Left forward outside rocker
LFO to LBO: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
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- LFO (this page)LFO to LBO: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
- RFORFO to RBO: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
- LFILFI to LBI: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
- RFIRFI to RBI: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
- LBOLBO to LFO: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
- RBORBO to RFO: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
- LBILBI to LFI: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
- RBIRBI to RFI: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
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.
Forwards on the outside edge, rotating into the circle exactly as a three turn does. Then the edge does not change, so the lobe has to. You leave the circle you were on and pick up a new one curving the other way.
That is the whole reason the turn exists as a separate thing. The rotation is a three turn’s rotation; the destination is somewhere else entirely.
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: the edge holds, the skater rotates into the circle, and the lobe reverses.
A skater who rotates the other way does the same thing from RFO. Same element, mirrored.
Build on
- Left forward outside three turnLFO to LBI: half a turn into the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
Leads to
7 elements in the guide are built on this one.
- Left forward outside counterLFO to LBO: half a turn against the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
- Left forward outside rocker-choctawLFO → LBO → RFI: 2 turns on two feet.
- Left forward outside rocker-counterLFO → LBO → LFO, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
- Left forward outside rocker-counter-double twizzleLFO → LBO → LFO → LFO, back where it started: 3 elements on one foot.
- Left forward outside rocker-mohawkLFO → LBO → RFO: 2 turns on two feet.
- Right forward outside choctaw-three-rockerRFO → LBI → LFO → LBO: 3 turns on two feet.
- Step sequenceA run of turns and steps skated as one element across the ice, to the character of the music.
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 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 rocker-counterLFO → LBO → LFO
- 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
In British Ice Skating's tests: BIS Skills 5, BIS Skills 6, BIS Skills 8.