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mskater93

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It will look more like a regular flying camel than like a regular salchow jump, except the blade will turn on the ice before the skater is completely airborne, and the flight will probably be weaker than the average flying camel.

In skater vernacular in our area, it's referred to as a "step over" and is an incorrect entry into the fly camel.
 
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Jun 21, 2003
I think Joe makes an interesting point about pre-rotation on the take-off versus short rotation on the landing. Those few hearty souls (ladies) who attenpt a triple-triple combination with a triple loop as the second jump are hit with a "<" pretty close to 100% of the time.

Is it pre-rotation by three-quarters of a rotation, or is the landing short by 135 degrees or so?
 

Ladskater

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Most skaters find the toe loop the easiest jump, with the Salchow right behind. The CoP agrees. The triple toe is the lowest valued triple (4.0) , with the Salchow next (4.5). The Zayak rule was put in place because Elaine Zayak could do triple toes all night long.

But in figure skating history, it seems that the edge jumps came first, and it took longer to master the toe jumps, even the toe loop.

First double jump by a woman: Cecelia College, 1936 (Salchow) (I think Gillis Grafstrom might have been the first man to do a double Sal, in 1920.)

First triple jump: Dick Button, 1952 (loop!)

First triple Salchow: Men, Ronnie Robertson, 1955; Ladies, Petra Burke, 1962.

First triple toe loop: Thomas Litz, 1964

How did it happen that Dick Button could do a jump that is still pretty hard for today's skaters, a triple loop, more than a decade before anyone could do a triple toe?

Quads were the other way around. Kurt Browning was credited with the first quad toe in 1988, and others landed them with only the slighest of two-foot landings at about the same time. In wasn't until a decade later, 1998, that Tim Goebel landed the first quad Salchow.



You for got to mention the first triple Lutz was achieved by Donald Jackson in 1962 at the Worlds in Prauge. A much more difficult jump than a loop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alrsemq_mzQ

Brian Orser landed the first triple Axel Jump at the Olypmics in 1984. Brian Orser became known as "Mr. Triple Axel."

Here he is in 1981 doing his first attempt at a triple Axel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frWn06X2fZ4
 
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