There are exactly six, and the only difference is how the skater leaves the ice. Three are toe jumps, launched by planting the free foot's toe pick: the toe loop from a back outside edge, the flip from a back inside edge, and the Lutz from a back outside edge after a long counter-rotated glide, usually into a corner.
Each skater's segment score has two halves. The Technical Element Score adds up every jump, spin and step sequence: each has a published base value, adjusted by a grade of execution that judges award from minus five to plus five as a percentage of that base value.
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There are exactly six, and the only difference is how the skater leaves the ice. Three are toe jumps, launched by planting the free foot's toe pick: the toe loop from a back outside edge, the flip from a back inside edge, and the Lutz from a back outside edge after a long counter-rotated glide, usually into a corner.
Each skater's segment score has two halves. The Technical Element Score adds up every jump, spin and step sequence: each has a published base value, adjusted by a grade of execution that judges award from minus five to plus five as a percentage of that base value.
The short program is 2 minutes 40 seconds and prescribes exactly seven elements: three jumping passes including a required Axel-type jump and a combination, three spins of different families, and a step sequence. Anything extra earns nothing, and a missed element cannot be replaced, so it is a compliance test under pressure.
A quadruple Axel is four and a half rotations, because the Axel is the only jump taken off facing forwards, which adds half a turn to whatever the skater completes in the air. It carries a base value of 12.50, the highest of any element in the sport, more than a triple Axel and a double Axel combined.
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