Tuck Axel Trivia

[Firefly123]

Robin Cousins and ("Jumping Joe") Josef Sabovcik of course had/have excellent tuck axels.

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And I have seen black and white vids on youtube of skaters from the early years of skating who could do them... But in every case the skaters were men. I'm not saying women can't do them, (I'm sure skaters like Midori Ito, Tonya Harding, and Surya Bonaly all could have easily done so if they had wanted to), but I can't seem to find any examples on youtube or even remember seeing a woman ever do this jump. Have any of you ever seen or heard of a woman doing a tuck axel?

[bardtoob]

Karen Magnussen kind of did a tuck axel in the sense that she did a great flying sit spin. She did a flying sit spin with a RFO take off and landed on her RBO. Since landing a jump on either foot is legal, this was technically a tuck axel without a checked landing.

Karen Magnussen 1973 world championship long program

BTW, I think that Karen's flying sit spin is much more impressive than Midori Ito's LFO to LBO flying sit spin.

[Seerek]

I think in the really early days of the short program (perhaps up to 1976), a single axel variation was actually a required element. Perhaps some of the men chose to do tuck axel as their variation?

[Firefly123]

Wow!! Karen was definitely Queen of the flying sit!! Incredible height and tuck position.

Midori's wasn't too bad, either....

Either woman could probably have done a tuck axel easily......Wonder why they didn't bother? (Both skated before ISJ, so the points were not an issue.)

I was searching through a lot of old videos on youtube and found some very interesting (and very cool moves) ...But no women with tuck axels....

[bardtoob]

I bet Gabriele Seyfert could have done one. In addition to having a great Flying Sit Spin, she had a Double Colledge

Gabriele Seyfert 1968 Olympics - at the microphone: Eva Pawlik

[Mafke]

I could just _swear_ that Doroth Hamill did tuck axels, but I'm too lazy/busy to look up the videos (and I might be wrong, which is a very unsettling thought).

[sk8er1964]

I could just _swear_ that Doroth Hamill did tuck axels, but I'm too lazy/busy to look up the videos (and I might be wrong, which is a very unsettling thought).

She had a beautiful delayed axel. Not sure about a tuck, though.