Right backward inside change of edge
RBI to RBO: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling backwards, and the lobe reverses.
On RBI · 7 other entries
- LFOLFO to LFI: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling forwards, and the lobe reverses.
- RFORFO to RFI: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling forwards, and the lobe reverses.
- LFILFI to LFO: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling forwards, and the lobe reverses.
- RFIRFI to RFO: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling forwards, and the lobe reverses.
- LBOLBO to LBI: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling backwards, and the lobe reverses.
- RBORBO to RBI: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling backwards, and the lobe reverses.
- LBILBI to LBO: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling backwards, and the lobe reverses.
- RBI (this page)RBI to RBO: the blade rolls across without turning, still travelling backwards, and the lobe reverses.
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.
Backwards from the inside edge to the outside, the lobe reversing. The weakest entry edge rolling onto the strongest exit, which makes this more useful than it looks: it is the cheapest way of getting from a back inside edge to a checked back outside one.
The whole move lives in the ankle and the hip. If the shoulders join in, you have started a turn instead.
Derived
RBI is three letters (foot, direction, edge): right foot, backwards, inside edge. Every edge in the guide is written that way, so RBI is a right foot travelling backwards on an inside edge.
RBI change of edge to RBO: the blade rolls from one edge to the other without pivoting, the direction of travel does not change, and the lobe reverses.
A skater who rotates the other way does the same thing from LBI. Same element, mirrored.
Build on
- Right backward inside edgeRBI: the right foot travelling backwards on an inside edge, tracing a clockwise lobe.
- Two-foot change of edgeBritish Ice Skating defines a change of edge as one foot's tracing leaving one curve and edge for another. Here both feet do it together.
- Backward slalomBritish Ice Skating Skills 1 builds its backward slalom from two-foot power changes of edge, the roll a backward change of edge makes on one blade.
Leads to
One element in the guide is built on this one.
- Right forward outside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleRFO → RBI → RBO → RBO: 3 elements on one foot.
From RBI
- Right backward inside step wideexits LBI · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
- Right backward inside push backexits LBO · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe continues
- Right backward inside three turnexits RFO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
- Right backward inside rockerexits RFI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
- Right backward inside bracketexits RFO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
- Right backward inside loopexits RBI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe continues
- Right backward inside choctawexits LFO · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
- Right backward inside counterexits RFI · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
- Right backward inside mohawkexits LFI · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
Clusters from RBI
- Right backward inside double threeRBI → RFO → RBI
- Right backward inside counter-mohawkRBI → RFI → LBI
- Right backward inside rocker-mohawkRBI → RFI → LBI
- Right backward inside rocker-choctawRBI → RFI → LBO
- Right backward inside counter-2½ twizzleRBI → RFI → RBO
- Right backward inside bracket-counterRBI → RFO → RBO
- Right backward inside bracket-cross rollRBI → RFO → LFO
- Right backward inside counter-threeRBI → RFI → RBO
- Right backward inside rocker-counterRBI → RFI → RBI
- Right backward inside three-mohawkRBI → RFO → LBO
- Right backward inside choctaw-three-rockerRBI → LFO → LBI → LFI
- Right backward inside double three-mohawkRBI → RFO → RBI → LFI
- Right backward inside rocker-counter-double twizzleRBI → RFI → RBI → RBI
- Right backward inside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleRBI → RFO → RFI → RFI
- Right backward inside triple threeRBI → RFO → RBI → RFO
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 4, BIS Skills 5, BIS Skills 6, BIS Skills 7, BIS Skills 8.