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Figure Skating Axel Jump
Intro Entrance Take Off Landing Errors Off Ice
Introduction
   
Type Edge Jump (no toe pick)
Takeoff Forward Outside Edge
Landing Backward Outside Edge
   

The Axel is a figure skating jump with a forward take-off. It is named after the Norwegian skater Axel PaulsenAxel Paulsen, who first performed the jump in 1882.

The Axel jump is a Waltz Jump with an extra rotation. Like a waltz, an axel jump entered from a forward outside edge. The skater rotates 1-1/2 times in the air for a single axel, and then lands on a back outside edge of the other foot.

An Axel jump has an extra 1/2 rotation in the air due to its forward take-off. For a jump with counterclockwise rotation, it has a takeoff from the left forward outside edge and a landing on the right back outside edge; this can be reversed for a clockwise jump.
   
   
 
   
 
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