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Master Proper Technique for Leaps and Jumps from the Start… and in Record Time!
This is the place to start if you’re new to jazz leaps and jumps or need to go back to the basics. Each lesson includes detailed instruction and a proper breakdown for each leap or jump, helping you understand not only the “hows” but the “whys” of correct form.
This beginning level focuses on strength, detail and exact technique. With practice and focus on proper placement, these lessons will serve as a foundation for more complex skills and help build a stronger physical base.
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- Backwards hook jump
- Butterfly jump
- Turning C jump
- Turning deer jump
- Back leap
- Firebird leap
- Switch front leap
- Switch arabesque leap
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By the end of this course, you will have the understanding of what is needed to master these skills and will some practice you will be able to execute them properly. This is the best place to start if you have foundational and intermediate leaps and jumps under your belt, and if you are looking to expand and refine your skills with more advanced leaps and jumps.
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- Backwards hook jump
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- Turning deer jump
- Back leap
- Firebird leap
- Switch front leap
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Jazz Dance Terminology – CLI Studios
July 15, 2021 March 7, 2022 / 3 minutes of reading
Like any genre of dance, Jazz dance has its own terminology which is sometimes specific to itself – but often shared with other styles of dance. Here are a few of the more commonly used terms to get you started in your understanding of the style.
Axel Turn
A spinning rotation in which the dancer performs a knee bend and kick in the air before bringing the legs together again on the ground.
Ball Change
A basic move found in most forms of modern dance, a ball change is a transfer of weight from one foot to the other, often performed quickly. The “ball” refers to the ball of the foot, which is the thick muscular pad just below the toes.
Barrel Turn
A spin that is executed by putting a leg forward, kicking off that forward leg, and using the outstretched arms as a means of gathering momentum for the spin. A barrel turn requires tight coordination between the feet and the arms for its success.
Charleston
A popular dance from the early days of jazz and swing, the Charleston has at its core a front-to-back weight shift accompanied by a forward kick, often performed with a partner and with arm motions and sometimes jazz hands.
Chassé
Borrowed from ballet, a chassé–from the French meaning, “to chase”– is a kicking forward motion where one leg “chases” the other. Often performed with arms forward or overhead, a chassé is a good set-up step for a leap.
Fan Kick
Requiring a great degree of flexibility, a fan kick is where one leg travels in a circular motion from in front of the other leg, up into the air at the full range of motion, over the head, and finally down in a resting position. It is named after its imitation of an opening hand fan.
Jazz Hands
A highly stylized and exaggerated splaying of the fingers on open, extended palms. Used to convey rhythm and feeling, very popular in Broadway productions.
Jazz Square
A version of a box step where the dancer creates a square on the ground using a four-step sequence that imitates walking without any forward movement beyond the fourth step.
Usually performed as side, back, side, forward.
Jazz Walk
A forward-moving strut, the jazz walk is meant to convey a cool image, and to give the dancer a sultry and slinky gait when in motion.
Stag Leap
A high forward leap in which the dancer imitates the actions of a male deer, with arms up and the knees bent like a prancing animal.
Lindy Hop
A mixture of preceding jazz dances like the Charleston, as well as tap dance, the Lindy Hop (named after aviator Charles Lindburgh’s groundbreaking 1927 transatlantic flight) is a partnered dance that serves as the centerpiece of the swing dance style. It remains a popular dance because of its improvisational style and fun, stylized movements.
How to get started with figure skating: detailed instructions
Figure skating ≠ ice dancing
What skaters do on the ice is like dancing.
Ice dancing is a separate discipline of figure skating, in which the main thing is to demonstrate the skill of skating. Dancers do not perform jumps and do not raise their partner above their shoulders, while figure skating, which we are used to seeing, is impossible without rotations, jumps and lifts (for couples).
This is sport
Serious though. Figure skating as a separate sport was formed in the 1860s, in 1871 it was recognized at the I Skating Congress, the first competitions were held in 1882 in Vienna among male figure skaters. Figure skating was the first of the winter sports to be included in the summer Olympic program in 1908 and 1920, and since 1924 it has been included in the program of the Winter Olympic Games. This is a competition with a clear structure, requirements, rules and prohibitions.
There are four main disciplines in figure skating:
- men's singles,
- female single,
- pairs e figure skating,
- sports dancing .
Each discipline consists of two programs: short and free .
Olga Pugach
sports columnist, never misses a single event in the world of figure skating
— In single skating, one person is responsible for the result. In pair skating, the result is not even the sum of two terms, but a synergistic effect based on absolute trust. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. Most of all I love men's single skating, because this is an experimental testing ground where the newest, most complex, strange elements are tested.
What is the difference between a short program and a free program
Only duration. The short program lasts a maximum of 2 minutes 50 seconds, and all elements started after the 2:50 mark will not be counted. If the athlete or couple does not complete the program at the specified time, then for every extra 5 seconds, the judges will deduct one point from the total result.
The free program for women lasts 4 minutes, for sports couples and men - 4.5.
Olga Pugach
sports columnist, never misses a single event in the world of figure skating
- A short program is most often a set of acrobatic elements. In the free program, there is time to tell a story, to reveal the image. The Olympics in Pyeongchang were rich in legendary free programs for both singles and pairs. Seimei by Yuzuru Hanyu, Carmen by Alina Zagitova, Moulin Rouge by Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue, performances by Guillaume Cicheron and Gabriela Papadakis, Olympic gold with the fifth (!) attempt by Alena Savchenko and Bruno Massot… Each of these free skates is a story that goes far beyond the ice. The hall was silent and, it seems, was afraid to breathe. I saw this in 2002, when Alexei Yagudin danced Winter, or in 2014, when Yulia Lipnitskaya showed Schindler's List. Isolating individual elements is like finding individual strokes in a painting: it is difficult and not necessary.
What kind of jumps are there
Jumps are divided into two groups: edge jumps, when the skater pushes off from the edge of the supporting skate, and tooth jumps, when they push off with the tooth (toe) of the free leg. Salchow jumps, rittberger and axel are edge jumps, and sheepskin coat, flip and lutz jumps are toothed. The most difficult rib jump is the axel.
- Axel is named after the Danish figure skater Axel Paulsen. The peculiarity of this jump is that it is performed from a forward movement, while all the others are from a backward movement. Due to the fact that the skater jumps forward, there is not an integer number of revolutions in the Axel. A single axel is one and a half turns, a triple is three and a half. Axel in four and a half turns has not yet been performed by a single skater.
- Sheepskin coat is called toe loop in English, and has nothing to do with a fur coat.
Considered the easiest jump. Therefore, you will not see a single sheepskin coat performed by high-level skaters - they will give too few points for it. - Salchow, next in difficulty to the sheepskin coat, named after Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater, 1908 Olympic champion. During its execution, the skater swings with his free leg.
- Slightly harder than salchow - rittberger , aka the loop jump, named after the German figure skater Werner Rittberger. When entering the rittberger, the skater crosses his legs and pushes off.
- Tooth jumps flip and lutz are performed from the back, with a take-off from the same leg, on which the landing is then made. Lutz is performed from the outside edge, flip - from the inside. Lutz is named after the Austrian figure skater Alois Lutz and is considered the most difficult jump in figure skating - yes, even more difficult than the Axel.
Olga Pugach
sports columnist, never misses a single event in the world of figure skating
- I can distinguish edge jumps from jagged ones, but unfortunately I can’t name all the elements and ligaments.
In order to enjoy the performances of figure skaters, this is not necessary. Axel is the only jump performed from a forward movement. In the photo, he looks worse than everyone else: the push leg is straight, the free leg is unnaturally arched outward, the skater presses his hands to the body for more economical rotation ... A cleanly executed triple axel is considered a pass to the big leagues. An exemplary triple axel is done by Elizaveta Tuktamysheva.
The sheepskin coat is performed from the outer edge of the skate. The person turns his back forward, swings his “free” leg, pushes off with the prong of the ridge on it and jumps from the outer edge of the ridge of the leading leg. He lands on the same foot he jumped from and again on the outside edge. If in the video you notice a powerful swing and a fountain of ice from a toe hit, then this is it, a sheepskin coat.
There is a whole series of seven videos with US Olympic team member Michael Weiss, one video lesson for each jump.
Even if you are not friends with English, the video will still be understandable:
And there is a drawn "Guide for beginners", where the jumps are shown slowly and with the direction of rotation:
Each jump has a base "cost" depending on the difficulty and number of revolutions. The more difficult jumps in the program, the higher the possible score. For the performance of each element, all judges (there are nine of them) give a score from -3 to +3 points, this is called
Grade of Execution, or GOE The average GOE is then calculated, multiplied by the element factor, and added to the base "cost" of the jump. By the way, for the performance of the jump in the second half of the program, its base "cost" increases by 10 percent.
A skater's fall is penalized with one penalty point and a maximum GOE reduction per element. But if there are only one or two falls, and the program has many complex elements, such a performance can get a higher rating than a perfectly skated, but unpretentious program.
Olga Pugach
sports columnist, never misses a single event in the world of figure skating
— The International Skating Federation (ISU) now changes the scoring rules almost every year, it is difficult to keep track of all the changes. It is important to understand which elements are rated higher, which are lower, for which deduction points are awarded. The exact base "cost" of each element can always be viewed on the ISU website. The logic of the current version of the grading system is that if you are not sure about the purity of the execution of a jump or a cascade of jumps, it is better not to enter it - in case of a failure, the penalty will outweigh the bonus.
Or you will get a small plus, but you have to ride further, and you are already tired. ISU does not intend to condone injury and does not want to deprive those who do not perform elements of the highest degree of difficulty.
There is also an overall impression score (instead of the artistry score that existed in the old judging system). It consists of five components: the ability to skate, connecting elements, the beauty of the performance, the construction of the program and the transfer of music and image. Each of them is evaluated on a 10-point scale, the average values are displayed and summarized. And in the free program, this score has a double coefficient compared to the short one.
Olga Pugach
sports columnist, never misses a single event in the world of figure skating
— I don’t always agree with the marks, but I don’t have the opportunities that the judges have: I don’t scroll the moment of landing as close as possible, I didn’t go through training and certification.
Maybe on the screens you can see an under-rotation or a slap on the entire plane of the skate, but in the picture it seems to me that the landing is clean, the jump is twisted. I watch the speech as a whole, as the reader views the material in the media. And the judge, as a proofreader, isolates the elements.
The judge may reflect his personal ideas of beauty in awarding additional points. Here I will quote Tatyana Anatolyevna Tarasova (Soviet and Russian figure skating coach. - Note ed. ). She was indignant why the judges did not give Yuzuru Hanyu +5 for jumping in his Olympic program: “Well, what are they waiting for? Do they really think they'll ever see something like this again?"
Who to root for
Of course, for ours! In women's singles figure skating, these are Alina Zagitova, Evgenia Medvedeva, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, as well as Alexandra Trusova and Anna Shcherbakova, who have just passed from junior competitions to adults.
In men's, we are closely following Mikhail Kolyada, Alexander Samarin and Dmitry Aliev. Of the couples, Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov and Natalia Zabiyako and Alexander Enbert are the most successful.
Olga Pugach
sports columnist, never misses a single event in the world of figure skating
- In the men's singles, my favorites are Yuzuru Hanyu, Boyang Jin, Dmitry Aliev and Kazuki Tomono. Of those who have already completed their competitive careers and become media personalities, Evgeni Plushenko and Johnny Weir are among them. In the women's singles - Evgenia Medvedev, Alexander Trusov and Satoko Miyahara.
Hanyu is a real samurai, fanatically devoted to his life's work. He has long been competing not with other skaters, but with the evaluation system, gravity and the scientific idea of \u200b\u200bthe possible and impossible.
Jin Boyang is a Chinese figure skater and comic book fan. A very light and artistic guy, with a wide arsenal of jumps, a great sense of humor. Fits equally well in the image of Spider-Man and Sailor Moon. And in general, she is not afraid to experiment and laugh at herself.
Dmitry Aliev is now, in my opinion, the most stable Russian athlete. In the post-Olympic year, he did not relax, but performed a quadruple jump. Immediately included it in the "combat" program. This season it runs in and works on.
Kazuki Tomono is a dark horse. He has an incredible sense of rhythm. Even speaking at shows where skaters are sometimes not expected to have stars from the sky - just ride and smile at the audience - he cleanly performs triple jumps, together with the choreographer comes up with bright images, constantly works with the audience.
Evgenia Medvedeva is a vivid example of the fact that an athlete must be a strong personality. Among juniors and in the first years in the adult division, she collected all possible awards.
She won silver at the Olympics. And immediately after that, she became the first Russian figure skater who switched to a foreign coach and began to train in the territory of another state . Now she demonstrates a really different skating. Changed the style and height of the jumps. It is very interesting to observe such dynamics.
Trusova is now the most technical figure skater in the world. And she is only 15 years old. Charming, direct and lively. Watching individuals, rather than a conventionally standardized athlete performing an emasculated set of elements, is a very exciting experience.
When to watch
Firstly, from November 15 to 17, on the ice of the Moscow Megasport Arena, the Rostelecom Cup figure skating competition will take place, where you can cheer for Evgenia Medvedev and Alexandra Trusova.
Secondly, this is just one of a series of Grand Prix stages in different countries.
Sheepskin coat, lutz and axel. How to distinguish between jumps in figure skating? | Winter views | Sport
If in childhood we all wondered why the most famous jump in figure skating was named after such an element of our wardrobe as a sheepskin coat, then as we grow older, all these sheepskin coats and axels have become so tightly integrated into the life of a sports fan that we we continue to call them by their correct names, without even thinking about the origin of these names. However, each of them has its own history.
To begin with, we note that in modern figure skating only six types of jumps are used, which are divided into two subgroups, three in each. Rib jumps are so named because to perform them, the skater pushes off the ice with the edge of his skate. These include jumps such as salchow, loop and axel. Toe or tooth jumps, for the execution of which it is necessary to push off with a toe on which special teeth are located, include flip, lutz and our favorite sheepskin coat.
Sheepskin coat
We would like to start our acquaintance with jumping in figure skating with a sheepskin coat. Its name comes from two English words toe loop, which means “loop on the toe”.
The first sheepskin coat was made by American figure skater Bruce Mapes in 1920. At first, the skaters performed just a sheepskin coat, then they learned how to make a double sheepskin coat. The triple sheepskin coat, which can most often be seen performed by skaters in modern sports, was first counted at the World Championships 1964 years old skater named Litz . It took the skaters 19 years to risk adding another turn to this jump. And at the 1983 World Cup, the Soviet athlete Alexander Fadeev performed it for the first time. However, the judges did not count the jump, seeing a mistake in it. The premiere was postponed for another five years - until 1988, when Canadian figure skater Kurt Browning flashed at the World Championships.
But he also made mistakes. The perfect quadruple sheepskin coat was performed only in 1991 year. Russian Aleksey Urmanov distinguished himself at the European Championship.
Women have so far only managed to jump in three turns, although attempts to perform a quadruple sheepskin coat were also made by representatives of the beautiful half of humanity. The first to do this in 1991 was a dark-skinned figure skater from France Skuria Bonaly - unsuccessfully. Since then, the girls have not been able to cleanly perform a quadruple sheepskin coat. There is information that in training, the jump sometimes lends itself to a Japanese athlete Mickey Ando , but it's one thing to perform it in training, and it's another to suck it in competitions. Perhaps she will try to take a chance at the Sochi Olympics in 2014.
The sheepskin coat itself is considered one of the easiest jumps in figure skating. The skater pushes off with the tooth of the left skate, makes a turn and lands on the right foot, back on the outside edge.
The jump is relatively simple, as it is performed with a change of foot - a left push with a landing on the right. For skaters jumping clockwise, the actions of the left and right legs change accordingly.
Flip
The second most difficult toothed jump in figure skating is the flip. It is performed from the move back from the inner edge of the left leg, followed by a blow with the prong of the right leg, a turn and landing on the right leg on the move back-out.
The name of the jump is also a tracing-paper from the English word flip, which in translation means a click - a characteristic sound that figure skaters of the 30s of the twentieth century heard when starting to perform a flip. The chronicles did not preserve the name of the person who first performed the triple flip, but this happened in the mid-70s of the last century. Girls began to perform a three-turn flip no earlier than the beginning of the 80s.
Flip in four turns has not yet submitted to anyone. Japanese Daisuke Tahakashi tried to perform it several times, including at the 2010 World Championships, but the representative of the land of the rising sun never managed to do it purely.
Lutz
The most difficult of the tooth jumps, and the second most difficult of all jumps in figure skating, is the lutz. Unlike previous jumps, it was named after Austrian figure skater Alois Lutz , who first performed it in 1913. It took the skaters about ten more years to learn how to perform the double Lutz. Triple jump obeyed men only at 1962 year. The trailblazer was Canadian figure skater Donald Jackson , who won the championship with a triple lutz. Interestingly, the second triple lutz was performed by the German athlete Jan Hoffman only 12 years later - in 1974.
Attempts to perform a quadruple lutz began back in 1998. At the US Championships, Michael Weiss did it , but landed on two feet. The stubborn American made another attempt at the Olympics of the same year, but fell. The second athlete who dared to perform a four-turn lutz was Evgeni Plushenko in 2001 - fall on the road after a jump. And finally, only ten years later, American Brandon Mroz performed a clean quadruple lutz in international competitions.
Despite the fact that the lutz was first performed in 1913, it was only in the 30s of the 20th century that it was conquered by women. In 1942 Canadian Barbara Ann Scott performed the first double lutz. At the European Championships in 1978 Swiss Denise Bielmann performed the first triple lutz.
The jump itself is as follows: the skater squats on the left leg, rests his right prong on the ice and performs the jump, spinning due to the swing of the torso and arms.
After a few turns counterclockwise, the skater lands on the right foot, a back-out stroke.
Salchow
One of the easiest jumps in figure skating is the salchow, the edge jump, the first in this test. The jump is named after the Swedish figure skater Ulrich Salchow , who performed it for the first time back in 1909. We had to wait a little more than ten years for a double jump, until in the mid-20s of the twentieth century it was performed by the Swede Yillis Grafström . Also early, relative to the rest of the jumps, the man succumbed to the salchow in three turns. Its first performer was Ronnie Robertson , captivating the public at the 1955 World Figure Skating Championships. And, finally, the quadruple salchow submitted to men in 1998. Young Timothy Gable was the first to perform it purely.0019 .
Interestingly, at the dawn of figure skating, the judges considered the salchow jump: not worthy of real ladies, because when it was performed, the skirt was pulled up above the knees.
They noticed this when the American Teresa Veld was the first to perform it at the 1920 Olympics. However, already in 1936, a 15-year-old Englishwoman Cecilia College performed salchow in two turns. Not far behind the men, already in 1959 a Czechoslovak athlete jumped triple salchow Yana Mrazkova . And in 2002, at the junior competition, Japanese Mickey Ando for the first time among girls performed a quadruple salchow, which so far remains the only quadruple salchow performed by representatives of the beautiful half of humanity.
The jumping technique is very simple: the jump is entered from the back-inward arc, at the same time the free leg swings around the body, landing is performed on the outside edge on the move back to the fly leg.
Rittberger
The common name for this jump is rittberger, although in English-speaking countries it is still sometimes called a loop - another tracing paper from the English word loop (loop).
The rest of the world pays tribute to the person who performed this jump for the first time at international competitions. This was done by the German figure skater Werner Rittberger back in 1910. This is the second of three figure skating edge jumps listed in our article. Information about the performance of the first double jumps is lost in the annals of history, but for sure it happened in men in the 20s, and in women in the 30s of the twentieth century. The first triple rittberger performed at the Olympics 1952 Dick Button , among women - Gabi Seifert - daughter and student of the famous coach Jutta Muller , at the European Championship in 1968. Despite the promises of the young Evgeni Plushenko , no one has yet been able to fulfill.
If we look at the execution technique, we have the following picture: the skater slides on the right leg back-outward, facing inside the circle, the free leg goes forward-cross.
The whole body, with the exception of the supporting leg, turns counterclockwise, at the same time a push is made with the right foot. Landing goes on the right leg back-out.
Axel
Axel, the last edge jump performed by skaters, is considered the most difficult. This is the only jump performed from a forward movement, so it has a unique technique compared to others. The skater slides back and forth on his right foot for some time, after which he makes a lunge - turns forward and steps on his left foot, while sagging on it. Sliding forward and out on the left skate, the skater jumps into the air, simultaneously braking with the skate and throwing the free leg forward. In the air, you need to quickly group, followed by a landing on the fly leg for a back-out move. Due to the fact that the jump is performed when the skater rides forward and lands with his back, he is the only one where the number of revolutions is not an integer, but with a half.
A single axel is one and a half turns, a triple is three and a half.
Surprisingly, the most difficult jump is also the oldest. It is named after Norwegian figure skater Axel Paulsen , who first performed it in 1882. By the way, he performed it on cross-country skates. Dick Button was the first skater to land a double Axel in competition. He did it at the 1948 Winter Olympics. Canadian figure skater Vern Taylor failed triple Axel during the competition - at the World Championships 1978 years old. The first skater to complete a clean triple Axel was Alexander Fadeev at the 1981 European Championships. The quadruple axel has not yet submitted to anyone.
For a long time, the axel was an exclusively male prerogative. The first woman to perform the axel is Sonya Henie - in the 20s of the twentieth century. It wasn't until 1953 that Carol Heiss became the first woman to land a double Axel.
