Multi-directional 3-turns

Triple 3-turns on the forward outside edges, and double 3-turns run into open mohawks on the inside ones.

BIS Skills 5exercise 1In the syllabus both before and after 01/10/2026

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Two ways of stacking turns, one on each side. The first side turns three times on the same foot before stepping off it, and the third turn is the one that decides the mark: by then the edge has been shortened twice, the speed has gone wherever the first two turns sent it, and there is nothing left to correct with.

Rhythm is what holds a repeated turn together and it is the first thing to go. The turns should arrive evenly spaced along the lobe, and what usually happens instead is that the first is deliberate, the second is rushed to catch up, and the third is late. A judge does not need to see the edges to know that; the sound of it is enough.

The second side stacks differently: two turns and then a change of foot, which asks the skater to leave a double 3-turn straight into a mohawk with no edge between them. The check has to hold long enough to place the new foot and no longer, and that timing is the exercise.

Elements

Left forward outside triple threeLFO → LBI → LFO → LBI: 3 turns on one foot.
Right forward outside triple threeRFO → RBI → RFO → RBI: 3 turns on one foot.
Right forward inside double three-mohawkRFI → RBO → RFI → LBI: 3 turns on two feet.
Left forward inside double three-mohawkLFI → LBO → LFI → RBI: 3 turns on two feet.
Right backward outside edgeRBO: the right foot travelling backwards on an outside edge, tracing an anticlockwise lobe.
Left backward outside edgeLBO: the left foot travelling backwards on an outside edge, tracing a clockwise lobe.
Right backward inside edgeRBI: the right foot travelling backwards on an inside edge, tracing a clockwise lobe.
Left backward inside edgeLBI: the left foot travelling backwards on an inside edge, tracing an anticlockwise lobe.
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.