Right backward outside crossed step behind

RBO to LBO: a step behind, with the legs crossed below the knee, still travelling backwards, and the lobe reverses.

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Travelling backwards, with the foot going down behind the skating one on the outer edge side and the weight crossing onto it. This is the version the British syllabus asks for, once, at the top of Skills 8.

The fault is a hop. There is no instant in which both feet are square, so a skater who cannot get the free hip round in time lifts the foot clear, and a gap opens in the tracing where a step belongs. Depth in the skating knee is what buys that instant, and it has to be there before the crossing starts. It cannot be found during it.

Moving into the space the crossing foot needs is what makes this the harder direction. The blindness is not the cause.

Derived

Build on

• Right backward outside edgeRBO: the right foot travelling backwards on an outside edge, tracing an anticlockwise lobe.
• Backward half-swizzle pumpsThe same backward circle, with the free foot crossing behind the skating foot.

From RBO

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

Clusters from RBO

• Right backward outside three-mohawkRBO → RFI → LBI
• Right backward outside double threeRBO → RFI → RBO
• Right backward outside counter-threeRBO → RFO → RBI
• Right backward outside rocker-mohawkRBO → RFO → LBO
• Right backward outside bracket-counterRBO → RFI → RBI
• Right backward outside counter-mohawkRBO → RFO → LBO
• Right backward outside counter-2½ twizzleRBO → RFO → RBI
• Right backward outside rocker-choctawRBO → RFO → LBI
• Right backward outside rocker-counterRBO → RFO → RBO
• Right backward outside choctaw-three-rockerRBO → LFI → LBO → LFO
• Right backward outside double three-mohawkRBO → RFI → RBO → LFO
• Right backward outside rocker-counter-double twizzleRBO → RFO → RBO → RBO
• Right backward outside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleRBO → RFI → RFO → RFO
• Right backward outside triple threeRBO → RFI → RBO → RFI

Appears in

• 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 8, exercise 2: Section 2The technical middle: a double 3-turn, a bracket, steps crossed behind, and a double twizzle reached through a change of edge.