XPost: rec.skate, rec.sport.skating.ice.figure   
   From: le@lekno.ws   
      
   Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   > Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >   
   >>Richard Totten "Dick" Button,born July 18th 1929,   
   >>for years a champion of and for decades a commentator   
   >>on figure skating (back when it really was that),   
   >>died January 30th 2025 according to the NY Times and   
   >>others (coincidentally just after a plane crash   
   >>killed competitors and coaches returning from this   
   >>year's United States championships of what is still   
   >>called,but no longer really is,figure skating).   
   >   
   > But he's the guy who brought greater athleticism to figure skating.   
   > Remember the Button camel?   
      
   Yes...and even his saying,as a commentator approving of   
   a skating performance,"and THAT is a Button camel".   
      
   > I've seen film of his performances. He was quite graceful, but still, he   
   > brought impossible leaps and loops and twists into skating that mere   
   > mortals cannot perform.   
      
   He was deservedly a legend...but my subtext is that   
   he actually knew how to skate figures,in which today's   
   "figure skaters" seldom try even introductory lessons.   
      
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