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.

History

The lutz jump is the second-most difficult jump in figure skating and "probably the second-most famous jump after the Axel". It is named after figure skater Alois Lutz from Vienna, Austria, who first performed it in 1913. 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.

Firsts

JumpAbbr.NameNationCompetitionReferences
Double lutz 2LzAlena Vrzáňová1949 World Championships
Triple lutz 3LzDonald JacksonCAN1962 World Figure Skating Championships
Triple lutz 3LzDenise BiellmanSWI1978 European Championships
Quadruple lutz 4LzBrandon MrozUSA2011 Colorado Springs Invitational
2011 NHK Trophy
Quadruple lutz 4LzAlexandra TrusovaRUS2018 ISU Junior Grand Prix Armenia Cup
Quadruple lutz-triple toe loop combination4Lz+3TBoyang JinCHN2015 Cup of China
Side-by-side triple lutz Meagan Duhamel and
Ryan Arnold		CAN2005 Canadian National Championships

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". 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. A "cheated" lutz jump without an outside edge is called a "flutz".

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