A 1989 documentary on Gus Lussi who revolutionised figure skating with his approach to teaching jumps and spins. His students included Dick Button, Ronnie Robertson, John Curry, Dorothy Hamill, Hayes Alan Jenkins, Don Jackson, Tenley Albright, Barbara Ann Scott, and Paul Wylie.
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A pioneer and a wonderful coach. Enjoyed this, thank you.
(Sharon Shneyer), Thank you for bringing the Guys Lussi story to life. In my several decades of watching and following figure skating, I knew about him, I just didn't know the details. It is sad what has happened with figure skating these days.
Gus Lussi totally revolutionised jumping in figure skating. Without Gus Lussi there would be no triples or quads. Without the innovations in jumping that Lussi brought in, what we saw just a few months ago, the first quad axel landed by Ilia Malinin, would never have happened. Before Lussi skaters used to either jam their feet together in jumps or have their free leg dangling at one side. It was Lussi that first taught skaters to cross their feet in jumps to achieve a more aerodynamic position to enable them to do multiple rotations.
You're spoiling us Flo, with these two full length gems I've never seen before. Thank you! 🥰 💙💜💚
Love this! Thanks so much for sharing it with us.😃
Gus Lussi was a miseable son of a bitch. Beleive me. I was a figure skater in the Lake Placid Figure Skating Club………….just mostly a bunch of low income kids just wanting to have fun with the wonderful sport of figurfe skatig. I was also someone who lived in his neighborhood. He was a bastard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I understand his contribution and his genius. But if he had only taken a minute every now and then to recognize………acknowledge the "little" skaters…………….wouldn't have that been so much better? It still hurts me in my heart. I am not finished. Lussi coached Gordie McClellan who was the EXACT opposite of Lussi. He was kind, he said hello to us. We loved him and appreciated his thoughfulness and his regard for us…………..ice rats!!!
His skaters always skated with graceful curves not clumsy angles.
Wow!!! So interesting. I have been in love with figure skating since Peggy Fleming won the Olympics in 1968, and I had no idea that this gentleman was SO influential in the world of skating. Thank you, Flo, for sharing!!
Veramente storicamente eccezionali. Innovatori e veri artisti, campioni e scopritori di generazioni di campioni nel pattinaggio artistico . Persone che hanno reso più bello e vivibile questo mondo 👏👏🙋♂️
Fantastic video !! Thank you so much !
This is amazing!
He would be 124 years old. Dick Button is almost 95. Figure skaters have incredible longevity. Every single figure skating Olympic gold medalist from the United States is still alive. 😮Think about that. Maybe people need to look at this a little bit more, skating is actually good for you. Not just something that entertains you.
I remember watching Mr. Lussi ( a coach of my coach) teach in Lake Placid. What a blessing for me to have seen him teach his lessons.