Event
Balance beam

Skill type
Dismount

Known as
Gainer layout 1/1 (full)
Gainer straight
Gainer layout 1/1 to end of the beam
Steingruber

Named after
Giulia Steingruber (SUI)

About
Like its non-twisting sister, the gainer layout 1/1 was downgraded starting in 2017, a reaction to the growing abuse of this relatively simplistic-looking family of dismounts and affirmation of the Women’s Technical Committee’s mission to see as few different routine compositions as possible.

The gainer layout 1/1 is far from simple, but it is also nearly impossible to perform in an actual layout position or with any kind of execution non-ugliness. They’re all just piked, and we should stop pretending they’re not piked. The inherent sloppiness of the skill may also have contributed to its persona non grata status with the WTC.

Value
D (2017—)
E (—2016)