1976 Olympics gymnastics Mitsuo Tsukahara vault

[tgmacedo]

5 pessoas não fazem tsukahara

[MultiPallomasi]

käsiponkki



[HannaCutee]

wow that was so close be for he fell

[Jonaskoehne]

i hate gymnastics

[carcheek77]

@Jonaskoehne then get off of here.

[bobfmartin]

"moon salto" because it was first done on 7/20/69. same day Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. full twisting double back on high bar.

[eugvh18]

japan's men gymnastics ruled the world at one time , have lots of skills name after them , thanks for upload and sharing it .

[StefanR10]

bice

[Sambucca]

I always wonder how they got around to "introducing" these new moves to the competition. Did they just pull it off on the day? Or did they present it to a panel of judges before hand, who then decided it could be legitimately performed?

[bbhouk1]

@Sambucca

you have to submit the new skill, FIG evaluates it, rates its difficulty, then if you perform it successfully in a worlds or olympics (no fall or other huge error) it is named after you. if you perform it, but did not submit it beforehand, it will not be named after you. this happened in the case of Olga Mostepanova, who performed an original skill internationally for several years but did not submit it in her name. the skill was consequently named Onodi rather than Mostepanova.

[Twilightlover18ful]

he just like jogged down the runway!!

i like sprint as hard as I can for a tsuke! But they are soo fricken fun!! <3 them

[skyrunner16]

moon salto!!!!!!!!

[RanAwayFromHome]

so clean :D

[Shorty060894]

yeah if my form looked like that my coach would kill me! still i am just learning it and i do it into the pit, even so i think that its a cool move!

[hardstylegymnast]

ludmilla tourischewa did this vault in 1973 ,but not laydout.........!!!!!!!!!

[OkSka]

You know, about as much as I look like an ass, his ancestor was probably a ninja. ^w^

[thoughtcancer]

Ok, here's something I don't understand. He was the inventor of this vault and right has it named after him. But his form is atrocious! I know that if I pulled a vault like that at a Meet, I wouldn't see a score higher than a 7. Even in the 70's I'm pretty sure judges were hard on form breaks.

As an aside, his form in the execution of this vault doesn't take away its awesomeness. I just couldn't bear to watch such a simple vault performed so "loosely" by its own creator!

Cheers!

[ChildofPluto]

Just look at that spring-board and you'll understand :)

[TuesdayPillow]

That's not a springboard - that's a beat board - ugh I hated those so much!

[jamesbug2002]

code of points were different then too. and it doesn't mean that since you invented it that it has to be spectacular..

[girolle01]

He did get silver.

[kindestchains]

he got gold in 1976 not silver

[chreesko]

I think sometimes that the people who came up with these cool moves were at a disadvantage when first performing them, because it's not like they had someone to teach them the biomechanics of the element in the proper way so that they learned good form and didn't get hurt. They were sort of making it up as they went along.

[therealslimwritter]

@chreesko Disadvantage? I think they indeed were all way more advantaged than the rest of competitors, having a brand new never seen before outstanding move. I think I know what you mean, but understand that they didn't create this in the same performing day, that's why there's something called Practice, to performe it at home as many times as it takes to sharp it and then perform it in the day of days with no fails in technique. And they had an advantage cuz their new moves were more complex

[hitsugaya1001]

The springboard sucks D: theres like what, 2 springs in there?

and the vaulting horse was like a pommel horse at the time, cept sideways

you try using a 2 spring board and vaulting along a pommel horse w/o pommels, not easy LOL

much much more difficult that doing a tsukahara with a modern springboard and vaulting table.

[thekkhshow]

true that

[wc213]

Oh! I never realized what "Tsukahara" meant until now!

[rokanime]

Sugoi ne!!

[laLemur]

no it's calles Tsukahara

[AndrosianAnguish]

thats what they call a moon salto right???

[shockabargegnar]

the moon salto is his full twisting double off high bar

[bovien2]

nice den første tsukahara

[sakurasoh]

Oh! The Tsukahara man...

[ShaefDawg]

Indeed, great power on a vault with literally no spring from the springboard!

[cityboyz1uk]

Did you see the condition of that 70's spring board? I used to have one of those in my gym back in the 80s and I can tell you it has virtually no power whatsoever compared to modern spring boards. How on earth did he get the power to do that Tsuk? Oh we take modern gymnastics equipment for granted sometimes!

[emma2710gymnastics]

At my school, we have a spring board which is a long piece of wood attached to a thin piece of wood with legs!

[ayimaisley]

we have one of those as well but we don't use it any longer

[tsukahara10]

Ah, the origin of the tsukahara vault.