Counting Revolutions

Jumps are named by their turns: one for a single, two a double, three a triple, four a quadruple; the Axel adds half.

Source: ISU, Figure skating jumps explained (isu-skating.com, 2026) · recall

A quadruple is four revolutions; only the Axel adds a half.

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The figure before the letters is the number of revolutions: 3Lz is a triple Lutz.

Source: ISU Technical Panel Handbook, Single Skating 2026/27 · recall

4F is a quadruple flip: the number counts the turns, the letter names the jump.

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Lo is the loop; its neighbour Lz is the Lutz, a toe jump, while the toe loop is a plain T.

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With the Axel's extra half, a double Axel is two and a half revolutions.

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A jump skated with two clean revolutions is a double; downgrades are for jumps short of their own turns.

Source: ISU, Figure skating jumps explained (isu-skating.com, 2026); ISU Technical Panel Handbook, Single Skating 2026/27 · applied

Count the turns: 2, then 2.5, then 3, then 3.5.

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The waltz jump comes at Level III, the toe loop at Level IV, the flip at Level V and the single Axel at Level VI.

Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 6: Levels III-VI · applied

C reads 4Lz, a four-turn Lutz. 3Lz has one turn fewer, 4Lo is a loop and 4F a flip.

Source: ISU Technical Panel Handbook, Single Skating 2026/27 · applied

The plus joins jumps skated together, read left to right; Lo is the loop, not the Lutz.

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The single sign < marks an under-rotated jump: more than a quarter, less than half a turn missing.

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The double sign << marks a downgraded jump, half a turn or more short.

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The small letter after Lz flags the edge: the skater came off an inside edge instead of the outside one.

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The q after the code means the jump landed a quarter of a turn short.

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The exclamation mark is a warning only; the flip keeps its full value though the judges may cut its grade.

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Edge calls apply to the two toe jumps defined by their take-off edge: the flip (inside) and the Lutz (outside).

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Clean comes first; q is a quarter short, < under-rotated, << downgraded.

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The code reads double Lutz, then double toe loop: number, jump, plus, number, jump.

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Only B lacks exactly one quarter of its last turn. A is complete, C is short by over half, D by about a third.

Source: ISU Technical Panel Handbook, Single Skating 2026/27 · applied