competitors making these huge preparations into these jumps. triple jumps were a definite necessity back in my- day and injohn's day. those three triples - and those triples that he performed were textbook. you can go, you can watch people and you can use i people as an example. withjohn, you could use his footwork, his choreography, his style, hisjumping technique, his spinning technique. - all of these things you could use as a teaching tool. _ that doesn't happen very often. he was a tortured soul, and i think the actual competing was a difficult thing for him. and itjust all came together in 1976 and, certainly, you know, inspired the next generation of robin cousins and then ourselves, for sure. you could tell it was worked on, | you could tell it was finessed, i and that's what made it so incredible. - i've always said that, ifjohn hadn't done