Event
Balance beam

Skill type
Turn

Value
D

Known as
Attitude turn 1.5
Attitude 1.5
Back attitude turn 1.5

About
The 1.5 attitude turn on beam is rare to the point of being nonexistent. Even the GIF example above achieves neither the horizontal leg position nor the 1.5 turns to actually be considered an attitude 1.5, but…you get the gist.

When this skill first appeared in the code of points, it was as a 1.5 turn with the leg above horizontal in any optional position (L, Y, scorpion, attitude, rhombus…they were all the same element), and the visual depiction of a possible leg position showed this attitude turn.

As the years passed, turns were differentiated into more specific positions, with the code adding a 1.5 L turn and a 1.5 Y turn as their own elements, rather than as variations on this skill. Still, this original mother skill remained, with the description changing to specifically describe an attitude turn in 2001, even though no one was really doing it.