Sheep Jump (Floor Exercise)

Cheng Fei – 2008 Olympics Team Final

Event
Floor exercise

Skill type
Dance

Value
B

Known as
Sheep
Sheep jump
Ring jump

About
Formerly a popular element in elite beam routines before it got downgraded into oblivion because the women’s technical committee thinks it’s ugly (allegedly), the sheep jump has never really been much of a thing on floor.

At B (0.2), it’s rated too low to be useful, and because of it’s static nature of having to pause, do a sheep jump, and then make sure your spine is still on afterward, it doesn’t really fit into a continuous passage of floor movement. We’re all fine with that. We don’t need floor sheep jumps.

Because gymnastics is a comedy, not a drama