Event
Floor exercise

Skill type
Turn

Value
B

Known as
Attitude
Attitude turn
Full turn in back attitude

About
As recently as the 2006-2008 code of points, attitude turns did not officially exist. This is despite the fact that attitude turns did exist and one was in the 1984 compulsory floor routine. But for most of the early history of gymnastics, it was just sort of…turn however. Do a turn, and your leg will be somewhere.

At the 2008 Olympics, Ksenia Semenova performed a double attitude turn with a free leg and got it named after herself. The single attitude turn was then also added to the code for the first time as an independent element for the sake of completion.

We now enter the Pouring One Out for Anna Pavlova portion of the program because at the same Olympics she performed the held-leg version of this turn (aka scorpion turn), which then also entered the code for the first time but without her name attached to it.

In the 2017 update, Pavlova’s single scorpion was removed entirely and remains absent now, even after Iulia Berar got the double scorpion turn named after herself and entered into the code in 2018.

The term attitude simply comes from the original definition of the word attitude, meaning the position of the body. It makes more sense when you’re French or Italian.