Field Guide to Figure Skating
NZ

Loop + toe loop

Loop (RBO, off the edge) straight into a toe loop (RBO, off the pick), 2 rotations in all.

Also called 1Lo+1T. Other names.

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Not checked yet. The mechanics on this page are a first draft by a non-expert, and no coach has seen them yet. Read them as a starting point and check them with a coach. Corrections are very welcome.

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The edges, drawn: the loop's takeoff, the edge between each jump and the next, and the toe loop's landing. Each edge in between is one edge: one jump lands on it and the next leaves from it.

shoulder to hip —on the —
RBO takeoff · one rotation · RBO landing, held · toe loop: off the 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.

The loop lands on the edge it took off from, so the first jump hands the second its takeoff directly. With no pick anywhere, everything depends on landing the first on an edge that is still curving cleanly.

The loop lands RBO and the toe loop takes off from RBO: one edge, held, with no step or turn on it. In a jump sequence the skater may hop or step between the jumps; in a combination there is nothing between them.

The toe loop is the usual second jump. The landing edge is already its takeoff, so the free foot reaches back, the toe goes in behind, and the pick gives the lift that the remaining speed cannot.

Derived

The loop takes off RBO off the edge and lands RBO; the toe loop takes off from that same edge off the pick and lands RBO. 2 rotations in all, written 1Lo+1T on a protocol sheet.

Made of the loop and the toe loop. Nothing here is stored on the page beyond the two jumps and the count.

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

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In New Zealand's grades

None of the New Zealand level lists in this guide name it.