Word: salchows
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...1980s, performed them with declining skill and panache. This year, however, just in time for the Olympics, the sport is reborn with the banishment of the dreaded set patterns. What is left is an effortlessly pleasurable sight for the spectator. Don't know a Lutz from a Salchow? The TV commentators will tell you, or you can ignore the voice-over and just watch graceful young athletes interpret the music in wonderfully tricky ways...
...third of five triples, the especially treacherous one, is something called a triple Salchow-double toe loop combination. Twice in a row now, including at the nationals, she has abbreviated it. "I don't know why I chicken out. A lot of times in practice, you'll take off completely crooked on a hard jump and still land it. If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you imagine. I'm going to land that one in the Olympics . . . if it kills...
...Ottawa's pretty, blue-eyed, 18-year-old Barbara Ann Scott could skate too. Last week at Davos Platz, Switzerland, against 19 competitors from seven nations, she did her graceful spirals and jumps and double loops, topping it off with a cruncher: the one-foot axel and double salchow...
...enriched her repertory with ice dances such as her Pavlova-inspired "Dying Swan," her standbys are those of other figure skaters: the Lutze jump; Jackson Haynes (a sit spin); Axel-Paulsen (a one-and-a-half jump ending on the other skate); camel spin (on one foot); double Salchow (a double jump from the inside edge of one skate to the inside edge of the other...
...singles championship. In the school figures. Lee had an edge but it was so slight that Reiter, much improved since last year, had a fine chance to catch up the next night. The chance was improved when Lee, starting his free figures with double Salchow jumps (two revolutions in the air) twisted his left knee so badly that, through the rest of his five-minute routine, he had to switch from his left foot, on which he usually takes off, to his right. He made the change so expertly that no one guessed he was hurt till he limped...