Flip

A toe jump from a back inside edge: the Lutz's near neighbour, and its usual impostor.

jumptakeoff LBIlanding RBOtoe jump1 rotation

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LBItakes off

RBOlands

The two edges, drawn. What happens between them is not: a tracing is the record of a blade on the ice, and for most of a jump the blade is not on it. Each of these curves is drawn by more than one jump. What separates this one from the Salchow is the pick, and no curve can show either.

Entrance

shoulder to hip —on the —

LBI takeoff out of a three turn, off the right toe pick · one rotation · RBO landing. Negative twist means the shoulders are held back against the hips, which stores rotation before a takeoff and checks it on a landing.

Back inside edge, the free toe pick in, vault and rotate. Mechanically the pick action is identical to a Lutz. The only difference is which edge you are on when you place the pick, and that the rotation goes with the curve. On a Lutz it goes against it.

Seen from above the two are immediately distinguishable and from the side they are nearly identical, which is why the guide shows both views together.

What it rests on is the back inside edge and the three turn that usually arrives on it, and on setting a pick behind without leaning back onto it. Both are elements here, and a flip that rotates early is almost always the three turn before it rotating early.

Derived

LBI is three letters (foot, direction, edge): left foot, backwards, inside edge. Every edge in the guide is written that way, so RBI is a right foot travelling backwards on an inside edge.

Takes off LBI 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.

Shares its takeoff edge with the Salchow: the pair that get mistaken for each other.

The double flip is this jump 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: flip + toe loop or flip + loop.

Takes off from LBI, where the Euler lands, so it can come third in a combination with an Euler in the middle.

A skater who rotates clockwise takes off RBI and lands LBO: the same jump, mirrored.

Off the ice

Holding the landingThe one position the jumps land in, held for longer than a landing lasts.

Leads to

11 elements in the guide are built on this one, and the 8 nearest are listed here.

Double flipLBI takeoff, off the pick, 2 rotations to RBO.
Axel + Euler + flipAxel (LFO, off the edge) through an Euler into a flip (LBI, off the pick), 3.5 rotations in all.
Flip + Euler + flipFlip (LBI, off the pick) through an Euler into a flip (LBI, off the pick), 3 rotations in all.
Flip + Euler + SalchowFlip (LBI, off the pick) through an Euler into a Salchow (LBI, off the edge), 3 rotations in all.
Flip + loopFlip (LBI, off the pick) straight into a loop (RBO, off the edge), 2 rotations in all.
Flip + toe loopFlip (LBI, off the pick) straight into a toe loop (RBO, off the pick), 2 rotations in all.
Loop + Euler + flipLoop (RBO, off the edge) through an Euler into a flip (LBI, off the pick), 3 rotations in all.
Lutz + Euler + flipLutz (LBO, off the pick) through an Euler into a flip (LBI, off the pick), 3 rotations in all.

Appears in

In Australia's grades

None of the Australian level lists in this guide name it.