Amber Glenn: “My triple axel is more similar to a man’s axel than the standard junior women’s axel. You could say that Elizaveta Tuktamysheva inspired me to take on it.”
Amber Glenn about triple axel.
original source: Sports dd. 5th December by Maya Bagriantseva
Amber Glenn told Sports correspondent Maya Bagriantseva that Elizaveta Tuktamysheva inspired her to perform the triple axel. Here’s a translation of her comments posted on Russian site Sports.
“You could say that Elizaveta Tuktamysheva inspired me to take on the triple axel. I spent a long time studying how she jumps it — I continuously watched her performances and analyzed every nuance of the jump.
She is one of the very rare examples where the triple axel is performed not by a girl with a junior’s body, but by a mature figure skater. It’s a completely different story: the body changes after puberty, its proportions change — so the approach to the jump itself must be entirely different. You can’t go for it with the same technique used by 15-year-old girls.
My triple axel is more similar to a man’s axel than the standard junior women’s axel. Probably, a different amplitude of the jump is needed —and Elizaveta had just that. Therefore, of course, she was an example and a role model for me in this regard.”
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