Left forward outside 2½ twizzle

LFO to LBI: 2½ rotations on one foot, travelling, 2 curls and no cusp.

twizzleentry LFOexit LBI
On LFO · 7 other entries
  • LFO (this page)LFO to LBI: 2½ rotations on one foot, travelling, 2 curls and no cusp.
  • RFORFO to RBI: 2½ rotations on one foot, travelling, 2 curls and no cusp.
  • LFILFI to LBO: 2½ rotations on one foot, travelling, 2 curls and no cusp.
  • RFIRFI to RBO: 2½ rotations on one foot, travelling, 2 curls and no cusp.
  • LBOLBO to LFI: 2½ rotations on one foot, travelling, 2 curls and no cusp.
  • RBORBO to RFI: 2½ rotations on one foot, travelling, 2 curls and no cusp.
  • LBILBI to LFO: 2½ rotations on one foot, travelling, 2 curls and no cusp.
  • RBIRBI to RFO: 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.

outside edge: the paler lineinside edge: the darker line
LFO → LBI. A skater who rotates the other way traces RFO: the same element, generated from this one.

Two and a half rotations from a forward outside entry: two curls in the tracing and then a half that has to be produced out of whatever rotation is left. The count decides which way you are facing at the end, and everything about the exit follows from that.

Rotation is cheapest at the beginning and this asks for the awkward part last. A skater with enough for a double and no more finishes the second curl, runs out, and steps the last half round. That is a double twizzle with a turn stuck on the back of it, and it looks exactly like one.

Derived

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

LFO 2½ twizzle to LBI: 2½ rotations on one foot, travelling, leaving 2 curls in the tracing and no cusp anywhere. The lobe continues, and the half rotation turns the skater to face the other way, which is why the edge letter changes without the blade ever changing which way it curves.

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

Build on

Leads to

One element in the guide is built on this one.

From LFO

Clusters from LFO

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.