It's funny, because she does like five leaps in the entire routine and a single pirhouette on the floor. Today, gymnasts can rarely get bonus points from tumbling to make the start value a 10 (or, rather, whatever the grand total a gymnast can receive actually is now... like 18 or something stupid like that). To get bonus points, everyone is doing leap combos that are boring and/or ugly. The bonus point killed artistic gymnastics.
Yeah, the 2006 Worlds were ridiculous. The only event that has REALLY suffered from the overhaul of the code is FX. The gymnasts just can't express themselves, which further divides rhythmic and artistic gymnastics. Look at Dos Santos. She's doing INSANE tumbling lines, but she's not receiving any credit for her courage and skill. It's outrageous.
@piskoun There were a few stars...Cheng Fei and Izbasa were amazing on floor and expressive. Jana Beiger wasn't terrible but the artistic value isn't what it used to be
It's all in her face. This routine is one of the best ever. Her choreography is excellent, and the tumbling is unreal. Her execution, though, is flawless. People don't perform floor like this anymore. Every move is perfectly finished.
Would like to hear people's comments on the choreography to The Hall of the Mountain King - I think of it as a Jack in the Beanstalk story with Peer Gynt as Jack who braves the Giant's castle and satisfies his curiousity even if he is thrown out by the Giant, survives. Victory for the Little Guy!
I can't believe Kim Kelly was allowed on the same floor
okhan001 3 years ago 10
What ever happend to this kind of gymnastics.
FoggyRoad81 5 years ago
It's funny, because she does like five leaps in the entire routine and a single pirhouette on the floor. Today, gymnasts can rarely get bonus points from tumbling to make the start value a 10 (or, rather, whatever the grand total a gymnast can receive actually is now... like 18 or something stupid like that). To get bonus points, everyone is doing leap combos that are boring and/or ugly. The bonus point killed artistic gymnastics.
mrparke007 5 years ago
Don't you think it was even worse at the 2006 WC... The new code killed the artistic in artistic gymnastics! :P
piskoun 5 years ago
Yeah, the 2006 Worlds were ridiculous. The only event that has REALLY suffered from the overhaul of the code is FX. The gymnasts just can't express themselves, which further divides rhythmic and artistic gymnastics. Look at Dos Santos. She's doing INSANE tumbling lines, but she's not receiving any credit for her courage and skill. It's outrageous.
mrparke007 5 years ago
@piskoun There were a few stars...Cheng Fei and Izbasa were amazing on floor and expressive. Jana Beiger wasn't terrible but the artistic value isn't what it used to be
LCAmarkymark 9 months ago
i asked my self exact same thing
xplosive08 3 years ago
It's all in her face. This routine is one of the best ever. Her choreography is excellent, and the tumbling is unreal. Her execution, though, is flawless. People don't perform floor like this anymore. Every move is perfectly finished.
mrparke007 5 years ago
I'd say it's also in her wrists. Natalia had some of the most expressive wrist movements I think I've ever seen, on beam and floor
SilivasGold 4 years ago
Her last name is splet Laschenova
whipback 5 years ago
Would like to hear people's comments on the choreography to The Hall of the Mountain King - I think of it as a Jack in the Beanstalk story with Peer Gynt as Jack who braves the Giant's castle and satisfies his curiousity even if he is thrown out by the Giant, survives. Victory for the Little Guy!
ilextree 5 years ago