Lutz jump

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox Figure Skating Element The Lutz is a figure skating jump named after Alois Lutz, an Austrian skater. 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<ref name="park">Template:Cite news</ref> and "probably the second-most famous jump after the Axel".<ref name="usfsa">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

History

The Lutz jump is named after figure skater Alois Lutz from Vienna, Austria,<ref name="usfsa" /> who may have first performed it in 1913, although historian Matthias Hampe did not find contemporary sources that specifically referenced the jump before the 1920s, after Lutz's death.<ref name="mediaguide-16">Media guide, p. 16</ref><ref name=":0">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Maribel Vinson wrote that it was rare in North America before 1930.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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 points, a double Lutz is 2.10 points, a triple Lutz is 5.90 points, a quadruple Lutz is 11.50 points, and a quintuple Lutz is 14 points.<ref name="ISU 2475">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Firsts

Abbr.	Jump Element	Skater	Nation	Event	References
2Lz	Double Lutz (women's)	Jacqueline du Bief	Template:Flagcountry	1952 World Championships	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
3Lz	Triple Lutz (men's)	Donald Jackson	Template:Flagcountry	1962 World Championships	<ref name="mediaguide-16"/>
	Triple Lutz (women's)	Jill Sawyer	Template:Flagcountry	1977 Pacific coast sectionals	<ref name="mediaguide-17">Media guide, p. 17</ref>
4Lz	Quadruple Lutz (men's)	Brandon Mroz	Template:Flagcountry	2011 Colorado Springs Invitational 2011 NHK Trophy	<ref name="mediaguide-17" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Quadruple Lutz (women's)	Alexandra Trusova	Template:Flagcountry	2018 ISU Junior Grand Prix Armenia Cup	<ref name="mediaguide-17" />
	Side-by-side triple Lutz (pairs)	Meagan Duhamel and Ryan Arnold	Template:Flagcountry	2005 Canadian Championships	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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".<ref name="mediaguide-16" /> 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.<ref name="usfsa" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> A "cheated" Lutz jump without an outside edge is called a "flutz".<ref name="usfsa"/>

Gallery

• Semen Daniliants 2024 Worlds Free Skate 1.jpg

  Semen Daniliants prepares a Lutz take-off

• Wesley Chiu 2024 Worlds Practice 3.jpg

  Wesley Chiu hits the ice with his right toe pick as his left blade remains on an outside edge

• Jamal Othman Jump 2 - 2006 Skate Canada.jpg

  Jamal Othman landing

• Adam Siao Him Fa 2025 Worlds Gala 3Lz.webm

  Video of Adam Siao Him Fa performing a triple Lutz jump

Works cited

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