Twizzle
Videos
A twizzle is "a multirotational, one-foot turn that moves across the ice" in the sport of figure skating. The International Skating Union defines a twizzle as "a traveling turn on one foot with one or
Allison Reed & Saulius Ambrulevičius of Lithuania at 2025 Skate Canda International. 01
Meryl Davis and Charlie White, 2009
Alexandra Zaretski and Roman Zaretski, 2009
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, 2018
Figure skating jumps
Videos
Figure skating jumps are an element of three competitive figure skating disciplines: men's singles, women's singles, and pair skating – but not ice dancing. Jumping in figure skating is "relatively re
Twizzle
…foot performed at the same time by both partners. American ice dancer Alex Shibutani calls twizzles "the quads of ice dance" because, like quadruple jumps in other disciplines, twizzles, which appear most often in ice dance programs, are risky and technically demanding. There are four types of entry edges…
Norwegian figure skater Axel Paulsen created the Axel jump c. 1895.
Japanese figure skater Midori Ito, first female skater to land a triple Axel, in 1989
Russian figure skater Alina Zagitova, namesake of the "Zagitova Rule", in 2019
Canadian pair skaters Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini performing a throw jump in 1983