Lutz
The only jump that takes off from a back outside edge curving against its own rotation, and the one most often done wrong.
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A long back outside edge, the free toe pick placed behind, and the vault over the pick sends you into a rotation that runs against the curve you have been tracing. That counter-rotation is what makes it feel different from every other jump.
It is also why it goes wrong. Every other jump shares its takeoff edge with another jump; the Lutz has that edge to itself. Let the shoulders come round early and the edge rolls from outside to inside, at which point you have jumped a flip and called it a Lutz. The fault is visible long before the takeoff, in the shoulder line.
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 jump takes off from LBO. That is exactly why it drifts: roll onto the other edge and it becomes a different jump entirely.
The double Lutz 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: Lutz + toe loop or Lutz + loop.
A skater who rotates clockwise takes off RBO 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
5 elements in the guide are built on this one.
- Double LutzLBO takeoff, off the pick, 2 rotations to RBO.
- Lutz + Euler + flipLutz (LBO, off the pick) through an Euler into a flip (LBI, off the pick), 3 rotations in all.
- Lutz + Euler + SalchowLutz (LBO, off the pick) through an Euler into a Salchow (LBI, off the edge), 3 rotations in all.
- Lutz + loopLutz (LBO, off the pick) straight into a loop (RBO, off the edge), 2 rotations in all.
- Lutz + toe loopLutz (LBO, off the pick) straight into a toe loop (RBO, off the pick), 2 rotations in all.
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No test syllabus recorded yet.
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