Left forward outside rocker-counter

LFO → LBO → LFO, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.

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On LFO · 7 other entries

LFO (this page)LFO → 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.
RFIRFI → 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

outside edge: the paler line

LFO → LBO → LFO. A skater who rotates the other way traces RFO: 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

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

LFO, rocker to LBO, then counter to LFO. 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 RFO. Same element, mirrored.

Build on

Left forward outside rockerLFO to LBO: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
Left backward outside counterLBO to LFO: half a turn against the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.

From LFO

Left forward outside edgethe plain edge, with no turn on it
Left forward outside chasséexits RFI · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe continues
Left forward outside crossoverexits RFI · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe continues
Left forward outside change of edgeexits LFI · same foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
Left forward outside cross rollexits RFO · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
Left forward outside three turnexits LBI · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
Left forward outside mohawkexits RBO · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
Left forward outside slip chasséexits RFI · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe continues
Left forward outside bracketexits LBI · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
Left forward outside choctawexits RBI · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
Left forward outside counterexits LBO · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
Left forward outside crossed step behindexits RFO · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
Left forward outside loopexits LFO · same foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe continues

Clusters from LFO

Left forward outside double threeLFO → LBI → LFO
Left forward outside triple threeLFO → LBI → LFO → LBI
Left forward outside choctaw-three-rockerLFO → RBI → RFO → RBO
Left forward outside bracket-counterLFO → LBI → LFI
Left forward outside counter-mohawkLFO → LBO → RFO
Left forward outside counter-threeLFO → LBO → LFI
Left forward outside counter-2½ twizzleLFO → LBO → LFI
Left forward outside rocker-choctawLFO → LBO → RFI
Left forward outside rocker-mohawkLFO → LBO → RFO
Left forward outside three-mohawkLFO → LBI → RFI
Left forward outside double three-mohawkLFO → LBI → LFO → RBO
Left forward outside rocker-counter-double twizzleLFO → LBO → LFO → LFO
Left forward outside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleLFO → LBI → LBO → 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 7.