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A place to ask questions about stuff you see at the rink. Can be equipment, job titles, techniques.I'll start:What is this skating skill? It's a back cross roll with the crossing foot in FRONT of the skating foot.
By cross-roll, do you mean the crossing foot comes down on an outside edge and rolls to an inside edge? Did the skater do one, several with the same foot, or alternating-changing direction?
It's basically alternating back crossovers. You do a right-over-left crossover, change edge, then do a left-over-right crossover, repeat.
In ice dance terminology they are labeled as XF (cross front) and are found in the Viennese waltz ladies steps 5 & 6. The dance was actually created to the Blue Danube piece of music, and if you start the dance at beginning of the melody, the XF transition matches the music beautifully!!The rock-over sensation before putting the new foot down is the fun of that step. Cross-rolls (XR) with the new foot behind each time are found in the Argentine tango for the lady.
Viennese waltz lady's step 6 is an inside edge. 3 RBO4 CR LBO5 XF RBIO6 XF LBI
This fits the definition of a cross step forward (XF) in the USFS rulebook. However, it is only an example.Agnes's step as best I can tell isRBO XF-LBO XF-RBO ... Quickstep steps 8 and 9 are RBI XF-LBOwhich is not the same.I'll try Agnes's step next time I practice.
Sounds like the cross step in the junior moves Choctaw pattern.