Skills Named for U.S. Gymnasts

These are skills named after U.S. athletes that are still included in the current FIG Code of Points. List may not be complete.

Vault

• Biles (Simone Biles) – Yurchenko half on with two twists (Cheng plus a half twist)
• Biles II (Simone Biles) – Yurchenko double pike

Uneven Bars

• Bhardwaj Salto (Mohini Bhardwaj) – From the high bar, facing the low bar, swing down and flip backwards with a 360 degree twist to catch the low bar
• Church (Savannah Church) – Hstd on HB – Pike sole circle bwd counter pike reverse hecht over HB to hang
• Fontaine (Larissa Fontaine) – Swing down between bars – swing forward to salto backward tucked with 180 degree twist into salto forward tucked
• Frederick (Marcia Frederick) – Stalder backward with 1/1 turn in handstand phase
• Maloney (Kristin Maloney) – Swing backwards, bringing feet to the bar and into a handstand position while executing a 360 degree turn to mixed-L or L grip
• McNamara (Julianne McNamara) – Jump to clear support on high bar, immediate clear hip circle (circle backward without hips touching bar) to handstand with 180 degree turn in handstand phase on high bar
• Okino (Betty Okino) – On high bar, facing away from the low bar, clear underswing with 180 degree twist to back flip in stretched position
• Ray (Elise Ray) – On low bar, facing high bar, stalder backward (straddle position underneath bar) to release and hang on high bar
• Ray (Elise Ray) – Double layout dismount with two full twists
• White (Morgan White) – Stalder forward in L-grip to handstand with 180 degree turn in handstand

Balance Beam

• Biles (Simone Biles) – Double-twisting double-tucked salto backwards dismount
• Garrison (Kelly Garrison) – Round off onto spring board, back tucked salto with 360 degree twist to land on beam
• Garrison (Kelly Garrison) – Free shoulder roll forward with straightening to tuck stand or stand without hand support
• Garrison (Kelly Garrison) – From extended tuck sit – Valdez swing over backward through horizontal plane with support on one arm
• Humphrey (Terin Humphrey) – 2.5 turn in tuck stand on one leg, free leg at horizontal throughout turn
• Johnson – Leap forward with leg change and 1/4 turn to side split leap (180 degrees) or straddle pike position
• Liukin (Nastia Liukin) – Front salto piked with take off from one foot to scale (2 sec.)
• Okino (Betty Okino) -Triple turn on one leg – free leg optional below horizontal
• Patterson (Carly Patterson) – Arabian double salto forward tucked
• Phillips (Kristie Phillips) – Press to side handstand, front walkover to side stand on both legs
• Worley (Shayla Worley) – Jump backawards with 180 turn handspring to land on two feet

Floor Exercise

• Biles (Simone Biles) – Double layout half out
• Biles II (Simone Biles) – Triple-twisting double-tucked salto backwards
• Dowell (Brenna Dowell) – Forward double pike somersault
• Memmel (Chellsie Memmel) – 720 degree turn with free leg held upward in 180 degree split position

Floor Exercise

• Thomas tuck and pike (Kurt Thomas) – One and a half back flips with one and a half twists, lands in a forward roll.
• Thomas stretched (Kurt Thomas) – Thomas stretched.

Pommel Horse

• Bryan (Casey Bryan) – Scissor half-turn to handstand, half-pirouette and straddle down.
• Mikulak (Sam Mikulak) – Double scissor forward with a hop from one end of the horse to the other.
• Roth (Bill Roth) – Listed in code as: Russian wende swing with 360 degree turn and 3/3 travel.
• Thomas (Kurt Thomas) – All flairs.
• Sohn (Mark Sohn) – Kehr with full turn on one pommel.

Still Rings

• Bhavsar (Raj Bhavsar) – Pull through momentary front lever press to Maltese.
• O’Neill (Paul O’Neil) – Stretched double feige backward to hang.
• Whittenburg (Donnell Whittenburg) – Triple back pike dismount.

Parallel Bars

• Gatson (Jason Gatson) – Swing backward with hop on one arm and full turn to handstand.
• Gatson II (Jason Gatson) – Gatson with half-turn to handstand on one rail and a quarter-turn to handstand on two rails.
• Malone (Brody Malone) – Side free hip handstand mount with a three-quarter Healy down.
• Wells (Trent Wells) – Giant swing backward showing inlocation (looks like shoulders turn inside out).

Horizontal Bar

• Gaylord (Mitch Gaylord) – Salto forward, tuck, pike or straddled over the bar and regrasp.
• Gaylord 2 (Mitch Gaylord) – Gienger (back flip with half turn) over the bar and regrasp.
• Hayden (Daniel Hayden) – Double salto backward, stretched, with full twist over the bar.
• Lynch (Jair Lynch) – Tkatchev with a half turn prior to the catch to a mixed el-grip and swing back up to handstand.