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
Jump | Abbr. | Name | Nation | Competition | References |
Double lutz | 2Lz | Alena Vrzáňová | 1949 World Championships | ||
Triple lutz | 3Lz | Donald Jackson | CAN | 1962 World Figure Skating Championships | |
Triple lutz | 3Lz | Denise Biellman | SWI | 1978 European Championships | |
Quadruple lutz | 4Lz | Brandon Mroz | USA | 2011 Colorado Springs Invitational 2011 NHK Trophy | |
Quadruple lutz | 4Lz | Alexandra Trusova | RUS | 2018 ISU Junior Grand Prix Armenia Cup | |
Quadruple lutz-triple toe loop combination | 4Lz+3T | Boyang Jin | CHN | 2015 Cup of China | |
Side-by-side triple lutz | Meagan Duhamel and Ryan Arnold | CAN | 2005 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".Works cited
- * . International Skating Union. Retrieved 24 December 2019.