Ice dance couples, consisting of a man and a woman skating together. In contrast to pair skating, ice dance focuses on intricate footwork performed in close dance holds, in time with the music. Ice dance lifts must not go above the shoulder, while throws and jumps are disallowed.
Pair skating Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating as compared with independent Single Skating.
Skaters often do 2 or more jumps in a row, or grouped right after one another. When they do this, it is called a Jump Combination or a Jump Sequence. Most combos include 2 jumps, but occasionally, 3-jump combinations are used (for instance, Axel-Half Loop-Double Salchow).
Has anyone landed a quadruple Axel?
A quad, or quadruple, is a figure skating jump with at least four (but fewer than five) revolutions. All quadruple jumps have four revolutions, except for the quadruple Axel, which has four and a half revolutions. No figure skater to date has landed the quadruple Axel in competition.