Left forward inside step wide

LFI to RFI: a step onto the other foot placed wide, nothing crossing, still travelling forwards, and the lobe reverses.

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Forwards on an inside edge, and the free foot goes down wide: out to the side, clear of the skating foot, on an inside edge of its own. The weight crosses onto it and the old skating foot comes up. Because the foot changed and the edge did not, the lobe reverses under you.

Nothing crosses and nothing passes, and that is the whole of the difference between this and the three transitions it sits beside. A crossover, a chassé and a cross roll each place the free foot in relation to the skating one. Here it lands away from it, and the width is the point.

British Ice Skating write it forwards twice, in Skills 1 and Skills 2, in the middle of an edge sequence where it gets you off one lobe and onto the next without a turn. Step too narrow and there is nothing left to push against.

Derived

Build on

• Left forward inside edgeLFI: the left foot travelling forwards on an inside edge, tracing a clockwise lobe.
• Forward strokingA wide step changes feet as a stroke does, with the new foot placed out to the side and nothing crossing.

From LFI

• 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 British Ice Skating's tests: BIS Skills 1, BIS Skills 2.