Nathan Chen Schools Jimmy on How to Do an Axel Jump | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

-Wow. It suits you, friend. -Thank you. -Are you used to using it? -Yes, now, after today, yes. -Yeah. You're going to college at Yale, so you're a college student. -Good. -Yes, really. And now you have to go back to university. -Yeah. Yes. -Yes, but you just won the gold medal at the Olympic Games. How are you going to do this? You can't wear this on campus. -No, no, absolutely not. It will be great. I mean, I'm really excited about it, getting back... back to... normal life. -What excites you most, taking naps? -Oh, absolutely. I mean, I just got back from Beijing like last night, so. -Do you have any idea where you are? -No, I have no idea. -Yeah.

I was obviously rooting for you when I was going to the Olympics and I thought, "Oh my God." I'm like, "I want this guy to get it." And you walk out and I've never seen anything more beautiful in my life. You were amazing. -Thank you. -It was almost like watching a magic trick or something like that. Because I've never seen it... You

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. They call you the Quad King. - -Because you do four turns and then you land. Does it matter which skate you land on? -Generally yes. Therefore, if you are right-handed, you will generally always land on your right.

But there are some exceptions to that. There are some athletes who can do it both ways, but I land on my right. -How do you know you can do that? I mean, obviously, you practice and you try, but I mean... -Okay, okay. -Do you know, once you emerge, if it will work or not? -Generally yes, yes. I would say that, most of the time, athletes take the leap and then if it happens the way we want, they will see that it works. Right after takeoff, if something goes wrong,

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out and so instead of doing four revolutions, we'll do maybe two or three revolutions.

But yes, it would be a big mistake if we did that. -And now, when that happens, are you discouraged by the rest of the routine? Because you say, "I'm not going to win gold right now." And then you try to smile and say, "Yeah, this is my thing, but yeah, I blew it." -To a certain extent I would say yes. You have to smile and say, "Whatever, I have to finish it." -Yeah. Are you hard on yourself? -Yes, I would say so. I mean, we're all pretty competitive, so we want to do well. -Yeah. Could you see what you did or don't you see what you did? -I did it, yes, I did it.

I have to see it. -It was incredible. -Thank you. -It was incredible. -Thank you. Natan Chen. It was crazy. Perfection. It was like it was well done. How many jumps are there in skating? -There are six jumps. There is Axel, salchow, toe loop, loop, flip and Lutz. But minor details between the six. -And can you do any of the jumps when you are not using skates? -I mean, to a certain extent, yes. -I mean... This might be the first time we have a gold medalist on the

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. I mean, could you? -Clear. -To take a leap in our program? -Of course yes.

You could probably do an Axel. I'll leave this real quick. -Sure. -Give him this. -Oh, I'll take it. Don't worry about that. Yes, I have this. Don't worry about that. -So yeah, you could do like a single Axel, where you come in, jump, rotate and land. So basically, that's it. But we do it as multiplied by three. So we do the same thing, but we spin three times and then we do it on the ice. -I could try one, but you would have to

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it to me. -Please please please. I'd love to. I'd love to. -Slow motion, what are you doing? -Alright.

So this is called Axel. This is the only leap we will take in the future. Everything else goes the other way around. -Axel advances. -You start on the right. -Yeah. -Step forward to the left. Kick. And you spin and then you land on your right. -It's something like the electric slide. If I understand. Alright. -So let's analyze it. -When are you going up? -Instead of making a full revolution, we will only make half a revolution. -Thank you. -Then go here, jump, jump and land. There is. There is. -Here, you deserve this more than me. This is the only Nathan Chen there.

Olympic gold medalist.