# Counting Revolutions · Figure Skating Level 3: Pre-Intermediate

Figure Skating · Level 3: Pre-Intermediate · Insporta Book (https://book.insporta.app/figure-skating/level-3/counting-revolutions/)

Counting Revolutions in Figure Skating (Level 3: Pre-Intermediate) on Insporta: 20 sourced facts behind 2 tests. Covers: singles to quads.

From singles to quads, jump codes and reading the calls on a score sheet.

## Test 1: Singles to quads

- 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))
- A quadruple is four revolutions; only the Axel adds a half. (Source: ISU, Figure skating jumps explained (isu-skating.com, 2026))
- The figure before the letters is the number of revolutions: 3Lz is a triple Lutz. (Source: ISU Technical Panel Handbook, Single Skating 2026/27)
- 4F is a quadruple flip: the number counts the turns, the letter names the jump. (Source: ISU Technical Panel Handbook, Single Skating 2026/27)
- Lo is the loop; its neighbour Lz is the Lutz, a toe jump, while the toe loop is a plain T. (Source: ISU Technical Panel Handbook, Single Skating 2026/27)
- With the Axel's extra half, a double Axel is two and a half revolutions. (Source: ISU, Figure skating jumps explained (isu-skating.com, 2026))
- 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)
- Count the turns: 2, then 2.5, then 3, then 3.5. (Source: ISU, Figure skating jumps explained (isu-skating.com, 2026))
- 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)
- 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)

## Test 2: Reading jump calls

- The plus joins jumps skated together, read left to right; Lo is the loop, not the Lutz. (Source: ISU Technical Panel Handbook, Single Skating 2026/27)
- The single sign < marks an under-rotated jump: more than a quarter, less than half a turn missing. (Source: ISU Technical Panel Handbook, Single Skating 2026/27)
- The double sign << marks a downgraded jump, half a turn or more short. (Source: ISU Technical Panel Handbook, Single Skating 2026/27)
- The small letter after Lz flags the edge: the skater came off an inside edge instead of the outside one. (Source: ISU Technical Panel Handbook, Single Skating 2026/27)
- The q after the code means the jump landed a quarter of a turn short. (Source: ISU Technical Panel Handbook, Single Skating 2026/27)
- The exclamation mark is a warning only; the flip keeps its full value though the judges may cut its grade. (Source: ISU Technical Panel Handbook, Single Skating 2026/27)
- Edge calls apply to the two toe jumps defined by their take-off edge: the flip (inside) and the Lutz (outside). (Source: ISU Technical Panel Handbook, Single Skating 2026/27)
- Clean comes first; q is a quarter short, < under-rotated, << downgraded. (Source: ISU Technical Panel Handbook, Single Skating 2026/27)
- The code reads double Lutz, then double toe loop: number, jump, plus, number, jump. (Source: ISU Technical Panel Handbook, Single Skating 2026/27)
- 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)

Sources: ISU, Figure skating jumps explained (2026); ISU Technical Panel Handbook, Single Skating 2026/27; ISU Handbook for Referees & Judges, Single and Pair Skating 2026/27; Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021). Original questions authored, nothing reproduced. Program requirements and scoring rules belong to the rules categories.

Take the tests: https://insporta.app/try?utm_source=book&utm_medium=referral