Rules

The new season is just around the corner. Time to provide everyone with the information needed for the new season. Yesterday a great article about the matter was published on this website, so I propose everyone reads this first as it ...

A number of issues arose concerning the ISU All Final System which is used on Star Class Series. This document is meant to point out the problems and to suggest a solution for each of those problems. We divided the ...

At the first StarClass in Bergamo, the new progression schedule was explained during the Team Leader Meeting before the start of the competition. I will try to explain the complete system in this post, but before I do that I need ...

A new season, a new StarClass Memorandum. Well that is the way it should be. Last year there was no Memorandum, so I am happy that there is one this season. You can find the new Memorandum here. I ...

As of this season, there are 5 extra Final Points (FP) to be earned in Super Finals over 3000m. Such Super Finals are only raced during championships such as World, European and national championschips. Before there would be a bell ...

In the new ISU Technical Rules & Regulations 2016 version, parts of rule 291 have been underlined and thereby indicate a change over the previous version of the rulebook (2014): All Skaters must be equipped with:  … g) Neck protection of cut-resistant nature, fully covering ...

Penalties are often given to skaters infringing the rules of Short Track Speed Skating. A misconception of a yellow card is often claimed by coaches and referees. Two penalties on the same distance results in a Yellow Card on some ...

A Short Track speedskater may be penalized with DNF (Did Not Finish) when the skater does not skate all laps of a race. However, the chief referee is also entitled to end the race before all skaters have made it ...