5 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…
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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…