Robin Cousins "Satan Takes A Holiday"

Fascinating, mesmerizing and rather humorous skating program even non-skating fans enjoy.

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[medusacascade66]

Can anyone settle a dispute in my house? I distinctly remember Robin doing the very first 'backflip on ice', either in his exhibition piece at the 1980 Worlds or shortly afterwards, but my elder sister (also a figure skater, as was I at the time, but she was 24 then and I was only 14) says it was Scott Hamilton, the American skater, who did one first. Help please? She's now 53 and I'm 43 and this disagreement has been going on (in a friendly way, of course *grin*) ever since!

[montykitty]

The first backflip on ice was performed by Terry Kubicka at the 1976 Worlds. It was immediately banned from competition. If either Robin or Scott did the backflip in competition they were performing an illegal move and would have faced deductions for it. Though it was a signature move in both of their exhibition programs.

As for which performed the backflip first in *exhibition*, Robin Cousins pre-dates Scott Hamilton by a few years. It's likely Robin was first.

[XDaddiesLittleGirlX]

does anyone know the marks that he got ?

great routine by the way. :D

[montykitty]

This was an exhibition piece, so no marks for it. He's brilliant though, eh?

[TheSienna29]

We need to clone this man.

[lordilujah]

awesome ,  jason would have awarded him a 6.0

[kwizzicle]

Possibly the most casual man ever



[thesocialpet]

I know Robin Cousins did a routine to Dean Martin's "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" but I can't find it anywhere. I remember watching it on TV as a kid, but I can't seem to find it. Anybody have any idea when he did it and if it is available on YouTube? Thanks!

[Ohyewildthong]

Three people tried to do a backflip on ice and failed.

[cathouse54]

Same as 1BeeJenks comment!! I saw it way too many years ago and although I taped it, the tape got damaged. Now I can share this with my grandkids.

[1BeeJenks]

Thanks for uploading. What a job to watch this again, having originally seen it at the time on television. I had forgotten what a fantastic skater Robin Cousins was. I loved his intepretation of the music as well.

[stevemonkey78]

@XDaddiesLittleGirlX he got the marks he got because his routines were absolutely perfect.

[jazzbert]

A horrible experience for a musician when thousands are clapping against the beat on 1 and 3 of the beat. That is really hell!!!

By the way this cover - version of this nice tune is also awful and not swinging

Listen better to Edgar Hayes or Tommy Dorsey's versions if someone is interested in good Swing music.

[Dazzlingbabe19956]

Wow I can't get over how amazing that was!! How the hell does he do it?!

[Cantil1]

@montykitty

Thank you for uploading this. It's a brilliant routine that I haven't seen in years. Sadly, for over a week now,

every time I try to watch it I get: 'An error has occurred. Please try again later' message.

[canajaneh]

@medusacascade66

I always thought it was Norbert Framm at the 72 Olympics but my memory ain't what it used to be.....