I don't know a lot about figure skating, but 19-year-old Ilia Malinin of Reston, Virginia, is very good. They tell us that it is nigh impossible to jump in the air and spin around four times, but he does it over and over, six times in all in this routine that won him the world championship in figure skating Saturday night in Montreal. On top of that, this routine received the highest score ever in the sport. Malinin comes by his talent honestly, by having two Olympic skaters as parents and training since he was six. Malinin's performance is only five minutes; the rest of the video is slo-mo replays and everyone talking about how great it was. (via Digg)
I noticed on one pair of jumps on the fist he take off on one foot and the second he takes off on the other foot but lands both on the same foot he took off with. He's really learned it well.
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