Waltz jump + loop

Waltz jump (LFO, off the edge) straight into a loop (RBO, off the edge), 1.5 rotations in all.

combotakeoff LFObetween RBOlanding RBO1.5 rotations

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.

LFOtakes off

RBOlands, takes off

RBOlands

The edges, drawn: the waltz jump's takeoff, the edge between each jump and the next, and the 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 —

LFO takeoff · half rotation · RBO landing, held · loop: 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 waltz jump is often the first jump a skater puts in front of another. Its half turn lands on the same back outside edge as almost every jump here, an edge the skater has already practised.

The waltz jump lands RBO and the 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 loop is the harder second jump. With no pick, the skater holds the landing edge, brings the free leg through to cross in front and springs off the same edge. Its base value is higher than a toe loop’s.

Derived

The waltz jump takes off LFO off the edge and lands RBO; the loop takes off from that same edge with no pick and lands RBO. 1.5 rotations in all. The waltz jump has no ISU code.

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

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

Build on

Waltz jumpThe first jump, and the only one with a forward takeoff apart from the Axel it grows into.
LoopRBO takeoff, off the edge, 1 rotation to RBO.

Appears in

In the UK's grades

None of the British level lists in this guide name it outside the Skills tests below.

No test syllabus recorded yet.