Left backward outside three-mohawk

LBO → LFI → RBI: 2 turns on two feet.

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On LBO · 7 other entries
  • LFOLFO → LBI → RFI: 2 turns on two feet.
  • RFORFO → RBI → LFI: 2 turns on two feet.
  • LFILFI → LBO → RFO: 2 turns on two feet.
  • RFIRFI → RBO → LFO: 2 turns on two feet.
  • LBO (this page)LBO → LFI → RBI: 2 turns on two feet.
  • RBORBO → RFI → LBI: 2 turns on two feet.
  • LBILBI → LFO → RBO: 2 turns on two feet.
  • RBIRBI → RFO → LBO: 2 turns on two feet.

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.

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

A three turn from a backward edge, straight into a step onto the other foot. You enter blind, turn to forwards, then step back to a backward edge, all on one lobe.

The join is the hard part, as it always is. Coming out of the three turn you are travelling forwards for a fraction of a second, and that is the only moment in which the free foot can be placed. Everything about the cluster is decided before the first turn starts.

Derived

LBO is three letters (foot, direction, edge): left 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.

LBO, three turn to LFI, then mohawk to RBI. 2 turns on two feet, and the skater finishes on RBI.

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 RBO. Same element, mirrored.

Build on

From LBO

Clusters from LBO

Appears in

In the USA's grades

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

In British Ice Skating's tests: BIS Skills 2, BIS Skills 3.