Finally get your lutz jump with these tips 

This helped me so much - I can finally do a lutz because of this video. I had been trying the most difficult entry (without knowing it was the most difficult entry) and failing, but after watching this I tried the “cross cross cross” entry and almost immediately got it. Thank you for posting!

You make these all look so easy!! 😂

Your jump instrutrions are the best! If I could think of anything else to add, that would be adding links to off-ice exercises for the jumps. Anyhow, I wish I lived close to you and had you as my coach.

I've been trying to learn a half lutz for a few weeks and it's going nowhere. Thank you for this!

Thank you for an excellent guide to learning the lutz! I had been wanting to learn this for years and felt such a thrill when I finally started landing it this past Summer. However, I had not been heeding my coach’s warnings about picking too high on my top toe pick, and I had a bad fall and severely twisted my ankle when I rolled my picking ankle on the take off. I was off the ice for two months. I haven’t attempted it since then, but I will need to eventually learn correct/better technique. The counter rotation going into it makes it such a unique and satisfying feeling. Other than the loop jump, this is my favorite take-off (especially the “Scott Hamilton” long back outside edge entrance).

These small steps that lower the barrier to start learning are so incredibly helpful. And the way you go through all the possible ways it can go wrong as well as all the helpful small details feels like the absolute full package that's needed for this jump. Thank you for your efforts with these comprehensive guides! I'm looking forward to learning my lutz!

Do you ever do back crossovers to a corner and do a lutz? That's my favourite choice, rather than cross in front before the take off. I'm old fashioned, but understand that we all have our preferred take offs 😊

so helpful! thank you for showing the lefty versions too!

Gosh Paul, unbelievably fantastic detailed video, that's beyond dispute. No one can take anything away from the excellent quality of this video, anyone is forced to admit that. I mean OK I'll just accept all your content and exercises at face value...hahaha...just give me some time to work through all that, like, a looot of time. I do think the ice skating world of pedagogy could stand to offer a little more theory though. Here are some questions off the top of my head: Why does figure skating need a Lutz jump when it has all the other jumps already? Why wasn't the Lutz jump invented long before it was? Why couldn't Axel Paulsen invent this jump or do it? How is a Lutz any better than a flutz? A flutz seems easier to do, why not just do that? Does a Lutz give more height or rotation than does an easier jump? If not, why do it the hard way? Some guesswork answers off the top of my head: A Lutz exists precisely because it's difficult. A skater can impress people by doing something difficult, even if there's no real reason the stunt is needed. It looks good. But since all the jumps look almost the same, that seems not a good reason. The outside edge of the Lutz is essential to allow the Lutz to be used after certain other maneuvers and the outside edge gives it a flow that a flutz would not. Axel Paulsen couldn't/didn't invent this jump because the skate blades that were in use in his time didn't make a jump like this possible. Decades later, changes in blade technology made this jump possible. Axel Paulsen could have invented and used this jump, but didn't because at the time jumping from a backwards direction was deemed unsafe or unattractive or otherwise was not permitted. It's just me, but I need reasons to go to all the trouble to master a difficult skill like this.

Love this explanation

Great explanation , very detailed! Thanks

Wow this video is so comprehensive and has so many good progressive exercises

So helpful as usual. Much appreciate!