Event
Balance beam
Skill type
Turn
Known as
Wolf turn triple
Tuck turn triple
Triple wolf
AH MY EYES. MY EYES.
Named after
Lauren Mitchell (AUS)
About
Invented by Lauren Mitchell out of spite for that time we made fun of her floor choreography, the triple wolf is a dastardly scheme to gain oodles and oodles of delicious D-score with its E value.
In most cases, the triple wolf turn is performed by doing a double wolf turn, but instead of stopping at the end of the skill, somehow chugging yourself around for an extra full turn through sheer force of will and nothing else. It is heinous 95% of the time.
Value
E
Why isn’t this named after Terin Humphrey?
The 2 1/2 is the Humphrey
Grace McCallum did a quad wolf in a practice video and posted it with “oops I lost count.” She regularly competes a triple followed by a double. Unlike so many that do this skill hers are beautiful.