Right backward inside counter-2½ twizzle

RBI → RFI → RBO: 2 elements on one foot.

combinationentry RBIexit RBO2 turnsone foot throughout

On RBI · 7 other entries

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

RBI → RFI → RBO. A skater who rotates the other way traces LBI: the same element, generated from this one.

The pairing British Ice Skating asks for at Skills 7, from a backward inside edge and entered off a crossover. Two difficult turns joined, and the document says as much in its objectives.

The count matters here in a way it does not on a standing twizzle. Two and a half rotations leave the skater facing the way they did not start, so the counter’s check has to be set against where the twizzle will finish. Skaters who can do both separately and not together are almost always checking for the wrong exit.

Derived

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

RBI, counter to RFI, then 2½ twizzle to RBO. 2 turns on one foot, and the skater finishes on RBO.

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 LBI. Same element, mirrored.

Build on

Right backward inside counterRBI to RFI: half a turn against the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
Right forward inside 2½ twizzleRFI to RBO: 2½ rotations on one foot, travelling, 2 curls and no cusp.

From RBI

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

Clusters from RBI

Right backward inside double threeRBI → RFO → RBI
Right backward inside counter-mohawkRBI → RFI → LBI
Right backward inside rocker-mohawkRBI → RFI → LBI
Right backward inside rocker-choctawRBI → RFI → LBO
Right backward inside bracket-counterRBI → RFO → RBO
Right backward inside bracket-cross rollRBI → RFO → LFO
Right backward inside counter-threeRBI → RFI → RBO
Right backward inside rocker-counterRBI → RFI → RBI
Right backward inside three-mohawkRBI → RFO → LBO
Right backward inside choctaw-three-rockerRBI → LFO → LBI → LFI
Right backward inside double three-mohawkRBI → RFO → RBI → LFI
Right backward inside rocker-counter-double twizzleRBI → RFI → RBI → RBI
Right backward inside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleRBI → RFO → RFI → RFI
Right backward inside triple threeRBI → RFO → RBI → RFO

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 3: Backward inside counters & twizzlesA forward outside 3-turn into a backward inside counter, which carries on into a two and a half rotation twizzle.