1957 - David Jenkins Triple Axel

a short newsreel in which 1960 Olympic Gold Medallist performs a huuuuge triple axel. This was 21 years before the jump was finally landed in competition.

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• David
• Jenkins
• Triple
• Axel
• Ice
• Figure
• Skating
• 1957

[Saphead]

Forget the triple axel-- right now we would be hard pressed to find many skaters with the quality camel, sit, and scratch spin Jenkin displays here.

[Zuranthium]

It's not really possible to take off from the back edge and complete a Triple Axel. He's definitely just curving around on the blade, as several other skaters do.

[EmmaKatherine143]

Wow im a skater, and this is awesome! but he did cheat the takeoff of the triple axel. He turned a half rotation before taking off, he had a good RFO edge but took off to late.

[comets69]

Holy crap!!! That was a triple!

[comets69]

This is a double axel. Not triple. Idiots!

[faeryquene]

@floskate Well put. Even if it was 2 years ago. :)

[dancerandskater101]

lol everything looks rediculus because its in slow mo, ps if you want to get higher then a 5 when you are testing i suggest not pre routating... that was to everyone talking about pre routating :)

[harzgrill]

wow



[JavierFontana]

Amaizing!.

[hamstergeisha76]

@iceroby72 back then skaters were mostly judged on the figure eights, so they mostly practiced on those rather than freestyle. That's the reason their jumps might look "wrong" to us these days as jumps and spins were not the most practiced aspects of figure skating back then.

[filipinoICEsk8ter]

@iceroby72 For one thing I was told to look Jenkins up. Seeing is that he is one of the greatest skaters of the 20th century. Im here to watch and learn. If I don't know what I'm talking about, then why is it that he didn't fall? By the way, learn how to speak like an adult. Instead of calling people inappropriate names like "wanker" or saying "Go beck to the toilet little one...handjobs are waiting for you". I mean seriously be an adult.

For a "judge" you speak very unprofessional.

[iceroby72]

@iceroby72 BLA BLA BLA I got sick about you ... You don't even know what you are talking about ... Listen to me ... You told that you're practicing you triple axle ... good ... make a take off like the one in this video then go to an international competition and see what a real judge pannel thinks about it ok?

Good bye honey ...