Choctaw-3-turn-rocker

A closed choctaw into a backward inside 3-turn into a forward outside rocker, down both lengths of the rink.

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

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Three changes of direction in a row, and the only one of Skills 7’s clusters that this guide holds as a single element. The choctaw takes the skater backwards onto the other foot, the 3-turn brings them forwards again on that foot, and the rocker turns once more and moves the lobe. By the end of it the skater has turned three times and stepped once.

Speed control is what the objectives ask for, twice. A cluster this long cannot be entered fast: the rocker at the end has to have a real lobe to turn on, and there will not be one if the first two turns have been rushed. The instinct to attack it is exactly wrong, and it is the commonest reason the rocker comes out flat.

Between the clusters the exercise is nothing but crossovers and a step, which is how the speed is meant to be rebuilt. Four to six clusters down both lengths of the ice means the last one is skated tired, and that is deliberate: this is the exercise immediately before Skills 8, where all of it has to happen to music.

Elements

Left forward outside choctaw-three-rockerLFO → RBI → RFO → RBO: 3 turns on two feet.
Right forward outside choctaw-three-rockerRFO → LBI → LFO → LBO: 3 turns on two feet.
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.
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.