quad axel

[kzarah]

I actually fell for this the first time I watched it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7J79vm5BE

Daniel

 

[GoldMedalist]

I was excited the first time I saw that video many months ago...I thought it would be a practice tape of someone actually landing one!

But...no.

Quad Axel is a scary thing. If someone ever does it with any consistency I will be stunned.

 

[Mafke]

I can't think of much I'd _less_ like to see than the emergence of any new quad...

No, I'm wrong, I'd much less rather see a return of Plushenko's "Baby Sex-bomb" exhibition (the horrors of which made the "Chicken" exhibition seem like restrained good taste).

But within the bounds of eligible competition, please no new quads.

 

[rjulie510]

I don't think quad axel is a realistic possibility at least at this point. I remember reading somewhere Alexei Yagudin, who in his prime had the highest gravity-defying triple axels, tried quad axel, and landed in his head. And after that point on, he never tried quad axel again.

 

[Justlooking]

Here's a video of a quad axel (fall) by Igor Macypura
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG_uc4O3DVE&mode=related&search=

 

[goldenpleasures]

Alexei Urmanov was practising the quad axel years before Yagudin tried it.

He ended up injuring himself in the process, and didn't attempt them again.

 

[Tinymavy15]

I was excited the first time I saw that video many months ago...I thought it would be a practice tape of someone actually landing one!

But...no.

Quad Axel is a scary thing. If someone ever does it with any consistency I will be stunned.

if anyone ever tries one i will be stunned.

 

[antmanb]

Here's a video of a quad axel (fall) by Igor Macypura
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG_uc4O3DVE&mode=related&search=

Looked more like a fall on a triple axel attempt to me.

Ant

 

[Justlooking]

Looked more like a fall on a triple axel attempt to me.

Ant

Hmmm, maybe. The first time I counted 3, the second, 4...

 

[antmanb]

Hmmm, maybe. The first time I counted 3, the second, 4...

With rotations i tend to watch the back of the head and see when it turns to backwards - if you ignore the first one when looking at an axel (becuase of the first half turn) i only count three as he falls.

Ant

 

[GoldMedalist]

It's an underrotated Quad Axel. He needs about 1/3 more of a turn, which is enormously hard to obtain when you've already reached that number of rotations, for it to be a real Quad.

With the height he's getting, I don't think he'll ever be able to do a Quad Axel.