I hear it often..."if you could get that height from your waltz on your axel... you'd have something..."

Well I experiment with it. going into the axel for just straight up height and no rotation and I get the height. then when I push forward later... to add the rotation, I have a couple of approaches that work, but neither of them is just what I want yet. If My blade is pushing forward sort of straight, I get a little pop and the rotation, but I have my feet side by side not the free foot crossed behind.
If I press forward and am curving into the takeoff... I get my free foot and that side arm snapping around and I get the right foot on the landing. Neither of these jumps has much height.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqPBnChkAH8

I had a really nice video of Ryan Bradly. the best slow motion Axel I ever saw. But It was on tape and i watched it so much it lost its tracking. Anybody have that vid?

Here's one I have of Alexi Yagudin.. just a slow mo of the triple axel and its a good one but not as good ( of a slow motion video anyway.. i'm not judging the axel) as Ryan Bradley. He gets great height.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU8GWM3R8Io

thanks for any input. I sometimes get two rotations, but you would call that a poorly overrotated single. I don't have any vids of my axel. Well I might, but they are so bad I don't want to admit it.

thanks.

paul