He lived in Lake Placid, New York, and was instrumental in producing popular ice shows in the 1930s and after.
Using the rinks from the 1932 Winter Olympics, he trained students during the summer, a practice unusual at the time.
"[5] Lussi introduced checking the jump landings instead of turning a three after landing, a program as composition with a beginning and ending instead of the official just banging a gong to signal the end of the allotted time to perform, closing the figures on the backward pushes which until that time were left open, the original design for the Pattern 99 blade, the flying sit spin, the flying camel or Button Camel spin with Dick Button, the crossed-leg rotation position in jumping and spinning, the double Axel jump, the triple jumps, the delayed Axel and delayed-rotation double and triple jumps.
Lussi was also responsible for developing modern figure skating jump technique, including the now-standard crossed-leg rotation, or back spin, position in the air.
In April 1990, a documentary film Gustave Lussi: The Man Who Changed Skating was shown on the PBS television network.
The documentary was conceived and co-produced by his former student Cecily Morrow and produced by station WCFE-TV.
[7] Around this time Morrow also 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.