In figure skating, the margin of error is razor sharp. Skaters can miss out on podiums by a few tenths of a point; a slight under-rotation, a scratchy landing, tiny details that are hard to see but easy to penalize. Skaters know those mistakes are hiding in plain sight; correcting them is the real challenge. That’s where an AI-powered app makes its entrance and American skater Andrew Torgashev has been utilizing it to the fullest.

To test the app, Torgashev performed the simplest quad jump (a jump with four revolutions), the toe loop. His execution looked clean, almost perfect. But AI caught what the human eye missed. He was a quarter of a rotation short, an error that would take off a few tenths from his score in competition.

Normally, spotting the difference between a fully rotated jum

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