Видео

A terrific comment on the brilliance of Lussi's spinning and jumping techniques which allowed his skaters to perform spectacularly controlled elements. Thank you!

We need to keep him alive through his technique which he evolved for triples and quads. He brought in the triple jumps back in 1952 and he was explaining how his technique should be used for quads in the 1980s.

So true!

That's pretty cool that it made such as impression on you! This documentary was actually selected for international distribution to US embassies around the world but for some reason they decided not to do that. Probably costs.

@@coachcecilyicecommand5513 I have it on a video tape and dvd and watched it often. Your postings of each section seems longer than the entire PBS broadcast which I have. I lived in the New York City area at the time. Such a wonderful documentary. 😃

@@pepitone201 My separate postings of the interviews are much longer because I was Associate Producer on this documentary and was given the original raw footage of the full interviews as part of my agreement with the Producer because I was working on documenting Mr. Lussi's teaching methodology.

@@coachcecilyicecommand5513 Thank you so much. Hoping that you are enjoying your weekend. 🤗

Thanks for your comment. So great that you have been able to use the Lussi technique for life-long, extraordinary spinning; that's what it is all about! As for Ronnie's commentary in this video, he was asked specific questions about his skating with Mr. Lussi, not general technique. The leg closure was a given in Lussi technique, facilitated by the heel pressing down, a classic Lussi innovation.

If you are interested to see the exact Lussi technique taught by Lussi himself, go to www.IceCommand.com.

Mr. Lussi wanted Ronnie to win Worlds and Olympics, and he did win the free skate, but Mr. Lussi knew that Ronnie would have to skate a hugely superior free skate to win the overall because the politics were against someone like Ronnie in those days. That's why, in addition to Ronnie having the fastest spins, he devised the blade adjustment because he wanted to make Ronnie a legend for a career that would go far beyond those competitions, hence, The Human Top." The second after Mr. Lussi saw that they did not give Ronnie the gold, he turned to the show owner beside him and signed Ronnie with the show. All of this in much more detail will be in Mr. Lussi biography that I am writing.

@@coachcecilyicecommand5513 Sounds like it would make a great book, about a coaching legend, especially if you have memoirs, letters or a repository of articles from the time. I just looked it up, as far as bios on skating coaches, I guess there's a bio about Don Laws. Didn't read it. I just watched a 2-minute clip from Ronnie's silver medal Olympic performance, where it shows him under-rotating and two-footing a triple Salchow. Given that Dick landed a triple loop in the previous Olympics, if Ronnie didn't land any triples, that could partly account for him getting silver, other than being Tab Hunter's boyfriend, and how many judges would know about something like that at the time anyway. The issue of "not skating masculine enough" peaked in the 1976 Olympics though, where John Curry himself, and his fans, were afraid the judges would just hand the gold medal to Jan Hoffmann, because he skated like a soldier, and didn't wave his arms around. Didn't happen though. Curry's performance was too good. In 1988 Olympics, both battling Brians dressed as soldiers for their long programs, just in case. I think the 1976 panic spread because something a German judge said after a previous competition involving Curry. I was only 3 years old during the '56 Olympics, but the first skater I remember seeing on TV was Dick Button, in a TV special. Even though Carol Heiss made the Stooges movie, which I loved because it was so corny and had skating, Dick was really a bigger star than any female at the time in the US. That would quickly change with Fleming, and then Lynn becoming the highest paid female athlete of her time, with her one million dollar show contract. Hamill became the real commercial phenomenon though. Financially, the most successful of the older generation was probably Dick Button, from branching out. Maybe little Scotty made more, who knows. Up into the 1990s, I read a number of skating biographies, including a few Henie biographies, because I was always fascinated with her. Growing up, I probably saw each of her movies several times on the late, late show. The last Henie bio I read was just miles above the others, because it went into all kinds of personal details, like any good Hollywood bio. Too many skating bios in the 60s and 70s were geared to the average pre-teen female skating fan, understandable, because that was the biggest audience for selling a book. Of course, then Cranston came along, thank Xenu, where he just wrote his honest thoughts about pretty much everything. Kids today who might be crazy about skating, but lack the availability of good coaching, or don't have parents with money (both, in my case, when I was growing up), are so lucky to have the internet, all the great skating websites that explain how to jump and spin.

@@Timzart7 I can assure you that there are no videos like the Lussi videos which document step-by-step the exact moment to moment positioning, timing, etc., and the reasons why it has to work that way.

She is wonderful! Thank you!

@@coachcecilyicecommand5513 There were a few times where Mr. Button would refer to Eileen Seigh in his commentary, but I never found the references he was mentioning. So cool to see your video! Hope you're well, Cecily! (Craig Cichy here)

@@crcichy Nice to be in touch, Craig. Pretty sure we met at Candid. More videos to come of Lussi students and technique! Please subscribe (it's free!) to be notified of more!

Thank goodness figure skating still has Mr. Lussi to give us jump and spin technique that can still be relied upon for triples and quads and all jumps. He also made his skaters skate! The technical videos took so much work and a huge part of my life to make. I gathered over 200 hours of footage that I had to keep memorized and organized in my head until I finished each volume of Systematic Figure Skating: The Spin and Jump Techniques of Gustave Lussi in 2016. Check them out at www.IceCommand.com. I felt I had to make the series the best that I could .for Mr. Lussi (with the small total budget I had). We should all thank Dick Button and Mr. Lussi for supporting the project and believeing in me. And thank you for your appreciation.

Yes!

You still have it.

Some skaters do. I’ve seen a few people who can jump and spin in both directions.

@@LynneCooney Like Lussi student and Olympic Champion John Curry could do some double jumps and spin both directions!