Right forward outside slip chassé

RFO to LFI: a step in which the free foot slides away along the ice, still travelling forwards, and the lobe continues.

Also called slide chassé. Other names.

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The same shape as an open chassé until the free foot leaves. An open chassé lifts it with the blade level; a slip chassé slides it away along the ice, ahead of the skating foot, so it is still bearing something as it goes.

The slide is the element and it is what makes the step quiet. A lifted foot has to be put somewhere afterwards; a sliding one is already going where it will be needed, and the weight crosses directly under the body. Impatience is the usual fault: take the foot up early and you have skated an open chassé under another name.

Not to be confused with the slip step, which is a different movement and has both blades flat on the ice throughout.

Derived

Build on

• Right forward outside edgeRFO: the right foot travelling forwards on an outside edge, tracing a clockwise lobe.
• Forward strokingBritish Ice Skating's slip chassé is the chassé with the free foot sliding off the ice in front on the second step.

From RFO

• Right forward outside chasséexits LFI · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe continues
• Right forward outside crossoverexits LFI · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe continues
• Right forward outside change of edgeexits RFI · same foot, the edge changes, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
• Right forward outside cross rollexits LFO · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
• Right forward outside three turnexits RBI · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
• Right forward outside mohawkexits LBO · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
• Right forward outside rockerexits RBO · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Right forward outside bracketexits RBI · same foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe continues
• Right forward outside choctawexits LBI · changes foot, the edge changes, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Right forward outside counterexits RBO · same foot, the edge holds, the direction reverses, the lobe reverses
• Right forward outside crossed step behindexits LFO · changes foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe reverses
• Right forward outside loopexits RFO · same foot, the edge holds, the direction holds, the lobe continues

Clusters from RFO

• Right forward outside double threeRFO → RBI → RFO
• Right forward outside triple threeRFO → RBI → RFO → RBI
• Right forward outside rocker-counterRFO → RBO → RFO
• Right forward outside choctaw-three-rockerRFO → LBI → LFO → LBO
• Right forward outside 3-turn-change of edge-double twizzleRFO → RBI → RBO → RBO
• Right forward outside bracket-counterRFO → RBI → RFI
• Right forward outside counter-mohawkRFO → RBO → LFO
• Right forward outside counter-threeRFO → RBO → RFI
• Right forward outside counter-2½ twizzleRFO → RBO → RFI
• Right forward outside rocker-choctawRFO → RBO → LFI
• Right forward outside rocker-mohawkRFO → RBO → LFO
• Right forward outside three-mohawkRFO → RBI → LFI
• Right forward outside double three-mohawkRFO → RBI → RFO → LBO
• Right forward outside rocker-counter-double twizzleRFO → RBO → RFO → RFO

Appears in

In British Ice Skating's tests: BIS Skills 5.