Field Guide to Figure Skating
USA

Double loop

RBO takeoff, off the edge, 2 rotations to RBO.

Also called 2Lo. Other names.

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RBOtakes off
RBOlands
The two edges, drawn. What happens between them is not: a tracing is the record of a blade on the ice, and for most of a jump the blade is not on it. These two are the same curve because they are the same edge: it leaves and returns to RBO. Each of these curves is drawn by more than one jump. What separates this one from the double toe loop is the pick, and no curve can show either.
Entrance

shoulder to hip —on the —
RBO takeoff, no pick · two rotations · RBO landing. Negative twist means the shoulders are held back against the hips, which stores rotation before a takeoff and checks it on a landing.

The loop with a second turn, and still nothing to help: no pick to vault off and no swing to borrow rotation from. Everything comes from the edge and from how quickly you pull in once you are off it.

That makes it a test of the takeoff edge more than of the air. A double loop that falls short usually left the ice on an edge that was already turning, so the rotation was spent before the jump began.

It shares its takeoff with the double toe loop, and seen from above the two leave from the same curve. From the side, one has a pick going in. The landing is the back outside edge every jump here but the Euler lands on, which is also the edge the loop leaves from.

Derived

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

Takes off RBO and lands RBO, the same edge every jump in this guide but the Euler lands on, so the takeoff is what tells them apart. The spring comes from the edge, with no pick.

Shares its takeoff edge with the double toe loop: the pair that get mistaken for each other.

The loop with one more turn in the air: the same takeoff and the same landing.

Lands on RBO, where the toe loop and the loop take off, so it can start a combination: double loop + double toe loop or double loop + double loop.

Takes off from RBO, the edge every other jump here lands on, so it can follow any of them in a jump combination.

A skater who rotates clockwise takes off LBO and lands LBO: the same jump, mirrored.

Build on

Leads to

9 elements in the guide are built on this one, and the 8 nearest are listed here.

Appears in

In the USA's grades

None of the American level lists in this guide name it.