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Originally Posted by techskater
Interesting those that are slamming this method of teaching the flip (pick, pivot, jump, check). If you check out the great master, Gus Lussi, this is how he taught the flip and the lutz and it's a good way to learn (I stress LEARN, not DO) the flip to get comfortable with the draw and getting the weight over the picking/landing side. He basically taught it that way and said as you get more comfortable with the technique, it'll speed up and you won't pivot before jumping, but take off backwards. It was eye opening to see it in his book since I didn't learn it that way.
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I know absolutely nothing about Gus Lussi (except for his name and that he was a great coach) but doesn't his coaching style generally differ greatly from most other schools of thought on technique? I thought I remember reading that Lussi's jump technique was pretty singular. Didn't he also teach to wrap the legs in jumps? That may very well be someone else. Either way, I think there are 100 ways to learn the same thing. I just think that spinning onto the toepick to simulate rotation instead of jumping up sort of defeats the purpose of teaching people not to stay on the toepick too long and to use it as a polevault, and more importantly not to rotate on it. But different minds will pick up things different ways, definitely.
02-18-2006, 04:26 PM
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