Left backward outside change of edge

LBO to LBI: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling backwards, and the lobe reverses.

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Backwards from the outside edge to the inside, the curve reversing. Blind, and without the cusp or the gap that at least tells you a turn has occurred.

It is worth doing this slowly and listening. A clean change of edge is silent. A late one scrapes, because what actually happened was a moment on the flat with the weight in the wrong place, and the ice will tell you before your feet do.

Derived

Build on

• Left backward outside edgeLBO: the left foot travelling backwards on an outside edge, tracing a clockwise 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.
• Backward slalomBritish Ice Skating Skills 1 builds its backward slalom from two-foot power changes of edge, the roll a backward change of edge makes on one blade.

Leads to

One element in the guide is built on this one.

• Left forward inside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleLFI → LBO → LBI → LBI: 3 elements on one foot.

From LBO

• Left backward outside crossoverexits RBI · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe continues
• Left backward outside cross rollexits RBO · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
• Left backward outside choctawexits RFI · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Left backward outside three turnexits LFI · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
• Left backward outside mohawkexits RFO · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
• Left backward outside bracketexits LFI · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
• Left backward outside crossed step behindexits RBO · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
• Left backward outside chasséexits RBI · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe continues
• Left backward outside counterexits LFO · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Left backward outside loopexits LBO · same foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe continues
• Left backward outside rockerexits LFO · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Left backward outside slip chasséexits RBI · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe continues

Clusters from LBO

• Left backward outside three-mohawkLBO → LFI → RBI
• Left backward outside double threeLBO → LFI → LBO
• Left backward outside counter-threeLBO → LFO → LBI
• Left backward outside rocker-mohawkLBO → LFO → RBO
• Left backward outside bracket-counterLBO → LFI → LBI
• Left backward outside counter-mohawkLBO → LFO → RBO
• Left backward outside counter-2½ twizzleLBO → LFO → LBI
• Left backward outside rocker-choctawLBO → LFO → RBI
• Left backward outside rocker-counterLBO → LFO → LBO
• Left backward outside choctaw-three-rockerLBO → RFI → RBO → RFO
• Left backward outside double three-mohawkLBO → LFI → LBO → RFO
• Left backward outside rocker-counter-double twizzleLBO → LFO → LBO → LBO
• Left backward outside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleLBO → LFI → LFO → LFO
• Left backward outside triple threeLBO → LFI → LBO → LFI

Appears in

• BIS Skills 2BIS · level 2
• BIS Skills 4BIS · level 4
• BIS Skills 7BIS · level 7

• BIS Skills 2, exercise 2: One foot slalomPower changes of edge on one foot, forwards and backwards, on both feet and in both directions.
• BIS Skills 4, exercise 1: Backward changes of edgeBackward changes of edge held for half a circle, first from crossovers and then entered from a forward 3-turn.
• BIS Skills 7, exercise 6: Bracket-counter-twizzleA forward inside bracket into a backward counter into a one and a half twizzle, finished with a change of edge.