#TWIZZLE ICE DANCING SERIES#
#TWIZZLE ICE DANCING FREE#

RFO-Counter (RFO to RBO): Scott Moir enters on a right forward outside edge and exits on a right back outside edge. LFI-Counter (LFI to LBI): Tessa Virtue enters on a left forward inside edge and exits on a left back inside edge. RBO-Counter (RBO to RFO): Scott Moir enters on a right back outside edge and exits on a right forward outside edge. LBI-Counter: Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir enter on left back inside edges and exit on left forward inside edges. RFI-Counter (RFI to RBI): Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir enter on right forward inside edges and exit on right back inside edges. LFO-Counter (LFO to LBO): Mikhail Kolyada enters on a left forward outside edge and exits on a left back outside edge. The blade turns in the direction of the exit curve. The skater changes from back to front or front to back, maintaining the same edge (outside to outside or inside to inside). You can also see the ice mark of a rocker in this gif. RBO-Rocker (RBO to RFO): Yuzuru Hanyu enters on a right back outside edge and exits on a right forward outside edge. LBI-Rocker (LBI to LFI): Yuzuru Hanyu enters on a left back inside edge and exits on a left forward inside edge. RFI-Rocker (RFI to RBI): Scott Moir enters on a right forward inside edge and exits on a right back inside edge. LFO-Rocker (LFO to LBO): Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir enter on left forward outside edges and exit on left back outside edges. LBO-Rocker (LBO to LFO): Lorraine McNamara and Quinn Carpenter enter on left back outside edges and exit on left forward outside edges. RBI-Rocker (RBI to RFI): Scott Moir enters on a right back inside edge and exits on a right forward inside edge. LFI-Rocker (LFI to LBI): Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir enter on left forward inside edges and exit on left back inside edges. You can also see the ice marks of a rocker in this gif. RFO-Rocker (RFO to RBO): Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov enter on right forward outside edges and exit on right back outside edges. The blade turns in the direction of the entry curve. In singles skating, the direction of the step/turn (clockwise or counter-clockwise) is important because a skater must have 5 types of difficult steps/turns in both directions to achieve level 4 on their step sequence, so I will also separate them by their direction. This is especially true for rockers and counters since skaters maintain the same entry and exit edge (inside to inside or outside to outside) in both. For 3 of the difficult one foot turns (rocker, counter, bracket), IвЂ™ve also included examples from each of the 8 entry edges because in my opinion, they are the hardest to tell apart of the steps/turns. For singles/pairs, the 6 difficult steps/turns are rocker, counter, bracket, choctaw, twizzle, and loop. For ice dance, the 6 difficult steps/turns are rocker, counter, bracket, choctaw, outside mohawk, and twizzle. distance, unison, closeness, variety and difficulty of positions, change of rotational direction, and difficult entries are taken into consideration by the judges and technical specialists.IвЂ™ve made a guide to the ISU classified difficult steps/turns.

#TWIZZLE ICE DANCING FREE#

Twizzles are most commonly performed in an upright position with the free foot held close to the skating leg, but other variants are possible as well, such as a twizzle in a sit spin position.

Twizzles can be performed both forward and backward, on both inside and outside edges, and both clockwise and counterclockwise.

#TWIZZLE ICE DANCING SERIES#

It also differs from a series of three turns in that the turning action is continuous. A twizzle is also common in synchronized skating where it is also a required element of step sequences.ДЄ twizzle differs from a figure skating spin in that it travels across the ice instead of being centered in one spot.

The twizzle is most commonly seen in ice dancing, where it appears in a number of compulsory dances and is a required element of step sequences in the short dance, original dance and free dance. Freebase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:ДЄ twizzle is a multirotational one-foot turn in figure skating.

Twizzle ice dancing