Progressive

A step in which the new foot passes the skating foot and goes down ahead of it, leaving the old foot trailing.

Also called run, progressive run or Pr. Other names.

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The free foot passes the skating foot before it is placed on the ice, which leaves the foot you were skating on trailing behind the new one. In the dances it is usually outside then inside on the same lobe, and the ISU asks for the feet to be lifted a small distance from the ice. In the Dutch Waltz it takes two beats, one, then three.

The Fourteenstep’s key points rule out skating it as a chassé: a chassé puts the new foot down beside the skating foot, a progressive puts it ahead. The ISU and U.S. Figure Skating also call it a run or a crossover. This guide’s crossover is the stroking step, where the free foot crosses the skating foot completely, which is how U.S. Figure Skating’s own solo dance list defines a crossover.

KiwiSkate asks for forward progressives at Dance 1 and backward ones at Dance 5.

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• Left forward outside chasséLFO to RFI: the free foot comes down beside the skating foot, nothing crossing, still travelling forwards on the same lobe.
• Forward strokingA progressive is a stroke on the same lobe: the new foot passes the skating foot and gains some impetus from the edge of the foot becoming free, in U.S. Figure Skating's definition.

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