Right forward inside choctaw

RFI to LBO: 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.

turnentry RFIexit LBO

On RFI · 7 other entries

LFOLFO to RBI: a step onto the other foot, changing edge and reversing onto a new one. No cusp.
RFORFO to LBI: a step onto the other foot, changing edge and reversing onto a new one. No cusp.
LFILFI to RBO: a step onto the other foot, changing edge and reversing onto a new one. No cusp.
RFI (this page)RFI to LBO: a step onto the other foot, changing edge and reversing onto a new one. No cusp.
LBOLBO to RFI: a step onto the other foot, changing edge and reversing onto a new one. No cusp.
RBORBO to LFI: a step onto the other foot, changing edge and reversing onto a new one. No cusp.
LBILBI to RFO: a step onto the other foot, changing edge and reversing onto a new one. No cusp.
RBIRBI to LFO: a step onto the other foot, changing edge and reversing onto a new one. 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.

mirror

outside edge: the paler lineinside edge: the darker line

RFI → LBO. A skater who rotates the other way traces LFI: the same element, generated from this one.

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

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

RFI choctaw to LBO: the skater steps onto the other foot, the edge changes, and the lobe reverses. There is no cusp, because nothing pivots.

A skater who rotates the other way does the same thing from LFI. Same element, mirrored.

Build on

Right forward inside mohawkRFI to LBI: a step onto the other foot, holding the edge and staying on the same lobe. No cusp.

Leads to

2 elements in the guide are built on this one.

Right backward inside rocker-choctawRBI → RFI → LBO: 2 turns on two feet.
Right forward inside choctaw-three-rockerRFI → LBO → LFI → LBI: 3 turns on two feet.

From RFI

Right forward inside edgethe plain edge, with no turn on it
Right forward inside step wideexits LFI · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
Right forward inside change of edgeexits RFO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
Right forward inside three turnexits RBO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
Right forward inside rockerexits RBI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
Right forward inside bracketexits RBO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
Right forward inside counterexits RBI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
Right forward inside loopexits RFI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe continues

Clusters from RFI

Right forward inside double three-mohawkRFI → RBO → RFI → LBI
Right forward inside bracket-counterRFI → RBO → RFO
Right forward inside rocker-counterRFI → RBI → RFI
Right forward inside rocker-counter-double twizzleRFI → RBI → RFI → RFI
Right forward inside bracket-cross rollRFI → RBO → LBO
Right forward inside counter-mohawkRFI → RBI → LFI
Right forward inside counter-threeRFI → RBI → RFO
Right forward inside counter-2½ twizzleRFI → RBI → RFO
Right forward inside double threeRFI → RBO → RFI
Right forward inside rocker-choctawRFI → RBI → LFO
Right forward inside rocker-mohawkRFI → RBI → LFI
Right forward inside three-mohawkRFI → RBO → LFO
Right forward inside choctaw-three-rockerRFI → LBO → LFI → LBI
Right forward inside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleRFI → RBO → RBI → RBI
Right forward inside triple threeRFI → RBO → RFI → RBO

Appears in

BIS Skills 5BIS · level 5
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 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.