toe pick

American  

noun

1. one of the sharp teeth in the front part of a figure-skating blade.

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Example Sentences

“I hit my toe pick after I threw her,” Michael Marinaro of Canada said after precisely that happened during their calamitous short program at the Olympics on Friday night, “and I fell on my face.”

From Seattle Times

And her combination in the second half of the program — a quadruple Lutz, vaulting from the outside edge of the toe pick, followed by a triple toe — was the hardest jumping pass performed in the history of the Olympics, for women or men.

From Washington Post

Depending on whether it’s a toe pick jump or an edge jump, the movement patterns they do to get that vertical velocity will differ.

From Scientific American

For toe pick jumps, you’re sort of vaulting off the toe pick to pop up.

From Scientific American

Particularly for the toe pick jumps, the horizontal velocity you have can be used to do more like a pole-vaulting-type motion.

From Scientific American