Backward two-foot turn

The same half turn on two blades, backwards to forwards.

Also called backward to forward two-foot turn. Other names.

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.

Gliding backwards on both feet, you turn through a half turn and finish gliding forwards, both blades on the ice throughout. Ice Skating Australia teaches it on a curve, clockwise and anticlockwise, with a glide of about a metre once the feet have come round to forwards. New Zealand’s current rules place it later, as a teaching idea at the Advanced badge, although its 2008 badges asked for both directions of the two-foot turn together, on a curve while skating.

Australia teaches it at the same level as backward crossovers and the backward edges, after the forward-to-backward turn. The manual does not repeat the forward turn’s leading arm and check for this direction, so this page does not add them.

Build on

• Two-foot turnThe same half turn the other way, from backwards to forwards. Ice Skating Australia teaches it after the forward turn, on a curve.

Leads to

8 elements in the guide are built on this one.

• Left backward inside mohawk, Left backward outside mohawk, Right backward inside mohawk, Right backward outside mohawkBoth turn from backwards to forwards, and the mohawk changes feet as it turns.
• Left backward inside three turn, Left backward outside three turn, Right backward inside three turn, Right backward outside three turnBoth turn from backwards to forwards, and the three turn does it on one foot.

Appears in

No test syllabus recorded yet.

Where it sits in one country's grades is on that country's copy of this page: UK, USA, Australia or New Zealand.