Right forward outside cross roll

RFO to LFO: a step onto the other foot, still travelling forwards, and the lobe reverses.

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The free foot swings in from the side, passes the skating foot and goes down on its own outside edge. Because the new edge is outside on the other foot, the curve reverses. One lobe ends and the next begins as the feet cross.

It is the most expressive way of getting from one lobe to the next and the least forgiving, because the whole transfer happens over an outside edge with the body already leaning the new way. Lean late and it becomes a step; lean early and you fall into the new lobe. Timed right, you roll into it.

Derived

Build on

• Right forward outside edgeRFO: the right foot travelling forwards on an outside edge, tracing a clockwise lobe.
• Forward strokingBritish Ice Skating's cross roll brings the free foot in from the side and past the skating foot onto the next outside curve, the weight rolling across with it.

Leads to

One element in the guide is built on this one.

• Right backward inside bracket-cross rollRBI → RFO → LFO: 2 elements on two feet.

From RFO

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

Clusters from RFO

• Right forward outside double threeRFO → RBI → RFO
• Right forward outside triple threeRFO → RBI → RFO → RBI
• Right forward outside rocker-counterRFO → RBO → RFO
• Right forward outside choctaw-three-rockerRFO → LBI → LFO → LBO
• Right forward outside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleRFO → RBI → RBO → RBO
• Right forward outside bracket-counterRFO → RBI → RFI
• Right forward outside counter-mohawkRFO → RBO → LFO
• Right forward outside counter-threeRFO → RBO → RFI
• Right forward outside counter-2½ twizzleRFO → RBO → RFI
• Right forward outside rocker-choctawRFO → RBO → LFI
• Right forward outside rocker-mohawkRFO → RBO → LFO
• Right forward outside three-mohawkRFO → RBI → LFI
• Right forward outside double three-mohawkRFO → RBI → RFO → LBO
• Right forward outside rocker-counter-double twizzleRFO → RBO → RFO → RFO

Appears in

• BIS Skills 1BIS · level 1
• BIS Skills 2BIS · level 2
• BIS Skills 4BIS · level 4
• BIS Skills 7BIS · level 7

• BIS Skills 1, exercise 5: Forward outside & forward inside 3-turnsThe first turns in the syllabus: forward outside three turns onto a held back outside edge, then forward inside ones.
• BIS Skills 2, exercise 4: Forward cross rollsForward cross rolls in both directions, joined by a crossover and a step wide onto the inside edge.
• BIS Skills 4, exercise 2: Backward double 3-turnsBackward outside and backward inside double 3-turns, each running out into a cross roll.
• BIS Skills 4, exercise 7: Skating exerciseForward outside double 3-turns leaving directly into cross rolls, alternating feet down the ice.
• 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.