Skating exercise 2

Backward inside 3-turns into forward outside rockers, on power crossovers, covering at least three-quarters of the rink.

BIS Skills 6exercise 7New on 01/10/2026

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New on 01/10/2026, and the only exercise anywhere in Skills 1 to 7 with ice coverage written as a number: three-quarters of the width and the length of the rink. That single requirement is the reason it exists. Every element in it has been in the test since Skills 4 or 5, and none of them is comfortable to do while genuinely travelling.

The cluster is a backward inside 3-turn into a forward outside rocker, so the skater turns to forwards and then immediately turns again without changing foot. The rocker is the one that suffers: it needs a deep lobe and it arrives with whatever lobe the 3-turn left, which is usually shallower than it should be and shorter than it feels.

The crossovers are named as power crossovers, and that phrase is a specific ask. They are where the speed for the whole exercise comes from, and a skater who treats them as joins between turns will meet the coverage requirement on the first pair of lobes and miss it on the last.

Elements

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.
Left forward outside rockerLFO to LBO: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
Right forward outside rockerRFO to RBO: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
Left backward outside crossoverLBO to RBI: the free foot crosses in front of the skating foot onto the same lobe, still travelling backwards.
Right backward outside crossoverRBO to LBI: the free foot crosses in front of the skating foot onto the same lobe, still travelling backwards.
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.

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.