BIS Skills 5

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The first test with a rink requirement attached to it. Skills 5 and everything above it can only be taken on a pad of 40 metres or more, which tells you what changes here: the exercises need room, and several of them are assessed on whether they use it.

The bracket arrives. It turns against the curve while changing edge, which makes it the turn with nothing helping: the rotation and the lobe disagree from beginning to end. Before 01/10/2026 the brackets were inside ones only, and the counter waited until Skills 6.

From 01/10/2026 two exercises are added. One is a figure of eight of forward outside brackets from standing, a turn the previous syllabus held back until Skills 7. The other is a backward counter exercise, which brings the counter down a level and makes Skills 5 the test that completes the four one-foot turns.

The triple 3-turn in exercise 1 and the slip chassé in exercise 3 both have pages of their own. The slip chassé’s page shows its tracing but no figure.

Exercises

1. Multi-directional 3-turnsTriple 3-turns on the forward outside edges, and double 3-turns run into open mohawks on the inside ones.
2. Forward rockersForward outside and forward inside rockers alternating with crossovers, finishing on a held back outside edge.
3. Choctaws & mohawksClosed mohawks from a back outside edge on the first side, and open choctaws with slip chassés on the second.
4. Inside bracketsForward and backward inside brackets, entered from crossovers, on a shape the skater chooses.
5. Skating exerciseA serpentine of backward inside 3-turns and open mohawks, two lobes on each foot, joined entirely by crossovers.
6. Bracket exercisenew 01/10/2026Brackets on a figure of eight from a stationary start, two circles on each foot.
7. Backward counter exercisenew 01/10/2026Backward inside counters into open mohawks, and backward outside counters into 3-turns, with changes of edge between them.

Elements

Every element its exercises call for, gathered from them.

• Left forward outside triple threeLFO → LBI → LFO → LBI: 3 turns on one foot.
• Right forward outside triple threeRFO → RBI → RFO → RBI: 3 turns on one foot.
• Right forward inside double three-mohawkRFI → RBO → RFI → LBI: 3 turns on two feet.
• Left forward inside double three-mohawkLFI → LBO → LFI → RBI: 3 turns on two feet.
• Right backward outside edgeRBO: the right foot travelling backwards on an outside edge, tracing an anticlockwise lobe.
• Left backward outside edgeLBO: the left foot travelling backwards on an outside edge, tracing a clockwise lobe.
• Right backward inside edgeRBI: the right foot travelling backwards on an inside edge, tracing a clockwise lobe.
• Left backward inside edgeLBI: the left foot travelling backwards on an inside edge, tracing an anticlockwise lobe.
• Right backward outside crossoverRBO to LBI: the free foot crosses in front of the skating foot onto the same lobe, still travelling backwards.
• Left backward outside crossoverLBO to RBI: the free foot crosses in front of the skating foot onto the same lobe, still travelling backwards.
• Left forward outside rockerLFO to LBO: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
• Right forward outside rockerRFO to RBO: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
• Right forward inside rockerRFI to RBI: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
• Left forward inside rockerLFI to LBI: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
• Left forward outside crossoverLFO to RFI: the free foot crosses in front of the skating foot onto the same lobe, still travelling forwards.
• Right forward outside crossoverRFO to LFI: the free foot crosses in front of the skating foot onto the same lobe, still travelling forwards.
• Extended edgeA plain edge held for a third of a circle, long enough to be a position in its own right.
• Right backward outside mohawkRBO to LFO: a step onto the other foot, holding the edge and staying on the same lobe. No cusp.
• Left backward outside mohawkLBO to RFO: a step onto the other foot, holding the edge and staying on the same lobe. No cusp.
• Right forward outside three turnRFO to RBI: half a turn into the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
• Left forward outside three turnLFO to LBI: half a turn into the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
• Right forward inside choctawRFI to LBO: a step onto the other foot, changing edge and reversing onto a new one. No cusp.
• Left forward inside choctawLFI to RBO: a step onto the other foot, changing edge and reversing onto a new one. No cusp.
• Right forward outside slip chasséRFO to LFI: a step in which the free foot slides away along the ice, still travelling forwards, and the lobe continues.
• Left forward outside slip chasséLFO to RFI: a step in which the free foot slides away along the ice, still travelling forwards, and the lobe continues.
• Right forward inside bracketRFI to RBO: half a turn against the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
• Left forward inside bracketLFI to LBO: half a turn against the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
• Left backward inside bracketLBI to LFO: half a turn against the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
• Right backward inside bracketRBI to RFO: half a turn against the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
• Left backward inside three turnLBI to LFO: half a turn into the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
• Right backward inside three turnRBI to RFO: half a turn into the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
• Left forward inside mohawkLFI to RBI: a step onto the other foot, holding the edge and staying on the same lobe. No cusp.
• Right forward inside mohawkRFI to LBI: a step onto the other foot, holding the edge and staying on the same lobe. No cusp.
• Left forward outside bracketLFO to LBI: half a turn against the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
• Right forward outside bracketRFO to RBI: half a turn against the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
• Left backward inside counter-mohawkLBI → LFI → RBI: 2 turns on two feet.
• Right backward inside counter-mohawkRBI → RFI → LBI: 2 turns on two feet.
• Right backward outside counter-threeRBO → RFO → RBI: 2 turns on one foot.
• Left backward outside counter-threeLBO → LFO → LBI: 2 turns on one foot.
• Right backward inside change of edgeRBI to RBO: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling backwards, and the lobe reverses.
• Left backward inside change of edgeLBI to LBO: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling backwards, and the lobe reverses.

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