Left backward outside crossed step behind

LBO to RBO: a step behind, with the legs crossed below the knee, still travelling backwards, and the lobe reverses.

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Travelling backwards, with the foot going down behind the skating one on the outer edge side and the weight crossing onto it. This is the version the British syllabus asks for, once, at the top of Skills 8.

The fault is a hop. There is no instant in which both feet are square, so a skater who cannot get the free hip round in time lifts the foot clear, and a gap opens in the tracing where a step belongs. Depth in the skating knee is what buys that instant, and it has to be there before the crossing starts. It cannot be found during it.

Moving into the space the crossing foot needs is what makes this the harder direction. The blindness is not the cause.

Derived

Build on

• Left backward outside edgeLBO: the left foot travelling backwards on an outside edge, tracing a clockwise lobe.
• Backward half-swizzle pumpsThe same backward circle, with the free foot crossing behind the skating foot.

From LBO

• Left backward outside crossoverexits RBI · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe continues
• Left backward outside change of edgeexits LBI · same foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
• Left backward outside cross rollexits RBO · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
• Left backward outside choctawexits RFI · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Left backward outside three turnexits LFI · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
• Left backward outside mohawkexits RFO · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
• Left backward outside bracketexits LFI · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
• Left backward outside chasséexits RBI · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe continues
• Left backward outside counterexits LFO · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Left backward outside loopexits LBO · same foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe continues
• Left backward outside rockerexits LFO · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Left backward outside slip chasséexits RBI · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe continues

Clusters from LBO

• Left backward outside three-mohawkLBO → LFI → RBI
• Left backward outside double threeLBO → LFI → LBO
• Left backward outside counter-threeLBO → LFO → LBI
• Left backward outside rocker-mohawkLBO → LFO → RBO
• Left backward outside bracket-counterLBO → LFI → LBI
• Left backward outside counter-mohawkLBO → LFO → RBO
• Left backward outside counter-2½ twizzleLBO → LFO → LBI
• Left backward outside rocker-choctawLBO → LFO → RBI
• Left backward outside rocker-counterLBO → LFO → LBO
• Left backward outside choctaw-three-rockerLBO → RFI → RBO → RFO
• Left backward outside double three-mohawkLBO → LFI → LBO → RFO
• Left backward outside rocker-counter-double twizzleLBO → LFO → LBO → LBO
• Left backward outside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleLBO → LFI → LFO → LFO
• Left backward outside triple threeLBO → LFI → LBO → LFI

Appears in

• 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 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.