiral but she held it back for the dramtic mood. i love her :]
Michelle Kwan's a natural born athlete! Her parents were just doing what comes naturally for their daughter Michelle! They did the right thing in letting her take her passion take flight with figure skating.
i am sure most of us agree that we miss michelle kwan badly, but I think michelle would be proud that she has greatly inspired a new generation of skaters like yu na kim (age 17), who have a lot of potential and time to mature.
Michelle has a lot of passion in her performance,love it!
I love Michelle Kwan . . . hahah . . . but one of my favorite things that she always did was the footwork in her skating . . . extremely difficult to do . . . she always had a flow and fire in that part of her skating
love the music.. suits her so well.. takes me back to 1996 worlds.
Beautiful girl, beautiful genius skating!
bestfiction: Thanks for the update! Im so happy Kwan will be performing. I just haven't been able to get into skating since 2005. Maybe it's the judging system, but I think more than anything it's that Kwan is no longer competing. I watched skating for the excitement AND for the emotional impact, and I think we can all agree that Kwan had the whole emotional impact down to a T. She raised the bar so damn high that everything else dissapoints.
LOL I love Dick Button's random comments 2:31 "That's serious, she's not giving in for that"
That was a textbook 3flip. If you want to teach someone that jump, look at that video. That 3flip was perfect.
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That is why she is Yuna's idol and inspiration. A textbook queen inspired the birth of another textbook queen. ♥️
OMG! This is my most favorite Short Program of hers! THANK YOU! LOVE YOU MICHELLE!
I'm so miss her
I agree with you to some degree, but Yuna presents her performances very good as well. She's one of the few top skaters today that gets into a character role very well and expresses it with artistry and elegance, along with her very technical jumps which is why she gets such high praises from Michelle herself and many other famous figure skaters, let alone the judges. But yeah, there are too many skaters nowadays who look too concerned and focused on their jumps rather than there presentation.
she's teh reason i started skating when i was 5
She is just amazing!!!
I love this so focus and regal todays skaters can take a note from performance alone.
@JNagarya That was an amazing program too. In a matter of fact Michelle has so many great short programs it's hard to pick! :)
Shut up. People dont give standing ovations just because someone's pretty. They give michelle standing ovations because she has passion and courage and an amazing ability to connect with the audience during her performances.
Beautiful...
I feel like no one had good fashion sense on the ice before Michelle Kwan. Michelle always had such beautiful style.... she changed figure skating in a sense.
Agree! A modern style, chic and elegant.
Power, grace, artistry, and musicality...I get goosebumps when she skates...fire more more
the best skater there ever was!!!!!
I love that she always had footwork leading in to her lutz combinations. A lot skaters "telegraph" their jumps, especially the lutz.
That was awesome. I loved how she stared down the judges at her ending pose before finally cracking a smile.
I do agree that certain skaters skate faster than Kwan, but that doesn't mean anything really. Carolina Kostner, for example, skates very fast, but she falls half the time. I don't see why people are arguing about speed. Kwan doesn't skate slowly, and she's certainly the most consistent skater of the last several decades. She's got the whole package. I love people who try and point out a "flaw" in Kwan's skating, as if that changes her record or accomplishments.
Legend
i love this short program.
that opening. i love her.
The very best!
Michelle is the best Point Blank Period
awesome~ awesome~
I love the comments like "That's serious," and "You don't want to get in her way," sprinkled throughout.
This short program is the best.
just perfect!
I love michelle!!!!
I'm skating to this music... but I don't think I can be this good but I love the music... I'll keep skating to this music.. can't wait for Adult Nationals in 2008
allenglandlawns: You just can't make a valid argument for Kwan, can you? She was NOT held up if you actually look at the facts. As others have said: When she made mistakes in the short, she was never placed first at either Nationals or Worlds. She won her 9 Nationals and 5 Worlds b/c she had to skate perfectly in the free to win them, which she did. Even "getreal" acknowledges that Kwan deserved 2000 and 2001 worlds titles, but you can't. Your blinders are unreal.
thanks
No one has ever, or will ever, match the impact Michelle Kwan has made on the ice. No one.
She is what you can properly call a "legend".
She never looked more beautiful
the statement made absolutely no mention that she was retiring. She's not going for the 2010 olympics that's all. Sure she might be moving onto the next phase in her life, sure she's going to graduate school, but seriously, it's Michelle Kwan we're talking about. I wouldn't be surprised if she fired off for the 2014 olympics. Whatever she does, we LOVE her and would root her on like crazy!!!
Irina wins alot. She has 2 World titles, 6 World medals, a record 4 GP final titles, a record 7 European titles, even more then Witt and Henjie.
she makes the jumps look so easy...
Oh I totally agree... I think Kwan is the greatest skater of all time. Don't get me wrong. I was just commenting that she might have tried 3/3 combos aside from her toe toe. That would have kept her up with some of the younger ones. But seriously, she's awesome
without michelle,sasha and irina,there is no fire on ice.
@BunniechanG You're right. The commentators from the network said the same thing. You can see, though, how she had to rush just to get everything in. I'm impressed that any skaters can hold each position for 3 seconds and still get all the moves in. When you think about it, it makes sense. They've added more rotations to spins, more intricate footwork, longer spirals -- but the same two minutes, forty seconds to get it all in.
If u say so! Her 2005 Nationals performance was AMAZING! but u r entitled to ur opinion.
Amen to that. She owns spirals.
same!!!
you are going backwards, but what makes a lutz is the take off. Back outside edge before picking into the ice for the jump. A lot of skaters swirch to an inside edge, hence the flutz.
@allenglandlawns: If falling and failing are things that "delight" you (which is sad frankly) I can see why you dislike Kwan and love Cohen: Kwan almost never fell, and Cohen almost always did. Honey, have you taken my advice and sought professional help yet?
Sasha Cohen had to skate on crutches or she would fall everywhere on ice....
WoW that was good!
i wonder who picks her music. such wonderful original choices of music.
@purpleblumoon: I always wondered what 2002 SLC would have looked like had Kwan thrown in, say, a triple flip-triple toe at the end of the program. Kwan is the greatest ever to me, but a small part of me wishes that she had gone for it after making a mistake. Of course, on the other hand, Kwan almost never made mistakes, so I guess there aren't too many examples of when she didn't go for it. Imagine her, out of nowhere, throwing in a triple-triple at 2002 Olympics at the end!
ice skating is awesome! i wish i was as good as michelle
Look at how many stuffed animals she got LOL =D
Since there seems to be some good discussion here, I'll also say that she can be criticized for not advancing her technical ability as much as she should have. But she did have logic: If it aint broke, don't fix it right? If you want to see someone, recently, who was always trying to keep up with the times, I would say Maria butyrskaya. Although not always consistent, she stayed competitive until age 29, and could still do triple triple jumps.
Totally agree on what you said, she just taking a break I don't think a skaters career ends earlier than a basketball player.
Niceeee
kimkim skated to this too.!
I love this music. Can anyone tell me what it's called?
Thanks.
Peter Gabriel...
I do agree with you to some degree that others were favored in the 2006 Olympics. HOWEVER, after watching how the "favored" skaters performed in the 2006 Olympics, Michelle DEFINITELY would've given them a run for their money!
I'll be skating to the same music, as an adult competitor. Though there will be no triples for me, I will try to represent the Adult Skating community the best I can. This is my favourite program of hers. I won't be able to better hers but hopefully close and give it justice. Will pst the vid when program is complete.
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That level-one at 2005 Worlds made me furious. (Not that sport should ever be a reason for anger.) LIke it doesn't matter that her position is better than anyone else's. She gets fewer points because she doesn't stretch her body into awkward point-getting positions. I'm learning to accept the COP regime, but I'm still mad about that.
@onetwocue I think she picked them along with her coach and choreographer.
Who was the judge that gave a 5.5? That's the problem with the judging post-2002, its all anonymous.
omgosh! that was...breath taking....@#U*@)(#* my spine..is...still shivering...
I think that the best skaters I've ever seen are Kristi Yamaguchi and Michelle Kwan... Both of them are totally fun to watch. I'm not saying that the others like Sonia are not good enough, but when it comes to performing, I still prefer Kristi and Michelle.
my cousin looks like her....she*s a ballet dancer at the philippine ballet...
first class
This was a pretty remarkable programme. For once I liked her step sequence too. But that is not a proper triple Lutz. When you think of how some skaters achieve a very deep outside edge through a prolonged curve into the take-off this does not compare. I’m thinking of what Chen Lou used to achieve, Oksana Bayul too, even Michelle around 1995/1996.
Jonathan Partridge hers was still on an outside edge though. She made the entrance more difficult by putting footwork in front of that jump.
I was there and saw this live. We were all mesmerized at the performance. However, I think the problem folks have with Michelle is that her degree of difficulty here was the exact same as it was in her 1995 Worlds Short Program. While the artistic growth is most certainly obvious, there just doesn't seem to be much growth athletically.
Tara grew up, got hurt, retired....Michelle's longevity was unreal and great.
Peter Gabriel...the feeling begins
i totally agree tho i like sasha too. well michelle i like better!!! Don't u just luv her skating!!! i think that she puts sooo much feeling into it!
Anyone have Michelle Kwan skating to Whitney Houstons song ONE MOMENT IN TIME?
While Meissner may have been extremely artistic, the rest of her skating comes no where near Michelle Kwan's, and not only is Kwan an ALL AROUND better skater, She's won HOW many world titles compared to Meissner.
AND Michelle is not only a wonderful skater, but a severely Iconic one as well. ANd ontop of that, she is a solid skater. She is very very consistant.
She is artistic and Id like to see you do better.