Although I could be mistaken, I think one of his other contributions was getting skaters to float through the half turn on jumps, instead of spinning their jumps right off the ice. For example, on a double flip jump, the arms make a slicing motion in the entrance, and are held open through a half rotation in the air, and then arms and legs close fast. It gives jumps the suspended, floating, look that Button and Hamill and others had, and became the standard way to teach jumps through the 70s and into the 80s. For the blur spin like Ronnie could do, or a very fast scratch spin, Gus's innovation was the side-by-side knee position in the final position. It's one so few skaters today even use, as not many are really concerned with doing fast scratch spins. They take up too much time in a program. I tried to teach the side-by-side knee closure in a spin to a young friend at the Broadmoor years ago, but he was afraid doing anything to his spin position might screw up his jump position, and he was just a month or so away from a major competition, and also attempting to do the quad loop in practice, two decades before it was finally done in competition by Hanyu. Strangely, I couldn't fully benefit from the Lussi side-by-side knee closure for spin speed I learned in Europe in my 20s, until I was in my 40s and bought a pair of used skates that fit right, for the first time in my life, and then the other trick for me was using overheard arms to adjust my balance for that all important final position, where the speed happens, pressing the free foot heel down first, with toe flexed back, not pointed. Anyway, since Gus had been a ski jumper, I wonder if he thought up all these skating things himself. Probably did.

I have watched so much skating. I agree the skating now is flat. Part the scoring system is annoying,the female skaters are little jumping beans and most skaters choose terrible music.

It says 1989 at the end, although some footage is from archives, of course. Fassi looked about the way he did in 1989, as did Tracey Damigella, a young girl Gus trained, but a few years later she went with Fassi at the Broadmoor, which is where I first saw her. But those clips of a bearded Dick Button on the porch with Gus must've been from archives. He looks so young there.