Skaters commonly perform a double or triple Axel, followed by a jump of lower difficulty in combination.

[14] It was also reported by Hines that in the 1930s, Austrian skater Felix Kaspar, who was known for his athleticism, performed Axels with a trajectory of four feet height and 20 feet distance from take-off to landing (1.20 m height and 6 m distance); Hines stated that "there is little doubt in the minds of those who saw him that had the technique then been known, he probably could have easily performed triple or even quadruple jumps".

[21][22] As of January 2025, 25 female figure skaters have completed a ratified triple Axel (with positive GOE for those performed under the new judging system).

After Midori Ito first performed it in 1988 and then Tonya Harding in 1991, over 10 years passed before more female skaters started performing it, starting with Yukari Nakano and Ludmila Nelidina, and then Mao Asada (the first one to land three triple Axels in one competition), Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Rika Kihira, and Mirai Nagasu.

[23] Since then, Alysa Liu, Alena Kostornaia, Young You, Kamila Valieva, Hana Yoshida, Rinka Watanabe, Anastasiia Shabotova, Varvara Kisel, Mana Kawabe, Sofia Akateva, Amber Glenn, Mao Shimada, Inga Gurgenidze, Ami Nakai, Yu-seong Kim Yu-jae Kim, and Sophie Joline Von Felton have landed the jump successfully in international competition.

[27] The first throw triple Axel was performed by American pair skaters Rena Inoue and John Baldwin, at the 2006 U.S. National Championships.

[35][14] Sports reporter Nora Princiotti states, about the triple Axel, "It takes incredible strength and body control for a skater to get enough height and to get into the jump fast enough to complete all the rotations before landing with a strong enough base to absorb the force generated".

[25] On a successful quadruple Axel, the skater lands with five to ten times the force of their body weight.

King, the key to executing a successful triple Axel is "achieving a high rotational velocity by generating angular momentum at take-off and minimising the moment of inertia about the spin axis".

[36] As of January 2023, four skaters have earned a perfect score for the triple Axel jump (since the introduction of the ISU Judging System in 2004): Yuzuru Hanyu, Javier Fernández, Yan Han, and Shoma Uno.

[37] Besides its quality, Hanyu's jump is notable for its consistency; he landed 51 triple Axels with a positive grade of execution (GOE) in 53 international senior short programs with only two mistakes in that competition segment in a span of twelve years.