Tatyana Groshkova FX 1989 Chunichi Cup AA

[@Nipponophile01]

That finish, exactly in time with the end of the music, gave me goosebumps! Amazing choreography, danced so dramatically and precisely.

[@mrparke007]

This is one of my favorite moments in gymnastics history. Groshkova was the first (and only, to my knowledge) to ever do a double full-in back out on floor. Plus, her dance is exquisite. This is a must see!

[@justiniantbh]

I love this. A perfect example of extreme difficulty and breathtaking beauty.

[@jdlove4183]

Love loved her! Extreme difficulty a head of her time and passionate expressive choreography! We didn't get to see much of her but still one of my favorite gymnasts of that era!

[@ezeid137]

I miss these dance elements

[@ralucagymnast]

I totally agree with you. She had the balletic grace and flexibility of a rhythmic gymnast and the power needed for artistic gym. She was coached by Elvira Saadi, who was on the 1972 Olympic Soviet Team.

[@mariacau]

the spin on 0:58 is just incredibly beautiful

[@No1ZmeskalFan]

i agree 150% i long for the 1989-1991 days of gymnastics again.....now we just have mostly robots. This is when gymnastics used to make me tingle

[@JonMalach]

Your comment still rings true and truer today...

[@mrparke007]

Groshkova was plagued by inconsistency (to use a beautiful cliche). I don't know if her execution was that great, but she had guts like no other. I think Mo Huilan had the most guts since Groshkova to try what she did on uneven bars (Gaylord front). Elvire Teza is another gutsy one (the Teza is crazy). Then there are the Bulgarian tumblers... pretty sick bunch, both men and women. And of course, Chusovitina and Gutsu were both risk takers.

[@ralucagymnast]

I havent seen any other gymnast do doublefull in back out ever before or since Tatiana. She packed up gymnastics when her coach Elvira Saadi took a coaching job in Canada. A real loss to the sport was Tatiana.

[@Matthew-jh6oh]

ralucagymnast Simone biles 2013 American cup

[@JesusPerez-em3on]

No, Biles did a full in- full out that it's one twit on each salto, and Tatiana did the two twist on the first salto which it's so much difficult

[@tereschenkos]

Alexis Bryon did a double in Pike out.

[@tambam6744]

@@JesusPerez-em3on No. Biles literally did a double full-in back out at the American Cup in 2013

[@prcelani]

@@tambam6744 nope, and even if she did you have to take into account this was in 1989!! superb for the time.

[@KarlWarden]

the sad thing is she never competed in a world championships or olympics so the double twisting double back will not be named after her!

[@lifegenius763]

Excellent routine - never heard of her, very artistic performance and wonderful Spanish interpretation 👍

[@MrJST94]

@afgymnast96 yes I do, when she was training for the 1991 world championships her coach was waiting for a job in Canada, when Tatiana finishes 11th Elvrira Saadi (coach) got the job in Canada and she moved to Canada to train gymnasts over there. Tatiana was left without a coach and quit gymnastics a week later, she joind for a short while a circus but that didn't work out. Later she moved to Holland to start her gymnastics career again but she coulden't get the papers for living there. ...

[@justiniantbh]

holy SHIT!!! a double full in pike out??? that's insanely difficult for the MEN to do!!! she was SO ahead of her time!!! she should have that named after her :)

[@TheGymSavant]

+☽ аиаѕтаsіо ☾ It's tucked. but still cool!

[@justiniantbh]

+TheGymSavant you're right. i think it's just not as tightly/closely tucked as i'm used to seeing as the legs aren't as bent lol. i thought it looked like it was meant to be piked

[@schood85]

Wow ive never seen a double double with 2 twists in the first flip and laid out!! awesome!

[@mrparke007]

Yes! Attitude turns, thankfully, are finally making it back into the sport. Semenova has a beautiful double attitude in the same position in her 2009 FX.

[@LaCalimera]

I can't believe that there's no Gym in USA which could offer an application for a job of (even) vice-vice...assistent coach of the female Artistic Gym team to such an immense TALENT! And she is only 34 right now.

[@svetaswan]

She was just as cute as she could be. :)

[@ferency98]

Jeez! All I can say is out of this World amazing.

[@No1ZmeskalFan]

Yeah the passes were similar but the dance and interpretation was WAY WAY better than it is now.

[@picaridin1]

@dmdse1 or probably it seems familiar because Elvira Saadi was her coach and Saadi's routine were very much influenced with Spanish movements/music.

[@mrparke007]

Every time I saw Groshkova land, I thought "Is she going to break her ankles?" I don't know how she did it. That's tenacity for you.

[@catherineb8595]

Alexis Brion did one. She was quite young, it was before her NCAA days, but the clip is on here

[@IsseiKimura]

holy shit .... not full in full out,it's double full in?!?!?! amazing girl.

[@mmoran3]

She's the only female gymnast I've seen do that double double that way! Double twist in and back out

[@bowft7033]

Alexis Brion also did one in 1995 except that she did it in a piked position.

[@justiniantbh]

You're right. Silivas' double double is a full in full out, where as Groshkova's is a double full in. Now that there's a new H element for the 2013 COP, if anybody ever performed Groshkova's double full in, it would probably be an H like the full twisting double layout.

[@thangvuong9196]

cubanacero Actually this is not the same element Daniella Silivas did in the 88'Olympics. Tatiana Groshkova actually does both twists in the first salto while Daniella Silivas does a twist in each salto.

[@garyj79]

I may be wrong Carmonazenon but ive got a feeling that the floors today aswell are more spring loaded than they were here in 89'.....maybe...meaning tumbling like this is even more complex.....DDS is huge in tumbling though for me shes a little untidy!

[@giulioproietti5588]

fantasticaaaaaaaaaa

[@MrJST94]

and this was in 1989!?!?! wow

[@dmdse1]

I´ve definitely seen someone else preform this exact routine!! Must have been another russian girl in a major competition and less than10 years ago!

[@mmoran3]

I haven't Seen another girl perform this exact routine, however , some very similar are Elena Prodonova 2000 Olympics floor, Svetlana khorkina 1994 floor, and Dominique Dawes 1994 floor..

[@Gymguy05]

this is 1989. this is an incredibly difficult routine for that point in time. and while dos santos has some extremely difficult passes, her overall routine difficulty isnt on par with for example, Johnson's or Izbaza's.

[@CarmenEnJasper]

how old is she

[@Markane62]

Her first tumble,people,is Double in,back out. It is very difficult because you do double twist in the first flip and then you have to pull to get around and land it. Now im not acting smarty pants,im just saying. To me,that type of tumble is more of a double twisting double pike,because it has a very similar tehnique to full twisting double pike.

[@HotMessMemories1]

Marko Radivojevic thanks for the explanation, John Tesh.

[@mrparke007]

I know, I know, I KNOW!!! AMEN!!!!!!

[@No1ZmeskalFan]

Alexis trained at the same gym I did....and her double double was piked which is MUCH harder!

[@catherineb8595]

Looking at it again, it seems so. it's hard to tell because the quality is so bad and the angle is too dead-on.

[@777kvp]

Code today has just ruined it. Too much emphasis on tumbling (killing off grace expression, and dance ability) and too damn many passes. I would rather see three spectacular passes like this than four or five that lack execution skill and variety!

[@lilycoggins8987]

I met her today

[@PDRKorea]

Wouldn't it? Because Silivas did it with one twist in each flip, Groshkova with the two twist in the first flip.

[@faeryquene]

@philipcwong Right? Those commentators always spoil the mood with all their blathering. They did it then and they're still doing it.

[@carmonazenon]

maybe the only one to compare with is Daiane dos Santos from Brazil!!!!Powerful and energy!

[@cubanacero]

It would not have been, anyway. Silivas did it in 88 Olympic team

[@TheSienna29]

She could barely control that double double

[@russiaboy58]

Could u? Highly doubt it

[@MrJaredb92]

Made In Japan

[@philipcwong]

too bad this floor routine had to go and interrupt the commentators' conversation.

[@MrJST94]

tumble better??? never!

[@MrJST94]

now she lives in russia and doesn't do anything with gymanstics.

[@hjaidar]

@gymboy1011 Dos Santos never will dance like Groshkova, she cant, she doesnt has that artistry ,I love her but she doesnt have it

[@mrparke007]

Ummm... yeah. Someone called Ferrari the pasta princess on some clip, and I had to snicker. She's so full of herself, and she got like the booby prize at last year's Worlds. We'll see if she can put up this year in Beijing. Have you even seen her floor this year? It's so, so, so bad. The music makes me go into a seizure.

[@HotMessMemories1]

Why did she have to run so hard for a full-in opening pass

[@soapygirl83]

It's a double full in honey

[@jdlove4183]

girl u ARE a hot mess!...two twists on the first flip!

[@freyaaldrnari6086]

@@soapygirl83 Why derogatory?

[@dahighbar]

Now this artistry, not the arm flapping the russians of today like Komova do SMH

[@dahighbar]

@littlepichan true but the Americans can tumble better ;)