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Event
Balance beam
Skill type
Mount
Value
B
Known as
Front handspring over beam
Cartwheel from side
About
The front handspring over the beam has never been as popular as its cousin, the aerial walkover over the beam, which had already started to be a regular staple in beam routines by the late 70s, surpassing any need for this hand-support business. The two garnered the same value until the 2017 code update, when the free version was upgraded to C (0.3) and this handspring version remained at B (0.2).
The cartwheel from the side (seen above) is a classic mount that was added back to the code in 2013 as an alternate version of the aerial walkover, but in 2022 it was bumped back down to B to join the front handspring over the beam instead.