This is list is absurd. I'm not a massive Hanyu fan but his quads are clearly the best. Most difficult entries, perfect air position and gorgeous landings - absolutely effortless.
This list isn’t absurd. With most of the skaters you’re looking at quads from the 80s and 90s. I don’t see why you would even try to compare. The original quads were done with the old take off, which also allowed for great height and ice coverage. Hanyu likely does do the prettiest quad today, as unlike most of his competitors, he also gets nice air time and ice coverage. Most today go straight up and rotate in place, landing almost where they took off, which is ugly.
Yuzuru' jumps are so soft and beautiful, they look effortless despite being so difficult (especially the transitions into them) I don't get why he's not first on this list.
Catherinecantlife yuzuru's landings are the smoothest out of everyone, and his position is tighter. Plus his entrances are the hardest. He really did deserve that spot.
it's not even personally, objectively speaking, Yuzu's jumps should be no. 1.. the entry, take-off, air position, landing, exit, all so beautifully and perfectly executed.. but of course since i'm Yuzu's fan some other people out there would just say i'm an obsessed evil fanyu and any fs knowledge i have should not be believed in eventhough there are hundreds of videos out there supporting the facts *rolls eyes*
Uh like most of the comments here I don't agree with this list, Hanyu at number 5? Seriously? He can easily take the number 1 spot, either him or Plushenko, although I prefer Hanyu because I find his choreography and landings more beautiful.
Patrick's quad toe looks better than Yuzurus to me, I'd give Hanyu second and Plushenko third to be honest. Plushenko hasn't always struck me as "great" at doing quads.
If this list is really updated Nathan Chen would be the King of the Quads for sure, the sheer number ,diversity of quad and quality makes him the best.
Thang Vuong Boyang Jin has the best quad lutz not Chen. but Chen's quad flip is much better than so called Uno's flip which is actually overrotated triple flip
Plushenko n Hanyu r the best. But I reaaaally like Hanyu, his landings r so light n graceful. The others were like barely holding on or had choppy landings.
Like, I'm very impressed that the 3rd guy managed to land everything, but it was only impressive because he fucked up going into them somehow, which means those jumps weren't objectively that great?
Are you really putting Yuzuru in 5th?! He can do 4toe, 4sal, 4lo, and he's training for a 4ax. Those guys who are above him on you "list" mostly did only 4toe, like really?! And Patrick Chan on second place?! This got to be biased.
honestly it's a little ionic to put Patrick ahead of Yuzuru on this list. I like Patrick's skating, but after all, he was the one to said men didn't need a quad in skating lol
Yuzuru #1 plain and simple while I'd say Goebel would be a distant second. Yuzuru makes it look so simple and he is super elegant and gorgeous. His choreography and artistry is on par. While Goebel was a good jumper, his artistry sucked and Plushenko's landings were heavy and they looked sloppy.
Plush and Yuzu should be 1 and 2, I'm fine with either order. But I'd have Yuzu first since he has performed 3 types in competition and Plushenko only did the toe, though it was pretty frickin' glorious. That 4/3/2 was everything!!
danibellerika im serious. he did quad sal 3t in 1999 or 2000 i dont remember the date well but his quad sal s better than toe s .He is not using that because in old scoring system you dont need more quads to take 6.0 marks thats all. My english is bad so i hope you can understand
If your English is bad you should lay off the hate speech and not tell people to kill themselves or that they don't know what they're talking about. I've been watching skating since 2001 so I know a few things. The sal was not Plushenko's best jump at all. Heck, he doubled a planned TRIPLE in Torino. Apparently he only did the quad sal a couple of times. It was so infrequent I actually forgot about it. Plushenko's 4/3/2 is what made me pay attention to skating and he was my favorite guy at the time.
danibellerika do twenty surgery s and try to skate my friend :) .I dont think you watching figure skating since 2001.You just watching some old videos now ;) Anyway past is past i must say that one think im not happy that know many skaters plan 4 quads .In past people mixed balle and skating then they study the jumps.Now everyone just try for to more and more tech ablity.exp : nathan chen.But i love one skater who really understand that art mixed the balletic style with his. style and skate with dignity.he is yuzuru.Im glad to he is leading the new genaration of figure skating.I hope the new ones comes after this generation follow the yuzuru s ,plushenko s and kulik s. way to skate
The amount of Plushenko's surgeries has nothing to do with the sal not being a good jump for him. And you can look up my account on FSU and see how old my account from there is to see I have indeed been a skating fan for a long long time. What reason would I have to lie about that? Next you'll say I wasn't in Helsinki even though I uploaded dozens of videos. Yes, Yuzuru Hanyu is the best figure skater I've ever seen because he can balance artistry with the best jumps I've ever seen. I am so lucky I got to see him skate live and break his world record again. I'll never forget it.
"The amount of Plushenko's surgeries has nothing to do with the sal not being a good jump for him" im sorry my friend but your comment just so stupid im not gonna answer
I have to say that Yuzu is the best among all of them, his quads are beautiful and it looks exactly easy and elegant, he also landed his quads like it's just a simple part of his performance, not struggling m. I didn't know about other athletes, I respect them all but looking at their quads, they're not "smooth" like Yuzu did.
How we rate skaters can be subjective, but it's interesting to see quads by top skaters side by side. There are indeed different styles - how they prepare the jump, how the jumps are weaved into the choreography, how the landing knee is used, how rigid or relaxed the upper body looks before and after the jump, arm placement, the distance the jump travels, the flow of the jump trajectory, the height of the jump, etc.
Yuzuru can jump 4lz 4loop 4toeloop 4salchow 4flip 4 ax(about 4 ax... I saw in some video that he landed perfektly in 4ax and I watched it in slow mode and It was perfektly 4 and half rounds in her jump...) . So yeah yuzuru have to be 1. LOVE U YUZURU, ALWAYS WITH YOU, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPEND!!!!!!
He has never jumped 4 axel even in practice. I’m not sure about the filip either. But yeah, he has glorious 4T, 4S, 4Lo and 4Lz so he is the best among the skaters in this list.
Other than the "placement" in this top five quad "skaters" totally debatable, I have always found it interesting that Plushenko's quads had the axis progressively more tilted backward (with respect to the blades, not the skating direction) in the later revolutions but Plush somehow made them work and landed them clean, in the same way Tonya Harding's successful 3A attempts had progressively tilted axis but somehow balanced upon landing.
It is what happens when the skater is taught a proper, good basic technique when they are younger. Plushenko was given the Mishin technique and could probably do a quad toe in his sleep.
A mí me pareció que el segundo quad de Yuzuru Hanyu fue el mejor de todos los quads que aparecieron en esta lista :/ la posición y los giros se vieron tan suaves y realmente Hanyu lo hizo verse tan fácil y elegante, perdón pero eso es lo que ví.
you can tell how much men's skating over the years, in the older clips the commentators get so excited about one quad and think it's the best thing in the world but nowadays theres skaters who integrate two or three or even more quads in their programs
Javier Fernandez honorable mention? Really? Ilya Kulik an honorable mention when he only did 2 Quads in his entire short career? Whatever happened to Chengiang li, Stephane Lambiel, Daisuke Takahashi, Brian Joubert, and Kevin van der Parren? Got long ways for this to be a very credible post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree about Kulik only ever hitting 2 quads in competition. He is a flawless technician for sure though. 5 is not really enough to include everybody. Fernandez' quads are not as good as the people in this group. Yagudin should not even be in here because his air position is hideous. Not saying I can do better, but there could definitely have been somebody else in his slot.
Radu, are you referring to me? Just watch Yagudin's position in the air...... His right(standing leg) leg is bent in the air. That is supposed to be straight for the smallest axis in the rotational position. I agree he is great but if you compare Yagudin's air position to Kulik or Plushenko it leaves quite a bit to be desired. Are you a skater, a coach with considerable technical expertise or just a Yagudin fanboy?
Kulik was one of the greatest pure technicians of all time. Additionally, he competed in an era where quads were NOT the norm and very rare. When he retired, quads were only just starting to become more common (thanks largely to the rivalry between his younger compatriots). Kulik landing "only" two clean quads is not something to insult him for, it's something to praise him for because he did it in a time when a quad was beyond difficult. And he was and always will be the first ever Olympic Champion to win his title with one. After him, every Olympic Champion would do so until Lysacek.
Although not an Olympic Gold medalist, before there was Ilya Kulik, there was Elvis Stojko!!!!! Kulik was lucky to land one at the Olympics. Stojko had been landing them since 1994. Who did the first quad in combination? Elvis Stojko!
По какому принципу выбирались места?! Yusuri Huny (простите за ошибки, я точно не помню как пишется) должен был быть на 1 строке! Вы видели выезды? Высоту? Скрутку? И как будто спокойствие на въезде на прыжок и выезде с него?! Это лучший фигурист-одиночник на данный момент. Но это, конечно, мое мнение.
Yuzuru has the best jumps.It’s really beautiful and elegant.The take off,rotation.position in the air and landing is undoubtedly the best.He makes it look so easy and it shows how skilled he is.Plus his quads worth the 1st place obviously
This list should be vice-versa, with Hanyu number 1 - no other variants. I think the list is made by a Plush- fan that sees nothing else except his beloved treasure, ignoring the fact that other people can do lots of things better than Plush
Alex: this was uploaded 2+ years ago when Chen was probably still in junior or a 1st year senior (where he wasn't exactly making the splash he did last season)
Yuni Lius Mmm... Maybe so, but he's currently the only person competing with all five types of quads. If this video were up-to-date, he would definitely top the list.
I have a big amount of respect for each of the skaters here but I have to say that hanyu deserves number 1. If you look at his landings and then look at others, his landings are the smoothest among everyone. Also the prettiest but that is my opinion.
Is the order random? Because if it is, fine. But if it isn't, you have just done the four who aren't Hanyu a great disservice, my friend. It's like looking at the human evolution chart the other way around. The difference is plain as day to even those who don't know fs. Might as well not have put Hanyu in there at all if you want a closer comparison for the other four. Removing Hanyu from the equation altogether, and not factoring in anybody else who aren't in the top 4 listed here, I'd give Chan the top spot if we're going by order of jump quality and not type and difficulty of jump, because his blends into the choreography the nicest out of the 4, and therefore, the most evolved. Note: This was uploaded 2 years ago, before there were 4Los in play. Probably before Hanyu was breaking records and fs in general with Chopin and SEIMEI. Which probably explains the lack of mention of Jin and his jaw-dropping 4Lz. Some here don't seem to realize this...
Unfortunately most of them only did toe jump and salchou in this video which are relatively easy ones. I have to mention that boyang Jin China and Yuma Shono japan always start their show with a quad loop, which I think is more difficult skill. Even personally I like Yuzuru so much however he also used to starting his SP with the easiest quad toe. Technically boyang jin is the best on this planet.
Timothy seems really huge compare to other skaters on the list, more like football player or sth... anyway, Yuzuru should rank higher for his smoother landing but again, almost everyone on this list is from like previous era so I’m not sure whether it’s comparable.
I dont hate any of the skaters, but yuzuru has the smooth and tehnick, by jumping quads, but others just jump it like my legs bone... Yuzuru should be nr 1
