Event
Balance beam

Skill type
Mount

Value
D
(upgraded from C in 2017)

Known as
Homma flairs
Three flares/flairs

Named after
Leah Homma (CAN) – 1989

About
First, a note on spelling. The official spelling of this skill is flair, even though it should be flare. Flare is what you mean. Flaring the legs is what is happening here. The argument for the flair spelling is that the skill is so-called because it is a circle element done with a quality of “flair,” and I’ll be over in the corner vomiting. You just misspelled the word you meant, and now that’s history.

Anyway.

Leah Homma got the three-flair beam mount named after herself at the 1989 World Championship in Stuttgart, and while her eponymous flairs on floor from the same competition were later removed from the code of points, the beam flairs remain.

Using flairs as a beam mount has been the domain of a precious few gymnasts (mostly because of reasons like “pommel horse” and “why”), but the torch of Homma flairs was later picked up by fellow Canadian Peng Peng Lee. When Lee would perform this mount at UCLA meets, it often sounded like commentators were calling it the “homo flairs,” so that’s an internet iykyk situation.

For whatever reason, when you hear this skill mentioned, it’s never called simply the “Homma,” but always the “Homma flairs” as though they are other Hommas from which it needs to be differentiated. There are not.