Toe loop jump

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Toe loop ( [ tu ː lu ː p] or English [ toʊlu ː p]; Germanized from engl toe loop, toe loop '. ) Denotes a particular rotational jump in figure skating and rolling figure skating. The runner / runner who jumps into the air and turns from one to several times around its body axis to then land safely back on one leg. The movement of the Toeloops is very similar to the pirouette in ballet.

Execution

To perform a toe loop, the skaters left leg ( ankle bone ) must be wide and straight stretch backwards. After a so-called toe- triple he typed with the left prong on the elongated leg back into the ice, thereby drawing the left arm. During the skaters zoom pulls the bent right leg to gain momentum, it will jump from the left prong from and rotates counterclockwise once or, depending on speed and momentum, several times around itself, to finally again on the outer edge of the right skid to land.

In pair skating, so if running two skaters together, a so-called " thrown toe loop " are carried out: One of the two takes his partner / his partner 's hands and lifts him / her during the jump to.

History

The toe loop was invented in the 1920s by Bruce Mapes, a US- American professional ice skaters. The first skaters who jumped a triple toe loop in competition, and stood, was Thomas Litz in the World Figure Skating Championships 1964 The first quadruple toe loop was the Canadian Kurt Browning in the World Cup on March 25, 1988 -. Was in figure skating at the same time the first quadruple jump in competition at all and brought Browning an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. In the following years showed more and more male figure skaters in the world elite quadruple Toeloops as usual part of their repertoire: For example, Michael Weiss was in 1997 the first U.S. American who jumped in a competition a quadruple toe loop.

Ilya Klimkin was in 1999 at the Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberstdorf, the first figure skater who showed a Salchow and a toe loop, two different quadruple jumps in one program. Yevgeny Plyushchenko stood in 2002 at the Cup of Russia was the first figure skater combining Vierfach-Toeloop/Dreifach-Toeloop/Dreifach-Toeloop.