Event
Balance beam

Skill type
Dance

Value
B

Known as
Pike jump 1/2
Pike 1/2
Sekerova

Named after
Zuzana Sekerova (SVK) – 1999
(name removed in 2013)

About
We don’t see much of the pike jump 1/2 on beam. She’s missing.

She’s missing because there’s not really a context in which a pike jump 1/2 would be useful for a score. The series bonus is a boon for some B (0.2) dance elements that wouldn’t otherwise have a counting-skill purpose on beam, but the pike jump 1/2 just seems a little too unnecessary complicated to bother with adding into a mixed series. If you can do a split jump or back handspring stepout for the same value and bonus, what incentive is there to try a pike jump 1/2?

This skill first appeared in the code in the 2001 publishing and was named after Zuzana Sekerova of Slovakia, but her name was removed from the code in 2013.