Kurt Browning (CAN) - 1990 World Figure Skating Championships, Men's Free Skate 

.. not sure why, but this routine has me remembering Toller Cranston, my all time fav - great skate Kurt! ❤

Nobody does jumps like Kurt Browning!!!!❤️❤️❤️😊😊😊

Scott Hamilton announcing - Kurt always referred to Scott as his “Skate God for Life” because of all of Scott’s fancy footwork sequences. Love you so much Kurt.

I'm so jealous. I would've given anything to be at that Worlds to see him and Midori. Kurt's marks were extremely high. His program the year before was technically more difficult. He did triple-triple at the end in 89 Worlds, not here. But he was still amazing.

Great skating.

😍

Le firefly

That comment Scott made about Kurt not training his programs all the way through. I fundamentally do not get that. I know lots of the Soviet and Russian skaters would do that, too, just train their programs in sections. That’s fine to a point or when you’re really struggling with a section and need some numbers around that. But why skaters ever would go into a competition having not done countless run throughs of their entire program, I don’t understand that. How can they manage a full performance if they’ve not trained their bodies to have the stamina to do an entire program? Plus you add the stress and adrenaline of competition, any adverse conditions like high altitude or humidity ... It’d be like only doing 125-meter speed drills and then showing up expecting to run a 400 meter race. It feels like complete madness. But so many skaters do it and it still makes no sense to me

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I in Halifax watching him that night. I was never more proud to be Canadian. The crowd was on fire, Kurt was on fire, magic performed right in front of our very eyes. awesome.

Canada's best.

Did Kurt manage to throw a second triple axle in at the end. He messed up his second one so that would have really helped him.

I always found Browning's programs to be filled with sloppy errors like this, even his World Championships. This is a good example. I find Browning is like a dead movie star--we tend to remember his performances as being better than they actually were. Just because he was a 4-time World Champion, most tend to forget consistency wasn't his strongest suit. Scott Hamilton once said Browning was a "big game skater", meaning he'd struggle through the lesser competitions of the entire season and then somehow do enough when it came to Worlds to win. I think that's a pretty accurate description. I'd also be interested to know how many quads he actually landed in his competitive career. I don't think it was many at all and again, most of them were very sloppy with wide swinging landings. I actually consider Stojko the first skater to consistently land correct quads, not Browning.