10 Gymnastic Elements From The Past That Are No Longer Performed (Sport #37)

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1. Loop Korbut
The element, named after Olga Korbut, impresses both longtime gymnastics fans and beginners.
To perform this element, you need to stand with your feet on the upper pole, facing the lower pole, jump back and do a somersault, bending in the air, then hook your hands on the upper pole, and finish the element with a fall to the lower pole.
2. Elements performed in a somersault
Now the rules prohibit any elements in which the gymnast adds another half of the somersault and lands not on her feet, but does a somersault. An example of such elements is the Thomas somersault, named after Kurt Thomas.
The Thomas Flip is a 1.5 back somersault with a 540 degree turn and landing in a forward somersault.
Currently, somersault elements performed in a somersault are prohibited by the rules due to a high injury risk.
3. Acrobatic series of four elements on a balance beam
A series of four pieces on a log, performed as a single piece, was popular in the 1980s and early 90s. Many gymnasts performed combinations of several flasks and bungees, and some even combined a series with a swoop!
4. Many elements of the vault
Once upon a time, gymnasts performed only simple jumps in competitions, such as “coup”, “Yamashita” and “rondat”, over time, the complexity of the jumps increased and turns were added to the simplest jumps in the first and second phases of flight.
In the 80s and 90s, jumps became more and more difficult, gymnasts jumped: “flip forward”, “Tsukaharu”, jumps “Yurchenko”.
Modern jumps are much more difficult, such as "Amanar", "Cheng", "Yurchenko - with a double somersault in the second phase of flight" and others.
5. "Hitting the bars"
"Hitting" or "bar hitting", belly hitting, is when the gymnast from a handstand position on a high pole steps down and slams her hips on the lower pole (fold position).
In order to perform this element correctly and safely, the bars are bred for each gymnast individually.
But when the bars were spread to a greater width, and it became standard, extremely popular, the tendency to perform this element disappeared.
6. Numerous flasks ahead
On floor exercises, many gymnasts performed acrobatic combinations of this type: forward flip on two legs - forward flask and somersault element forward. Now these links are no longer relevant, and they were replaced by links performed from the rondata-flak back.
7. Leap on the log Silivash
The Silivash Leap, named after the Romanian gymnast Daniela Silivash, is performed by jumping onto a beam in a shoulder stand and then turning 180 degrees, the gymnast is in a chest stand (these two positions alternate).
8. Dismount from bars Comaneci
This dismount begins with placing the toes on the pole, then a 180-degree arc is performed and a back somersault in the tuck.
Many elements that were at their peak in the 1970s are no longer performed due to declining cost, and Comaneci's dismount is no exception.
9. Adjacent acrobatic tracks
Adjacent tumbling is any acrobatics by which the gymnast gets from one corner of the mat to another, and then returns to the starting corner again without stopping.
Once upon a time, many gymnasts performed such acrobatic combinations in competitions, but today, alas, there are other priorities.
10. Tsukahara beam dismount
Once upon a time, the popular jump went out of fashion, it happened when the cost of the element fell far below the actual difficulty of performing it. Unlike the other items on this list, Tsukahara has the ability to return.
Despite the fact that for some time he was not included in the table of gymnastic elements, in 2013-2017 he was added as an element of group "C". But in the last Olympic cycle, gymnasts could not compete with the dismount of group "C", since according to the rules of the competition, the dismount had to be no lower than group "D".
In the current Olympic cycle, the requirement to perform a group D dismount has been removed. While we don't see Tsukahara's dismount as often as we used to, it was performed at the 2017 Chicago Style meeting, giving Tsukahara fans hope for a comeback.