Thread by @yang_bo_dudnik

See my newly edited tumblr post with additions of more choctaws, outside mohawks, twizzles, and loops with as many entry edges as I could find and also now definitions and examples of non-difficult steps/turns (ones that don't count for stsq levels) illyria-and-her-pet.tumblr.com/post/182237416…

I will also add all these new examples to my twitter thread with the gifs in twitter dimensions. First here's a better quality gif of Yuna Kim's left back outside twizzle that rotates clockwise. You can see the ice mark of a twizzle here.

Alisa Efimova and Alexander Korovin perform mirrored twizzles here. Alisa does a left back inside twizzle that rotates counter-clockwise. Alexander does a right back inside twizzle that rotates clockwise.

Patrick Chan performs a left forward inside twizzle that rotates clockwise

Alena Kostornaia performs a right forward outside twizzle that rotates clockwise

Alena Kostornaia performs a left forward outside twizzle that rotates counter-clockwise

Satoko Miyahara performs a right back outside twizzle that rotates counter-clockwise

Yuna Kim performs a right back inside loop that rotates clockwise. You can also see the ice mark of a loop in this gif.

Adelina Sotnikova performs a right forward outside loop that rotates clockwise

Alena Kostornaia performs a right forward inside loop that rotates counter-clockwise

Yuna Kim performs a left back inside loop that rotates counter-clockwise

Alexandra Boikova and Dmitrii Kozlovskii perform right back outside loops that rotate counter-clockwise. You can also see the ice marks of loops in this gif.

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir do a clockwise LBO-Closed Mohawk (LBO to RFO). They enter on left back outside edge curving clockwise, place their right foot behind their left, and exit on right forward outside edges curving clockwise.

Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat do a RFO-Swing Closed Mohawk (RFO to LBO). They enter on right forward outside edges curving clockwise, swing their left legs forward and place their left foot behind their right foot, and exit on left back outside edges curving clockwise.

Alisa Efimova does a CW LBO-Choctaw. She enters on a left back outside edge curving CW & exits on right forward inside edge curving CCW. Alexander does a CCW RBO-Choctaw. He enters on a right back outside edge curving CCW & exits on a left forward inside edge curving CW.

Alena Kostornaia does a clockwise LBO-Choctaw (LBO to RFI). She enters on a left back outside edge curving clockwise and exits on right forward inside edge curving counter-clockwise.

It is very common for singles and pairs skaters to do “double choctaws” where the first choctaw is a back outside choctaw and the second choctaw is a forward inside choctaw. However, it is extremely rare for it to be done with excellent quality like Mikhail Kolyada here.

He does a counter-clockwise RBO-Choctaw (RBO to LFI) to clockwise LFI-Choctaw (LFI to RBO). He enters on a right back outside edge curving counter-clockwise, changes to a left forward inside edge curving clockwise, and exits on a right back outside edge curving counter-clockwise.

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir do a clockwise LFI-Open Choctaw (LFI to RBO). They enter on left forward inside edges curving clockwise, place their right foot in front of their left, and exit on right back outside edges curving counter-clockwise.

Alena Kostornaia does a counter-clockwise RFI-Open Choctaw (RFI to LBO). She enters on a right forward inside edge curving counter-clockwise, places her left foot in front of her right, and exits on a left back outside edge curving counter-clockwise.

Scott Moir does a counter-clockwise RFO-Swing Choctaw (RFO to LBI). He enters on a right forward outside edge curving clockwise, swings his left leg forward, and exits on a left back inside edge curving counter-clockwise.

Now for the non-difficult steps/turns. First is the three turn: The skater changes both direction (front to back or back to front) and edge (inside to outside or outside to inside) and the blade turns in the same direction as the overall curve of the turn.

RFO-Three Turn (RFO to RBI): Carolina Kostner enters on a right forward outside edge curving clockwise, turns clockwise, and exits on a right back inside edge curving clockwise.

LFI-Three Turn (LFI to LBO): Carolina Kostner enters on a left forward inside edge curving clockwise, turns clockwise, and exits on a left back inside edge curving clockwise.

RBI-Three Turn (RBI to RFO): Mikhail Kolyada enters on a right back inside edge curving clockwise, turns clockwise, and exits on a right forward outside edge curving clockwise.

LBO-Three Turn (LBO to LFI): Carolina Kostner enters on a left back outside edge curving clockwise, turns clockwise, and exits on a left forward inside edge curving clockwise.

LBO-Three Turn (LBO to LFI): Carolina Kostner enters on a left back outside edge curving clockwise, turns clockwise, and exits on a left forward inside edge curving clockwise.

RFI-Three Turn (RFI to RBO): Anastasia Gubanova enters on a right forward inside edge curving counter-clockwise, turns counter-clockwise, and exits on a right back outside edge curving counter-clockwise.

LBI-Three Turn (LBI to LFO): Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje enter on left back inside edges curving counter-clockwise, turn counter-clockwise, and exit on left forward outside edges curving counter-clockwise.

RBO-Three Turn (RBO to RFI): Anastasia Gubanova enters on a right back outside edge curving counter-clockwise, turns counter-clockwise, and exits on a right forward inside edge curving counter-clockwise.

Inside Mohawk: The skater changes feet (left to right or right to left) and direction (front to back or back to front), but maintains the same edge (inside to inside). Inside mohawks are commonly used to enter skaters’ flip jumps.

Carolina Kostner does a clockwise LFI-Mohawk (LFI to RBI) where she enters on a left forward inside edge curving CW & exits on a right back inside edge curving CW. She uses this to enter her flip since she is a CW jumper & takes off for the flip from a right back inside edge.

Jason Brown does a counter-clockwise RFI-Mohawk (RFI to LBI) where he enters on a right forward inside edge curving CCW & exits on a left back inside edge curving CCW. Jason uses this to enter his flip since he is a CCW jumper & takes off for the flip from a left back inside edge

Crossover: The basic stroking technique in which the skater glides on 2 feet and then crosses their feet together without changing the skating edge. Skaters use this to gain speed.
Here is Alena Kostornaia doing backwards crossovers.

Here is Shizuka Arakawa doing forward crossovers

Toe steps: the skater moves from one toe pick to another
Here are Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir doing clockwise toe steps

Here is Mao Asada doing counter-clockwise toe steps

Cross Roll: the skating step made by crossing the free foot onto the outside edge behind or in front of the outside edge of the skating foot
Sofia Shevcehnko does backwards cross rolls, while Igor Eremenko does forward cross rolls.

Slip Steps: A step skated in a straight line with the blades of both skates being held flat on the ice. The weight is over the skating leg that may be well bent or straight while the free foot slides forward on the ice to full extension.

Elena Ilinykh and Ruslan Zhiganshin performing slip steps in the Paso Doble ice dance pattern. Note: Elena does a XB-LBO after the slip steps and Ruslan does a XF-RFO after the slip steps, which will take us to our next steps: crossed step behind and crossed step in front.

Crossed Step Behind: A step in which the free foot is placed on the ice on the outer edge side of the skating foot with the free leg tightly crossed behind the skating leg.
Here are Gabriella Papadakis & Guillaume Cizeron performing a XB-RFO.

Sofia Shevchenko and Igor Eremenko performing a XB-LFI

Sofia Shevchenko and Igor Eremenko performing a XB-RFI

Bonus: Here's a close up of Igor Eremenko doing a RFI-Counter where he enters on a right forward inside edge curving counter-clockwise, turns clockwise, & exits on a right back inside edge curving clockwise. Sofia Shevchenko changes from a RFI to RFO edge.

Crossed Step in Front: A step in which the free foot is placed on the ice on the outer edge side of the skating foot with the free leg tightly crossed in front of the skating leg.
Here are Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron performing a XF-LFI

Sofia Shevchenko and Igor Eremenko performing a XF-RFO

Chasse: A step in which the free foot is placed on the ice beside the skating foot, which is then lifted close to the new skating foot with the blade parallel to the ice. The two steps are skated on the same lobe, usually stepping from outside to inside edge.

Elena Ilinykh performs a LBI-Chasse, while Ruslan Zhiganshin performs a RFI-Chasse.

Sofia Shevchenko and Igor Eremenko perform a RFI-Chasse

Swing Roll: A short or long, forward or backward edge, held for several beats of music during which, when skating backward, the free leg lifts and then first swings forward, then backward past the skating foot, then back beside to skate the next step.

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir performing a RFO-Swing Roll

Adelina Sotnikova performs a counter-clockwise illusion turn

Change of Edge: The visible tracing of a skate on one foot that changes from one curve and edge to a different curve and edge.
Scott Moir does a RBOIO change of edge. He changes from a right back outisde edge to right back inside edge and then back to a right back outside edge.

Charlene Guignard changes from a left back outside edge to a left back inside edge. Marco Fabbri changes from a right forward outside edge to a right forward inside edge.

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir change from right back inside to right back outside edges.

Sofia Shevchenko and Igor Eremenko change from left forward inside edges to left forward outside edges.

Tessa Virtue changes from a right back outside edge to a right back inside edge.

Progressive: A sequence of steps in ice dance in which the free foot crosses over the skating foot and is placed on the ice becoming the new skating foot and the skating foot lifts and becomes the new free foot.

Elena Ilinykh performs a LBI-Progressive, while Ruslan Zhiganshin performs a RFI-Progressive.

Sofia Shevchenko and Igor Eremenko perform a RFI-Progressive.

Correction I copied & pasted the wrong description here.
LFO-Three Turn (LFO to LBI): Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir enter on left forward outside edges curving counter-clockwise, turn counter-clockwise, & exit on left back inside edges curving counter-clockwise.

https://twitter.com/yang_bo_dudnik/status/1122335852103790593

Daisuke Takahashi performs a left forward inside loop that rotates clockwise. Thank you so much @SkateSkates1 you are a hero for helping me find this example and completing my steps/turns collection

Elena Ilinykh does a counter-clockwise RFI-Closed Choctaw (RFI to LBO). She enters on a right forward inside edge curving counter-clockwise, places her left foot behind her right, & exits on a left back outside edge curving clockwise. This is lady step 37 of Ravensburger Waltz

Ilinykh/Zhiganshin do a counter-clockwise RFO-Swing Open Mohawk (RFO to LBO). They enter on a right forward outside edge curving clockwise, swing their left leg forward & place their left foot in front of their right foot, & exit on a left back outside edge curving clockwise.

Maia Shibutani does a clockwise LFI-Open Choctaw (LFI to RBO). She enters on a left forward inside edge curving clockwise, places her right foot in front of her left, and exits on a right back outside edge curving counter-clockwise.

Maia and Alex Shibutani do a clockwise LFI-XB-Closed Choctaw (LFI to RBO). They enter on left forward inside edges curving clockwise, cross their right foot behind their left, and exit on right back outside edges curving counter-clockwise. This is step 64 of the Finnstep.

Lorraine McNamara and Quinn Carpenter do left back inside twizzles that rotate counter-clockwise

Scott Moir does a clockwise LBO-Open Mohawk (LBO to RFO). He enters on left back outside edge curving clockwise, places his right foot in front of his left, and exits on a right forward outside edge curving clockwise. Tessa is doing a LBO-Closed Mohawk (LBO to RFO).

Scott Moir does a clockwise RBI-Mohawk (RBI to LFI) where he enters on a right back inside edge curving clockwise and exits on a left forward inside edge curving clockwise. This is man step 33a of the Finnstep.

Alena Kostornaia does a counter-clockwise RBI-Mohawk (RBI to LFI) where she enters on a right back inside edge curving clockwise and exits on a left forward inside edge curving clockwise.

Yuzuru Hanyu does a clockwise LBI-Mohawk (LBI to RFI) where he enters on a left back inside edge curving counter-clockwise and exits on a right forward inside edge curving counter-clockwise.

MY COLLECTION OF STEPS/TURNS IS COMPLETE!!! I have every difficult step/turn from every entry edge. I also have three turn and inside mohawk (two of the non difficult steps/turns) from every entry edge too. illyria-and-her-pet.tumblr.com/post/182237416…

Correction: I made a typo here I didn’t notice until now. Alena exits on a left back outside edge curving clockwise, not counter-clockwise

https://twitter.com/yang_bo_dudnik/status/1122330883405434880

I already had a LFI-Bracket example, but I really liked this camera angle, so here's a new one. Patrick Chan enters on a left forward inside edge curving clockwise, turns counter-clockwise, and exits on a left back outside edge curving clockwise.

Tessa Virtue does a clockwise LBI-Mohawk (LBI to RFI) where she enters on a left back inside edge curving counter-clockwise and exits on a right forward inisde edge curving counter-clockwise. Scott is doing a counter-clockwise RBO-Mohawk (RBO to LFO).

Correction: this should say exits on a left back outside edge, not a left back inside edge

https://twitter.com/yang_bo_dudnik/status/1122330894390349825

I COMPLETED MY COMPLETE VIDEO GUIDE OF STEPS/TURNS TO GO ALONG WITH THIS THREAD, THE TUMBLR POST, AND ALL THE GIFS!!! PLEASE WATCH:

I've decided to include another example of a LBI-Loop because I like the camera angle better + how you can see the ice mark of a loop. This is a left back inside loop that rotates counter-clockwise performed by Satoko Miyahara.

I uploaded each difficult step/turn in separate videos, if anyone doesn't want to go through a 20 minute video. I mostly did this though because I was sad I didn't think of using Satoko's LBI-Loop example until after I published my original video. Loop:

Choctaw: Difficult step in all 4 disciplines. Examples from every entry edge for back outside, swing, open, and closed choctaws. Only choctaws that count as difficult steps are shown, so no back inside choctaw examples.

Bracket: Difficult turn in all 4 disciplines done from all 8 entry edges

Counter: Difficult turn in all 4 disciplines done from all 8 entry edges

Mohawk: Outside mohawk is a difficult step in ice dance. Inside mohawk isn't a difficult step in any of the disciplines.

Rocker: Difficult turn in all 4 disciplines done from all 8 entry edges

Twizzle: Difficult turn in all 4 disciplines done from all 8 entry edges