Leah HOMMA’s flair beam mount is fantastic. Loved when I saw Peng Peng Lee perform the Homma Flairs! Both UCLA Bruins gymnasts from Canada. It is curious why the women performing flairs on floor is not in the code, but okay for men.
Being older, I remember 1972 Munich Olympics when OLGA KORBUT did the “Korbut flip” from the high bar! WOW, we were all in AWE! As a child watching TV, Olga’s gymnastics influenced me to want to be a gymnast like her!
@@Kristenm28 nobody sane is questioning how hard they are, we’re declaring them unsightly - and if standing on the bar was removed for aesthetic and “danger” reasons, so can the wolf turn
Sounds awful for the knees though. Knee pivots/balances used to be pretty popular in rhythmic gymnastics, too, but I believe they did away with them partly for that reason.
I think there was a change in the code for 2022-2024 that gave more value to flairs mounts*, so perhaps we'll see more of them! *some positive change was made that will hopefully encourage more flairs lol I can't remember exactly what it was. I think perhaps flairs are now considered a turn on beam, in the hopes it will encourage more people to do them as their turn/part of a turn series.
could you do a video on the difficulty points in the 70s-90s era? i never understood how and why there were difficulty points for different eements back then when they didn’t have a D score to work with (i think?) great and informative video btw!
starting values in that era were the difficulty score, essentially! basically, your start value consisted of the composition requirements + extra skills and/or combining skills. it's just that the start value was capped at 10.0. for example, there were some vaults that didn't have a start value of 10.0, so if your vault or routine only came up to a 9.9 or 9.5 start value, for example, the highest you'd be able to get was that 9.9 or 9.5
@@sethescope ahh thanks! so i'm guessing it'd like NCAA.. i'd love to see the scoring break downs, CV scoring and what was considered easy/hard back in the day thoo.
many or most Chinese gymnasts don't use grips! it's definitely uncommon; while I'm no expert, I can't think of any other modern gymnasts who don't use grips, but it's not unheard of. the Chinese gymnasts who don't use a honey mixture on the bars to make them sticky enough to grasp.
No, it's not. It's called a backflip in most of the English speaking world, but since the US uses that term to refer to back somersaults, which is quite weird because flip usually indicates a vertical force applied off-centre, this channel defaults to the international terminology of FIG, i.e. flic to avoid ambiguity.
Leah HOMMA’s flair beam mount is fantastic. Loved when I saw Peng Peng Lee perform the Homma Flairs! Both UCLA Bruins gymnasts from Canada. It is curious why the women performing flairs on floor is not in the code, but okay for men.
Both Lee and Homma learned the flairs from the same gymnastics club. Both were in sport Sport Seneca, known for innovative skills.
I'd love to see why the skills were removed, esp the flairs from women's gymnastics. That would be cool to include in a video
Those standing moves on bars were just amazing. I love the Mukhina flip.
I didn't know that one showed on the video; pretty nice too.
Being older, I remember 1972 Munich Olympics when OLGA KORBUT did the “Korbut flip” from the high bar! WOW, we were all in AWE! As a child watching TV, Olga’s gymnastics influenced me to want to be a gymnast like her!
Considering "her" (her coaches') amendment to the korbut flip and how that went I wouldn't share how much you like it, were I you...
If they'd only remove those horrid wolf turns 0
ikr! why did they start doing them, especially with the little pansyish hand flips 😂
I couldn’t agree more
Seems like it got popular bc of how Fast Simone spins! At Least they can’t do it twice anymore! Choose a double or triple but not Both!
You should try to do it.
@@Kristenm28 nobody sane is questioning how hard they are, we’re declaring them unsightly - and if standing on the bar was removed for aesthetic and “danger” reasons, so can the wolf turn
It’s the improved accent with the voice over for me 😍.
Ooh I like this series! At one point most of the Mag 7 gymnasts had a skill named after then in the COP and nearly all of them are gone.
I’m working on a new concept: gymnasts that had their names removed from the Code but their skills remained. The Borden will be there
I think the knee scale looks pretty cool and interesting to watch! These days routines are all the same no originality
Sounds awful for the knees though. Knee pivots/balances used to be pretty popular in rhythmic gymnastics, too, but I believe they did away with them partly for that reason.
Wow!!! I love flairs but no one does them now
I think there was a change in the code for 2022-2024 that gave more value to flairs mounts*, so perhaps we'll see more of them!
*some positive change was made that will hopefully encourage more flairs lol I can't remember exactly what it was. I think perhaps flairs are now considered a turn on beam, in the hopes it will encourage more people to do them as their turn/part of a turn series.
I still love the Korbut on beam!!!
Very interesting compilation! Looking forward to more on this topic.
The Plattaroti is gorgeous!
Ekaterina Szabo did that leap in 1984 and Danielle Silivas did that leap in 1988 olympics. I’d call it a switch leg chaine leap.
could you do a video on the difficulty points in the 70s-90s era? i never understood how and why there were difficulty points for different eements back then when they didn’t have a D score to work with (i think?) great and informative video btw!
starting values in that era were the difficulty score, essentially! basically, your start value consisted of the composition requirements + extra skills and/or combining skills. it's just that the start value was capped at 10.0. for example, there were some vaults that didn't have a start value of 10.0, so if your vault or routine only came up to a 9.9 or 9.5 start value, for example, the highest you'd be able to get was that 9.9 or 9.5
@@sethescope ahh thanks! so i'm guessing it'd like NCAA.. i'd love to see the scoring break downs, CV scoring and what was considered easy/hard back in the day thoo.
@@nmixx.changeupletsgo absolutely! that would be a super interesting video :D
Would it be wrong to assume the Plataroti was removed because it looks like a different skill done badly
The tuck to swing down is so beautiful
To this day, I remember Tracee Talavera doing that flair on the balance beam. She was my favorite as a kid.
Watching knee scales makes the skin on my knees hurt lmao
I love this series, such a great idea!! Would you consider including MAG as well? Love your content!!!!
An Argentinian gymnast had a element in the code?????? I feel proud and sad at the same time.
It's amazingly element removed from the code.
Narrator: the code declared it illegal to stand on top of the bars.
Squat on: 👁👄👁
In elite gymnastics, there is a deduction for a squat on, so this statement is perfectly true ;-)
The Chen & The Cousineau look painful, and I'm only watching.
No wolf turns pls
Does WAG still require athletes to roll on the floor in FX? Why is that a thing?
I love how no ones talking abt the girl at 0:05 doing pirouettes on bars with no grips
many or most Chinese gymnasts don't use grips! it's definitely uncommon; while I'm no expert, I can't think of any other modern gymnasts who don't use grips, but it's not unheard of. the Chinese gymnasts who don't use a honey mixture on the bars to make them sticky enough to grasp.
can you make a part 2?
The flair on floor looks terrible.
The knee scale footage looks like New Zealander Pauline Gardiner at the 1964 olympics. Or is it someone else?
I thought it was Vera Caslavska myself
i probably would not recommend the men recreate the Poulin, Chen, or Cousineau skills on beam... #ProtectTheJewels
if standing on the high bar was banned after 1985, why is she doing it in 1987?
IT IS NOT CALLED A FLIC FLAC IT IS CALLED A BACKHANDSPRING
People in europe and other countries call a back handspring a flic flac. Its the same thing.
No, it's not. It's called a backflip in most of the English speaking world, but since the US uses that term to refer to back somersaults, which is quite weird because flip usually indicates a vertical force applied off-centre, this channel defaults to the international terminology of FIG, i.e. flic to avoid ambiguity.
It called both, I hear it call flic flack on foreign boardcast and in the 90's. In recent years it mostly called back handspring.
surely the knee turn disappeared because no one wanted to do that. it looks like it hurt.
interesting
Skill removed for being " highly dangerous"? 😂😂. All of gymnastics is highly dangerous.
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Hiii
Third jeje