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Axel jump

The name Axel comes from the inventor of the jump, Axel Paulsen who was Norwegian. The skater while moving forward takes off on an outside edge of a skate, they rotate in the air one and one-half times and then land on the opposite foot, on an outside edge while moving backward.

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