Event
Balance beam

Skill type
Mount

Value
B

Known as
Handstand
Press handstand

About
If nothing else, the handstands portion reigns as the tallest section in the code of points. So that’s something. Lots of examples. You could handstand. Or handstand. Or also handstand. Not seen here: all the other shapes you could make in handstand, like a stag, or a starfish, or an iguana (?), and it would be fine. Which is rare. Usually, if you don’t exactly do one of the pictures, you will be murdered.

A press handstand mount used to be the most basic, risk averse mount choice until people learned you could also just sit there, which is so much easier. But for a solid several decades, everyone was pressing to handstand as a mount. I mean, if your mount didn’t take 11 seconds and go through multiple interpretive leg shapes, were you even in the 1978 beam final?

In modern elite gymnastics, handstands on beam have largely disappeared because it’s too much effort and time for so little reward.