Event
Balance beam

Skill type
Acrobatic Non-Flight

Known as
Stomach roll
Sideward roll stretched

Value
C

About
The old stomach roll is largely a vestige of a previous era in elite gymnastics—or just a vestige of Natalia Shaposhnikova. It is still a C (0.3), a value that many top gymnasts are very willing to include in their routines, but the challenge of doing this roll with no hand support, as well as the lack of options for connections, has stunted any popularity it might have. The current code of points does not encourage gymnasts to bother to try this when they could instead do a C switch leap connected to another element and in a bonus mixed series.

Even those who are including a roll in their routines so that they have a close-to-beam element and fulfill the torso-touch artistry requirement will select an easier one with hand support to get that job done.