Left backward inside step wide

LBI to RBI: 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

• Left backward inside edgeLBI: the left foot travelling backwards on an inside edge, tracing an anticlockwise 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 LBI

• Left backward inside push backexits RBO · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe continues
• Left backward inside change of edgeexits LBO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
• Left backward inside three turnexits LFO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
• Left backward inside rockerexits LFI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, 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 2BIS · level 2
• BIS Skills 3BIS · level 3
• BIS Skills 6BIS · level 6
• BIS Skills 7BIS · level 7
• BIS Skills 8BIS · level 8

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 2, exercise 1: Backward outside & inside edgesBackward edges held to the long axis on both outside and inside, joined by crossovers on one side and a step wide on the other.
• BIS Skills 2, exercise 5: Skating exerciseA full circuit of the rink built from an open mohawk into backward edges, a step wide and a crossover, on both sides.
• BIS Skills 3, exercise 2: Multi-directional 3-turnsAll four forward 3-turns and both backward inside ones on the first side, and 3-turns run into open mohawks on the second.
• BIS Skills 6, exercise 3: Backward inside loopsFrom a stationary start on both feet: a forward outside 3-turn and, on the same foot, a backward inside loop.
• BIS Skills 7, exercise 1: Forward inside choctaws & backward outside countersClosed choctaws from a forward inside edge, and backward outside counters run into 3-turns, down both lengths of the rink.
• BIS Skills 8, exercise 2: Section 2The technical middle: a double 3-turn, a bracket, steps crossed behind, and a double twizzle reached through a change of edge.