PJ Kwong

Favourite skating moments, and we all have one or two, are not always about the making of today’s champions…they sometimes say as much about the speaker, as they do about the skating event or skater featured in that moment…in today’s Edgework:

DEWEY BROWNING

Technical Merit - Personal and professional highlights

· Kurt Browning’s Dad, and, having seen it firsthand, maybe his biggest fanJ

· Longtime (60 years +) Alberta trail guide, and expert horseman.

· Published columnist and author.

Artistic Impression - The essence of their story

‘Kurt’s skating has been the source of lots of favourite skating moments for me, but one moment pops out as being particularly memorable. Budapest (Hungary) Worlds was where Kurt landed the first quadruple jump ever in competition, and it is the thing that got him into the Guinness Book Of World Records. What people don’t know, is that before the competition, Kurt and I were talking about the quad, and the fact that competition after competition he wasn’t able to land it. I told him that this competition was “now or never” time, and that if he didn’t land it this time, that we would just forget about it and never talk about it again. Well, the time came, and he landed it !!! I was so excited, I couldn’t believe it! Even though there was a little turn on the end of the jump, he stayed standing and I knew that history had been made. Once home, a friend in Caroline told me that on television, he had recognized my distinctive and very loud whistle in the noise of the crowd at that moment, and had known that something great must have happened.’