Right forward inside three turn

RFI to RBO: half a turn into the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.

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Forwards on the inside edge, rotating into the circle, out backwards on the outside edge of the same foot. It is usually the second three turn a skater learns and it is the one that flatters them: the rotation goes the way the edge is already turning and the exit arrives on a strong backward edge.

Treat that as a warning. Because it arrives without much asking, it is often done with the shoulders leading and the edge only nominally present. The honest test is whether you can hold the exit for as long as you held the entry.

Derived

Build on

• Right forward inside edgeRFI: the right foot travelling forwards on an inside edge, tracing an anticlockwise lobe.
• Two-foot turnBoth turn from forwards to backwards, and the three turn does it on one foot. Ice Skating Australia teaches the two-foot turn first.

Leads to

13 elements in the guide are built on this one, and the 8 nearest are listed here.

• Right forward inside bracketRFI to RBO: half a turn against the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
• Right forward inside rockerRFI to RBI: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
• Toe loopRBO takeoff, off the pick, 1 rotation to RBO.
• Left backward outside choctaw-three-rockerLBO → RFI → RBO → RFO: 3 turns on two feet.
• Right backward inside counter-threeRBI → RFI → RBO: 2 turns on one foot.
• Right backward outside double threeRBO → RFI → RBO, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
• Right backward outside double three-mohawkRBO → RFI → RBO → LFO: 3 turns on two feet.
• Right backward outside triple threeRBO → RFI → RBO → RFI: 3 turns on one foot.

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 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 1BIS · level 1
• BIS Skills 2BIS · level 2
• BIS Skills 3BIS · level 3
• BIS Skills 6BIS · level 6

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 1, exercise 5: Forward outside & forward inside 3-turnsThe first turns in the syllabus: forward outside three turns onto a held back outside edge, then forward inside ones.
• BIS Skills 2, exercise 3: Forward 3-turnsForward inside and forward outside 3-turns in one run, with the back edge after each turn held before the next lobe.
• BIS Skills 3, exercise 2: Multi-directional 3-turnsAll four forward 3-turns and both backward inside ones on the first side, and 3-turns run into open mohawks on the second.
• BIS Skills 6, exercise 5: Skating exerciseForward 3-turns run through a change of edge into a closed choctaw, and a 3-turn into a cross roll, across the full ice surface.