Right forward inside rocker-counter

RFI → RBI → RFI, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.

combinationentry RFIexit RFI2 turnsone foot throughoutreturns to RFI

On RFI · 7 other entries

LFOLFO → LBO → LFO, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
RFORFO → RBO → RFO, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
LFILFI → LBI → LFI, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
RFI (this page)RFI → RBI → RFI, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
LBOLBO → LFO → LBO, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
RBORBO → RFO → RBO, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
LBILBI → LFI → LBI, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
RBIRBI → RFI → RBI, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.

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.

mirror

inside edge: the darker line

RFI → RBI → RFI. A skater who rotates the other way traces LFI: the same element, generated from this one.

A rocker into a counter, forwards. The rocker rotates into the circle and hands you a new lobe; the counter rotates against that new lobe and hands you another. Two changes of circle in a row, on one foot, with the body reversing its rotation between them.

This is where checking stops being a detail. The rocker’s exit has to be stopped dead before the counter can be entered, and the counter turns the other way, so any rotation left over from the first turn is working directly against the second.

Derived

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

RFI, rocker to RBI, then counter to RFI. 2 turns on one foot, and the skater finishes on the edge they started on.

Nothing above is stored on this page. The cluster records its entry edge and the order of its turns; every edge in between is chained out of the same rule that draws a single turn.

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

Build on

Right forward inside rockerRFI to RBI: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
Right backward inside counterRBI to RFI: half a turn against the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.

From RFI

Right forward inside edgethe plain edge, with no turn on it
Right forward inside step wideexits LFI · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
Right forward inside change of edgeexits RFO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
Right forward inside three turnexits RBO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
Right forward inside mohawkexits LBI · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
Right forward inside choctawexits LBO · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
Right forward inside bracketexits RBO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
Right forward inside counterexits RBI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
Right forward inside loopexits RFI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe continues

Clusters from RFI

Right forward inside double three-mohawkRFI → RBO → RFI → LBI
Right forward inside bracket-counterRFI → RBO → RFO
Right forward inside rocker-counter-double twizzleRFI → RBI → RFI → RFI
Right forward inside bracket-cross rollRFI → RBO → LBO
Right forward inside counter-mohawkRFI → RBI → LFI
Right forward inside counter-threeRFI → RBI → RFO
Right forward inside counter-2½ twizzleRFI → RBI → RFO
Right forward inside double threeRFI → RBO → RFI
Right forward inside rocker-choctawRFI → RBI → LFO
Right forward inside rocker-mohawkRFI → RBI → LFI
Right forward inside three-mohawkRFI → RBO → LFO
Right forward inside choctaw-three-rockerRFI → LBO → LFI → LBI
Right forward inside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleRFI → RBO → RBI → RBI
Right forward inside triple threeRFI → RBO → RFI → RBO

Appears in

In the UK's grades

None of the British level lists in this guide name it outside the Skills tests below.

BIS Skills 7BIS · level 7

BIS Skills 7, exercise 4: Rocker-counterA rocker and a counter back to back on one foot, inside on the first side and outside into a cross roll on the second.