1977 USSR Gymnastics Display Olga Koval Uneven Bars

[kirdiewink]

She coaches a gymnastics school near my house!!!!

[babyback210]

She's my coach for gymnastics now!!!!!!!!!!!

[audie83]

Thank you for posting these wonderful vintage videos MizMamie!

Watching these wonderful, long ago routines is like looking through some Magical Looking Glass in Time. :)

[backflipboy27]

bar beat to front flip is the coolest skill ever done

[lepetitpoulet]

i totally agree with ya!!! can't believe that skill, even harder than a comaneci

[audie83]

I don't know about that-the two moves are totally different mechanics. I think it's harder to generate the height you need from off the hips like in the Comaneci to recatch the same bar-timing must be spot on. Few performed the Comaneci then-and even now due to it's difficulty. Many however performed what I think is called the Radochla-beat to straddle front catch facing the high bar. I think the second (facing the low bar) is called the Brause.

[TuesdayPillow]

By a technical standpoint the Comaneci is harder, you are correct.