8 Gymnastics Skills from THE PAST that were BANNED...

[@70tezskin]

Olga Korbuts uneven bars and floor exercise in 1972 are the greatest gymnastics ever seen .. I remember watching this in 1972 when I was 19.. Olga Korbut created history and memorable memories..❤

[@niccard3101]

Nadia was better, she kicked korbuts butt 4 years later with a perfect 10

[@audrawells1383]

I just went and watched her floor routine, uneven bars, and balance beam, and they were incredible! What stands out to me the most is how effortless she makes it look! She really makes it look easy!

[@Vaninasanta]

@@niccard3101 All gym fans and athletes are 100% sure that Olga *decerved* the first 10 in History much more than Nadia. In fact when the score was out in ´72 the crowd started protesting for over 5 minutes.

[@albaluciabezerracavalcante654]

Ela tirou o dez.Mais nao tirou o a dificuldade dos movimentos dos saltos de olga.POIS TINHA MUITO MAIS DIFICULDADE.ELZ FICAVA DE PE NA TRAVE E DAVA UM SALTO COM MAIS DIFICULDADE DO QUE NADIA. O SALTO MORTAL THOMAS FOI EXECUTADO 2 VEZES POR ELA. DEPOIS DA MORTE DE ELENA FOI 3 SALTOS DE OLGA PRIBIDOS. NADIS NUNCA FEZ NENHUM DOS TRES.NAO TIRANDO O MERITO DA NADIA QUE FOI MAIS TECNICA.MAIS DIFICULDADE MESMO ERA COM OLGA.​@@niccard3101

[@whitneywheeler86]

Me too!

[@easylivingwithniecy4317]

Olga and Nadia two of the greatest gymnast even.Inspired me to become a gymnast at ten.

[@igalradashkovskiy5466]

No doubt better than biles

[@jacobmiller2663]

@@igalradashkovskiy5466the number of accolades say otherwise. Does Nadia or Olga have the most medals, man or woman gymnasts?

[@aavv1818]

I remember AMAZING Olga Korbut on the uneven bars! UNBELIEVABLE!

[@yuridiaperaza2671]

Y Elena Mukhina too PERFECT

[@saragrant9749]

That back flip was badass… and savagely dangerous. Rollouts in particular HAD to be banned- just ask Elena Mukhina. Quad series weren’t banned, they just don’t receive connection bonus so no one does them. A four DIFFERENT skill acro series (Deng Linlin in 2012) do still receive bonus. Belly beats aren’t banned, the bars are just farther apart making them impossible to do. The Sillivas mount wasn’t banned either, it’s just no one does it anymore because it’s not valuable. The Comaneci dismount isn’t banned, it’s just that it isn’t possible with the bars farther apart. Front tumbling is still allowed, it’s just no one is doing it currently.

[@cinzialista6311]

Elena❤

[@tpxchallenger]

Thanks! I'd never heard that belly beats were banned but the bars were moved farther apart for different moves, making the 70s style belly beat impossible now.

[@BigRedGal78]

𝖳𝗁𝖾 𝗇𝖺𝗋𝗋𝖺𝗍𝗈𝗋 𝗌𝖺𝗒𝗌 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗒'𝗋𝖾 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝖻𝖺𝗇𝗇𝖾𝖽...

[@sapphire7424]

Rip Eleana ❤

[@archiculturenaturetravels9111]

The Comaneci dismount is entirely possible with the bars farther apart. You just go the other way, as Nadia herself did. It's a low-difficulty dismount, so few elite gymnasts do it these days, but it's popular at the sub-Olympic level.

[@heatherhuchro4222]

Although the power is definitely there now I feel we lack the finesse and the flow amd beauty that used to be gymnastics

[@ashharris7293]

This! Everyone is raving about the power but they look stilted and nobody can stick anything. It looks so sloppy.

[@thisbeem2714]

Agreed. Gymnastics is no longer graceful.

[@gigilamoore2656]

I totally agree.

[@DudeEM]

Those that weren’t BANNED: - belly beat, it just impossible now unless you’re a 6 foot gymnast. - Silivas mount, merely lost popularity - multiple front handsprings, also lost popularity - Comaneci dismount, also lost popularity

[@thisbeem2714]

I was thinking the same thing. One of those skills was banned, the rest just went out of style.

[@BlueRita]

Came here for this reason, thank you. So, in 8 skills half weren't banned. Hate click bait..

[@Martha-jl6eu]

The Korbut move where she stands on the top bar and does a backflip was banned because it was too dangerous.

[@leilanigirl777]

Amazing skill

[@arcticphoenix2789]

Mukhina one upped it with her twist

[@charlessmith263]

The reason the Korbut flip was verboten - the bar could break or detach due to the heavy weight by the gymnast - and if the bar breaks at the time the gymnast does the backflip to finish off the Korbut - the gymnast could end up like Mukhina - landing hard on one's neck as the gymnast slams hard on the mat ground on impact, shattering it (the C1-C3 spine especially), and end up quadraplegic.

[@charlessmith263]

This alludes to what happened to Maggie Fitzgerald in the movie "Million Dollar Baby" who broke her cervical spine after falling down and hitting a wooden chair - although she was a boxer (not a gymnast), and ended up bedridden for life. Being paralyzed for doing risky gymnastics in competition may not be worth the physical spectacle here.

[@KAT-dg6el]

The uneven bars are to show upper body strength and you’re supposed to continue movement. Stopping on top of the bars was using her feet and number two she was stopping the flow of movement.

[@joansmall8410]

Korbut and Comaneci were the greatest so PLEASE do not devalue the difficulty of their flips on the uneven balance beam/uneven bars nor floor routines. What a disgrace. SERIOUSLY? I would love to see some of these back in the routines to see if today's gymnasts could handle it which I'm sure some could. Give them credit where credit's due. Gymnasts are just that. Not runners. Today's routines look so mechanical.

[@archiculturenaturetravels9111]

LOL. Most gymnasts today can easily handle Korbut's and Comaneci's skills, as they are quite easy. Today's gymnasts perform infinitely harder skills. Their routines may not look as pretty and artistic as the routines we saw in the 1970s, because the emphasis is on difficulty rather than artistry now, but as far as difficulty is concerned, today's routines far eclipse anything ever done by Korbut or Comaneci. Korbut did not perform a single skill that is rated higher than C in today's Code of Points (although I suspect her flip on bars would be rated D today if it were still allowed). Most of her skills are rated A and B these days. Comaneci mostly performed C-rated skills, with a few Ds on beam that can be seen in pretty much any elite beam routine these days. Her one skill that is still considered difficult today is her eponymous Comaneci salto (cast to immediate straddled front somersault) on bars, which is rated E. By contrast, today's top gymnasts have routines full of D- and E-rated skills, and many also have E-, F- and G-rated skills. Simone Biles has several H-rated skills. She could probably learn most of Korbut's skills in a matter of days, but there is absolutely no reason for her to do so, as she is awarded many more points for doing her own skills.

[@ladycplum]

It's easy to see why the Thomas Salto was banned. You're basically spinning in the air and expected to land in a perfect forward roll. But one wrong move, and you land on your neck, you could snap it and be paralyzed like Yelena Mukhina.

[@brandyoctober5923]

I’m sorry but Korbut is 10000 better than any gymnast today. Her landings and movements are so smooth.

[@viridianablanco2412]

And the flex omg, so graceful

[@Hiccuple]

I know I'd rather be watching her than most of today's athletes/ competition.

[@evelynrelativo8620]

And much prettier and graceful!!!

[@shalasalazar4930]

Agreed.

[@cleverkittn]

Everything so graceful and clean clean clean, too

[@hdypynitgof]

the way "silivas" was pronounced should be banned too

[@arcmnkys]

Imagine one day in the future someone will pull these unexpected stunts in the Olympics, it'll be a history breaker.

[@suedearing-ex7ve]

Olga Korbut makes Biles look as graceful as a water buffalo.

[@12floz67]

🤣 good one!

[@JochenHeistermann]

Biles is Not graceful. She is strong and crazy short.

[@-Terminator-vg6kf]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jacobmiller2663]

And Biles is still more accomplished than her. Olga wished she could have half of Simone athletic ability. If she were to try any of Simone skills, she would end her career.😂

[@asdf0747]

​@@jacobmiller2663 do you have marble for eyes? Simone Biles stumbles on landing almost every time. Also if Simone treid to recplicate the dead loop, not only she would get crazy amount of bruises, she is more likely to miss the lower bar catch from the pain.

[@marybatiancila5984]

Highly dangerous but skillfully executed.The amount of discipline is amazing❤❤❤❤❤Real athletes by heart and soul🎉❤

[@leilanigirl777]

The endurance that back to back tumbling takes shouldnt be banned

[@archiculturenaturetravels9111]

Back-to-back tumbling is not banned at all. The reason why no one does it these days is because the Code of Points doesn't provide gymnasts with any incentive to do it. If you can earn more points by doing other passes, why wouldn't you do the other passes?

[@ninachilargi3247]

You don't pronounce Silivas her name correctly. It's not Saliva pronounced. Just because there are three syllable in a word it doesn't mean you pronounce it as in kite with a long I sound. Her name is Daniela Silivas pronounces with a short ''I''' Example: win, spin, twin, chin, bin, skin, thin, fin. and not with long American I. It's not ''Ai'' pronunciation like in kite, bike, pine, invite, wise.glide, prize.Many blessings!

[@marisaharris1384]

Same with Nadia Comaneci, she pronounced her last name wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@rvoloshchukify]

She pronounced none of the non-english ones right

[@chairmanmeow7297]

Don’t understand if they keep barring skills and everyone just do the same thing

[@grlygirl1264]

That's exactly right..and I said the same thing watching the Olympics this week. Nothing new, they are all doing the same choppy floor routines skills. Don't get me wrong, I can't do any of it...but watching this video reminded me of how fluid and exciting gymnastics was because each gymnast did their own thing. Now they all do the same.

[@neutronalchemist3241]

Few skills have been banned, and those only for a question of security (of those shown here, only the rollouts and the Korbut flip). Belly beats are simply no more physically possible, due to the bars being too distant. The others are no more executed because they are not rewarded enough and, since the number of elements you can put into an exercise is limited, athletes prefer to concentrate on more rewarding ones.

[@jasewilliams14]

The Korbut flip is what makes Ms Olga Korbut a LEGENDARY gymnast. I saw it performed for the 1st time in 2024 and her routine was the BEST I'd ever seen. Should have been judged with a perfect 10. I saw Nadia (Romania gymnast from 1976) perform and although she was also excellent. I felt her routine was no better than Korbut and she earned a 10. They were BOTH 10s and only discrimination if you thought one was better than the other.

[@runner2008]

While the gymnasts are amazing today, many of the routines look the same. This video showed some real unique moves.

[@cantkeepitin]

It would be nice to see something similar as in ice skating, i.e. having Kür and Standard.

[@truthtorpedo4068]

Bring back some of these old techniques. Just lovely! ❤

[@klaus-bernhardvomend594]

Especially put thee uneven bars closer to each other again.

[@rhaporrumpunch]

They literally banned them because they could get injured. Why would they bring them back? You don't mind people getting injured.

[@JESUSWONTHEWAR]

1st lady took my breath away

[@locococobean2412]

Multiple front handsprings was my favorite pass in my optional routine

[@ninachilargi3247]

Interesting video!

[@truko22]

Amazing 🤩

[@mariannsimms5644]

Gone are the days of Olga and Nadia (Olga was always my absolute favourite). I didn't even watch one gymnastics event as the last few Olympics it just looks nothing like it once did. You not only had to be graceful and powerful but many had their own specific move which made them all individual. Now it's just strength moves and there's absolutely nothing artistic involved. It's not pretty. It's not graceful. There's no wow factor anymore. It's just doing the required moves and sticking landings. That's it. Plus the mats are like ten times bouncier now so it wasn't like Olga and Nadia had that in their day. Heaven knows how incredible those performances would have been. The same has been creeping into men's ice skating as well. Everyone has to do a quadruple. No one is wowing anyone anymore like Evgeni Plushenko (who was always my absolute favourite). They took the style out and put jumps in and if you can't do a certain one you aren't going to get the gold...but they sacrificed beauty and elements of "wow" for technical dominance. The last I saw was Yuzuru Hanyu who combined the two but was heavily into style. Sadly, that is a rarity nowadays.

[@jacobmiller2663]

Actually that has been disproven, the extra springs doesn’t enhance jumping ability. It helps absorb heavy landings. Ian Gunther, a gymnast on social media, disproved that the extra springs in the floor act like a trampoline, but instead is for landings.

[@emilythomas2545]

I wish the gymnastics now was like this still

[@JochenHeistermann]

Olga won only the Silver medal for that in 1972!

[@pilouetmissiou]

For me, it is only....magnificent

[@kaisa6849]

Me and my torn retina could never

[@forevermore5118]

It certainly wasn’t like that in my day!

[@hansemannluchter643]

Nope...

[@jazminlima-lotfi3202]

Who is the gymnast at 5:30?

[@flaeanes]

Lilia Podkopayeva from Ukraine, Atlanta 96, Gold Medal All-Around

[@Skyrock12345]

@@flaeanesshe is adorable, love her gesture . she is like a "tinker bell! "

[@physeter_de595]

@@Skyrock12345 Her floor routine in 1996 was ballet inspired.

[@JomarGreenley-fh3gt]

​@flaeanes what u mean all round like everything she did she got a gold medal

[@MyDataBelongs2Me]

Bring them back!

[@megbro10]

I swear Olga looks like her bones are made of jelly!!

[@ΣΠΥΡΟΣΜΑΚΡΗΣ-ρ6ι]

Olga❤nandia❤the best

[@sonnymiousse6944]

Wow Olympics are boring now

[@edgarazevedo1306]

This, take Judo for example. It's a joke nowadays.

[@marianaamoedo5942]

Very very, mostly gymnastics. They used to be so colorful and now is tumbling and landing.

[@MNGolfChannel]

Yea I agree not as advance and daring

[@joanclayton5212]

I’m glad it’s safer but they should’ve did something where it isn’t so boring now.

[@hindidubbedmovie4233]

Nahi.. Olympic rochak game h

[@KP-hv4tt]

Wow. These women used to do maxing things. Our current ones do too but wow seeing this they have nothingggggg on the OGs. I’ve never seen anything like these wow!

[@tomstevenson1396]

“This move is now banned” because the others can’t do it lmao😂 It’s a skill issue not dangerous this video proves it… just get better it’s simple don’t ban it for everyone 😂 Also the old gymnast were more skilled truth hurts to the modern gymnasts lol

[@jacobmiller2663]

And that’s exactly what they are trying to do to Simone beam skill. Low value it to discourage it from being performed. It’s not Simone fault the other girls can’t do it.

[@physeter_de595]

5:27 Ah, Lilija Podkopajewa! 😍

[@V-Lo78]

No wonder the routines are so dull, now.

[@LatchKeyKid_78]

Reasons I no longer watch gymnastics because it’s become extremely boring to watch because everything has been banned.

[@grahamjohnston7395]

Simone Biles too boring for you?!!!

[@LatchKeyKid_78]

@@grahamjohnston7395 Yep. And not just her but the entire Olympic team is trash. They need to bring back this type of gymnastics

[@Hakapuku]

@@grahamjohnston7395overrated by media… I am old enough to have seen Korbut, Tourishchewa, Kim, Nadia, Kathy Szabo and she wouldn’t stand a chance in front of those

[@Mgea2393]

Exactly...don't compare to previous gymnasts tech difficulty💯

[@jacobmiller2663]

@@Hakapukushe has the most medals in man or woman gymnastic history, but she won’t stand a chance. Olga or Nadia weren’t even able to go to multiple Olympics, their tired bodies couldn’t handle it anymore. They don’t even half of Simone talent. They look like mere dancers compared to Simone Biles, who is praised as a generational athlete.

[@LadyLopoLuv143]

The belly beats are jaw dropping but very cool. I do understand why they’re banned though, it could see that being harmful for the body.

[@reneepeters3045]

Sill-ǐ-vas Not sill-ī-vas It’s a short “I” like “it” not long “I” like Saliva

[@problem.skinnn]

This killed me a little bit every time

[@zicsieu7768]

The name of the Romanian gymnast Daniela Siivas is pronounced Siliˈvaʃ

[@Patrick.V.]

What? How did you pronounce Daniela Silivas name????? 😳😳😳

[@mihaelastefanescu6205]

Silaivas.😅

[@lazybelphegore6748]

Who is the last woman in the black? And what was that she was doing before her pass-it looked like she was pointing at a bunch of people sitting in a row. Why did she do that and what did it mean? Simone does something similar but she goes vertically from top to bottom. It looks like she is crossing things off of a list when she does it.

[@yooneeque1]

Not sure, but I was thinking it was Lilia Podkopyeva (sp?), either from Russia or Ukraine. IIRC she was the gold medal All-Around winner in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

[@grahamjohnston7395]

@@yooneeque1 Ukraine

[@archiculturenaturetravels9111]

It's called dance, and Podkopaeva was rather good at it.

[@caroalfonzo2890]

🆘🇻🇪🆘🇻🇪🆘🇻🇪 Absolutly right! I agree with some comments below regarding to boring and devalue the greatests gymmnastics moves. In those days it was more important to performe a good quality of skills and competition, and it was really delightful to watch those slim girls. Today it is more important how many medals you can get in not so skillful moves. Even the leotards have changed showing more skin that it gives the nerves to some possible malfunctioning oops. I am aware of the gymmnastics' savety but there must have some difficulty or complexity levels to worth watching, otherwise , the competition gets boring.

[@archiculturenaturetravels9111]

Tell me you don't know the first thing about gymnastics without telling me you don't know anything about gymnastics... Today's routines are INFINITELY harder than the routines shown in the 1970s and 1980s. Difficulty-wise, today's gymnasts are on a different level entirely. You may not like their routines as much because they lack the artistry and elegance of the old days, and I 100% agree with that, but to say that today's routines lack difficulty or complexity is an absolute joke. 1970s gymnasts would die if they did even a fraction of what Simone Biles does.

[@electrum310]

To my knowledge roll-out has not been banned at least for men yet. Max Whitlock performs it during his olympic floor routine.

[@longbranch11207]

I don’t understand why Dominique Dawes signature moves were downgraded.

[@mickpriestley]

Athletes choosing not to do a fancy mount 'in case they fall off' is just gash 😅 surely a crazy mount would only add to a potentially winning routine?!

[@archiculturenaturetravels9111]

Yes, but if you fall you lose a full mark, which is a lot...

[@user-wickedflower]

Cant handle the music

[@jzer21]

Is this an AI voice? Practically every last name is being mispronounced.

[@ΣΠΥΡΟΣΜΑΚΡΗΣ-ρ6ι]

Ναndia❤❤❤❤

[@MianSaca-h2k]

Falto El Produnov..

[@sapphire7424]

It aint what it used to be. And thats ok. We will never forget Olga and Nadia. But everything changes. Better to be Simone and alive than Eleana and gone too soon.

[@hansemannluchter643]

Agreed.. But Simone Biles isn't the best female gymnast who ever lived, no matter what. The best female gymnast who ever lived is Elena Mukhina.

[@scottonspruce]

try to pronounce names correctly

[@evoandy]

I always heard “belly beats” called “hip beats”

[@Lunabringer]

tbh i don't get it why it's banned. Many other moves are dangerous also and there's no problem with that. Also people that are gymnasts and other sportsmans are responible for themselves they are adults. When you do sport everything can possibly go wrong wheter it's gymnsastics, riding a hores, F1 and many more

[@SapphoArimateea]

Omg the horror, how she pronounced "Silivaș" girl, wtf 😭

[@hansemannluchter643]

Elena Mukhina is the best female gymnast who ever lived. Even better than Olga Korbut and Nadia Comăneci!!

[@TrinhPhuongVy-1407]

Nadia dismount was banned?What?!

[@archiculturenaturetravels9111]

It wasn't banned. It's just rather easy, compared to today's dismounts, meaning that gymnasts don't receive a lot of points for it. It's still a popular dismount at the lower levels, but elite gymnasts have moved on to much more difficult dismounts.

[@amyraszipovits810]

Sil-i-vas short i sound

[@geethacherian6574]

Olga còrbut thegoat

[@paulocruz1544]

Crazy people, basically.

[@bonniej2609]

2024 France Olympics I really wish the USA MENS GYMNASTICS team was Scored Halfway Fair. They really did excellent, even the Commentators are saying they can't believe the scores are so low.😶🤔

[@tpxchallenger]

American commentators were saying the American men were given low scores? What a surprise. All three medalling teams were superb and I think the team result was fair. I watch the Olympics on CBC 🇨🇦. Didnt notice any bias in the scoring myself, nor did our commentators, one of whom, Kyle Shewfelt, won gold on the floor at the 2004 Athens games.

[@bonniej2609]

@@tpxchallenger well, I've watched 30yrs of Olympics, and it's Easy to spot when Some Scores are just Unusual. It's not Always Been the *Americans*. This time it was. The Italians have been screwed over several times.

[@tpxchallenger]

@@bonniej2609 There is always a chance of variables in a judged event but all in all this one was fair. Figure skating has had some outrageous misjudgments, for a comparison. Who's score was low this time? As a seasoned Olympic Games gymnastics watcher myself (actually paying attention when Nadia, Nelly, and Olga scrapped it out in 76) I thought this was a good compilation. Very, very close!! Japan edged China out by a low score on a poor dismount by Xiao Ruoteng. Ukraine and GB also fielded excellent teams. I dont think team USA was robbed. On the contrary, they did great in a tough competition.

[@jozseftoth6430]

creepy 😮

[@joeydelrio]

standing on the bar "disrupts" the routine? thats got to be the biggest BS excuse i ever heard, why not say it causes drug addiction or increases risk of getting pregnant, i mean if ur just making crap up make it good!

[@archiculturenaturetravels9111]

The FIG had a point. Those gymnasts who tried the Korbut flip and other such skills in the 1970s often squatted on the bar for several seconds before feeling confident enough to perform the skill. Those seconds absolutely disrupted the flow of the routine. Judges now deduct for long prep and concentration pauses on beam and floor, as welll.

[@joeydelrio]

@@archiculturenaturetravels9111 still doesnt make sense, you can stop and pause before any skill move, the stop and pause should be banned, one has nothing to do with the other.

[@KAT-dg6el]

The uneven bars are to show upper body strength. You can’t put your feet on the bars.

[@villebooks]

Background music volume to high, can't listen, sorry.

[@getreal4real169]

I loved watching Olga compete but I never liked the flip. It disrupts the fluency of the routine.

[@NelsonMontana1234]

Good video. Annoying music.

[@francisturner2482]

ALL THOSE GYMNAST WERE DOPING BACK THEN,They didn't have the technology to detect the drugs like they do now,most of them told the truth later in life! Same thing in most all the sports back in the day!!

[@SherineSherwood]

What doping has to do with skill and technique?

[@professorteacher3679]

Olimpíadas Paris/2024: homossexualismo incentivado, interferência islâmica e esquerdismo ditando regras.

[@12floz67]

I couldn’t have said it better 🍻

[@anitalewisart]

So now pretty boring. 🥱