Left forward outside 1½ twizzle
LFO to LBI: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
On LFO · 7 other entries
- LFO (this page)LFO to LBI: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
- RFORFO to RBI: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
- LFILFI to LBO: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
- RFIRFI to RBO: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
- LBOLBO to LFI: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
- RBORBO to RFI: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
- LBILBI to LFO: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
- RBIRBI to RFO: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
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.
One and a half rotations from a forward outside edge, leaving backwards on an inside one. Same foot, and the blade never changes which way it is curving: the edge letter changes only because you turned round.
The half rotation is what makes it impossible to fake. A whole one can be assembled out of a three turn and a step and still look roughly right from the side; a half cannot, because you finish facing the way you did not start. Either the rotation was continuous or you are standing on the wrong edge, and there is no third outcome.
Derived
LFO is three letters (foot, direction, edge): left foot, forwards, outside edge. Every edge in the guide is written that way, so RBI is a right foot travelling backwards on an inside edge.
LFO 1½ twizzle to LBI: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, leaving one curl in the tracing and no cusp anywhere. The lobe continues, and the half rotation turns the skater to face the other way, which is why the edge letter changes without the blade ever changing which way it curves.
A skater who rotates the other way does the same thing from RFO. Same element, mirrored.
Build on
- Left forward outside edgeLFO: the left foot travelling forwards on an outside edge, tracing an anticlockwise lobe.
- Left forward outside twizzleLFO to LFO: 1 rotation on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
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 cross rollexits RFO · changes foot, the edge holds, 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 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 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.