Right backward inside rocker
RBI to RFI: half a turn into the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
On RBI · 7 other entries
- LFOLFO 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.
- RBI (this page)RBI 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.
Backwards on the inside edge, rotating into the circle, out forwards still on the inside edge and onto a lobe curving the other way. It shares its awkwardness with everything else that begins on a back inside edge: the entry is the one you practise least.
What it buys you is a change of circle without a change of edge, which is how a step sequence travels in a straight line while every piece of it is a curve.
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 rocker to RFI: 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 LBI. Same element, mirrored.
Build on
- Right backward inside three turnRBI to RFO: half a turn into the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
Leads to
6 elements in the guide are built on this one.
- Right backward inside counterRBI to RFI: half a turn against the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.
- Left backward inside choctaw-three-rockerLBI → RFO → RBI → RFI: 3 turns on two feet.
- Right backward inside rocker-choctawRBI → RFI → LBO: 2 turns on two feet.
- Right backward inside rocker-counterRBI → RFI → RBI, back where it started: 2 turns on one foot.
- Right backward inside rocker-counter-double twizzleRBI → RFI → RBI → RBI, back where it started: 3 elements on one foot.
- Right backward inside rocker-mohawkRBI → RFI → LBI: 2 turns on two feet.
From RBI
- Right backward inside edgethe plain edge, with no turn on it
- 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 change of edgeexits RBO · same foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, 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 4, BIS Skills 8.