Who wrote Axel's Dancing Around?
It was written by Axel Paulson. Axel jump jumps forward and throws ice backward, which is the only figure skating jump that jumps forward. Because of the different directions of take-off and falling ice, Axel's aerial rotation is half a week longer than other kinds of jumps, so it is also called "one jump and a half", "two jump and a half", "three jump and a half" or even "four jump and a half" according to the different rotation times.
In the scoring system of ISU, the abbreviation of Axel jump is "A", and the corresponding abbreviations are 1A (one and a half jumps), 2A (two and a half jumps), 3A (three and a half jumps), and so on.
When doing Axel jump, the athletes' take-off blades often slide slightly, instead of taking off directly with blades, especially when doing 2A and 3A. This kind of sideslip helps the skates to hold the ice tightly when taking off, so as long as the sideslip is not serious enough to make the players turn around ahead of time or take off with the back edge instead of the front edge, it is considered an acceptable technique. If the athlete misjudges the take-off time, the skates don't catch the ice at all during the take-off, resulting in the skates slipping completely. This result is called waxel, and athletes usually fall down.
Yuzuru Hanyu successfully completed Axel's lap jump.
Yuzuru Hanyu, the champion of men's single skating, completed the Axel jump for the first time in history. Before that, no figure skater in the world could finish this action. Yuzuru Hanyu challenged three times in training, and finally fell down on one foot successfully. In the interview after training, Yuzuru Hanyu said that it was his mission to complete Axel's jump.
For Axel's jumping, Mishin, the godfather of Russian flower skating, who has guided the ice prince plushenko for more than half a century, once asserted that according to the current development of human physical fitness, no player can finish it in his lifetime. Just yesterday, Yuzuru Hanyu, dragged by injuries, broke this argument and achieved a breakthrough in the history of human flower slip. This also means that Yuzuru Hanyu is expected to use this ultra-difficult jumping action in all-day events and even the Winter Olympics, thus contributing to the realization of three consecutive championships.
As for whether he will participate in the 2022 Winter Olympics, Yuzuru Hanyu's answer is that it does not depend on his personal wishes, but on the result of this competition. He said, "If the end of my road is the Winter Olympics, I must try my best to fight for it now.
The history of Axel's skipping.
1882, Axel Paulson of Norway completed this jump for the first time. Interestingly, he wears skates for speed skating, not figure skating.
In the early days of skating, jumping was a male patent. Norwegian sonja henie is considered to be the first female athlete to complete the Axel jump. However, today, her Axel technique (which can be seen in many photos) will be considered poor, because she didn't "step up" when she jumped, and twisted badly in advance, which was more like jumping and spinning.
American Dick Barton was the first player to beat 2A in the competition. 1948 Winter Olympics, he did Axel's two-week jump, but the video shows that the number of revolutions of this jump may be insufficient. His coach Gus Lussi invented the modern Axel jumping technique. 1953, carol heiss of the United States became the first female player to complete 2A.
In the 1978 World Championships, Fern Taylor of Canada completed 3A for the first time in the competition. Since then, 3A has become a standard jump for men, but women rarely succeed in it. The first female player to win 3A in the competition was Itō Midori, who participated in the NHK Cup in 1988. Later, four female athletes successively completed three years in international competitions. They are Tonya Harding of the United States, lyudmila Nellydina of Russia, Tomoko Nakano and Mao Asada of Japan. Jimmy meissner of the United States also won 3A in the national championship in 2005.
American pair skaters Rena Inoue and George W. john baldwin became the first pair to complete the 3A throwing and jumping in the 2006 national championship. They did it again in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, setting a record for the Winter Olympics and the International Skating Federation.
Brian Orser of Canada is the first player to complete two 3A's in free skating, and also the first player to do this in the world-class arena (1987 World Championships). Because he also made a 3A in the short program, he was also the first player to complete three 3A in a competition. At the 20 10 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Japanese star Mao Asada repeated this achievement. She is the first female single skater to use three 3A's in a competition, and the only female single skater who uses Axel's three-week jump in active service.
On February 10, 2022, at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Japanese flower skater Yuzuru Hanyu failed to challenge Axel to jump (4A). He fell to the ground while jumping.