Event
Floor exercise
Skill type
Dance
Value
C
(upgraded from B in 2013)
(downgraded from D to B in 2006)
Known as
Cat leap double full
Cat double
Named After
Toni Benton (NZL) – 1989
Named attribution was removed in the 2009 code update
About
This little skill has seen quite the code of points journey. It was named after New Zealand’s Toni Benton at the Stuttgart world championships in 1989 and had a real moment in the 2004 Olympic cycle when it was a D (0.4) value and everyone was throwing this thing into routines. The world got sick of it, and in the 2006 update to the open code, it was smashed all the way down to a B and became useless.
At this point, this skill was also combined with the cat leap 1.5—previously its own element officially named after Kelly Garrison at the 1985 world championship in Montreal, though that one was always a little suspect because people like Vera Caslavska were definitely doing cat leap 1.5 back in the 60s.
So from 2006 to 2008 this cat leap was known as the “(Garrison) (Benton)” and could be done with either 1.5 turns or two turns.
In 2009, all name attribution for both Garrison and Benton was removed.
In 2013, the Garrison leap with 1.5 turns was removed entirely from the code as a skill option when it was decided that skills of this type on floor would be valued in full turn increments only, and not half turns. So there’s a cat leap full and a cat leap double full, but not a 1.5. At this point, the surviving double full was also bumped back up to a C from its 2006 value of B.
Which is where it stands today, and no one does it.