Axel Paulsen - Jump History

O.K., I lied -- it's Scott Hamilton with a nice history of skating jumps. There is a picture of Axel Paulsen though, and that's all I've been able to find so far! We also need Aloise Lutz, and Werner Rittsberger (loop jump). I am sure studying this slow motion would improve your technique!

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• figure
• skating
• axel
• paulsen
• aloise
• lutz
• herbert
• rittsinger
• scott
• hamilton
• jump
• technique

[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

[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]

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

[danicuevera]

exelente...nada mas :D

[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]

@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]

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

[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!) ^^