Right backward outside bracket-counter

RBO → RFI → RBI: 2 turns on one foot.

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On RBO · 7 other entries

LFOLFO → LBI → LFI: 2 turns on one foot.
RFORFO → RBI → RFI: 2 turns on one foot.
LFILFI → LBO → LFO: 2 turns on one foot.
RFIRFI → RBO → RFO: 2 turns on one foot.
LBOLBO → LFI → LBI: 2 turns on one foot.
RBO (this page)RBO → RFI → RBI: 2 turns on one foot.
LBILBI → LFO → LBO: 2 turns on one foot.
RBIRBI → RFO → RBO: 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.

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outside edge: the paler lineinside edge: the darker line

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

A bracket into a counter from a backward edge. Entering blind, rotating against the curve twice, and changing circle at the second turn.

The two turns look similar on the ice and feel quite different: the bracket has a cusp pointing out of the circle and leaves you on the same lobe, the counter has the same rotation but takes the lobe away. Doing them back to back is the clearest way to learn which is which.

Derived

RBO is three letters (foot, direction, edge): right 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.

RBO, bracket to RFI, then counter to RBI. 2 turns on one foot, 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 LBO. Same element, mirrored.

Build on

Right backward outside bracketRBO to RFI: half a turn against the circle, changing edge and staying on the same lobe.
Right forward inside counterRFI to RBI: half a turn against the circle, holding the edge and leaving on a new one.

From RBO

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

Clusters from RBO

Right backward outside three-mohawkRBO → RFI → LBI
Right backward outside double threeRBO → RFI → RBO
Right backward outside counter-threeRBO → RFO → RBI
Right backward outside rocker-mohawkRBO → RFO → LBO
Right backward outside counter-mohawkRBO → RFO → LBO
Right backward outside counter-2½ twizzleRBO → RFO → RBI
Right backward outside rocker-choctawRBO → RFO → LBI
Right backward outside rocker-counterRBO → RFO → RBO
Right backward outside choctaw-three-rockerRBO → LFI → LBO → LFO
Right backward outside double three-mohawkRBO → RFI → RBO → LFO
Right backward outside rocker-counter-double twizzleRBO → RFO → RBO → RBO
Right backward outside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleRBO → RFI → RFO → RFO
Right backward outside triple threeRBO → RFI → RBO → RFI

Appears in

In the USA's grades

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