Left backward outside 2½ twizzle

LBO to LFI: 2½ rotations on one foot, travelling, 2 curls and no cusp.

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.

Two and a half rotations entered backwards on an outside edge, finishing the other way round from how it started. Rare outside a step sequence, and useful there for exactly that reason: it turns backward travel into forward travel without a step and without losing the line.

Blind at the start and sighted at the end, like every backward twizzle, but the half rotation moves where that changes. You come round to face the rink with half a turn still to find, which is the worst possible moment to discover the edge has gone flat.

Derived

Build on

• Left backward outside edgeLBO: the left foot travelling backwards on an outside edge, tracing a clockwise lobe.
• Left backward outside twizzleLBO to LBO: 1 rotation on one foot, travelling, one curl and no cusp.

Leads to

One element in the guide is built on this one.

• Left forward outside counter-2½ twizzleLFO → LBO → LFI: 2 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 change of edgeexits LBI · same foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
• 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

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