Left forward inside choctaw

LFI to RBO: a step onto the other foot, changing edge and reversing onto a new one. No cusp.

Also called S step, open S step or closed S step. Other names.

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Forwards on the inside edge, stepping onto the other foot to travel backwards on its outside edge, with the curve reversing at the step. The exit is a checked back outside edge, which makes this one of the most useful changes of foot there is: it is how a sequence gets from a forward lobe onto a backward one without losing speed.

Watch the moment of transfer itself. If the new lobe does not start immediately, the weight went across before the lean did.

Derived

Build on

• Left forward inside mohawkLFI to RBI: a step onto the other foot, holding the edge and staying on the same lobe. No cusp.

Leads to

3 elements in the guide are built on this one.

• Left backward inside rocker-choctawLBI → LFI → RBO: 2 turns on two feet.
• Left forward inside choctaw-three-rockerLFI → RBO → RFI → RBI: 3 turns on two feet.
• Step sequenceA run of turns and steps skated as one element across the ice, to the character of the music.

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 rockerexits LBI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Left forward inside bracketexits LBO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
• 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 bracket-counterLFI → LBO → LFO
• 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 5BIS · level 5
• 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 5, exercise 3: Choctaws & mohawksClosed mohawks from a back outside edge on the first side, and open choctaws with slip chassés on the second.
• 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 3: Section 3The longest section: choctaw into mohawk, a rocker, a counter into a mohawk, an open choctaw, and a rocker-counter into a double twizzle to finish.