Axel Paulsen (1855-1938) was a Norwegian figure skater. He was the inventor of the axel jump in figure skating, where you take off on your left back outside edge (LBO) and do one and a half rotations in the air, landing on your right back outside edge (RBO). It is the hardest of all the jumps, but the easiest to recognize because it is the only jump with more than one rotation going forward. Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on the ice, often to music. ... Jump to: navigation, search Tonya Harding performs a triple axel jump at the 1991 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. ...
The Axel is a jump in figure skating, named after the Norwegian skater AxelPaulsen (1855-1938) who was the first to perform it in 1882.
AxelPaulsen was the first skater to perform the jump named after him, in 1882.
Today, however, her axel technique (preserved in her many films) would be considered very poor, since her jumps were badly pre-rotated without a "step up", giving them more the character of a jumped spin.
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