Lutz jump

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Figure skating element
Element nameLutz jump
Scoring abbreviation Lz
Element type Jump
Take-off edgeBack outside
Landing edgeBack outside
Inventor Alois Lutz

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 in figure skating [1] and "probably the second-most famous jump after the Axel". [2]

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History

The Lutz jump is named after figure skater Alois Lutz from Vienna, Austria, who first performed it in 1913. [2] [3] In competitions, points are awarded based on the number of rotations completed during the jump. The base value of a successful single Lutz is 0.60, a double Lutz 2.10, a triple Lutz 5.90; and a quadruple Lutz 11.50. [4]

Firsts

Abbr.Jump ElementSkaterNationEventReferences
2LzDouble Lutz (women's) Alena Vrzáňová [lower-alpha 1] Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czechoslovakia 1949 World Championships [5]
3LzTriple Lutz (men's) Donald Jackson Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1962 World Championships [3]
Triple Lutz (women's) Denise Biellman Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland 1978 European Championships [3]
4LzQuadruple Lutz (men's) Brandon Mroz Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2011 Colorado Springs Invitational
2011 NHK Trophy
[6]
Quadruple Lutz (women's) Alexandra Trusova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 2018 ISU Junior Grand Prix Armenia Cup [3]
4Lz+3TQuadruple Lutz-triple toe loop combination Boyang Jin Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2015 Cup of China [3]
Side-by-side triple Lutz (pairs) Meagan Duhamel and
Ryan Arnold
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2005 Canadian Championships [7]

Execution

The International Skating Union (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. [8] A "cheated" Lutz jump without an outside edge is called a "flutz". [2]

Footnotes

  1. According to https://olympics.com/en/athletes/jacqueline-du-bief, Jacqueline du Bief, in 1952, was the first woman to do a double Lutz in international competition, but it was a controversial win, and she later wrote in her book Thin Ice, that American Sonya Klopfer deserved the title.

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