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A reverse somersault in the air. Backflips were banned in competition until 2024. [3]backspin A spin performed on a back outside edge base value A part of the ISU Judging System – a numeric value assigned to each technical element in a skater's program, designed to standardize the elements' potential scores in an attempt to make judging more impartial [4]
According to figure skating historian James R. Hines, jumping in figure skating is "relatively recent". [2] Jumps were viewed as "acrobatic tricks, not as a part of a skater's art" [ 7 ] and "had no place" [ 8 ] in the skating practices in England during the 19th century, although skaters experimented with jumps from the ice during the last 25 ...
Terry Kubicka from the U.S. was the first figure skater to successfully execute a legal backflip at the Olympics, during the 1976 Winter Olympics. [3] Kubicka got the idea of using the backflip in his skating from Evy Scotvold, his coach, who wanted to help advance athleticism in figure skating and to go beyond the triple jumps that were the most difficult elements in the sport at the time.
Spins are an element in figure skating in which the skater rotates, centered on a single point on the ice, while holding one or more body positions. They are performed by all disciplines of the sport, single skating, pair skating, and ice dance, and are a required element in most figure skating competitions.
The official name is "20XX ISU World Figure Skating Championships", which should be used at first mention in the article about the specific competition, then "World Championships" at subsequent mentions. In general articles, "20XX World Championships" is sufficient at first mention. The term "Worlds" is accepted but not preferred.
A twizzle is "a multirotational, one-foot turn that moves across the ice" [1] in the sport of figure skating.It is a "a difficult turn" [3] in single skating.The International Skating Union (ISU), the governing body of figure skating, defines a twizzle as "a traveling turn on one foot with one or more rotations which is quickly rotated with a continuous (uninterrupted) action". [2]
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A quadruple jump or quad is a figure skating jump with at least four (but fewer than five) revolutions. [1] All quadruple jumps have four revolutions, except for the quadruple Axel, which has four and a half revolutions. The quadruple toe loop and quadruple Salchow are the two most commonly performed quads.