Right forward inside change of edge

RFI to RFO: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling forwards, and the lobe reverses.

transitionentry RFIexit RFO

On RFI · 7 other entries

LFOLFO to LFI: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling forwards, and the lobe reverses.
RFORFO to RFI: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling forwards, and the lobe reverses.
LFILFI to LFO: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling forwards, and the lobe reverses.
RFI (this page)RFI to RFO: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling forwards, and the lobe reverses.
LBOLBO to LBI: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling backwards, and the lobe reverses.
RBORBO to RBI: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling backwards, and the lobe reverses.
LBILBI to LBO: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling backwards, and the lobe reverses.
RBIRBI to RBO: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling backwards, and the lobe reverses.

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

outside edge: the paler lineinside edge: the darker line

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

Forwards from the inside edge to the outside, the curve reversing as the blade rolls across. This is the half most skaters find harder, because arriving on an outside edge asks for a lean the free side has to allow.

Judge it by comparing the two lobes. If they are the same depth, the change happened where it should. If the second is shallower, the roll came late and you spent the first part of it on a flat.

Derived

RFI is three letters (foot, direction, edge): right 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.

RFI change of edge to RFO: the blade rolls from one edge to the other without pivoting, the direction of travel does not change, and the lobe reverses.

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

Build on

Right forward inside edgeRFI: the right foot travelling forwards on an inside edge, tracing an anticlockwise lobe.
Two-foot change of edgeBritish Ice Skating defines a change of edge as one foot's tracing leaving one curve and edge for another. Here both feet do it together.

Leads to

One element in the guide is built on this one.

Right backward outside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleRBO → RFI → RFO → RFO: 3 elements on one foot.

From RFI

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

Clusters from RFI

Right forward inside double three-mohawkRFI → RBO → RFI → LBI
Right forward inside bracket-counterRFI → RBO → RFO
Right forward inside rocker-counterRFI → RBI → RFI
Right forward inside rocker-counter-double twizzleRFI → RBI → RFI → RFI
Right forward inside bracket-cross rollRFI → RBO → LBO
Right forward inside counter-mohawkRFI → RBI → LFI
Right forward inside counter-threeRFI → RBI → RFO
Right forward inside counter-2½ twizzleRFI → RBI → RFO
Right forward inside double threeRFI → RBO → RFI
Right forward inside rocker-choctawRFI → RBI → LFO
Right forward inside rocker-mohawkRFI → RBI → LFI
Right forward inside three-mohawkRFI → RBO → LFO
Right forward inside choctaw-three-rockerRFI → LBO → LFI → LBI
Right forward inside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleRFI → RBO → RBI → RBI
Right forward inside triple threeRFI → RBO → RFI → RBO

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 1, BIS Skills 2, BIS Skills 3.