Gustave Francois Lussi was a figure skating coach.
15 Facts About Gustave Lussi
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Gustave Lussi lived in Lake Placid, New York, and was instrumental in producing popular ice shows in the 1930s and after.
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Gustave Lussi himself was not a competitive skater but a ski jumper.
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Gustave Lussi lost his nerve for that sport after a fall, and became interested in skating instead.
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In 1919, Lussi emigrated to the United States, landing in New York City.
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Gustave Lussi died on June 23,1993, at the age of 95.
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Gustave Lussi supported another Swiss emigrant, a skating coach named De Bergen, and himself in New York while learning skating from De Bergen.
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Gustave Lussi coached skaters in Atlantic City in the 1940s.
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Gustave Lussi started summer skating in Lake Placid after the Olympic Arena was enclosed in 1932 for the Winter Olympics.
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Gustave Lussi convinced the local municipality to open the arena for a month that summer and imported skaters from Canada to perform shows that summer.
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Gustave Lussi's father-in-law painted the ice for these great extravaganzas.
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Gustave Lussi was responsible for developing modern figure skating jump technique, including the now-standard crossed-leg rotation, or back spin, position in the air.
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Around this time Morrow worked with Lussi to produce a series of instructional videos, entitled Systematic Figure Skating: The Spin and Jump Techniques of Gustave Lussi, capturing his coaching techniques.
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Gustave Lussi was inducted into the professional Skaters Association Coaches Hall of Fame in 2002.
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On December 15,2015, US Figure Skating announced Gustave Lussi would be a member of the US Figure Skating Hall of Fame Class of 2016.