Forward inside twizzles & backward outside twizzle movement

One and a half twizzles forwards, exited in an extended position, and single backward outside twizzles rolled on into cross rolls.

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

Not checked yet. The requirements 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.

Two different demands sharing one exercise. The forward side takes the one and a half twizzle and adds a requirement to the end of it: the exit is held in an extended position, so the rotation has to be stopped and cannot be allowed to run out. That is the hardest part of any twizzle, and this is the first time it is asked for explicitly.

The backward side is deliberately called a twizzle movement. A single rotation on a back outside edge, straight into a cross roll, with the free leg wherever the skater wants it: the document wants the shape of the thing and the body position going into it, and it does not ask for a finished element. Reading that wording carefully saves a lot of frustration, because a skater who treats it as a full backward twizzle is being harder on themselves than the test is.

What links the two sides is the upper body. Both fail the same way: the shoulders lead, the rotation overruns, and the exit arrives with the skater still turning. A twizzle is wound before it starts and unwound on purpose, and everything the exercise assesses is a consequence of that.

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.
Left forward inside 1½ twizzleLFI to LBO: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
Right forward inside 1½ twizzleRFI to RBO: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
Extended edgeA plain edge held for a third of a circle, long enough to be a position in its own right.
Right backward outside twizzleRBO to RBO: 1 rotation on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
Left backward outside twizzleLBO to LBO: 1 rotation on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
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.

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.