Left backward inside counter-2½ twizzle

LBI → LFI → LBO: 2 elements on one foot.

combinationentry LBIexit LBO2 turnsone foot throughout

On LBI · 7 other entries

LFOLFO → LBO → LFI: 2 elements on one foot.
RFORFO → RBO → RFI: 2 elements on one foot.
LFILFI → LBI → LFO: 2 elements on one foot.
RFIRFI → RBI → RFO: 2 elements on one foot.
LBOLBO → LFO → LBI: 2 elements on one foot.
RBORBO → RFO → RBI: 2 elements on one foot.
LBI (this page)LBI → LFI → LBO: 2 elements on one foot.
RBIRBI → RFI → RBO: 2 elements on one foot.

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.

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outside edge: the paler lineinside edge: the darker line

LBI → LFI → LBO. A skater who rotates the other way traces RBI: the same element, generated from this one.

The pairing British Ice Skating asks for at Skills 7, from a backward inside edge and entered off a crossover. Two difficult turns joined, and the document says as much in its objectives.

The count matters here in a way it does not on a standing twizzle. Two and a half rotations leave the skater facing the way they did not start, so the counter’s check has to be set against where the twizzle will finish. Skaters who can do both separately and not together are almost always checking for the wrong exit.

Derived

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

LBI, counter to LFI, then 2½ twizzle to LBO. 2 turns on one foot, and the skater finishes on LBO.

Nothing above is stored on this page. The cluster records its entry edge and the order of its turns; every edge in between is chained out of the same rule that draws a single turn.

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

Build on

Left backward inside counterLBI to LFI: half a turn against the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
Left forward inside 2½ twizzleLFI to LBO: 2½ rotations on one foot, travelling, 2 curls and no cusp.

From LBI

Left backward inside edgethe plain edge, with no turn on it
Left backward inside push backexits RBO · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe continues
Left backward inside step wideexits RBI · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
Left backward inside change of edgeexits LBO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
Left backward inside three turnexits LFO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
Left backward inside rockerexits LFI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
Left backward inside bracketexits LFO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
Left backward inside loopexits LBI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe continues
Left backward inside choctawexits RFO · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
Left backward inside mohawkexits RFI · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe continues

Clusters from LBI

Left backward inside double threeLBI → LFO → LBI
Left backward inside counter-mohawkLBI → LFI → RBI
Left backward inside rocker-mohawkLBI → LFI → RBI
Left backward inside rocker-choctawLBI → LFI → RBO
Left backward inside bracket-cross rollLBI → LFO → RFO
Left backward inside bracket-counterLBI → LFO → LBO
Left backward inside counter-threeLBI → LFI → LBO
Left backward inside rocker-counterLBI → LFI → LBI
Left backward inside three-mohawkLBI → LFO → RBO
Left backward inside choctaw-three-rockerLBI → RFO → RBI → RFI
Left backward inside double three-mohawkLBI → LFO → LBI → RFI
Left backward inside rocker-counter-double twizzleLBI → LFI → LBI → LBI
Left backward inside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleLBI → LFO → LFI → LFI
Left backward inside triple threeLBI → LFO → LBI → LFO

Appears in

In the UK's grades

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

BIS Skills 7BIS · level 7

BIS Skills 7, exercise 3: Backward inside counters & twizzlesA forward outside 3-turn into a backward inside counter, which carries on into a two and a half rotation twizzle.