What are all the jumps in figure skating?

Let's make no bones about it: the headlining sport in the Winter Olympics is figure skating. No other sport comes close to the drama, the athletes, the subplots, and politics that figure skating has. For skaters, all those hours, jumps and training are boiled down to around six or seven minutes. read more

Figure skating jumps are an element of three competitive figure skating disciplines—men's singles, ladies' singles, and pair skating but not ice dancing. Different jumps are identified by the take-off edge, direction of movement, and the number of revolutions completed. read more

For skaters, all those hours, jumps and training are boiled down to around six or seven minutes. That's what makes the Olympics' skating competition so wonderful and so heartbreaking: skaters don't necessarily have to be the best, they just have to be the best for seven minutes (see: Lipinski, Tara). read more

In particular, a legal jump must take off from a single edge of a single skate, and land on a single edge of a single skate. This is why you don't see jumps such as backflips in figure skating. Anyhow, there are 6 basic jumps in figure skating, 3 edge jumps (loop, axel, salchow) and three toe jumps (toe loop, flip, lutz). read more