Rebecca Bross : 2009 Visa Championships : Day 1.

[babygotbackflip]

she has really pretty eyes

[ethalhallow]

i like it but her 2010 floor routine is way better

[dance4liberty69]

very beautiful gymnast =)

[Zurichlakegirl]

She might look unhappy but, gymnasts are so concentrated, do teh runners of the 100m look happy when they run it? NO! I mean when the gymansts look happy during a routine they fake it, they always look happy after they finish it! Rebecca does when she does well!

[itslikeloso]

almost all of your power you have should come from ur round-off.....

[liukin95]

I'm not surprised she fell on her dismount on beam she just walks into it, the only power she gets is on her round off.

[lovergurl136]

i like her litard

[gabriellesgirl]

I don't understand how she led with these routines. Her vault wasn't good, she had a lot of form breaks in her bar routine, lots and lots of balance checks on beam, and she stepped OOB and had form breaks and no artistry in her floor. I'm not saying she's not talented, because I think she is. If she could just calm it down and reign it in I think she'd be awesome. But as of yet I'm not impressed.

[PoorPublicSchoolKid]

her bars work reminds me a lot of ksenia semenova

[stavrinou1998]

shes amazing!!! 

[orlyswa76]

She kinda sorta reminds me of Tatiana Lysenko.....although I liked Lysenko MUCH better!

[xsmile007]

Why do WOGA gymnasts seem to do giants so strangely? Rebecca arches and bends her legs to get past the low bar, and Nastia did the same thing. It doesn't look very pretty (or correct), so why does Valeri teach giants that way?

[shawnjohnsonfan1018]

her legs are weird because she physically can't touch her feet together so she has to turn them inwards and touch her toes together

[garyj79]

Her quickness in throwing the arabian on beam (which she does always) make Katya's Sydney 2000's pauses rather OTT !

[AlmightyOwl]

she has my old floor music!

[emilysgotchalk]

I LOVE Rebecca Bross!!!!!!!!!!!!! She is sooo concentrated and looks like she is not afraid to do anything!!!!!! Go kick butt in 2012 Rebecca!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gr33nkiwi]

@emilysgotchalk

Komova >>>>>> Bross

[bbtalk27]

this girl is a terrible dancer...NO ARTISTRY

[XxXHorseLoverXxX1]

Uuummmm ,

Im Not Sureee ,

But Her Routines Areeee ALOT Likee Nastias ? :/

[yiudiumui]

something about her legs i don't like

[garyj79]

@yiudiumui - i know what you mean BUT cant actually tell you what it is about them that doesnt look right!!!! lol

[gymnastluvhorses55]

shes so amazing!! y cant she except that and smile for once!!!!!

[Gr33nkiwi]

If she wins the AA in 2012 I will lose all hope in Artistic gymnastics :(

Let us pray for Ksenia Semenova!

[kras118]

@GreatGliscor it's an arabian- 1.2 twist to a front. so difficult !

[luv4cascy]

her floor routine was so robotic, not graceful.  didnt even look like much effort was put in it

[bunbacheso]

@GreatGliscor I think that's called a back tuck with a half twist.

[leeny11]

On floor and beam she can't seem to relax. Everything seems to rushed and she has a lot of nervous energy. And on her floor routine if she calls that dancing she must be crazy.

[GGMBetty]

@BiancaAustralia She won the silver medal in the all-around at the most recent World Championships - and would have won had she not fallen on floor. She also took bronze on bars. I would say the international judges "took to her" just fine.

[jhl2011]

loved that standing arabian, but i don't really like her as much. she's not as powerful as johnson, nor is she as elegant and graceful as liukin. you can hate this comment all you want, but i'm just saying. but she's definitely got the potential. hope to see her win gold as the '12 olympics, third gymnast from WOGA. :)

[complainer101]

i think it's that her routines always seem so forced and stiff and machine-like.

[evoandy]

wow. that standing arabian on beam almost looks like it could be piked.... She has SO much room at the end of it! Great athlete! Cant wait to see what she does with the next few years.

[ShawnJohnson3]

good job! :D <3

[emmyjo720]

I find her hard to like, the the WC she seemed ok but nothing interesting.. Bridget Sloan has more character and fire.

[KellyRenee66]

that sux she fell on beam!

[kalaway]

I think she can work on her artistry and flow, she's got the core down.

She really needs to stop wearing the dark eyeshadow though! :D

[gymnast142]

she didnt have a great comp but she would have done really good routines if she didnt fall or step out on floor. she needs some more dance on floor but

[gymgirlie223]

i like her bars but all the dance elements are off

my coach always say its not about whether you can do a skill, but how well you do it and rebecca can do all the skills, but not very well she is too stiff

[FLACSC74]

Hate that hop thing she does right before Beam dismount and she can not dance . Even Maloney was a better dancer

[borntoheal204]

this girl is amazing, her bars routine was incredible

[onlyalive08]

uggh. i truly believe tim is the most ANNOYING sport commentators to EVER exist.

[Sublue]

I actually like John Roethlisberger (sp?). He's funny and he always cracks jokes at Tim's expense.

[xsmile007]

tim is a douche. i hate listening to these commentators.

Anyways, as much as I admire her, I agree with the person who pointed out that she appears robotic. Her dance on floor looks forced.

[lfigureskater739]

she's really good at bars

[yiudiumui]

she's like a robot to me

[Nanenarave2005]

she always look like she hate her life.

[Scrumdiliumptious69]

@Nanenarave2005 i think it because of all the pressure :D

[lisameyer]

davylp,

gymnasts of the past use to weigh 65-85lbs. beyond ridiculous!

[lizard01107]

Haha, I love National Treasure

[xsmile007]

her floor music is from National treasure, yes?

[BellaLiukin]

yes :)

[ingiebengel]

@BellaLiukin

yes

[HappyOannyBunny]

romanian juniors are better on floor?

[NonMatchingUnderwear]

The run-on mount onto the beam realy bugs me. I'm not having a go specifically at Becca, but she is a good example of a gymnast who could really do a great mount (I can see her doing a punch front) and it is a pity the code allows this cop-out mount instead of rewarding risk. She could do so much better!

[sgnsp235]

I agree

I hate how the code cracks down on aesthetically pleasing things like the step after the landing, but they allow copout mounts like that and the hop on (?) like shawn johnson's.

[NonMatchingUnderwear]

Yeah I think a way round this (other than banning it) would be to make the mount count as one of their 8 elements however easy it is, so the girls doing punch fronts and back layouts would have a serious advantage over SJ mount types. So everyone would take risk to be able to compete!

[can1052]

I don't remember where I heard this, but I heard Marta Karolyi wants the US girls to pretty much just get on to the beam, then add all their difficulty once their on. I guess she just doesn't want them to start their routines on bad notes. I agree though, it does take away from the composition of the routine.

[randomness132]

but then a more fancy mount takes more time, whereas jumping on lets you get on with the rest of the routine

[amaihito]

@randomness132

And means that they have one less thing to wear them out or potentially hurt them.

[TuesdayPillow]

She was better a year or two ago, but then again she has recovered from two injuries in the past year and I think we are only seeing a tiny bit of what she is capable of.

[gymdweeb]

love the tumbling. haaaate the choreography.

[gymgrl05]

wow. she is incredible....what an awesome gymnast. Thanks for posting. :)

[ItsNastiaFan101]

put yt:stretch=16:9 in the tags

[Nanenarave2005]

she is too overly hyped at this point.

[sqekcx]

I agree. I'm afraid that people are putting way too much pressure on her by telling her to continue the woga legacy and she'll faltered because of it.

[cwgcGymnast]

what WOGA legacy?>>

[randomness132]

uh maybe the fact that they have two olympic champions??

three if you count valeri???

[cwgcGymnast]

ohh i see,, i lived in England so i didn;t understand what it ment haha,,

..i am half american but was bron in England you see x

[GymDog990]

but you also have to keep in mind that she got the 7 tenths bonus for the dismount.

So i think it may have been a tad overscored, but not by much because of the bonus

[BellaLiukin]

well said, ally.

[willsbob123]

Far too over scored on beam. If she scored 14.700 WITH a fall, you're telling me she could have gotten 15.700 without- :S

[Gymchamp2]

She does have a 7 tenth dismount, and an arabian which i think is 6 tenths? So big scores