Left forward inside rocker-counter

LFI → LBI → LFI, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.

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On LFI · 7 other entries

LFOLFO → LBO → LFO, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
RFORFO → RBO → RFO, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
LFI (this page)LFI → LBI → LFI, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
RFIRFI → RBI → RFI, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
LBOLBO → LFO → LBO, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
RBORBO → RFO → RBO, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
LBILBI → LFI → LBI, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
RBIRBI → RFI → RBI, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.

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.

mirror

inside edge: the darker line

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

A rocker into a counter, forwards. The rocker rotates into the circle and hands you a new lobe; the counter rotates against that new lobe and hands you another. Two changes of circle in a row, on one foot, with the body reversing its rotation between them.

This is where checking stops being a detail. The rocker’s exit has to be stopped dead before the counter can be entered, and the counter turns the other way, so any rotation left over from the first turn is working directly against the second.

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, rocker to LBI, then counter to LFI. 2 turns on one foot, and the skater finishes on the edge they started on.

Nothing above is stored on this page. The cluster records its entry edge and the order of its turns; every edge in between is chained out of the same rule that draws a single turn.

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

Build on

Left forward inside rockerLFI to LBI: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
Left backward inside counterLBI to LFI: half a turn against the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.

From LFI

Left forward inside edgethe plain edge, with no turn on it
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 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 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 7.