Right backward outside change of edge

RBO to RBI: 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

• Right backward outside edgeRBO: the right foot travelling backwards on an outside edge, tracing an anticlockwise 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.

• Right forward inside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleRFI → RBO → RBI → RBI: 3 elements on one foot.

From RBO

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

Clusters from RBO

• Right backward outside three-mohawkRBO → RFI → LBI
• Right backward outside double threeRBO → RFI → RBO
• Right backward outside counter-threeRBO → RFO → RBI
• Right backward outside rocker-mohawkRBO → RFO → LBO
• Right backward outside bracket-counterRBO → RFI → RBI
• Right backward outside counter-mohawkRBO → RFO → LBO
• Right backward outside counter-2½ twizzleRBO → RFO → RBI
• Right backward outside rocker-choctawRBO → RFO → LBI
• Right backward outside rocker-counterRBO → RFO → RBO
• Right backward outside choctaw-three-rockerRBO → LFI → LBO → LFO
• Right backward outside double three-mohawkRBO → RFI → RBO → LFO
• Right backward outside rocker-counter-double twizzleRBO → RFO → RBO → RBO
• Right backward outside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleRBO → RFI → RFO → RFO
• Right backward outside triple threeRBO → RFI → RBO → RFI

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.