The abilities of the 17 year old kid has the internet calling him a god American ilium Allen has surpassed the capabilities of what many thought to be humanly possible being the first and only person to ever land a Quad Axle the axle is the only jump in figure skating that takes off
Forward meaning you lose time for rotations in the air due to the forward takeoff this is why for years the triple Axel was considered one of the most difficult jumps around [Applause] this made it so a quadruple axle was considered almost as impossible as Landing a quintuple jump last season the most popular skater in the world yuzuru hanyu made it his career dream but only got As far as having a two-footed landing to successfully land
A Quad Axle you need to jump from a forward position rotate four and a half revolutions midair in less than six tenths of a second this is why Ilya melanin was not crowned the new Quad king but has instead been deemed the quad God
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