Bracket-counter-twizzle

A forward inside bracket into a backward counter into a one and a half twizzle, finished with a change of edge.

BIS Skills 7exercise 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.

Three difficult turns and a change of edge, on one foot, in one phrase. The document calls it combining three difficult turns, which is accurate, and the sequence is arranged so that each one hands the next a problem: the bracket turns against the curve, the counter turns against it again, and the twizzle then has to rotate a rotation and a half on an edge that has been fought over twice.

Edge control between the bracket and the counter is what the document names first, and it is where the cluster is won or lost. The edge joining them is short and it has to be a real edge: a skater who scrapes out of the bracket arrives at the counter on a flat, and a counter cannot be started from a flat at all.

That final change of edge is where the exercise finds out whether the twizzle finished or merely stopped. A rotation that has run out cannot be rolled cleanly onto the other edge, and the change is the first place that shows.

Elements

Right forward inside bracket-counterRFI → RBO → RFO: 2 turns on one foot.
Left forward inside bracket-counterLFI → LBO → LFO: 2 turns on one foot.
Right forward outside 1½ twizzleRFO to RBI: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
Left forward outside 1½ twizzleLFO to LBI: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
Right backward outside change of edgeRBO to RBI: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling backwards, and the lobe reverses.
Left backward outside change of edgeLBO to LBI: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling backwards, and the lobe reverses.
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.

Not covered here

The full cluster is listed as its parts. The guide has a page for the bracket into the counter and pages for the twizzle and the change of edge, and none for the four together.

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.