Technical Information

Planned Program Sheets are designed to assist the Technical Panel to accurately identify the order of the elements being performed. It is a sheet that must be submitted, that lists each element performed in the short program, free program and STAR program using ISU/Skate Canada Codes. If you are unsure of what codes to use for the elements, ask a coach or your skater, or refer to the “cheat sheet” of codes that is detailed on the Planned Program Sheet.

Planned Program Sheets are an essential part of the process on the technical panel. Having the accurate list of elements listed in the correct skating order for each program helps the panel process run smoothly and efficiently. If a Planned Program Sheet is not submitted by the correct submission date your registration could be considered incomplete.

When organizing a competition, volunteers have hundreds of registrations to review, process, and sort into many different categories. This can take many hours. When planned program sheets are missing or handed in late, it can create confusion and extra work for organizers to spend time trying to track the sheets down, make sure it gets into the proper category in the proper order. For every skater that is missing their planned program sheet and then must be tracked down or is received late, it will add about 15 minutes of work for organizers. If 50 skaters out of 500 forget or are late, it would now result in 12.5 hours of extra work for a volunteer. This also applies to handing in a revised Planned Program Sheet upon registration. It creates a lot of unnecessary work for volunteers and still may not get to the proper place in time for the event

If your skater just has one program, then you will fill in the Free Program rows on the right hand side of the sheet. If skater is competing in competitive events, Pre Novice and up, and has two programs, you will fill in the elements for each program on the same sheet. Short program on the left, free program on the right. You will begin with the first technical element in the skaters’ program and then continue to list the elements in order. The following are two examples of completed Planned Program Sheets, the first for a Pre Novice skater with a short and long program, the second for a STAR 5 skater with just one program. Download a blank Planned Program Sheet from the Section Website, save it to your computer, input your skater’s information and program, then save. When online registrations ask you to upload the Planned Program Sheet it will be readily available. Please update it as necessary.