Event
Floor exercise
Skill type
Acrobatic
Value
I
Known as
Moors
Double double lay
Double-twisting double layout/straight
Named after
Victoria Moors (CAN) – 2013
About
The Moors enjoyed a solid 6-year reign as the most difficult element in women’s gymnastics, receiving a then-unprecedented rating of I (0.9) when Victoria Moors successfully landed it at the 2013 World Championship in Antwerp. Because the difficulty cap of G (0.7) had only just been removed, the Moors became the first new element ever to surpass G in value.
It was dethroned in 2019, when Simone Biles’ triple-twisting double tuck was given J value (1.0), but the Moors remains the second-highest rated skill in women’s gymnastics and the only I-rated element.
This 0.9 value for the Moors also reveals some of the erratic inconsistencies of skill ratings in women’s gymnastics:
If a double layout is 0.6, and adding a twist makes the difficulty go to 0.8, then why does adding a second twist only make it go to 0.9?
And if a double tuck is 0.4, and adding a twist makes that go to 0.5, and adding a second twist makes that go to 0.8, why isn’t the same progression followed for layout elements?
And this is why we’re not OK.