Figure Skating Lifts - Pair Lifts - Types of Lifts - Group 5: Hand To Hand (lasso Lift Types)

Group 5: Hand To Hand (lasso Lift Types)

• Step up lasso
• Toe lasso: The woman skates forward and the man skates backward. She is lifted into the air from a backward toe takeoff, like a toe loop jump.
• Toe overhead lift: The woman is swung behind the man's head from one side of his body to the other, into a raised position. She is in a split position and they are facing the same direction. The toe-pick is used in her take off, hence the name.
• Step overhead lift: The same as the toe overhead lift, but the woman does not use a toe-assist in the take off.

Lasso lifts are either forward or reverse. In reverse, the woman begins the lift skating backward. In forward, she is skating forward. In the helicopter variation, the skaters perform a forward lasso lift, but the woman changes position at the top of the lift, parallel to the ice, with her back arched and her legs spread in a V position, so that as the man turns, her legs look like the blades on a helicopter.

Lasso lifts, in order of increasing difficulty:

• Toe or step in lasso
• Axel or backward lasso
• Reverse lasso