Event
Balance beam

Skill type
Mount

Value
C

Known as
Dick
Dick mount
Jump to split
Switch to sit split

Named after
Marisa Dick (TTO) – 2015

About
Marisa Dick got the switch split mount named after herself at the 2015 World Championship in Glasgow, and amidst all the “teeheeheee Dick,” what was lost is that this skill is strangely valued at C (0.3). That’s the same value as the regular split jump to cross split, and in no other gymnastics context are a split jump and a switch split leap given the same value.

Done as leaps on the beam, the split jump is a B and the switch leap is a C, and done on floor, the split jump is an A and the switch leap a B. So why would they now be the same value when taken to a sitting position as beam mounts?

Maybe that’s why Marisa Dick went out the very next year and got a harder, better valued skill named after herself.