The United States of Amanar [Updated]

[@SociallyDistantnow]

I miss Amanars. I wish they wouldn’t have downgraded them into oblivion.

[@e2theeyepie]

I'll always be dumbfounded at how all five members of the 2012 Olympic team were capable of throwing Amanars, even Kyla Ross! LOL

[@andreid.8568]

To say Kayla Ross threw an Amânar is a bit much...

[@lukeee8927]

man i miss it when amanar was one of the most used vault at london

[@Plaspos]

It’s been SEVEN years since the last new Amanar: Jade Carey in 2017. Hopefully at worlds Kinsella or Evans land it

[@sophier5508]

I love your video, there is a bunch of super great ladies in there. It is also nice to see the evolution and honestly, the vault you picked from Shawn was great, I wish she had done it so well at the Olympics. Anyhow, it is a bit of a shame that such a difficult vault is not worth a lot these days.

[@thiagomelo7425]

unpopular opinion: i think amanars are harder and riskier than a cheng, they should equal their d scores

[@captainbryce1]

“Riskier”, yes (forward entry/blind landing). “Harder”, no. The Cheng requires front block after a half turn, into frontwards rotation while twisting. The Cheng is going to be harder than any backwards (Yurchenko) style vault except a double flipping vault like the double pike. Until you start getting into the TTY and beyond that is…

[@lukeee8927]

harder to land yes but the cheng is much harder

[@ST6559]

It is way harder to generate enough power to vault Cheng than Amanar. Cheng is technically harder to execute too, which is some gymnast vault Cheng with only one hand on the vault table.

[@lukeee8927]

after paris THE VAULTS NEED TO BE UPGRADED IM SICK OF SEEING DTYs

[@chrisjacobsen5558]

I miss these too and don’t feel they are adequately valued anymore.

[@captainbryce1]

I didn’t realize Jordan Chiles did an Amanar, and quite well I might add. I wonder why she downgraded. Based on how easily she does the DTY, it should be no problem for her.

[@Plaspos]

She wasn’t able to do it since her puberty growth spurt. She did it consistently in 2017 but in 2018 I think she only did it once (nationals day 1 I want to say) and then fell and underrotated it at 2019 worlds trials and hasn’t tried it since

[@lukeee8927]

she was meant to have it ready for tokyo but her double twisting yurchenko is really consistent so she didn’t really the amanar

[@lalareal180]

@@Plaspos Not true, she was doing it in training close to the olympics. In one of those flo sports documentaries or one of those things about WCC, leading up to the games, she was doing it, and then one day in training Laurent said then Jordan just lost it, she was doing it fine yesterday, then now, and since she couldnt do it anymore.

[@Plaspos]

@@lalareal180 was she doing it to hard surfaces? There were so many Amanars onto the mat done leading up to Tokyo that never materialized (Chiles, McCallum, Wong, Qi Qi off the top of my head). Jones at least verified it at February 2020 camp unlike Jordan

[@tadg2003]

The fact in the three codes downgrade the amanar by full point.

[@Marketoromagnolo]

stranhge no other americans are competing it, after 2021 olympics

[@unknownuser-r5o]

Wow only 5.4 ?? So sad what they are doing to gymnastics

[@bw2082]

A lot of the girls can’t even do perfect dty. They should just try amanar and get the higher d score if they’re still going to get the e score deductions. At least the ones who can land it consistently anyway.

[@dannymorgan7252]

Blame Nellie Kim, she’s been downgrading and claiming moves since she came into power