Name: The Quintuple Jump in Figure Skating (ft. Shoma Uno) | Is It Possible?
Uploaded: 2020-01-02T05:13:21.000Z
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If you want to keep   competing at the top,

you take off from the ice,   spin four times, and land.

(FOR FIGURE SKATERS TO COMPLETE   A QUINTUPLE JUMP?)

of the more mesmerising   Olympic sports.

What do you mean, you can't   remember that far back?

Figure skating has been   evolving for decades,

Let's start with an Axel.   Axel Paulsen, to be precise -

the Norwegian who   landed his namesake single jump

for the first time   all the way back in 1882.

From then on, skaters continued   to lay down new jumps.

The toe loop, the Salchow,   the loop, the flip, the Lutz,

when Kurt Browning landed   the first quadruple,

He paved the way for a new era   in the men's competition.

Today, male and female   skating pioneers

Is it only a matter of time   before the quintuple

becomes the new hottest   property in figure skating?

Shoma Uno is one of the best   figure skaters on the planet.

In fact, he has   an Olympic medal to prove it.

In our quest to explore the   frontiers in figure skating,

I asked Shoma, "The quintuple   jump - is it possible?"

The quadruple jump   was previously considered

as an unrealistic thing   for human beings.

But now, the fact that so many   skaters hit it almost naturally

means somebody will land   a quintuple someday,

although I'm not sure   if I could do it or not.

and then a quadruple   before the triple axel.

As for jumping, the height,   breadth and spin speed

are all different   depending on the skater,

And what you need is,   I never thought of it

so, whether it's a quintuple   or a quadruple,

So, it all boils down   to the...science-y stuff.

skaters spent less   than 0.7 seconds in the air.

to be at the optimum height   to land a quadruple.

more rotational energy   is needed at takeoff

Clearly, the quintuple remains   a thus-far elusive feat.

Is there enough time in the air   to get five revolutions done?

This is, I think,   the biggest question.

So if you were going to do   a quintuple toe loop,

Looking at landing impacts   and jumping up in the air,

the quad and the triple   are pretty similar.

They're in the air roughly   the same amount of time

Do you want to know what   five rotations feels like?

When you ask me   if this generation of skaters

are going to include   the person who would be

the first to land a quint,   I probably would say no.

Because the best ones   are trying to stay healthy.

It's the generation that   we don't quite know yet,

who don't have as much to risk,   and that was me in 1988.

Incredible! A landed   quadruple jump in competition.

as there is no-one   that ever landed before.

But if someone hit a quintuple,   then many skaters would follow.

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