Landed My Axel!!!

[rf3ray]

Landed my axel three times today!!!!!!!!!!!! ITS AWESOME!!

[AlissaCzisnyFan]

yay! :D
congrats!

[NickiT]

Yay :) That's great news. Congratulations!

Nicki

[Mrs Redboots]

Landed my axel three times today!!!!!!!!!!!! ITS AWESOME!!

Brilliant! I'm delighted to hear it. May they be the first three of many.

[badaxel]

Congratulations! Do you have any tips?

[mikawendy]

Congratulations!!!!!! :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:

Did you figure out what it was that was keeping you from landing it on ice? IIRC, I think you posted on FSU or maybe here that you could land it off ice just fine but were having trouble with landing it on ice? The video of you doing it off ice looked really nice.

[lovepairs]

What does it feel like?

[Sonic]

Wow! Good for you rf3ray - landing it 3 times means it's no fluke.

S xx

[vesperholly]

Congrats! I anxiously await the video! :lol:

[samba]

Well done, I'm still praying for a lutz, but a axel is out of the question.

[froggy]

good for you! wishing you many more happy take offs and solid landings :o)

[rf3ray]

Its weird cause for the last 2 - 3 weeks I was landing them OFF ICE really badly and then the last 2 days before I landed my axel, my OFF ICE axel jumps just came back perfectly. I think when I was doing them before I was trying to hard and thinking to hard about it. But the main tip my coach has given me is to follow the right arm with the leg passing through at the same time whilst I am in the air, and try to lead into the jump with having the left shoulder in front and not having both shoulders in front when I jump. Also he said to have a little glide before I jump into the axel. and Also he said try to jump outside of the circle if that helps


Congratulations!!!!!! :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:

Did you figure out what it was that was keeping you from landing it on ice? IIRC, I think you posted on FSU or maybe here that you could land it off ice just fine but were having trouble with landing it on ice? The video of you doing it off ice looked really nice.

[flo]

Congrats! enjoy.

[doubletoe]

Its weird cause for the last 2 - 3 weeks I was landing them OFF ICE really badly and then the last 2 days before I landed my axel, my OFF ICE axel jumps just came back perfectly. I think when I was doing them before I was trying to hard and thinking to hard about it. But the main tip my coach has given me is to follow the right arm with the leg passing through at the same time whilst I am in the air, and try to lead into the jump with having the left shoulder in front and not having both shoulders in front when I jump. Also he said to have a little glide before I jump into the axel. and Also he said try to jump outside of the circle if that helps

That's fantastic! :D
I'll never forget the day I landed my first axel. It's a breakthrough to a whole new world of multi-revolution jumps!
Now don't forget all those great pointers your coach gave you, because the axel is a slippery creature that tends to leave whenever it wants and only come back when you figure out exactly why it left! ;)