Double Lutz
LBO takeoff, off the pick, 2 rotations to RBO.
Also called 2Lz. Other names.
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The Lutz with a second turn. The long back outside edge, the pick placed behind and the vault are the single’s, and so is what makes it hard: the rotation runs against the curve you have been tracing.
With two turns to find, the temptation is to start turning before the pick goes in. Let the shoulders come round early and the edge rolls from outside to inside, and the jump becomes a double flip whatever it was meant to be. The fault shows in the shoulder line long before the takeoff.
That is why both the Lutz and the flip can carry an edge call on a protocol sheet. Hold the outside edge to the moment the pick goes in, and the jump stays a Lutz.
Derived
LBO is three letters (foot, direction, edge): left foot, backwards, outside edge. Every edge in the guide is written that way, so RBI is a right foot travelling backwards on an inside edge.
Takes off LBO and lands RBO, the same edge every jump in this guide but the Euler lands on, so the takeoff is what tells them apart. The toe pick provides the vault.
No other double takes off from LBO. That is exactly why it drifts: roll onto the other edge and it becomes a different jump entirely.
The Lutz with one more turn in the air: the same takeoff and the same landing.
Lands on RBO, where the toe loop and the loop take off, so it can start a combination: double Lutz + double toe loop or double Lutz + double loop.
A skater who rotates clockwise takes off RBO and lands LBO: the same jump, mirrored.
Build on
- LutzThe only jump that takes off from a back outside edge curving against its own rotation, and the one most often done wrong.
Leads to
4 elements in the guide are built on this one.
- Double Lutz + double loopDouble Lutz (LBO, off the pick) straight into a double loop (RBO, off the edge), 4 rotations in all.
- Double Lutz + double toe loopDouble Lutz (LBO, off the pick) straight into a double toe loop (RBO, off the pick), 4 rotations in all.
- Double Lutz + Euler + double flipDouble Lutz (LBO, off the pick) through an Euler into a double flip (LBI, off the pick), 5 rotations in all.
- Double Lutz + Euler + double SalchowDouble Lutz (LBO, off the pick) through an Euler into a double Salchow (LBI, off the edge), 5 rotations in all.
Appears in
In Australia's grades
None of the Australian level lists in this guide name it.