Mohawk & 3-turn exercise

Open mohawks alternating with backward 3-turns, inside on the first side and outside on the second.

BIS Skills 4exercise 6New on 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.

October 2026 adds this one, and it is an assembly of earlier parts: a mohawk to get backwards, a 3-turn to get forwards again, repeated across four lobes at a minimum. Nothing in it appears for the first time here.

What it does add is the pairing of two changes of direction in immediate succession. The mohawk changes foot and stays on the curve; the 3-turn that follows changes edge and turns the skater back to forwards, and it has to be entered from whatever the mohawk produced, with no prepared edge to start from. Skaters who have only ever entered a 3-turn from a push find this out here.

Which backward 3-turn does the work changes between the sides, inside on the first and outside on the second, and the outside side also drops the crossovers between the lobes. That is the part to notice: with nothing left to build speed on, the exercise has to carry its own, which is what the outcome means by flow.

Elements

Right forward inside mohawkRFI to LBI: a step onto the other foot, holding the edge and staying on the same lobe. No cusp.
Left forward inside mohawkLFI to RBI: a step onto the other foot, holding the edge and staying on the same lobe. No cusp.
Left backward inside three turnLBI to LFO: half a turn into the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
Right backward inside three turnRBI to RFO: half a turn into the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
Right backward outside three turnRBO to RFI: half a turn into the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
Left backward outside three turnLBO to LFI: half a turn into the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
Left forward outside crossoverLFO to RFI: the free foot crosses in front of the skating foot onto the same lobe, still travelling forwards.
Right forward outside crossoverRFO to LFI: the free foot crosses in front of the skating foot onto the same lobe, still travelling forwards.

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.