Left forward inside 1½ twizzle

LFI to LBO: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.

twizzleentry LFIexit LBO

On LFI · 7 other entries

LFOLFO to LBI: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
RFORFO to RBI: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
LFI (this page)LFI to LBO: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
RFIRFI to RBO: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
LBOLBO to LFI: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
RBORBO to RFI: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
LBILBI to LFO: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.
RBIRBI to RFO: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.

Not checked yet. The mechanics 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.

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outside edge: the paler lineinside edge: the darker line

LFI → LBO. A skater who rotates the other way traces RFI: the same element, generated from this one.

The one British Ice Skating asks for at Skills 3: forwards on an inside edge, one and a half rotations, out backwards on an outside one. It is the first twizzle in the syllabus and the first element where continuous rotation is the thing actually being tested.

Judge it at the exit. A back outside edge, held and checked, means the rotation finished where it was meant to; a back inside edge or a flat means it did not, and nothing done afterwards recovers that. Better still, judge it from the ice: a curl and then a clean edge is a twizzle, and a cusp anywhere in it is a three turn wearing the name.

Derived

LFI is three letters (foot, direction, edge): left foot, forwards, inside edge. Every edge in the guide is written that way, so RBI is a right foot travelling backwards on an inside edge.

LFI 1½ twizzle to LBO: 1½ rotations on one foot, travelling, leaving one curl in the tracing and no cusp anywhere. The lobe continues, and the half rotation turns the skater to face the other way, which is why the edge letter changes without the blade ever changing which way it curves.

A skater who rotates the other way does the same thing from RFI. Same element, mirrored.

Build on

Left forward inside edgeLFI: the left foot travelling forwards on an inside edge, tracing a clockwise lobe.
Left forward inside twizzleLFI to LFI: 1 rotation on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.

From LFI

Left forward inside step wideexits RFI · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
Left forward inside change of edgeexits LFO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
Left forward inside three turnexits LBO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
Left forward inside mohawkexits RBI · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
Left forward inside rockerexits LBI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
Left forward inside choctawexits RBO · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
Left forward inside bracketexits LBO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
Left forward inside counterexits LBI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
Left forward inside loopexits LFI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe continues

Clusters from LFI

Left forward inside double three-mohawkLFI → LBO → LFI → RBI
Left forward inside bracket-counterLFI → LBO → LFO
Left forward inside rocker-counterLFI → LBI → LFI
Left forward inside double threeLFI → LBO → LFI
Left forward inside rocker-counter-double twizzleLFI → LBI → LFI → LFI
Left forward inside bracket-cross rollLFI → LBO → RBO
Left forward inside counter-mohawkLFI → LBI → RFI
Left forward inside counter-threeLFI → LBI → LFO
Left forward inside counter-2½ twizzleLFI → LBI → LFO
Left forward inside rocker-choctawLFI → LBI → RFO
Left forward inside rocker-mohawkLFI → LBI → RFI
Left forward inside three-mohawkLFI → LBO → RFO
Left forward inside choctaw-three-rockerLFI → RBO → RFI → RBI
Left forward inside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleLFI → LBO → LBI → LBI
Left forward inside triple threeLFI → LBO → LFI → LBO

Appears in

In New Zealand's grades

None of the New Zealand level lists in this guide name it.

In British Ice Skating's tests: BIS Skills 3, BIS Skills 4, BIS Skills 8.