Swing Down Mount

Event
Balance beam

Skill type
Mount

Known as
Swing down mount
Korbut mount
Milosevici
Chen mount

About
There’s a lot going on here with the naming of this element, surprising because it’s actually named after no one. The swing down itself is known as a Korbut, so you’ll hear this skill most often called a Korbut mount…because you’re doing a Korbut as a mount.

There’s also a variation on this skill—seen in the GIF above—with tucking and stretching of hips in the air before the swing down, a mount that was named after Lavinia Milosevici for a time before the WTC decided that it didn’t constitute a different mount compared to the regular swing down. That skill on the beam, with the tucking and stretching in a swing down, was originally known as a Chen flic, so you might also see that particular mount referred to as a Chen mount, since it’s a Chen used as a mount.

Simple simple simple.

Value
C

Because gymnastics is a comedy, not a drama

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