Nadia Comaneci - 1976 Perfect 10 Bars

[andyxva]

este es el mejor salto que he visto en mi vida! eres genial! soy de mexico y me gustaria conoserte! mi papa en acapulco se tomo una foto contigo y yo me muero por solo verte caminar por aqui!

[Jagonomic]

I've never seen a girl's routine on bars like this one. She had tremendous control of her body.. Amazing

[Valna90]

0:29 she did that LIKE A BOSS!

[9YEARSOLD]

check out calvin austins shot

[9YEARSOLD]

awesome

[gymnastics7499]

that was the coolest routine i have ever seen!

[Daronims]

Nadia the best ever!!

[jordanfun123]

omg thats all i can say

[djrelaxmind]

the Myth

[TheSugaqueen]

Wow

[kalloused]

Wow, that video quality, only thing missing from this video is a song by 009 sound system

[ru40342]

Better than any gymnast nowadays

[lettingbe]

She's my idol since I was 4 ;)

[blackdya]

Every time I watch this, I am proud to be Romanian. Thank you Nadia!

[juliez506]

haven't you noticed over the years the width between the bars has gotten bigger?

[tremblaymarieh]

She was only 10 years old !!! I think it's better to do simple things but doing it perfectly. She's so sensible in her moves! She look like a ballet dancer, her moves are so fluids, liquids! I always looked gym since I was a baby. Now I'm 35. I had never saw again this way of mooving, that sensibility everywhere.

[violet46]

@tremblaymarieh No she was actually 14

[kimmulakshmi]

35 years & no one has beaten her record!!! I cry everytime I watch this video!!

[latananat]

The simplicity of perfection. Thank you Nadia!

[gymettte57]

That looks like it hurt

[SvedeboXque]

Monkeys ain't got NOTHING on this :D Amazing

[ImmortalDream16]

That is amazing!!

[ThePantzboglin]

holy shit

[ironmaidenftw329]

i love the spins and how she transitions from bar to bar

[cotynita]

in bars she was the best!

[bibi14930]

look at the girls then and now. now the girls from the US and the English girls all look so fat and thick and heavy. when they perform gymnastics, it's like red hot hamburgers bouncing around. their physique is all wrong.

[curlysue27]

@bibi14930 perhaps hormones in their hamburgers too? 

[simplystreeptacular]

@bibi14930 Yes, let's make the anorexia epidemic worse, shall we?

Gymnasts like Nadia were so slim because they weren't performing nearly the kind of moves gymnasts are today. Gymnastics is bigger, higher, and faster - which means gymnasts need bigger muscles and more raw power to pull those moves off. Nadia's routines may have been perfect and beautiful in their simplicity, but gymnastics has changed, and so have its athletes.

So basically, you're clueless.

[AnddoTrailers]

Holy fucking shit.

[xRessaJCx]

Gymnastics back then is so different than todays .. it was 10 x harder then ..!

[31bluebat]

PERFECT

[325RedStar]

That move at about 0:11 when she does that spin down to the lower bar, that was incredible. no one these days that I see, even does that move.

[Acting17]

were the bars set closer together in the earlier years? It may be because they don't do the same moves, but it seems like they are much closer.

[kras118]

@Acting17 yes, the bars were remarkable closer back then. they would take the men's parrallel bars and raise one higher. the apparatus has changed a lot!

[drvowel]

man that was freaky!

[GLCgymnast111407]

these moves are so incredible! i wish gymnastics was more artistic nowadays, instead of the insane moves that get people killed. such a beautiful routine!

[pouya92]

@MrAerial12345 Yeah it's the former bars, it's like parallel bars except one is higher.

[corriekoolx]

I like the one where her dismount is twisting around the low bar and flying off!!!! I think that ones A-M-A-Z-I-N-G

[MrEsvc]

thats not perfect to me in her back sumasault she had her legs abit to far apart so i think if i was a judge i woud deduct that 0.1 or maybe 0.3 just my opinion

[gymnasticslover1231]

What kind of gymnastics is this?.

[FlippinTitan2010]

@gymnasticslover1231 Artistic Gymnastics

[kolizhunkorse04]

Olga Korbut's 1972 routine was way more interesting to watch. I won't comment on difficulty because my fat ass could never do this lol.

[maryleinchen990]

I wish the routines shown nowadays would be like that...

[TheSabrina7884]

thats not a 10.0 because she bent her hand in her front hip cicrle and clear hip cicrle

[481095ymg2]

@TheSabrina7884 not to mention her form in the tuck position.  But still a great routine (and they didn't used to be as harsh)

[BanjoAxel14]

that girl is a friken monkey

[watermellen77]

whoa.. thats so different from what we do today!!

[trooperboys]

omg ur amazing

[iolly14]

ce apropiate erau pe vremurile tale paralele!eu acuma am 10 ani am fost si eu la onesti am facut acolo 4 ani de gimnastica(performanta)!

[maltazor666]

What can I say. When I was getting born, that girl showed' em how it's done. Cudos.

[truebunhead]

I'd like to see someone try this now a days!!!!

[MsNinjaGirl237]

I TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS!

[pimpernell01]

To be someome who is'nt impressed by anything and then see this....well...im good for about 1% of it.

[kjilm6]

That was really cool! It's so different now, though!

[ShawnVikaKomova2012]

Go Romania! She cowboyed her dismount almost as much as Nastia! Still amazing!

[flipflopgymnast12]

:24 it looks like that would hurt.... ALOT!!!

[jaradori]

절대 미학의 범주.

[JustPoppinTv]

Bah romanii sunt romani:))super tare;x

[22BroadwayGurl]

I heard she was 14 but they changed her age, either way this is insane

[ShawnVikaKomova2012]

@22BroadwayGurl At this time, you could be 14 in the olympics. They changed it to 15 and then 16 later.

[taartjuh4]

wow. 0.0

[LollipopTwins13]

OMG the bars back then were so close together thank god they seperated them a bit, because i would die if they where still like that close!!!!

[TheKookyShow98]

At :11 seconds i thought she fell im like, she got a 10 for falling lol

[ExdeathXInfinity]

i dont care if i get flamed for this but i always thought elena mukhina was better than nadia, at least in bars.

[edward8489]

@ExdeathXInfinity yeah i'm not going to say she was better because they were both awsome......but yelena was such a great gymnast though....and at the 1978 worlds.....she most definately deserved a perfect ten on floor.....except the judges didn't want to give out to many tens or something like that.....Her story is so sad...anyways...she was good enough to beat nadia at the 1978 worlds..

[rgtzgmnst]

@edward8489 Yelena is really great but we have to remember that Nadia was completely out of form at that Worlds

[edward8489]

@rgtzgmnst yeah good point........i didn't know that before posting that comment though....but still...yelena was very good at what she did....i still wonder what would have happened if she had not had that accident and gone to the 1980 olympics.....(its so weird because the all-around winner of the olympics was also called yelena........

[rgtzgmnst]

@edward8489 Nadia and Yelena are so awsome both :D

Yelena at that Worlds was really great too and she beat all gymnasts and yeah that was really sad :( She was one of the best gymnasts.

Yeah it is weird that they Had the same name

[edward8489]

@rgtzgmnst YEAH WEIRD HUH?but they were both awsome

 i think we both agree on that.......................

[ctcassidy]

Great routine for its time--but a 10 w/out a stick!

[gymfreakizoid]

I'm Romanian and i do gymnastics but i not that flexible

[teeekay62]

The man who owns my gym, coached her

[mart1163]

How in the world could THAT routine, be better than Olga Korbut's at the '72 Olympics?

[sk8412c]

@mart1163 they were both good but olga korbutt was the Model T Ford - you're looking at the Cadillac here.

[Kim1297]

okay , I am only a level 5 gymnast and Im not posting this to get a bunching of "haters" reply .

but , even though this is a very clean routine , I noticed that her arms were slightly bent after her kip and before handstand, and one of her 1/2 piruate ( i dont know how to spell that ) wasnt completely rotated at handstand. Im just saying. Ive seen better routines now a days and they dont score 10..

[freja201]

@Kim1297 Keyword: nowadays. Nadia was a revolutionary gymnast for her time. This routine was never seen before in the 70s and it was also before several changes were made to the gymnastics competition. I am sure that if Nadia would have performed today at that age she would have been the best.

[Kim1297]

@freja201 I completely understand what your saying .

I was just putting it out there , that judges have gotten ALOT more harsh since then . and I know that shes an amazing gymnast , I look up to her myself .

[gossipgirl6122]

@Kim1297 you are level 4. and you are 12 years old. don't act like you understand gymnastics at all. or history.

[ShawnVikaKomova2012]

@Kim1297 Actually, the judges would never give a ten in execution today. They always find something. Maybe understand it a bit more.

[Stonymypony]

I was just wondering if these "tricks" were hard for her time. They don't seem hard compared to what I see in gymnastics today but then again I know very little about gymnastics.

[Beccabug4]

@Stonymypony You can see the bars are much closer together than they are today. The wide swings and handstands were unheard of due to the newness of the apparatus - they weren't really invented until the 60s. Routines were just balance elements and holds, gradually experimenting with releases between the low and high bars. She's doing incredible things for that time, but yes, today that kind of routine would be easier. That dismount was an original by Nadia and it's been named after her.

[8smellyjelly8]

this is one of the few things that make me proud of my country

[Angel9837]

she makes it look so effortless

[ilovelibertyTYC]

the most famous bar set in history... :)

[ilovelibertyTYC]

Wow, this was back when the uneven bars were called the asymmetrical bars!!!!

[themdzllollita]

This mouvement is very strange ! ^o)

[hazelstream]

Why aren't their bar routines like THAT any more? Stupid safety law! XD

[slightlyshattered]

@hazelstream ... Because the bars aren't anywhere near that close together anymore. Most of those moves are impossible now.

[hazelstream]

@slightlyshattered I know. I wish they were though. Bars are my fav.! They're SO fun!

[patsyrosie]

each time she transitions its like shes about to fall but she doesent its amazing

[Emzies3912]

that is an amazing routine

[skely1907]

VERY few people know that nadia was involved with a gypsy who stole her money and her car when she arrived first in NEW YORK on Kennedy airport. it was a real scandal when she affirmed to DAILY NEWS that she does not care if her man is married and has 4 children ! BELLA KAROLY refused to talk to her after the Kennedy incident and many more after !!!!!

[Vermontist]

@skely1907 What does that have to do with this gymnastics routine?

[1robertos00]

Nadia is a idol, she is number 1... I like Nastia, so much, but its diferent.

[kev0o101]

Days weird it looks like the bigger bars are right next to the smaller bar is dat even allowed

[bbhouk1]

she trained her whole life for those recordbreaking 30 second

[luigicamp69]

@bbhouk1 They all do.

[jesusgymnast]

this chick is my absolute number one roll model and idol for my entire lifetime.

[bouncytumbler22]

your amazing i want to be like you when im older

[Robert111]

I love how the murmors of the crowd so of growing increasingly alarmed!

[bubblygymnast]

!AMAZING!

[bouncytumbler22]

@bubblygymnast the best!!!!

[dizz2rugby]

Yes ThePingShowJL.. " had work ". Hahaha

[superp2002]

I'm doing a resech project on her! In one part of the book she wrote she did her routine in words, it was cool to follow along with the book and the video.

[carlygymnast101]

thats a weird bar rountine.. but it looks really hard and cool

[mrsTorrard88]

@carlygymnast101 yes its very cool this is imo one of the best bar routines ever. Nadia is the best gymnast ever and very few if anyone has tried the first release move she did the comaneci front. i think its rated E in cop. Bar routines used to be much more enjoyable in the past until everyone started to do the same moves. if you like this routine you should watch Olga Korbut in her 1972 bar routine.

[oprt97]

Definitly the coolest bar routine i have ever seeen! i wish they weere still like that noow!

[emilypoop28]

WOW!

[bbhouk1]

i like the way they used to do gymnastics your rite phoshee320 everything is just handstands double backs and yurchenkos why can't they do something and work the bars and different holds on the bars like nadia did?

nadia is my favorite you rock nadia!!!

[crazy8z888]

Wow.. just breathtaking!

[RustDemon79]

This isn't her perfect 10 performance...

[joboy3000]

Maybe they werent as hard as the gymnast back then but the judges these days are mean!

YOu go Nadia!!!

That routine was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mrsTorrard88]

@joboy3000 thats because the cop today sucks!!!

[gymnasticsmegaqueen]

she bent her arms onher giant sort of thing so if i were doingthat exact same routine i would hav emaybe gotten a 9.5 or higheer

[megsterxoxo]

that was epic.

[tuddlebuddy4]

that was amazing!!!!!!!! you go girl from 1976!!!!!

[dedhamgirl24]

im guessing that the judges would have noticed that "she bent on her kip" being a level 8 gymnast myself i am inspired by nadia

and obviously it was her best one...considering she got a 10.0 so...umm...yeah;)

and ya i agree i like her other dismount as well

[mrsTorrard88]

@dedhamgirl24 im so happy that there are still gymnasts today that are inspired by Nadia and not Nastia or Shawn. good for you :)

[Tinafigureskating]

@mrsTorrard88 You cannot compare Nastia and Shawn to Nadia! So yeah, I'm proud and not afraid to say that even though I'm not a gymnast, if I would be one, I'd be inspired by Shawn and Nastia in a certain level, and from Nadia from another. Obviously, as much as I would be inspired I would never attempt to do something like this gihypermonstrous UB routine! LOL! xD

[mrsTorrard88]

@Tinafigureskating i never compared Nastia and shawn to nadia and i would never do so.

[Tinafigureskating]

@mrsTorrard88 Yes, you did! You say that you didn't because you did it indirectly!

[mrsTorrard88]

@Tinafigureskating you may think that i did but i didnt. i said its good that there are still gymnasts today that look up to nadia instead of nastia and shawn. maybe you feel like i did it indirectly but i didnt mean to do it cause i think its stupid to compare them.

[Tinafigureskating]

@mrsTorrard88 Ok, whatever!

[Tinafigureskating]

@mrsTorrard88 @mrsTorrard88 You cannot compare Nastia and Shawn to Nadia! So yeah, I'm proud and not afraid to say that even though I'm not a gymnast, if I would be one, I'm inspired by Shawn and Nastia in a certain level, and by Nadia from another. Obviously, as much as I would be inspired, I would never attempt to do something like this gihypermonstrousUB routine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lol! xD

[AnthonyIan1]

I love but u r rite she did bend on her kip

[BooberryFlips]

i love her, but she bent her arms on her kip.

[babyjrrn]

on her dismount her legs were wide apart

[SailorGalaxiaNeptune]

I think that was intentional.

[bgib1307]

they are supposed to be.

[TheOrangeweekly]

she is purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr fect }

[gymnastlady]

shes so good at gymnastics!

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

Not her best olympic routine but good.

[mmhscheer11]

this is my favorite routine for bars she did, but i like her other dismount even better

[oprt97]

Sick dismount!

[vinci4blue]

amazing...

[IFlipxo96]

thatss sooo amazinng !!!!!! how come we dont have bar routines like that now?!

[Evilutza]

'Perfect' is a word that is true just in theory and in Nadia Comaneci

[EGarrett01]

How do you even practice that move at :16. It seems like if you made the slightest mistake you'd fall head-first to the ground.

wow.

[HailieNichole1995]

With lots and lots of mats and a great spotter lol

[Gothiqueluv]

I think that's why many moves are not done anymore. Safety is much more important and it's a good thing too.

[ThePingShowJL]

Thats what comes from had work.

[flipflopgtco]

wooooow

[ANDREEA2009ROM]

THAT S ROMANIA !

[Gellande]

@ANDREEA2009ROM

Thats not Romania! Thats Montreál, Canada!

Idiot

[ANDREEA2009ROM]

@Gellande THANK YOU TO CALL ME IDIOT ! BUT I WAS TALKING ABOUT NADIA NOT THE PLACE ....62 PERSONES UNDERSTOOD... YOU SEEM TO BE THE ONE WHO DIDN T !

[Gellande]

@ANDREEA2009ROM

She is romanian, thats the proper way to say it.

This is not in Romania but in Canada!

Idiot

[BrandonBoston2]

Great routine, but still prefer the Olga Korbut bar routine. So much more original and so daring......

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

I agree.

[0RiGiNALTONii]

awesomes

[MisanthropistPro]

It seems like her hands BARELY touch the high bar before she's RIGHT down to the low bar. It's so cool.

[gymgirl200493]

i think the bars are set closer, which is how she can stretch between the two bars while only holding on to the high bar.

[hannahj0]

yupp your right.

[rkwy1212]

omg!!!!that's amazing!!!!!!!!!

[lublyannaline]

i can't figure out how she appears to get to the upper bar from the lower one without doing anything other than reaching a little higher.

it's beautiful, mind-blowing.

[jhl2011]

ohmygod, so amazingg. i love it. i want to try and learn that routine.

[sohalia34]

i can watch it over and over again, it will impress me every time. perfect!

[jerramy]

Perfect, simply perfect.

[Searchingxmyxway]

absolutly amazing

[mysty0]

It truly is flawless isnt it., as many times as you watch it you just cant find a fault in it.., wow!

[webkinz5089]

I would kill myself by doing that. lol

[TheGymnastxoxo]

Wow. I love her. Shes amazing!!

[xoMASSIEBLOCKxo]

i knew youd be watching gymnasticks vids on here :) ahaha

[heyimJoeK]

that...... is a perfect 10???

[chickennoodlesoop23]

she is so graceful, i love watching her

[spanishgipsy1]

She kicked everybody's ass at the 76 Olympics! She was my idol growing up.

[PshhItsRaachx3]

her feet were flexed on the dismount.

[zakfmt]

how can you tell?

[PshhItsRaachx3]

haha just watch her feet.

[zakfmt]

but, what does it mean? were the judges wrong or something?

[PshhItsRaachx3]

her toes were supposed to be pointed. if they aren't it's a deduction.

that's what i always get deducted for anyway lol :b