As I was reading a book about figure skating I got from the library one day, I turned to a page titled “Advanced Jumps”. I was about twelve, and I was not nearly ready for most of the jumps on that page, especially the second hardest one, a lutz jump.
I had seen a lutz before, and I knew that it was the second hardest single jump besides an axel, which has an extra half rotation. I had never even done a single jump before, but I immediately wanted to try a it, because I had always wondered what landing a “hard” jump felt like, and besides, I had a lot of free time on the ice because I did not have very much to practice yet. I told my mom and my coach that I wanted to try a lutz, and they both agreed, and my coach even said she could help me …show more content…
I started with a half lutz, which I landed in less than five minutes. If a half lutz was easy, then a single lutz can’t be that hard, right? Wrong. I spent the rest of my skating session falling, landing on two feet, and under rotating. When I finally landed it a few days later, I felt as though my whole life had finally come together. I thought that that was the end of it, and I would never have any problems with a single jump ever again.
But there was a problem. Whenever I land a new jump, I always try to land it again at least once a week every week after that, and I had to land a lutz consistently to do that. My lutz was far from consistent.
After a month or two of landing it once or twice a week, I gave up. I was tired of dreading going on the ice every day because the idea of doing a lutz was looming over me as if it was the hardest jump in the world, I was tired of being scared every time I went into a lutz, worried that I would fall or not be able to land it that day, and I was tired of having to make time in a forty-five minute long skating session to do something that might take a half an hour. I would usually persevere and try to get my jump more consistent, but this time, I had set my standards too high and they won against my
I had seen a lutz before, and I knew that it was the second hardest single jump besides an axel, which has an extra half rotation. I had never even done a single jump before, but I immediately wanted to try a it, because I had always wondered what landing a “hard” jump felt like, and besides, I had a lot of free time on the ice because I did not have very much to practice yet. I told my mom and my coach that I wanted to try a lutz, and they both agreed, and my coach even said she could help me …show more content…
I started with a half lutz, which I landed in less than five minutes. If a half lutz was easy, then a single lutz can’t be that hard, right? Wrong. I spent the rest of my skating session falling, landing on two feet, and under rotating. When I finally landed it a few days later, I felt as though my whole life had finally come together. I thought that that was the end of it, and I would never have any problems with a single jump ever again.
But there was a problem. Whenever I land a new jump, I always try to land it again at least once a week every week after that, and I had to land a lutz consistently to do that. My lutz was far from consistent.
After a month or two of landing it once or twice a week, I gave up. I was tired of dreading going on the ice every day because the idea of doing a lutz was looming over me as if it was the hardest jump in the world, I was tired of being scared every time I went into a lutz, worried that I would fall or not be able to land it that day, and I was tired of having to make time in a forty-five minute long skating session to do something that might take a half an hour. I would usually persevere and try to get my jump more consistent, but this time, I had set my standards too high and they won against my