Right forward outside crossed step behind

RFO to LFO: a step behind, with the legs crossed below the knee, still travelling forwards, and the lobe reverses.

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Crossed behind the skating foot, and that one detail is the whole element. The foot still goes down on the outer edge side of the skating foot and the legs still cross below the knee; what changes is that you are stepping past your own heel, onto a blade you cannot see.

Turnout is what it costs. Crossing behind closes the hips towards the circle, so a skater who has not opened them beforehand arrives with the new foot square to the old one and nothing to stand on. The knees are the honest place to look: legs that cross high have hinged from the hip, and the step will be a stumble however tidy the feet look.

It draws a cross roll’s tracing. Where the foot goes is the difference, and no blade records that.

Derived

Build on

• Right forward outside edgeRFO: the right foot travelling forwards on an outside edge, tracing a clockwise lobe.
• Half-swizzle pumpsThe same circle, with the free foot crossing behind the skating foot, which British Ice Skating defines as a crossed step behind.

From RFO

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

Clusters from RFO

• Right forward outside double threeRFO → RBI → RFO
• Right forward outside triple threeRFO → RBI → RFO → RBI
• Right forward outside rocker-counterRFO → RBO → RFO
• Right forward outside choctaw-three-rockerRFO → LBI → LFO → LBO
• Right forward outside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleRFO → RBI → RBO → RBO
• Right forward outside bracket-counterRFO → RBI → RFI
• Right forward outside counter-mohawkRFO → RBO → LFO
• Right forward outside counter-threeRFO → RBO → RFI
• Right forward outside counter-2½ twizzleRFO → RBO → RFI
• Right forward outside rocker-choctawRFO → RBO → LFI
• Right forward outside rocker-mohawkRFO → RBO → LFO
• Right forward outside three-mohawkRFO → RBI → LFI
• Right forward outside double three-mohawkRFO → RBI → RFO → LBO
• Right forward outside rocker-counter-double twizzleRFO → RBO → RFO → RFO

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