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- Jun 21, 2003
What are the actual mechanics of landing a jump? Is it something like this? The toe-pick touches down first, then you kind of slide the blade down so that by the time the blade is actually supporting your weight, you on an outflowing outside edge with your weight over the center of the blade?
I am pretty sure I have read that for purposes of determining under-rotation, the rotation is called at the point when any part of the blade first touches the ice. It seems like you are going to rotate about 90 degrees between that point in time and the point in time when the blade is actually supporting your weight.
If so, then every jump – the most perfect jump in the world -- will be “under-rotated” by ninety degrees or so. If you actually completed three full rotations in the air (for a triple) before first touch down, then you would complete the landing over-rotated with your blade sideways, which would cause a fall.
Is this right?
I am pretty sure I have read that for purposes of determining under-rotation, the rotation is called at the point when any part of the blade first touches the ice. It seems like you are going to rotate about 90 degrees between that point in time and the point in time when the blade is actually supporting your weight.
If so, then every jump – the most perfect jump in the world -- will be “under-rotated” by ninety degrees or so. If you actually completed three full rotations in the air (for a triple) before first touch down, then you would complete the landing over-rotated with your blade sideways, which would cause a fall.
Is this right?