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- Jun 21, 2003
Another edge question.
There is a little blurb in the new International Figure Skating magazine about Don Jackson. It says that he not only made history by doing the first triple Lutz in competition, at Worlds in 1962, but also that he was the "only skater of his time to land the double Axel in both directions."
Does this mean that he could do this jump off either leg? Or is there an outside edge Axel that rotates one way and an inside edge Axel that rotates the other way?
The way the sentence is worded it makes it seem that Jackson was not necessarily the first to do this. I know Dick Button was the first to do a double Axel. Could he do it "both ways?" Or Hayes Alan Jenkins?
I read somewhere that the first year Lori Nichol skated with John Curry's show, the choreography called for her to do a double Axel in the "wrong direction." She couldn't do it that way, so she changed places with one of the other ladies, putting her on the other side (there were two lines) allowing her to turn the jump the way that she could do it.
Mathman
There is a little blurb in the new International Figure Skating magazine about Don Jackson. It says that he not only made history by doing the first triple Lutz in competition, at Worlds in 1962, but also that he was the "only skater of his time to land the double Axel in both directions."
Does this mean that he could do this jump off either leg? Or is there an outside edge Axel that rotates one way and an inside edge Axel that rotates the other way?
The way the sentence is worded it makes it seem that Jackson was not necessarily the first to do this. I know Dick Button was the first to do a double Axel. Could he do it "both ways?" Or Hayes Alan Jenkins?
I read somewhere that the first year Lori Nichol skated with John Curry's show, the choreography called for her to do a double Axel in the "wrong direction." She couldn't do it that way, so she changed places with one of the other ladies, putting her on the other side (there were two lines) allowing her to turn the jump the way that she could do it.
Mathman