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Figure Skating · Level 8: Expert · Sub-level 8.3

Practice

2 tests · 20 facts · updated 20 October 2026 · markdown

Planning a season and a training session, safety and fitness.

Each test below is ten questions on Insporta. The list under a test is what the questions check: one fact per question, with the source it was written from. Read it before the test, or come back from a wrong answer.

Test 1Planning a seasonTake a test

  1. Preseason planning starts with physical examinations and parental and medical releases.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.2: Planning a Training & Competition Season · recall

  2. Schedule at least one practice a week for at least eight weeks before the competition.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.2: Planning a Training & Competition Season · recall

  3. Volunteers can come from home-schooled skaters, adult skaters, local schools or university athletic programs.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.2: Planning a Training & Competition Season · recall

  4. During the season the guide says to keep using skill assessments to track progress.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.2: Planning a Training & Competition Season · recall

  5. Postseason: review the preseason goals and ask athletes, parents and volunteers for comments.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.2: Planning a Training & Competition Season · recall

  6. A practice competition can be skating skills, program run-throughs or exhibitions; the more we compete, the better.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.3: Planning a Training Session · recall

  7. Schedule exhibitions or competitions against other skaters before the regional or multi-program games.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.2: Planning a Training & Competition Season · recall

  8. Preseason sets goals and logistics, the season runs and tracks the plan, postseason reviews it.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.2: Planning a Training & Competition Season · applied

  9. Health and permissions come first, then ice and helpers, and the written goals and outline.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.2: Planning a Training & Competition Season · applied

  10. A practises every week for the last eight weeks. B starts too late, C skips weeks, D crams the last three.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.2: Planning a Training & Competition Season · applied

Test 2A training sessionTake a test

  1. Each session contains warm-ups, previously taught skills, new skills, competition experience and feedback.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.3: Planning a Training Session · recall

  2. Easy to difficult, slow to fast, known to unknown, general to specific, start to finish.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.3: Planning a Training Session · recall

  3. Devote the end to a group activity with challenge and fun, something to look forward to.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.3: Planning a Training Session · recall

  4. Change activities before the athletes become bored and lose interest; keep drills brief.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.3: Planning a Training Session · recall

  5. The rules include keeping hands to yourself, listening to the coach and asking before leaving the ice.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.3: Planning a Training Session · recall

  6. Fit 5 exercises focus on endurance, strength, flexibility and balance.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 4: Fit 5 · recall

  7. Coaches should encourage athletes to exercise every day and stay active outside organized practice.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 4: Fit 5 · recall

  8. Each step makes the session a little harder or more specific than the one before, so the body is ready for it.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.3: Planning a Training Session · applied

  9. Beginners start with fitting and gear, then dry-land skills, then instruction on the ice.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.3: Planning a Training Session · applied

  10. C climbs steadily from easy to hard. A starts hardest, B jumps up and down, D stays flat.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.3: Planning a Training Session · applied

Sources

Riedell, Boot & Blade Guide and Testing Structure; Edea, Blade mounting; Fred Bartick, Mounting Blades; Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.1-1.3 and 4; U.S. Figure Skating, Adult Testing; ISU, Grand Prix explained (2026); Skate Canada, 2026-27 Grand Prix guide; ISU Constitution and General Regulations. Original questions authored, nothing reproduced. Eligibility, entries and age rules belong to General Rules.

  • Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.2: Planning a Training & Competition Season9
  • Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 1.3: Planning a Training Session9
  • Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 4: Fit 52