How to Use salchow in a Sentence
salchow
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The edge jumps are the loop, the salchow and the axel, while the toe jumps are the toe loop, the flip and the lutz.
— Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2022 -
Edge jumps like the salchow require having a feel for the ice with the pressure of the blade to spring up.
— Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2022 -
Chen, who is from Salt Lake City, took off with an opening quad salchow.
— Bernie Wilson, Chron, 10 Feb. 2022 -
The kitchen’s salchows, lutzes and triple axels are matched by a classical sense of what tastes good with what.
— Pete Wells, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2019 -
Here’s your cheat sheet for telling six figure skating jumps apart during the Winter Olympics, from an axel to a toe loop, salchow and lutz jump.
— Alice Park, Time, 8 Feb. 2018 -
One of the six figure skating jumps (along with the flip, loop, toe loop, lutz, and salchow — more on them to come) but the only one that requires the skater to jump into the air while facing forward.
— Maura Sullivan Hill, Cosmopolitan, 6 Feb. 2018 -
First after the short program, the Utah native opened with a quadruple flip and landed a quad salchow in the first half of his routine set to a selection of music by Philip Glass.
— The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021 -
Valieva first performed a quad salchow in her free skate, then landed another quad to loop.
— Peter Weber, The Week, 6 Feb. 2022 -
During her women's long program for the team event, Valieva landed a quadruple salchow.
— Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2022 -
Duhamel and partner Eric Radford grabbed third place in pairs and made history by executing the first throw quad salchow in Olympic history.
— Charles Curtis, For The Win, 15 Feb. 2018 -
Alexandra Trusova, who won the junior Grand Prix final in December, can land a quadruple salchow, even if imperfectly, at age 13.
— New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018 -
At a competition in Russia this week, one of Tutberidze’s junior skaters, Alexandra Trusova, 13, boldly attempted two quads in her routine, landing a quad salchow and falling on a quad toe.
— JerÉ Longman and Victor Mather, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2018 -
At a competition in Russia this week, one of Tutberidze's junior skaters, Alexandra Trusova, 13, boldly attempted two quads in her routine, landing a quad salchow and falling on a quad toe.
— Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2018 -
Among her milestones Monday at Capital Indoor Stadium was a quad salchow and a quad toe that included a triple-toe combination.
— NBC News, 7 Feb. 2022 -
During the 45-minute session, Valieva threw down four quad jumps, including one in a potentially high-scoring combination with a triple salchow.
— Graham Dunbar and James Ellingworth, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2022 -
Since then, Carrillo has notched six top-10 finishes in major international events and added the difficult quadruple salchow to his repertoire.
— Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
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