Tonight, Cameron saw some clips of figure skating on the evening news. As he watched a male figure skater glide smoothly around the rink, he commented, "Wow! Can you believe he's not even hanging on to the side?" Just then, the figure skater did some kind of impressive move involving jumping in the air and spinning around (A lutz? A triple flip? A double salchow? Is that even how you spell salchow? I have no idea.) "WHOA!" shouted Cameron. "Man, if I was there I'd be clapping like CRAZY!"
The next clip was of pair skaters, the male skater holding the female skater up over his head. Just as Cameron began to ooh and ahh, the male skater stumbled and fell, dropping the female skater face-first onto the ice. (It looked like it would reeaaalllyyy hurt.) "Huh," said Cameron. "I guess they don't know you should always fall on your bottom."
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Yep. I had to look it up.
A salchow jump is done from the back inside edge of one foot to the back outside edge of the other foot. A half revolution is done in the air.
The salchow jump was invented by Ulrich Salchow in 1909.
Cameron is right. It would be much better if they would plan ahead and fall on their bottoms.
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