Front Aerial (Balance Beam)

front-aerial

frontaerial

Event
Balance beam

Skill type
Acrobatic

Known as
Front aerial
Aerial
Aerial walkover
Free walkover

About
The front aerial quite possibly has claim to the most completely interchangeable names of any skill. In any given sentence you will see this referred to as a front aerial, an aerial walkover, and a free walkover, probably all at the same time. They’re all the same skill.

Such is only befitting a skill that appears in (nearly) literally every single beam routine ever. Note, however, that the panoply of acceptable named for this skill does not include “free aerial,” which I have seen before. That’s two words that mean the same thing.

Value
D

Because gymnastics is a comedy, not a drama

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