cutting the ice

[debbie t]

the super bowl was ok,footy is ok ,but ive noticed some of us have a passion for a sport which involves skill,danger,athleticism and is fabulous to watch.

heres ice dance at its very best,,,and yes theyre brits

YouTube - Torvill & Dean - 1984 Olympics - Bolero - HQ

 

[juggler]

I prefered this one.

Barnum on Ice

YouTube - Torvill and Dean Barnum

 

[GuesSAngel]

those are beautiful

 

[Peter Parka]

the super bowl was ok,footy is ok ,but ive noticed some of us have a passion for a sport which involves skill,danger,athleticism and is fabulous to watch.

heres ice dance at its very best,,,and yes theyre brits

YouTube - Torvill & Dean - 1984 Olympics - Bolero - HQ

Hell yeah! Have you seen what that rink looks like these days? It's a ruin because of the war, so sad.

 

[Ria]

This is my passion and will have go at putting some vids on here later too.

 

[Pudding Time]

I really don't see this as a sport. But hey, they have figure skating in the olympics, so each their own i guess.

 

[Ria]

This was at the europeans in 1981 - they were stunningly amazing then! Then to the final Olympic win for them, their Gold, the Bolera - well, that was even more magical, when you'd think from this that it was excellent anyway.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cADcNYbBt3E

 

[Ria]

This is nice - a montage...

YouTube - Torvill and Dean - Gypsy

 

[COOL_BREEZE2]

Great stuff. Wonderful to watch. Full of skill and grace.
They make it seem so simple too.

 

[Ria]

Yeah, pure skill and grace there - I have watched them since they first became known in the championships, but have loved Iceskating since I was about 4 years old.

 

[debbie t]

Yeah, pure skill and grace there - I have watched them since they first became known in the championships, but have loved Iceskating since I was about 4 years old.

i saw them at the NEC in birmingham in 1989,i was about 3 metres away from them when they came on and off the ice ria...i tell you christopher dean is enormous,iv never seen torso like it,built like a brick shed.



this is great ,it shows how dangerous figure skating can be when youre flying through the air at 25 miles per hour.
some of it hurts just watching ,and the bloke with the splits probably will never have children.

YouTube - Figure skating : a dangerous sport

 

[debbie t]

a little move me and ria have been trying:jk

a quadruple salchow

YouTube - quadruple jump (Salchow) 安藤美姫　４回転ジャンプ

 

[skyblue]

This was at the europeans in 1981 - they were stunningly amazing then! Then to the final Olympic win for them, their Gold, the Bolera - well, that was even more magical, when you'd think from this that it was excellent anyway.


YouTube - 1981 Torvill and Dean (Europeans)

the bolero gold was perfection

 

[Ria]

i saw them at the NEC in birmingham in 1989,i was about 3 metres away from them when they came on and off the ice ria...i tell you christopher dean is enormous,iv never seen torso like it,built like a brick shed.



this is great ,it shows how dangerous figure skating can be when youre flying through the air at 25 miles per hour.
some of it hurts just watching ,and the bloke with the splits probably will never have children.

YouTube - Figure skating : a dangerous sport

You are soooooooooooooooooooooooooo lucky - that is something I always wanted to do, but it never happened. That is something I have always felt so gutted about too - never able to see their wonderment and skills and talent - I would have just been soooooo mexmerized.

Yeah, the men have to be built so big for lifting, but they are all so extremely unique compared to most sports.

a little move me and ria have been trying:jk

a quadruple salchow

YouTube - quadruple jump (Salchow) 安藤美姫　４回転ジャンプ

Well I managed it, didn't you then Debs?































:jk

 

[Ria]

Btw - that montage of the hazerdous ones^^^^^^ was me and Debs when younger, then you see Gina having a go too. :24:

 

[debbie t]

ginas quadrupple was good:24:

its the bloke doing the splits and landing on the ice in that position that made me go abit queasy :eek

 

[Ria]

I wonder how Gina is?

Yep, her quadruple was fantastic and deserves a 6.0 :24: Oh damn, they stopped scoring that way a few years ago didn't they. They really made it complicated didn't they in the end? I still haven't got to grips properly with the newer scoring.

Was to stop fixing the scores, but to be honest, I'd have thought they could still do that, no matter how they are done.

There was a big hooha about it at the time.

 

[Ria]

SupNerd does land a great splits eh? :24:

 

[gLing]

It's all I can do not to bust my butt just standing in ice skates.

 

[Ria]

It's all I can do not to bust my butt just standing in ice skates.

:24: :24: Yep, me too!!! LOL

Still, we didn't want to leave you out.