Right forward inside 1½ twizzle

RFI to RBO: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.

twizzleentry RFIexit RBO

On RFI · 7 other entries

LFOLFO 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.
RFI (this page)RFI 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.

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outside edge: the paler lineinside edge: the darker line

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

The one British Ice Skating asks for at Skills 3: forwards on an inside edge, one and a half rotations, out backwards on an outside one. It is the first twizzle in the syllabus and the first element where continuous rotation is the thing actually being tested.

Judge it at the exit. A back outside edge, held and checked, means the rotation finished where it was meant to; a back inside edge or a flat means it did not, and nothing done afterwards recovers that. Better still, judge it from the ice: a curl and then a clean edge is a twizzle, and a cusp anywhere in it is a three turn wearing the name.

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 1½ twizzle to RBO: 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 LFI. Same element, mirrored.

Build on

Right forward inside edgeRFI: the right foot travelling forwards on an inside edge, tracing an anticlockwise lobe.
Right forward inside twizzleRFI to RFI: 1 rotation on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.

From RFI

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 mohawkexits LBI · changes foot, the edge holds, 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 choctawexits LBO · changes foot, the edge changes, 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 3BIS · level 3
BIS Skills 4BIS · level 4
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 3, exercise 6: Forward inside 1 ½ twizzleA one and a half rotation twizzle on each forward inside edge, leaving the skater travelling backwards.
BIS Skills 4, exercise 4: Forward inside twizzles & backward outside twizzle movementOne and a half twizzles forwards, exited in an extended position, and single backward outside twizzles rolled on into cross rolls.
BIS Skills 8, exercise 1: Section 1Rockers on both feet, a one and a half twizzle in the direction the skater chooses, a bracket into a cross roll, and a pivot movement to close.