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The Axel jump or Axel Paulsen jump, named after its inventor, Norwegian figure skater Axel Paulsen, is an edge jump performed in figure skating. It is the sport's oldest and most difficult jump, and the only basic jump in competition with a forward take-off, which makes it the easiest to identify.
Take care that the Axel jump always has an extra half revolution in the air, this means a "triple Axel" (3A) has three and a half revolutions. The single Axel jump has multiple variations, including the "delayed single Axel" (rotation beginning in mid-air) or the "one foot Axel" (landed on the inside edge of the take-off foot).
When the book has a soft or hard cover with dust jacket, the cover yields all or part of its informational function to the dust jacket. On the inside of the cover page, extending to the facing page is the front endpaper sometimes referred as FEP. The free half of the end paper is called a flyleaf. Traditionally, in hand-bound books, the ...
The Introducing... series is a book series of graphic guides covering key thinkers and topics in philosophy, psychology and science, and many others in politics, religion, cultural studies, linguistics and other areas. Books are written by an expert in the field and illustrated, comic-book style, by a leading graphic artist.
Amber Glenn thought she'd thrown away her chances of winning her long-sought U.S. figure skating title when, after landing a dramatic opening triple axel Friday night, the 24-year-old from Texas ...
The book created a generation of cartoonists who learned there was a "Marvel way to draw and a wrong way to draw". [2] [page needed] It is considered "one of the best instruction books on creating comics ever produced". [3] [page needed] Scott McCloud has cited the book as a good reference for teaching the process of making comic books. [4 ...
Thorngren had led the competition after the short program, but Ziegler’s routine – which included a triple flip-double axel-double axel sequence and six more triple jumps – proved too good ...
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