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Full Turn (Floor Exercise)

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Laurie Hernandez – 2016 US Olympic Trials

Event
Floor exercise

Skill type
Turn

Value
A

Known as
Full turn
Turn

About
The simplest of the turns, the full turn was formerly used quite frequently on floor by those who didn’t care much for turning and had no intention of trying to wrench around a D (0.4) turn…and then not get credit for it.

The death knell for the full turn, however, came in 2017 with the elimination of the 0.3 deduction for not having a turn in floor routine. The only reason to do a regular old full turn is if you have to. And if you don’t have to…

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