Jump to Straddle Planche (Shushunova)

Event
Balance beam

Skill type
Mount

Known as
Straddle planche
Shushunova

Named after
Elena Shushunova (SOV)

About
If anyone is going to bother doing the straddle planche on beam, she’s probably going to do the Shushunova because that C value starts to verge on something that might actually be useful. It’s not exactly a common skill—the most recent edition that comes to mind is when Chellsie Memmel integrated it into her later beam routines—but we will see it.

Just a skill for those who are like, “beam needs to be more like rings.” You know, those people. Who exist.

Value
C

Because gymnastics is a comedy, not a drama

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