Right forward outside 1½ twizzle

RFO to RBI: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.

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On RFO · 7 other entries
  • LFOLFO to LBI: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
  • RFO (this page)RFO to RBI: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
  • LFILFI to LBO: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
  • RFIRFI to RBO: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
  • LBOLBO to LFI: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
  • RBORBO to RFI: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
  • LBILBI to LFO: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
  • RBIRBI to RFO: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.

Not checked yet. The mechanics on this page are a first draft by a non-expert, and no coach has seen them yet. Read them as a starting point and check them with a coach. Corrections are very welcome.

outside edge: the paler lineinside edge: the darker line
RFO → RBI. A skater who rotates the other way traces LFO: the same element, generated from this one.

One and a half rotations from a forward outside edge, leaving backwards on an inside one. Same foot, and the blade never changes which way it is curving: the edge letter changes only because you turned round.

The half rotation is what makes it impossible to fake. A whole one can be assembled out of a three turn and a step and still look roughly right from the side; a half cannot, because you finish facing the way you did not start. Either the rotation was continuous or you are standing on the wrong edge, and there is no third outcome.

Derived

RFO is three letters (foot, direction, edge): right foot, forwards, outside edge. Every edge in the guide is written that way, so RBI is a right foot travelling backwards on an inside edge.

RFO 1½ twizzle to RBI: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, leaving one curl in the tracing and no cusp anywhere. The lobe continues, and the half rotation turns the skater to face the other way, which is why the edge letter changes without the blade ever changing which way it curves.

A skater who rotates the other way does the same thing from LFO. Same element, mirrored.

Build on

From RFO

Clusters from RFO

Appears in

In Australia's grades

None of the Australian level lists in this guide name it.

In British Ice Skating's tests: BIS Skills 7.