A toe pick assisted jump, taken off from the back inside edge and landed on the back outside edge of the opposite foot. The skater glides backward on a wide curve, taps his toe pick into the ice and rotates in the opposite direction of the curve. The lutz is unique because it is the only jump in which a skater enters the jump moving in one direction and concludes the jump skating in the opposite direction. The jump is named for its inventor, Alois Lutz.