Leaps and Bounds: The 2010s
The 2000s ended in a low note with a heated discussion over the men’s Olympic Gold Medal won without a…
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The Age of Stagnation: The Early IJS from 2003 to 2010
The number of quads and skaters doing them started to rise very quickly in the late 1990s and the development…
The Great Leap Forward: Establishing the Quads in the 1990s
The initial excitement of attempting (1983) and getting the first landed quad in competition (1988) was great, but the quad…
From Dreaming to Reality: The 1980s and Quads
The triple jumps had become staples in men’s figure skating starting from the 1950s, but quadruples were already looming around…
A History of Quadruple Jumps
Many figure skating fans probably know that Kurt Browning was the first skater to land a fully-rotated quadruple jump in…
“We Miss You, Javi!”
The Biography of a Celebrity Figure Skating Banner I still remember the look on D’s face when she got the…
Skating Careers: Making of
How can you study competetive careers? This post is about how I went about to do it… My aim was…
Skating Careers 1947 to 2022
What does an average competetive career look like for an elite figure skater? I decided to figure it out… Some…
Quadruple Jumps: Making of
A post about where and how to collect data on quadruple jumps and skaters attempting them. If you have not…
40 Years of Quadruple Jumps!
The first quadruple jump in 2023 was attempted by a South Korean teenager, Habin Choi, at the junior nationals on…