Question: What's a three jump?
I know a waltz jump is what I know as a three jump, but what's the american version of a three jump? Is that what i've heard described as a jumped three? As in a three turn with a jump and lands on the same leg as you took off from?

Oh here I go dating myself...I remember watching BATMAN and seeing her!!!
No, that isn't my song, mine is a 1920's just re-taped by a modern singer. I am going for the boop-a-doop type of look......and FRINGE!!!!

I ventured out today, even though it wasn't 100% smart-my back was racked up again I could barely bend over to tie my skates! (duh, maybe my camping oout last night had something to do with it?????)

Dull: No jumps, every landing HURT and I was unsteady-the nerves were pinched, so I stuck to spins and 3-turns.

Sparkly: even tho I could not jump 100%, I did mohawk/salchows and 3-turn/salchows. These are different than normal salchows, these are 3-turn...........hold............jump!


Spins were good, even did some 3 rev backspins; then did some change-foot and managed 2!!!!!

The rink was really cold today! The fog is gone tho. Back to putting toasty toes in my boots!

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Ah, show skating!!! I do it for the glitter!

I learned a three jump as a jumped three turn- so you take off and land on the same foot. So one of the 8 possible three jumps is an underrotated loop.

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Sparkly: Husband's programme is beginning to be choreographed. He did several really nice loop jumps from a traditional entry.

Together, we did some good spins, too, in our free dance.

Dull: Ice was too crowded for compulsory dance. Circle Cycle is seriously difficult.... it ought not to be, but my shoulders go the wrong way.

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Sparkley: The ice at the rink where I have been skating was super-smooth today and I could really feel my flow - it is so exciting to me because for the longest time I was feeling mroe and more hesitant, feeling like I was losing my skills, etc., and now I think I am getting them back!

The ice at my old hockey rink is just too darn hard (for my poor old bones!).

Worked on the Argentine today with my dance coach - that darn twizzle drives me nuts but the front section felt good and the last section also - with the cross-roles (cross-strokes?) anyway felt good.

Dull: Some tension in the air at the rink today - is it because everybody is going to Regionals next week or ... -hope it has nothing to do with me because I was having a good time!!

Skating-wise still having trouble with all back-to-fronts going from left to right foot but what else is new? --- feel better in general. Wondering about my dance blades - should I switch to Synchro blades?

Questions, questions...

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Its an interesting point you made about the epidural. I suppose I will have to see how it goes!

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Thanks for that. It's what I know as a jumped 3. It's quite confusing sometimes all the different English and American terminology. I thought I'd learnt most of it and then another one comes along.

Now for more confusion! I had understood that a three jump in UK terminology is what we in the US call a waltz jump. In the US, a jumped three is a three turn done at high speed, in which the majority of the blade leaves the ice just a fraction during the turn, thereby "jumping" it. This is not actually a jump, but a three turn (or other one foot turn) technique. You can see these all the time in the elite competitions.

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Today's public session wasn't a lot of fun, considering highschools apparently had a day off to study for their mid-term exams starting tomorrow. Of course nobody was studying...
I'm not going tomorrow either, if they're having exams this week that means they're done by midday and tomorrow's session will be just as bad. I'm going rollerskating tomorrow.

Did a lot of explosive, heavy gym exercises this morning though. And some 20 minutes fat burning.

You're right the UK three jump is a US waltz jump, but i was told a jumped 3 (not a 3 jump) is a three turn with a little hop in it, although I was shown it with quite a big hop and not a fraction leaving the ice, but it sounds like we're thinking about the same thing. I did think it was leading to confusion when we were told it was a jumped 3 and that was different from a 3 jump, but having spent time in Texas, I'm confused anyway as I've started saying waltz jump.
Just let's not start on the old toe-loop cherry flip thing. I don't understand why it's called a cherry flip and feel lucky to have had a coach who had worked overseas so had stopped calling it a cherry as it made more sense to me to being called a toe-loop. Now I can do the jump, you can call it what you like and I know what it is, but it was confusing when I was learning it.