Event
Floor exercise

Skill type
Turn

Value
D
(upgraded from C in 2009)

Known as
Double L turn
Leg-up double turn

About
The double L turn is an exceptionally popular skill in top-level floor routines because of its D (0.4) value and because of the potential to connect a B dance element like a double turn out of it for an additional tenth in bonus—while also covering any under-rotation.

We went through a deeply tragic period where the raised leg in this skill could be bent and grabbed, a technique most charitably called “front attitude” and least charitably called “ugly uglitude.” It was very bad and horrible, but I’m happy to report that’s all over now. The free leg must be at horizontal throughout the turn.

Even this adjustment is still a lower standard than the skill used to require. In the 2004 quad, for instance, to receive D value this skill had to be a double turn with the leg held above horizontal, basically a hybrid of the L turn and the Y turn.