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A skating move where a skater pushes off the ice into the air. May be a rotational jump or a positional jump; all jumps that count as element s under the ISU Judging System are rotational jumps, whereas positional jumps count as transition s (the term jump is most often used to mean a rotational jump for this reason). jump combination Also ...
Jumps were viewed as "acrobatic tricks, not as a part of a skater's art" [7] and "had no place" [8] in the skating practices in England during the 19th century, although skaters experimented with jumps from the ice during the last 25 years of the 1800s. Hops, or jumps without rotations, were done for safety reasons, to avoid obstacles, such as ...
In ice dance, there were limitations to dance spins, as well as for other moves associated with pair skating like jumps and lifts, when ice dance became a competitive sport and throughout the 1950s. Spins were limited to a maximum of one-and-a-half revolutions when done by one partner and to two-and-a-half revolutions when they spun around each ...
The Biellmann spin is a difficult variation of the layback spin in figure skating.It is executed by the skater grabbing their free blade and pulling the heel of their boot behind and above the level of the head so that their legs are in an approximate full split, with the head and back arched upward. [1]
Ulrich Salchow, inventor of the Salchow jump. The Salchow jump was named after its inventor, Swedish world champion Ulrich Salchow in 1909. [3] [4] According to writer Ellyn Kestnbaum, American skater Theresa Weld "received reprimands" at the 1920 Olympics "for performing a single Salchow jump because her skirt would fly up to her knees, creating an image deemed too risque".
Moves in the field is a name given to elements of figure skating that emphasize basic skating skill and edge control. In the context of a competitive program, 'moves in the field' include spirals , spread eagles , Ina Bauers , hydroblading , and similar extended edge moves.
A spiral is an element in figure skating where the skater glides on one foot while raising the free leg above hip level. It is akin to the arabesque in ballet.. Spiral positions are classified according to the skating leg (left or right), edge (outside or inside), direction the skater is traveling (forward or backward), and the position of the free leg (backward, forward, sideways).
The Lutz is a figure skating jump, named after Alois Lutz, an Austrian skater who performed it in 1913. It is a toepick-assisted jump with an entrance from a back outside edge and landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot. It is the second-most difficult jump in figure skating [1] and "probably the second-most famous jump after the ...