The Axel

• Brad Bushell (Bushell@mindlink.bc.ca) offers a step by step instruction on how to axel
• Lee Hetherington (ilh@lcs.mit.edu) with some tips from when he first learned to axel
• Kobi Eshun (kobi@netcom.com) presents a Berkeley-centric commentary on the axel and its derivatives.
• Steve Thomas (steveth@netcom.com), who is credited with naming the move provides History and instruction and also help with troubleshooting.
• Bert Tanaka (tanaka_be@swam1.enet.dec.com), gives advice with authority, concentrating on reasons why the kite fails to axel and going on to cover performing an Axel off a Wing Tip Stand.
• Still confused? Perhaps watching a video of Dodd Gross do it would help. Currently, we have this in AVI (2169404 bytes) and Quicktime (1516507 bytes) [Note: this is reported to be broken and is being replaced] format. Thanks to Mark Henderson (mhenderson@mayo.edu) for doing the conversion.

  Dod has freely provided the clip from his acclaimed video and I'm happy to let him plug it:
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