Extended edge

A plain edge held for a third of a circle, long enough to be a position in its own right.

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A plain edge, held. Time is what turns it from the gap between two elements into an element: British Ice Skating asks for a third of a circle, or three seconds, before anything else is allowed to happen. Three seconds is a long while to do nothing on one foot.

There is nothing to hide behind. On a turn a mistake arrives and leaves again; here it accumulates. The edge either holds its depth or runs shallow, the free leg either stays extended and turned out or it drops, and the shoulders either keep their check or come round and take the edge with them. That is the exercise: holding the position.

Watch the free hip. A foot that drops has almost always been given away by a hip that opened a second earlier.

Derived

Build on

• Right backward outside edgeRBO: the right foot travelling backwards on an outside edge, tracing an anticlockwise lobe.
• One-foot glideAn extended edge holds one foot for a third of a circle. The one-foot glide is where holding one foot starts.

Off the ice

• Balance on one legStanding on one leg with the ankle correcting all the time, as every edge asks.
• Hips and turnoutHow far the legs rotate outward from the hip, for the free leg, mohawks and the spread eagle.

From RBO

• Right backward outside crossoverexits LBI · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe continues
• Right backward outside change of edgeexits RBI · same foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
• Right backward outside cross rollexits LBO · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
• Right backward outside choctawexits LFI · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Right backward outside three turnexits RFI · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
• Right backward outside mohawkexits LFO · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
• Right backward outside bracketexits RFI · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
• Right backward outside crossed step behindexits LBO · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
• Right backward outside chasséexits LBI · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe continues
• Right backward outside counterexits RFO · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Right backward outside loopexits RBO · same foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe continues
• Right backward outside rockerexits RFO · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Right backward outside slip chasséexits LBI · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe continues

Clusters from RBO

• Right backward outside three-mohawkRBO → RFI → LBI
• Right backward outside double threeRBO → RFI → RBO
• Right backward outside counter-threeRBO → RFO → RBI
• Right backward outside rocker-mohawkRBO → RFO → LBO
• Right backward outside bracket-counterRBO → RFI → RBI
• Right backward outside counter-mohawkRBO → RFO → LBO
• Right backward outside counter-2½ twizzleRBO → RFO → RBI
• Right backward outside rocker-choctawRBO → RFO → LBI
• Right backward outside rocker-counterRBO → RFO → RBO
• Right backward outside choctaw-three-rockerRBO → LFI → LBO → LFO
• Right backward outside double three-mohawkRBO → RFI → RBO → LFO
• Right backward outside rocker-counter-double twizzleRBO → RFO → RBO → RBO
• Right backward outside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleRBO → RFI → RFO → RFO
• Right backward outside triple threeRBO → RFI → RBO → RFI

Appears in

In British Ice Skating's tests: BIS Skills 1, BIS Skills 3, BIS Skills 4, BIS Skills 5, BIS Skills 7, BIS Skills 8.