ABesti squat is afigure skating move. It is similar to thespread eagle in that the skater travels along an edge with both skates on the ice, the toes turned out to the sides and the heels facing each other. The knees are bent outwards into asquatting position with the thighs held parallel to the ice and the torso kept upright.Inballet terminology, it is aplié with the feet insecond position.

The move is unofficially named afterNatalia Bestemianova, who performed the move repeatedly in her 1988 free dance withAndrei Bukin.^[1][2]

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  Solo Besti squat
  (Wakaba Higuchi)
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  A full-frontal view of a solo Besti squat
  (Hana Yoshida)
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  A pair team perform Besti squats during the2011 World Figure Skating Championships
  (Maylin Hausch &Daniel Wende)
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  A pair team perform Besti squats in close contact
  (Riku Miura &Ryuichi Kihara)

• "Glossary: Turns and Glides".Figure Skating Journal. Archived fromthe original on February 22, 2009.Besti Squat: A novel variation on the spread eagle, the Besti squat was named after Natalia Bestemianova, who won the 1988 Olympic ice dance gold medal with her partner, Andrei Boukine, of the former Soviet Union. The movement may be performed on the flat of the blade or either edge. The knees are deeply bent and turned out, creating a squatting spread eagle. Like a traditional spread eagle, turn out should originate at the hips. The torso remains upright or may tilt or bend as desired for artistic effect.

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