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You're under the influence with Terry O'Reilly. The three most notable jumps performed in modern figure skating are named for their originators.

The sow cow for Ulrich Salcow, the Axel for Axel Paulson, and the Lutz for Alloys Lutz, the Australian who performed the first

single Lutz in public in 1913. Lutz was only 15 years old at the time.

Every figure skating jump is assigned a recognized level of difficulty, which is then

factored into the skater's final score.

The rules of competition state that the skater must not only execute the takeoff and aerial

components of the jump, they must also land flawlessly, and the luts is recognized as the

most difficult jump.

To perform the Lutz, a figure skater begins by picking up speed in a wide arc.

As the arc is nearly completed, the skater must use their toe pick for propulsion to drive their body counter-rotational, which means the skater

sets it up by twisting one way and jumping in the other. As the athlete moves from the back

edge of one skate to the back edge of the opposite skate, the skater will perform a single,

double, or triple rotation.

While single and double luts jumps were performed often over the years,

the first triple luts in international competition wasn't attempted until 49 years later,

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