Left backward inside rocker

LBI to LFI: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.

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Backwards on the inside edge, rotating into the circle, out forwards still on the inside edge and onto a lobe curving the other way. It shares its awkwardness with everything else that begins on a back inside edge: the entry is the one you practise least.

What it buys you is a change of circle without a change of edge, which is how a step sequence travels in a straight line while every piece of it is a curve.

Derived

Build on

• Left backward inside three turnLBI to LFO: half a turn into the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.

Leads to

6 elements in the guide are built on this one.

• Left backward inside counterLBI to LFI: half a turn against the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
• Left backward inside rocker-choctawLBI → LFI → RBO: 2 turns on two feet.
• Left backward inside rocker-counterLBI → LFI → LBI, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
• Left backward inside rocker-counter-double twizzleLBI → LFI → LBI → LBI, back where it started: 3 elements on one foot.
• Left backward inside rocker-mohawkLBI → LFI → RBI: 2 turns on two feet.
• Right backward inside choctaw-three-rockerRBI → LFO → LBI → LFI: 3 turns on two feet.

From LBI

• Left backward inside edgethe plain edge, with no turn on it
• Left backward inside push backexits RBO · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe continues
• Left backward inside step wideexits RBI · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
• Left backward inside change of edgeexits LBO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
• Left backward inside bracketexits LFO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
• Left backward inside loopexits LBI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe continues
• Left backward inside choctawexits RFO · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Left backward inside counterexits LFI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Left backward inside mohawkexits RFI · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe continues

Clusters from LBI

• Left backward inside double threeLBI → LFO → LBI
• Left backward inside counter-mohawkLBI → LFI → RBI
• Left backward inside rocker-mohawkLBI → LFI → RBI
• Left backward inside rocker-choctawLBI → LFI → RBO
• Left backward inside counter-2½ twizzleLBI → LFI → LBO
• Left backward inside bracket-cross rollLBI → LFO → RFO
• Left backward inside bracket-counterLBI → LFO → LBO
• Left backward inside counter-threeLBI → LFI → LBO
• Left backward inside rocker-counterLBI → LFI → LBI
• Left backward inside three-mohawkLBI → LFO → RBO
• Left backward inside choctaw-three-rockerLBI → RFO → RBI → RFI
• Left backward inside double three-mohawkLBI → LFO → LBI → RFI
• Left backward inside rocker-counter-double twizzleLBI → LFI → LBI → LBI
• Left backward inside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleLBI → LFO → LFI → LFI
• Left backward inside triple threeLBI → LFO → LBI → LFO

Appears in

• BIS Skills 4BIS · level 4

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

• BIS Skills 4, exercise 3: Inside rockersForward and backward inside rockers, alternating down the full length of the rink, six at a minimum.