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  Figure Skating Journal Glossary, Jumps
The lutz is a counter rotation jump, meaning the skater glides into the jump in the opposite direction to which he will rotate the jump in the air.
This is a critical jump in the development of a figure skater because the movements involved in the take-off of this jump are similar to those required for the toe loop and salchow.
For the jump to appear spectacular, it is usually performed as a delayed axel and the skater seems to hesitate for a moment in the air in a tucked posture.
www.skatejournal.com /jump.html   (3211 words)

  
 Figure Skating Activity Card. Physical Activity. BAM! Body and Mind.
Figure skates are very thick and heavy and have a toe pick attached for tricks.
Figure skates are made up of two parts, the boot and the blade.
Skating can be hard work, and puts a lot of stress on your leg and back muscles, so be sure to warm up before you skate and stretch those muscles well.
www.bam.gov /sub_physicalactivity/activitycards_figureskating.html   (792 words)

  
 Competitive Figure Skating FAQ: Technical Elements
Figures are skated on circles 12 to 15 feet in diameter except for the group of figures called loops which are skated on much smaller circles.
Figure practice is called "patch" because each skater was assigned their own patch of ice on the rink to skate on.
Compulsory figures used to be worth 60% of the score in figure skating, but after 1968 they were progressively devalued and finally eliminated completely from international competition after the 1990 season.
www.frogsonice.com /skateweb/faq/technical.shtml   (4315 words)

  
 Figure skating jump - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A few jumps, notably including the lutz and walley, are counter-rotated, with the approach edge having an opposite rotational sense to the rotation in the air and landing curve.
For multi-rotational jumps, it is important that the skater assume a "tight" position in the air with their body mass concentrated around the axis of rotation in order to minimize the rotational moment of inertia.
In skating parlance, a jump that is cheated is one in which the skater either begins or completes the rotation of a jump on the ice instead of in the air.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Figure_skating_jump   (1758 words)

  
 International Figure Skating
Korean skating sensation Yu-Na Kim has finally made it official that she will be moving to Canada next May to work permanently with coach Brian Orser at the Toronto, Cricket Skating and Curling Club in Toronto.
Skating to “Mediation” from “Thais” by Jules Massenet, Shen and Zhao, the two time Olympic bronze medalists and now five-time Grand Prix Final champions, effortlessly executed every element in their program.
I just had to skate today, I was focused on that,” Savchenko said referring to an injury sustained in a fall in practice last Monday when she crashed into the boards.
www.ifsmagazine.com   (6934 words)

  
 Walley jump - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Evan Lysacek performs a clockwise walley jump as an entrance to a triple lutz.
A Walley jump is a full rotation jump in figure skating where the skater jumps off of the backward inside edge, makes one full rotation in the air, and then lands on the backward outside edge of the same foot.
Walley jumps are related to edge pulls, a technique for gaining power by means of changing edge while skating on one foot.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walley_jump   (274 words)

  
 Figure Skating Jump Physics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
I hope this web site can provide a location where Internet travellers interested in figure skating can read and contribute articles on the physics of figure skating jumps.
A BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF THE AXEL: CRITICAL PARAMETERS FOR SUCCESSFUL JUMPS, by Deborah L. King, Biomechanics Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, The Professional Skater, January/February, 1997.
Takeoff Characteristics of Single and Double Axel Figure Skating Jumps.
www-personal.engin.umich.edu /~gcoch/jumpphysics/jumpphys.html   (203 words)

  
 Figure Skater's Website (main menu)
Though all are welcome, the Figure Skater's Website will be of greatest interest to those actually participating in the sport as skaters, parents, professionals, and club officials.
This site is both a reference to Figure Skating information, and a place for skaters to communicate about things like "partners wanted", "skates for sale", etc. Your active two-way participation on this site will help to make it a genuinely useful place for all skaters to congregate
For instance if you have an interest in the Salchow jump, you could type in "salchow" and the search engine will give you a list of every page on this site which has the word "salchow" on it.
www.sk8stuff.com   (831 words)

  
 lutz definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
Search for "lutz" in all of MSN Encarta
figure-skating jump: a figure-skating jump from the back edge of one skate, landing on the back edge of the other, with one or more full rotations
Probably after Gustave Lussi (1898-1993), Swiss figure skater and skating coach]
encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861738904/lutz.html   (83 words)

  
 Ice Skating World . com - The Internet's most comprehensive ice skating community.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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