Backward double 3-turns

Backward outside and backward inside double 3-turns, each running out into a cross roll.

BIS Skills 4exercise 2In the syllabus both before and after 01/10/2026

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A double 3-turn is two turns on the same foot with nothing in between, which means the second one has to be started from whatever the first one left. There is no step to reset on and no push to restore the speed, so the entry has to carry both turns and the first has to be checked well enough to be turned out of again.

Rhythm is named in the objectives and it is the right thing to watch. The two turns should sound and look evenly spaced, and the common version of it is a fast first turn followed by a scramble: the skater rotates hard, arrives over-turned, and the second turn happens late and flat because they are fighting the check.

Each pair then runs out into a cross roll, so the exit is not a resting place either. On the second side the entry is a crossover onto a backward inside edge, which is a less forgiving place to start a double from: an inside edge gives less to check against, and the turn is already travelling towards the lobe it is meant to leave.

Elements

Left forward outside three turnLFO to LBI: half a turn into the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
Right forward outside three turnRFO to RBI: half a turn into the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
Right backward outside double threeRBO → RFI → RBO, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
Left backward outside double threeLBO → LFI → LBO, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
Left backward inside double threeLBI → LFO → LBI, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
Right backward inside double threeRBI → RFO → RBI, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
Left forward outside cross rollLFO to RFO: a step onto the other foot, still travelling forwards, and the lobe reverses.
Right forward outside cross rollRFO to LFO: a step onto the other foot, still travelling forwards, and the lobe reverses.
Right backward outside cross rollRBO to LBO: a step onto the other foot, still travelling backwards, and the lobe reverses.
Left backward outside cross rollLBO to RBO: a step onto the other foot, still travelling backwards, and the lobe reverses.
Right backward outside crossoverRBO to LBI: the free foot crosses in front of the skating foot onto the same lobe, still travelling backwards.
Left backward outside crossoverLBO to RBI: the free foot crosses in front of the skating foot onto the same lobe, still travelling backwards.

This page lists which elements the exercise calls for and what it is working on. It does not reproduce British Ice Skating's sequence, pattern or wording. For the exercise as published, go to their own document.