Right forward inside step wide

RFI to LFI: 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

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

From RFI

• Right forward inside change of edgeexits RFO · same foot, the edge changes, 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 British Ice Skating's tests: BIS Skills 1, BIS Skills 2.