Right backward inside push back

RBI to LBO: a push off the inside edge onto the other foot's outside edge, still travelling backwards, and the lobe continues.

Also called transfer of weight back. Other names.

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Backwards on an inside edge. The skating foot pushes against that edge and you arrive backwards on the other foot’s outside edge, which is the strong one: checked, and able to hold its curve for as long as you ask.

This draws the tracing a backward stroke draws, because it is the same push. It counts as an element here because both ends are named. Backward stroking is how you push at all; this is that push taken from a back inside edge onto a back outside one, which is what the syllabus asks for and where it asks for it. The guide says they are the same, which is the answer it also gives for a crossover against a chassé.

British Ice Skating write it both as a push back and as transferring the weight back. They are one movement.

Derived

Build on

• Right backward inside edgeRBI: the right foot travelling backwards on an inside edge, tracing a clockwise lobe.
• Backward strokingA push back is a backward stroke taken from a named edge onto the other foot's outside edge.

From RBI

• Right backward inside step wideexits LBI · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
• Right backward inside change of edgeexits RBO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
• Right backward inside three turnexits RFO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
• Right backward inside rockerexits RFI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Right backward inside bracketexits RFO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
• Right backward inside loopexits RBI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe continues
• Right backward inside choctawexits LFO · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Right backward inside counterexits RFI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Right backward inside mohawkexits LFI · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe continues

Clusters from RBI

• Right backward inside double threeRBI → RFO → RBI
• Right backward inside counter-mohawkRBI → RFI → LBI
• Right backward inside rocker-mohawkRBI → RFI → LBI
• Right backward inside rocker-choctawRBI → RFI → LBO
• Right backward inside counter-2½ twizzleRBI → RFI → RBO
• Right backward inside bracket-counterRBI → RFO → RBO
• Right backward inside bracket-cross rollRBI → RFO → LFO
• Right backward inside counter-threeRBI → RFI → RBO
• Right backward inside rocker-counterRBI → RFI → RBI
• Right backward inside three-mohawkRBI → RFO → LBO
• Right backward inside choctaw-three-rockerRBI → LFO → LBI → LFI
• Right backward inside double three-mohawkRBI → RFO → RBI → LFI
• Right backward inside rocker-counter-double twizzleRBI → RFI → RBI → RBI
• Right backward inside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleRBI → RFO → RFI → RFI
• Right backward inside triple threeRBI → RFO → RBI → RFO

Appears in

• BIS Skills 2BIS · level 2
• BIS Skills 3BIS · level 3
• BIS Skills 6BIS · level 6
• BIS Skills 7BIS · level 7
• BIS Skills 8BIS · level 8

• BIS Skills 2, exercise 1: Backward outside & inside edgesBackward edges held to the long axis on both outside and inside, joined by crossovers on one side and a step wide on the other.
• BIS Skills 2, exercise 3: Forward 3-turnsForward inside and forward outside 3-turns in one run, with the back edge after each turn held before the next lobe.
• BIS Skills 2, exercise 5: Skating exerciseA full circuit of the rink built from an open mohawk into backward edges, a step wide and a crossover, on both sides.
• BIS Skills 3, exercise 2: Multi-directional 3-turnsAll four forward 3-turns and both backward inside ones on the first side, and 3-turns run into open mohawks on the second.
• BIS Skills 3, exercise 3: Backward cross rollsA forward 3-turn into a held back outside edge, rolled from there into backward cross rolls on both feet.
• BIS Skills 6, exercise 3: Backward inside loopsFrom a stationary start on both feet: a forward outside 3-turn and, on the same foot, a backward inside loop.
• BIS Skills 7, exercise 1: Forward inside choctaws & backward outside countersClosed choctaws from a forward inside edge, and backward outside counters run into 3-turns, down both lengths of the rink.
• BIS Skills 8, exercise 2: Section 2The technical middle: a double 3-turn, a bracket, steps crossed behind, and a double twizzle reached through a change of edge.