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The Axel Ice Skating Jump

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From Quick Guide: Figure Skating Basics

Summary: Watch and learn how to do an axel, a fun and exciting ice skating jump, in this free skating video on doing advanced ice skating jumping.

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By Charlene Johnson-Dodge
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Charlene Johnson-Dodge is a professional ice skater who has been skating competitively for eleven years. As an amateur competitor in both ISI and U.S.F.S.A fields, she won countless...read more

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"Hi! I'm Simone Fisher and I'm here at Clearwater Ice Arena in sunny Clearwater, Florida. On behalf of Expert Village, we're going to introduce to you some advanced figure skating jumps. This is Victoria and she will be demonstrating and Axel. With the Axel, she's actually going to be doing a 1 1/2 rotation in the air. She'll be going into it with a backwards crossovers. She'll be jumping straight up into the air, holding her arms together, and coming out of the jump on a back outside edge. Looks like she's going to start right now. Here she goes. She just landed on the back outside edge of the opposite foot. That is the Axel. "

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