Purpose: This drill helps skaters work on the stability in their skating leg and strength in their free leg with the lutz reach back.

Focus: Lutz entry, lutz picking, lutz reach-back, lutz take-off, stability, balance, free leg strength

Purpose: This drill works on the coordination and position of the free leg and the arms in the lutz reach back to picking phase.

Focus: Lutz reach back, lutz picking, arm position, free leg position, timing and rhythm

Purpose: This drill helps skaters work on the strength of their skating leg's outside edge pull back during the picking phase into the follow-through and transfer of the lutz jump

Focus: Lutz reach back, lutz picking, lutz take-off, lutz follow-through, skating side leg, outside edge, stability,...

Purpose: This drill helps skaters work on the stability of their skating leg on the picking and take-off phase of the lutz jump.

Focus: Standing leg stability, free leg position, free hip position, reach back, upper body position

Purpose: This mini classes leads skaters through a series of exercises to help improve their lutz jump

Focus: Lutz reach back, lutz picking, stability, control, strength, arm position, glute strength, ankle stability

Level: Advanced
Jump: Lutz
Jump Phase: Entry
Purpose: Practice the balance needed for the outside edge reach back, with the resistance band adding an additional balance and strength challenge
Equipment: Resistance band

Purpose: This entry into the lutz is helpful for students who struggle to maintain the outside edge take-off.

Focus: Lutz entrance, lutz edge, flutz, rhythm, flow, power

In this video, Signe breaks down how to do an on ice lutz jump from a standstill exercise. She explains how it is different from the flip, and how to train a clear outside edge take-off so that it doesn't become a flip jump. She demonstrates how to work on the lutz jump from a standstill entranc...

Level: Beginner
Base exercise: Lutz jump
Variation: Viewed in slow motion
Purpose: Watching jumps in slow motion can be really helpful for skaters to understand and visualize all the phases of the jump
Focus: Understanding jump phases
Direction: Counterclockwise
Equipment: No Equipment

Purpose: This video teaches the basic technique for an off-ice lutz in a clockwise direction. All the lutz phases are explained--entrance, entry, picking & take-off, follow-through, air position, and landing.

Focus: Basic technique, jump phases, lutz entrance, lutz entry, lutz picking, lutz tak...

Purpose: This video introduces an off-ice Lutz and breaks down the different phases so skaters can really understand the jump all the way throughout from the entrance into the landing. It also covers most common mistakes and why they happen.

Focus: Basic technique, Lutz entry, Lutz picking, Lut...

Purpose: This video introduces an off-ice Lutz and breaks down the different phases so skaters can really understand the jump all the way throughout from the entrance into the landing. It also covers most common mistakes and why they happen. Skaters often struggle with differentiating between a f...