Right backward inside step wide

RBI to LBI: a step onto the other foot placed wide, nothing crossing, still travelling backwards, and the lobe reverses.

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Backwards on an inside edge, stepping wide onto the other foot’s inside edge. The weight goes across, the first foot leaves the ice, and the lobe reverses because the foot changed and the edge did not.

Backwards it is harder for the ordinary reason, that you cannot see where the foot is going, and for one particular to this. A back inside edge holds less than any of the other three, and you are asking one to take your whole weight at the moment it arrives. Most of the wobble here is an arriving foot put down late and flat. It has to be on its edge from the first instant.

It runs through six of the eight Skills tests, usually between two backward lobes and usually followed by a push back onto an outside edge.

Derived

Build on

• Right backward inside edgeRBI: the right foot travelling backwards on an inside edge, tracing a clockwise lobe.
• Backward strokingA backward wide step changes feet as a backward stroke does, with the new foot placed out to the side and nothing crossing.

From RBI

• Right backward inside push backexits LBO · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe continues
• Right backward inside change of edgeexits RBO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
• Right backward inside three turnexits RFO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
• Right backward inside rockerexits RFI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Right backward inside bracketexits RFO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
• Right backward inside loopexits RBI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe continues
• Right backward inside choctawexits LFO · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Right backward inside counterexits RFI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Right backward inside mohawkexits LFI · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe continues

Clusters from RBI

• Right backward inside double threeRBI → RFO → RBI
• Right backward inside counter-mohawkRBI → RFI → LBI
• Right backward inside rocker-mohawkRBI → RFI → LBI
• Right backward inside rocker-choctawRBI → RFI → LBO
• Right backward inside counter-2½ twizzleRBI → RFI → RBO
• Right backward inside bracket-counterRBI → RFO → RBO
• Right backward inside bracket-cross rollRBI → RFO → LFO
• Right backward inside counter-threeRBI → RFI → RBO
• Right backward inside rocker-counterRBI → RFI → RBI
• Right backward inside three-mohawkRBI → RFO → LBO
• Right backward inside choctaw-three-rockerRBI → LFO → LBI → LFI
• Right backward inside double three-mohawkRBI → RFO → RBI → LFI
• Right backward inside rocker-counter-double twizzleRBI → RFI → RBI → RBI
• Right backward inside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleRBI → RFO → RFI → RFI
• Right backward inside triple threeRBI → RFO → RBI → RFO

Appears in

In British Ice Skating's tests: BIS Skills 1, BIS Skills 2, BIS Skills 3, BIS Skills 6, BIS Skills 7, BIS Skills 8.