Double toe loop

RBO takeoff, off the pick, 2 rotations to RBO.

Also called 2T. Other names.

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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.

RBOtakes off

RBOlands

The two edges, drawn. What happens between them is not: a tracing is the record of a blade on the ice, and for most of a jump the blade is not on it. These two are the same curve because they are the same edge: it leaves and returns to RBO. Each of these curves is drawn by more than one jump. What separates this one from the double loop is the pick, and no curve can show either.

Entrance Forward inside three turn

shoulder to hip —on the —

RBO takeoff, off the left toe pick · two rotations · RBO landing. Negative twist means the shoulders are held back against the hips, which stores rotation before a takeoff and checks it on a landing.

The toe loop with a second turn. The back outside edge, the pick placed behind and the vault are the single’s. The difference is that the pull-in has to happen straight off the pick, because a double leaves no time to settle into the rotation later.

Skaters often learn it alongside the double Salchow, and coaches differ on which should come first. The trap carries over from the single and gets worse: lean back onto the pick and the jump loses the height a second turn needs.

The landing is the one every jump in the guide but the Euler shares, on a back outside edge. It is the same edge the toe loop leaves from, so a clean, held exit from the single is the best preparation there is.

Derived

RBO is three letters (foot, direction, edge): right foot, backwards, outside edge. Every edge in the guide is written that way, so RBI is a right foot travelling backwards on an inside edge.

Takes off RBO and lands RBO, the same edge every jump in this guide but the Euler lands on, so the takeoff is what tells them apart. The toe pick provides the vault.

Shares its takeoff edge with the double loop: the pair that get mistaken for each other.

The toe loop with one more turn in the air: the same takeoff and the same landing.

Lands on RBO, where the toe loop and the loop take off, so it can start a combination: double toe loop + double toe loop or double toe loop + double loop.

Takes off from RBO, the edge every other jump here lands on, so it can follow any of them in a jump combination.

A skater who rotates clockwise takes off LBO and lands LBO: the same jump, mirrored.

Build on

Toe loopRBO takeoff, off the pick, 1 rotation to RBO.

Leads to

9 elements in the guide are built on this one, and the 8 nearest are listed here.

Double Axel + double toe loopDouble Axel (LFO, off the edge) straight into a double toe loop (RBO, off the pick), 4.5 rotations in all.
Double flip + double toe loopDouble flip (LBI, off the pick) straight into a double toe loop (RBO, off the pick), 4 rotations in all.
Double loop + double toe loopDouble loop (RBO, off the edge) straight into a double toe loop (RBO, off the pick), 4 rotations in all.
Double Lutz + double toe loopDouble Lutz (LBO, off the pick) straight into a double toe loop (RBO, off the pick), 4 rotations in all.
Double Salchow + double toe loopDouble Salchow (LBI, off the edge) straight into a double toe loop (RBO, off the pick), 4 rotations in all.
Double toe loop + double loopDouble toe loop (RBO, off the pick) straight into a double loop (RBO, off the edge), 4 rotations in all.
Double toe loop + double toe loopDouble toe loop (RBO, off the pick) straight into a double toe loop (RBO, off the pick), 4 rotations in all.
Double toe loop + Euler + double flipDouble toe loop (RBO, off the pick) through an Euler into a double flip (LBI, off the pick), 5 rotations in all.

Appears in

In the UK's grades

None of the British level lists in this guide name it outside the Skills tests below.

No test syllabus recorded yet.