If you’ve ever watched your gymnast finish a beautiful level 3 floor routine and then wondered, “Why wasn’t that a 9.8?” — this post is for you.

Welcome to Level 3 beam — the level where routines start to look more like “real” beam, but the wobbles… oh, the wobbles. If Level 2 beam was about learning to move on the beam, Level 3 is about learning to perform on the beam.