Left forward inside bracket-counter

LFI → LBO → LFO: 2 turns on one foot.

combinationentry LFIexit LFO2 turnsone foot throughout

On LFI · 7 other entries

LFOLFO → LBI → LFI: 2 turns on one foot.
RFORFO → RBI → RFI: 2 turns on one foot.
LFI (this page)LFI → LBO → LFO: 2 turns on one foot.
RFIRFI → RBO → RFO: 2 turns on one foot.
LBOLBO → LFI → LBI: 2 turns on one foot.
RBORBO → RFI → RBI: 2 turns on one foot.
LBILBI → LFO → LBO: 2 turns on one foot.
RBIRBI → RFO → RBO: 2 turns on one foot.

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.

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outside edge: the paler lineinside edge: the darker line

LFI → LBO → LFO. A skater who rotates the other way traces RFI: the same element, generated from this one.

A bracket into a counter, forwards. Both turn against the curve, which is what makes this cluster feel relentless: there is no point in it where the edge is helping you.

The bracket keeps the lobe; the counter reverses it. So the body rotates the same way twice while the circle changes underneath, and the checking has to hold through both. It is the cluster that most rewards a deep, quiet entry edge and most punishes a shallow one.

Derived

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

LFI, bracket to LBO, then counter to LFO. 2 turns on one foot, and the skater finishes on LFO.

Nothing above is stored on this page. The cluster records its entry edge and the order of its turns; every edge in between is chained out of the same rule that draws a single turn.

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

Build on

Left forward inside bracketLFI to LBO: half a turn against the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
Left backward outside counterLBO to LFO: half a turn against the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.

From LFI

Left forward inside edgethe plain edge, with no turn on it
Left forward inside step wideexits RFI · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
Left forward inside change of edgeexits LFO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
Left forward inside three turnexits LBO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
Left forward inside mohawkexits RBI · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
Left forward inside rockerexits LBI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
Left forward inside choctawexits RBO · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
Left forward inside counterexits LBI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
Left forward inside loopexits LFI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe continues

Clusters from LFI

Left forward inside double three-mohawkLFI → LBO → LFI → RBI
Left forward inside rocker-counterLFI → LBI → LFI
Left forward inside double threeLFI → LBO → LFI
Left forward inside rocker-counter-double twizzleLFI → LBI → LFI → LFI
Left forward inside bracket-cross rollLFI → LBO → RBO
Left forward inside counter-mohawkLFI → LBI → RFI
Left forward inside counter-threeLFI → LBI → LFO
Left forward inside counter-2½ twizzleLFI → LBI → LFO
Left forward inside rocker-choctawLFI → LBI → RFO
Left forward inside rocker-mohawkLFI → LBI → RFI
Left forward inside three-mohawkLFI → LBO → RFO
Left forward inside choctaw-three-rockerLFI → RBO → RFI → RBI
Left forward inside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleLFI → LBO → LBI → LBI
Left forward inside triple threeLFI → LBO → LFI → LBO

Appears in

BIS Skills 6BIS · level 6
BIS Skills 7BIS · level 7

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 6, exercise 6: Bracket-counterA forward inside bracket and a backward counter in one cluster, on both feet, entered from crossovers.
BIS Skills 7, exercise 6: Bracket-counter-twizzleA forward inside bracket into a backward counter into a one and a half twizzle, finished with a change of edge.