Left forward outside cross roll

LFO to RFO: a step onto the other foot, still travelling forwards, and the lobe reverses.

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The free foot swings in from the side, passes the skating foot and goes down on its own outside edge. Because the new edge is outside on the other foot, the curve reverses. One lobe ends and the next begins as the feet cross.

It is the most expressive way of getting from one lobe to the next and the least forgiving, because the whole transfer happens over an outside edge with the body already leaning the new way. Lean late and it becomes a step; lean early and you fall into the new lobe. Timed right, you roll into it.

Derived

Build on

• Left forward outside edgeLFO: the left foot travelling forwards on an outside edge, tracing an anticlockwise lobe.
• Forward strokingBritish Ice Skating's cross roll brings the free foot in from the side and past the skating foot onto the next outside curve, the weight rolling across with it.

Leads to

2 elements in the guide are built on this one.

• Cross strokesA push from the outside edge of the foot about to leave the ice, the legs crossed above the knee.
• Left backward inside bracket-cross rollLBI → LFO → RFO: 2 elements on two feet.

From LFO

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

Clusters from LFO

• Left forward outside double threeLFO → LBI → LFO
• Left forward outside triple threeLFO → LBI → LFO → LBI
• Left forward outside rocker-counterLFO → LBO → LFO
• Left forward outside choctaw-three-rockerLFO → RBI → RFO → RBO
• Left forward outside bracket-counterLFO → LBI → LFI
• Left forward outside counter-mohawkLFO → LBO → RFO
• Left forward outside counter-threeLFO → LBO → LFI
• Left forward outside counter-2½ twizzleLFO → LBO → LFI
• Left forward outside rocker-choctawLFO → LBO → RFI
• Left forward outside rocker-mohawkLFO → LBO → RFO
• Left forward outside three-mohawkLFO → LBI → RFI
• Left forward outside double three-mohawkLFO → LBI → LFO → RBO
• Left forward outside rocker-counter-double twizzleLFO → LBO → LFO → LFO
• Left forward outside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleLFO → LBI → LBO → LBO

Appears in

• BIS Skills 1BIS · level 1
• BIS Skills 2BIS · level 2
• BIS Skills 4BIS · level 4
• 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 1, exercise 5: Forward outside & forward inside 3-turnsThe first turns in the syllabus: forward outside three turns onto a held back outside edge, then forward inside ones.
• BIS Skills 2, exercise 4: Forward cross rollsForward cross rolls in both directions, joined by a crossover and a step wide onto the inside edge.
• BIS Skills 4, exercise 2: Backward double 3-turnsBackward outside and backward inside double 3-turns, each running out into a cross roll.
• BIS Skills 4, exercise 7: Skating exerciseForward outside double 3-turns leaving directly into cross rolls, alternating feet down the ice.
• BIS Skills 7, exercise 4: Rocker-counterA rocker and a counter back to back on one foot, inside on the first side and outside into a cross roll on the second.