Lutz jump

The Lutz is a figure skating jump, named after Alois Lutz, an Austrian skater who performed it in 1913. It is a toepick-assisted jump with an entrance from a back outside edge and landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot. It is the second-most difficult jump and the second-most famous jump after the axel.

Figure skating element
Element name:Lutz jump
Scoring abbreviation:Lz
Element type:Jump
Take-off edge:Back outside
Landing edge:Back outside
Inventor:Alois Lutz

History

The lutz jump is the second-most difficult jump in figure skating[1] and "probably the second-most famous jump after the Axel".[2] It is named after figure skater Alois Lutz from Vienna, Austria, who first performed it in 1913.[3][2] In competitions, the base value of a single lutz is 0.60; the base value of a double lutz is 2.10; the base value of a triple lutz is 5.90; and the base value of a quadruple lutz is 11.50.[4]

Firsts
JumpAbbr.NameNationCompetitionReferences
Double lutz (women's)2LzAlena Vrzáňová Czechoslovakia1949 World Championships[5]
Triple lutz (men's)3LzDonald Jackson Canada1962 World Figure Skating Championships[3]
Triple lutz (women's)3LzDenise Biellman  Switzerland1978 European Championships[3]
Quadruple lutz (men's)4LzBrandon Mroz United States2011 Colorado Springs Invitational
2011 NHK Trophy		[6]
Quadruple lutz (women's)4LzAlexandra Trusova Russia2018 ISU Junior Grand Prix Armenia Cup[3]
Quadruple lutz-triple toe loop combination4Lz+3TBoyang Jin China2015 Cup of China[7]
Side-by-side triple lutz (pairs)Meagan Duhamel and
Ryan Arnold		 Canada2005 Canadian National Championships[8]

Execution

The ISU defines the lutz jump as "a toe-pick assisted jump with an entrance from a back outside edge and landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot".[3] Skaters tend to go into it with a long, diagonal take-off into one of the corners of the rink. It is a difficult jump because it is counter-rotational, which means that the skater sets it up by twisting in one way and jumping in the other. Many skaters "cheat" the jump because they are not strong enough to maintain the counter-rotational edge, resulting in taking off from the wrong edge.[9] A "cheated" lutz jump without an outside edge is called a "flutz".[2]

References
  1. Park, Alice (22 February 2018). "How to Tell the Difference Between the 6 Figure Skating Jumps You'll See at the Olympics". Time Magazine. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  2. "Identifying Jumps" (PDF). U.S. Figure Skating. p. 2. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  3. Media Guide, p. 13
  4. "Communication No. 2168: Single & Pair Skating". Lausanne, Switzerland: International Skating Union. 23 May 2018. p. 2. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  5. Elliott, Helene (13 March 2009). "Brian Orser heads list of World Figure Skating Hall of Fame inductees". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  6. Sarkar, Pritha; Fallon, Clare (28 March 2017). "Figure skating - Breakdown of quadruple jumps, highest scores and judging". Reuters. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  7. Media Guide, p. 14
  8. "Pairs: Meagan Duhamel/Ryan Arnold". International Skating Union. 29 July 2007. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  9. Abad-Santos, Alexander (5 February 2014). "A GIF Guide to Figure Skaters' Jumps at the Olympics". The Atlantic Monthly. Retrieved 24 December 2019.

Works cited
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