ELEMENTS RECOGNITION

If you watch many skaters, you’ll notice that most figure skaters (about 90% in fact) jump and spin in a counterclockwise direction. While its perfectly legal to jump either way, more skaters feel comfortable with the CCW direction.  Interestingly enough, most of the CW jumpers are left-handed.

The jump and spin descriptions throughout this section describe the steps a counterclockwise jumper would use — if you're watching a clockwise jumper, just change all the "rights" to "lefts" and vice versa.

The elements which have a star ( * ) next to their names in the listing below have pictures or short video clips to help you see what they look like.

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Edges and Turns

• Edges
• 2-Foot Turns
• 1-Foot Turns

Jumps

• Intro to Jumps
• Axel *
• Waltz Jump
• Toe Loop
• Loop *
• Salchow *
• Flip *
• Lutz *
• Walley *
• Half Loop *
• Jump Combinations and Sequences *
• Table of Jumps

Spins

• Intro to Spins
• Upright Position
  • Basic Spins * (2-Foot, Scratch, Back, Crossfoot) *
  • Layback / Attitude *
  • Biellmann *
• Sit Position
  • Sit Spin *
  • Broken Leg Spin *
  • Flying Sit and Death Drop *
• Camel Position
  • Camel Spin *
  • Illusion *
  • Flying Camel *
• Spin Combinations
  • Change of Foot and/or Change of Position *

Connecting Elements

• Grace Moves
  • Spiral *
  • Spread Eagle *
  • Ina Bauer *
  • Lunge *
  • Shoot the Duck *
• Small Jumps
  • Split Jump *
  • Russian Split *
  • Stag Jump *
  • Half Flip
  • Mazurka
  • Bunny Hop *
  • Ballet Jump *
  • Falling Leaf

Pairs Elements

• Side-by-Side Elements *
• Lifts *
• Throws *
• Pair Spins *
• Death Spirals *

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