Left forward outside mohawk

LFO to RBO: a step onto the other foot, holding the edge and staying on the same lobe. No cusp.

Also called C step, open C step or closed C step. Other names.

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.

Forwards on the outside edge; then, without turning on the blade, you step onto the other foot and travel backwards on its outside edge. The circle and the character of the edge stay the same. The foot and the direction you face both change.

The forward outside mohawk is the less common of the two, and it is the harder to make look calm, because the free foot has to arrive turned out and close in without the hips opening first. There is no cusp to hide behind: whatever the edge was doing at the moment of the step is what appears on the ice.

Derived

Build on

• Left forward outside edgeLFO: the left foot travelling forwards on an outside edge, tracing an anticlockwise lobe.
• Two-foot turnBoth turn from forwards to backwards, and the mohawk changes feet as it turns. Ice Skating Australia teaches its forward inside mohawk after the two-foot turns.

Off the ice

• Hips and turnoutHow far the legs rotate outward from the hip, for the free leg, mohawks and the spread eagle.

Leads to

5 elements in the guide are built on this one.

• Left forward outside choctawLFO to RBI: a step onto the other foot, changing edge and reversing onto a new one. No cusp.
• Left backward inside three-mohawkLBI → LFO → RBO: 2 turns on two feet.
• Left backward outside counter-mohawkLBO → LFO → RBO: 2 turns on two feet.
• Left backward outside rocker-mohawkLBO → LFO → RBO: 2 turns on two feet.
• Left forward outside double three-mohawkLFO → LBI → LFO → RBO: 3 turns on two feet.

From LFO

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

Clusters from LFO

• Left forward outside double threeLFO → LBI → LFO
• Left forward outside triple threeLFO → LBI → LFO → LBI
• Left forward outside rocker-counterLFO → LBO → LFO
• Left forward outside choctaw-three-rockerLFO → RBI → RFO → RBO
• Left forward outside bracket-counterLFO → LBI → LFI
• Left forward outside counter-mohawkLFO → LBO → RFO
• Left forward outside counter-threeLFO → LBO → LFI
• Left forward outside counter-2½ twizzleLFO → LBO → LFI
• Left forward outside rocker-choctawLFO → LBO → RFI
• Left forward outside rocker-mohawkLFO → LBO → RFO
• Left forward outside three-mohawkLFO → LBI → RFI
• Left forward outside double three-mohawkLFO → LBI → LFO → RBO
• Left forward outside rocker-counter-double twizzleLFO → LBO → LFO → LFO
• Left forward outside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleLFO → LBI → LBO → LBO

Appears in

• BIS Skills 3BIS · level 3
• BIS Skills 6BIS · level 6
• BIS Skills 8BIS · level 8

• BIS Skills 3, exercise 5: Forward spiralsA serpentine of closed mohawks and crossovers into a forward outside spiral on each foot, held for three seconds.
• BIS Skills 6, exercise 1: Backward rockersBackward inside and backward outside rockers, each followed at once by a mohawk, on both sides.
• BIS Skills 8, exercise 3: Section 3The longest section: choctaw into mohawk, a rocker, a counter into a mohawk, an open choctaw, and a rocker-counter into a double twizzle to finish.