Axel Paulsen - Jump History

[EricCW]

hey, what is this video called? I'd like to get the full version (hopefully this isn't the whole thing).

[k9henrydog]

@EricCW It was just a segment done for television OLYMPIC coverage. This is all there is.........best wishes

[EricCW]

@k9henrydog thanks, i'll be coming back to this video many times for reference.

[Ardenis9]

RRRITBERRRGER!!!:D:D We here in Budapest call it Rittberger....Oh well at least he can say a right "r"...:D:D

[cajsalindahl]

hope you understood my extreamly bad english. and thank you for letting me try to explain. :) Agree with you though. It's some crazy things we're looking at. Sometimes I don't understand when higher educated judges see things that I don't see and I just don't understand. But I'm always learning new things for every new compitision that I am judging. But I am sticking to the smaller once cause I just get dizzy with the new system. thank god I get to judge with a simplear one. :)

[k9henrydog]

Thanks for commenting. Your English is just fine!! I am glad you have a simpler system, a great many people here hate this new approach. Seems silly to differentiate skaters by less than a point or two. I can obviously tell who is a better skater, but it comes from an overall approach and judgement. I see what you are saying about the jumps now. There has been a change in technique, with the modern approach leading to more consistent jumps (but like you say - less rotation than it used 2 B)

[cajsalindahl]

@k9henrydog yes, exactly. :)

nice that you understood my english. cause I almost didn't udnerstood myself and I had to run out to my friends with questions on how to spell a word or the one when they looked like a quesrion mark "What is inside or outside edge in english!?". they don't know a shit about figure skating so they like "I don't even know what that means in swedish so....". haha! I don't even know if I got it right anyway but you seem to understand it. :)

xx Cajsa

[cajsalindahl]

good to learn how to see difference in jumps if you are a "newbee". but some of the jumps are preformed wrong in the video. as a judge I can say he would not do great in a compitision now a day's when you can go back and see it like this, in slowmo...

[k9henrydog]

Well, i guess it is a rather casual exhibition piece, but which jumps do you think are performed incorrectly...and why??? We would like to know what kinds of crazy things you judges are thinking these days???? lol best wishes

[cajsalindahl]

Some of the jumps are told to be jumped backwards and sure, he comes from the back but he never takes off until he's fully rotated in front. Witch makes the jump preformed as a axel but with a toe or a step and it only get's 1,5 turn. wish makes it not clear. the soomed in version of lutz is preformed at a "strate edge" instaid of a outside edge. (do you understand what I mean? My english is AWEFUL, sorry!) ^^

[cajsalindahl]

Something you can add that's different between flip and lutz are that lutz jumps from an outside edge and flip from a inside edge. :) I always leard to do loop and salchow from the back as well, and not get up från the side edge. I think the "rules" for salchow is that it can be preformed from the edge but the loop (or as we call it in sweden, Ögel) has to be backwards. we always got to do loop from a inside scratch spin to get it right. Hated it. :P

[frasermel]

Way to make it look easy.  Good stuff.

[katrada]

Scott's comments on jumps are hilarious:

"Axel is intimidating jump, because you have to look where you going... all the other jumps take off backwards and they are kind of back there somewhere, this one is right in front of you!"

[k9henrydog]

He does have a unique 'approach' to the sport! and he consistently sticks to it.......God love em...best wishes

[tinymavy]

yeah, but it is very true for anybody who skates. Great segment. Scott sure had good technique.

[Lucithen]

thank you very much. I've been having problems with my jumps, especially the axel, and now ive watched this i can see exactly what im doing wrong. thanks again for posting this!

[k9henrydog]

great!! I do think if you can get these positions in your mind, it will help your jumping!! good luck and best wishes

[soulmuzixercher]

this is very informative, thank you. have you ever thought of converting your videos to digital instead or recording the video from your TV set?

[k9henrydog]

Yes, and I suppose I will at some point. This is just a bad video to start with, a lot of the glitches are on the tape. I bought a recorder to transpose, but am not enough of a geek to figure out how to make it happen! It is unbelievable how many times you have to push buttons on the remote. I am still studying the instructional video!! LOL Maybe in time I will get some assistance, or the technology will get simpler. best wishes

[alessa25ifs]

excellent video !

thanks so much !

[k9henrydog]

You are very welcome, my kindred skating spirit. How is your skating going? Seabisquit is one of my favorite stories as well, being from Kentucky as I am!! best wishes

[laybackspin]

hehe one of the guys at my rink can do a backflip, its well awesome. When u see it right infront of you your like omg wtf !!!!!!

[Monyka68]

Thank you so much for your precious suggestions! Great video!

Monica

[FrozenHermit]

Thanks.