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A figure skating jump is determined by the launch, landing, and number of revolutions completed. Any jump of at least one but fewer than two revolutions is a single jump; similarly for double, triple, and quadruple jumps. Current world-class competition for men requires quadruple jumps, while women need triple jumps; only one woman has been able to do a quadruple jump in competition, the Japanese skater Miki Ando.
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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. ...
Miki Ando (安藤美姫, AndŠMiki, born on December 18, 1987) is a Japanese figure skater. ...
An edge jump is any jump which takes off from the skating foot without bringing the free foot in contact with the ice to assist the takeoff. Edge jumps include the axel, loop, and salchow. The axel jump, named for its originator Axel Paulsen, is launched on the forward outside edge and landed on the back outside edge of the opposite foot. It is the only jump that begins facing forward. The loop jump is launched from the back outside edge and lands on the same back outside edge. The salchow jump (pronounced "'sal-kau"), named for its originator Ulrich Salchow, is launched off the back inside edge and landed on the back outside edge of the opposite foot. The waltz jump is a one-half rotation launched from the forward outside edge, similar to an axel, and is rarely performed in competition. Tonya Harding performs a triple Axel jump at the 1991 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. ...
Axel Paulsen (1855-1938) was a Norwegian figure skater. ...
The Loop is a figure skating jump that takes off from a back outside edge and lands on the same edge. ...
The salchow is a figure skating jump with a takeoff from a back inside edge and landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot after one or more rotations in the air. ...
Karl Emil Julius Ulrich Salchow (August 7, 1877-April 19, 1949) was a Swedish figure skater, who dominated the sport in the first decade of the 20th century. ...
Tonya Harding performs a triple axel jump at the 1991 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. ...
A toe-pick assisted jump is any jump in which the toe pick of the free foot is used to assist in pushing off. Such jumps include the flip, lutz, and toe loop. The flip jump is launched from a back inside edge and landed on the back outside edge of the opposite foot. The lutz jump, named for its originator Alois Lutz, is launched from a back outside edge and landed on the back outside edge of the opposite foot. The rotation of the jump is in the opposite direction to the wide curve skated to prepare for the launch. The toe loop jump is launched from the back outside edge and lands on the same back outside edge (in other words, a toe-pick assisted loop jump). The flip jump (usually just flip) is a jump in figure skating in which the counter-clockwise jumper takes off from the left back inside edge and lands on the right back outside edge (reverse feet for the clockwise jumper). ...
The lutz is a jump in figure skating, named after Alois Lutz, an Austrian skater who performed it in 1913. ...
The toe loop is one of the simplest jumps in figure skating. ...
In levels of difficulty, the jumps are ordered as follows with 1 being the hardest and 6 being the least difficult:
- 1. Axel
- 2. Lutz
- 3. Flip
- 4. Loop or Rittberger
- 5. Salchow
- 6. Toe Loop or Toe Walley
In pairs figure skating the throw jump may be performed, in which the woman is thrown into the air by her partner and lands on a back outside edge.
There are eight different competitive levels of figure skating. These begin, from easiest to most difficult, with Pre-Preliminary, Preliminary, Pre-Juvenile, Juvenile, (Pre-)Intermediate, (Pre-)Novice, Junior, and Senior, the last being the Olympic level.
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