Event
Floor exercise

Skill type
Dance

Value
A

Known as
Split jump
Split

About
Like its other A-dance brethren, the split jump is too anemically valued to be a countable skill on floor in and of itself.

Nonetheless, it has retained some life for its potential to be tacked onto the end of a tumbling element for a tenth of connection bonus. This was particularly popular at the 2012 Olympics, when that tenth could be earned by putting the split jump on the end of a D acrobatic skill. The 2013 change requiring it to come after an E skill dulled the popularity of the split jump slightly.

At times, the split jump has also been a common selection for performing out of an under-rotated dance element in the hope of avoiding a downgrade.

In the 2025 code update, the description of this element was amended to include the “back leg straight or bent” language, telegraphing that we really just don’t care at all about this dumb split jump because…please don’t bend your back leg. You can leave that in 1991.