Nastia Liukin - Pacific Rim 2008 - Bars EF

[megan8urbaby]

does any one watch make it or break it on abc family itz all about this stuff and a new season starts this march 28th i cant wait!!!!!!! last season kaylee suffered from anirexia and payson is eecovering from her accident emily fslls on her strongest set and lauren well lauren is to distacted cuz her dad is getting married AGAIN!!!!!

[megan8urbaby]

i thought she was going to fall again i hope u all who read this will see me at reginals this year i am training to be gymnast just like her!!!!!

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[houndscheer1996]

Haha I like how she carries chalk back under the high bar and just throws it to the side LOL. shes my fave gymnast, I wish she would start competing again :(

[msms68]

it was weird to see her mess up like that

[GoshsDarling]

I never see any other coach catch their gymnast. So often they just splat on the mat. But I've never seen Nastia take a nasty splat, Valeri always catches her!

[KellyRenee66]

poor thing. it sux falling, but shes really good and it never affects her.

[moosegirl69]

Good spotting skills, dad. Haha, Her dad's pretty good, some spotters are completely useless and doesnt even touch any part of the gymnasts body when they fall.

[snazziest212]

That's legit the only time I've seen her fall off the bars in major competition.

[gymfan06]

2005 american cup bars

[daniielaaa93]

although she felt down she is amazing

[gabri1001xfin]

good russian style she is very elegant with a lot of flexibility good nastia

[butterflyFLEA]

...it was not a good day for her...but she knows how to be the best even if she falls.

[willsbob123]

Yikes, not a good bar set for her! She was finishing all of her hanstands at 12 o'clock, then, after she fell; she had to improvise! Big shame, low on the dimount too :(

[kenz13west]

OH :{

well she is amazing

[koolios6251]

okay she was having a really bad day...

and idk but does anyone see a smirk/smile on her face when she fals on her geinger

[gymnastgirl1232]

That's only the 2nd time i have EVER seen her fall on her geinger

[alexabagel87]

wow she really sucked up this routine

[KarenLovesGymnastics]

THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT SHAWN

[gymnast61791]

i have never seen nastia do a good dismount off bars

[mistybabe5489]

she did 2 great ones at last years worlds.

[gymnasticsbabie]

wow I've never seen her so messed up and rattled up.

[brookenicole222]

oh my! thank god her dad was there to catch her. i just watched Amamnda Borden fall like that and no one caught her. it looked so painful. :(

[sld347]

I dont know what ksenia's recent scored have been but I dont think she is much of a threat this year. I think it is down to nastia and he kexin. Maybe even Beth tweddle. I think coming into four events instead of two without much training time was the reason she fell. Just like last year at the 07 nationals.

[Jimena08]

Nastia is very flimsy, Ksenia Semenova can win the gold medal. but the influences of Valery Liukin for your daughter she can win somewhere medal like Paul Hamm who gained the medal of gold without deserving it

[sld347]

nastia is flimsy? No way. Not nearly as much as Ksenia Semenova this year. Have you seen her bars. Especially on her transition from the low to high bar.

[tombarnes123]

Beth Tweddle has very recently scored a 16.650on bars

[Megzer1992]

so?

[tombarnes123]

what you on about?

[Megzer1992]

I was replying to someone else!

[uwoeric]

If she ever connects her Tkachev to Pak she'll have the highest A score out of anyone in the world. Right now she's in a 3-way tie.

[smsflippygirl]

poor nastia, she got such a high score during the team final. i dont think she's fallen on a gienger during competition since 2005. =[

[j0103079]

no wait her fingers slipped

[crazy4gymnastics4224]

she tried so hard to get the geinger up there, but that missed handstand costed her. oh well, it was a fluke

[j0103079]

ya she had her hands she just had to much power!

[beautygirl7]

it is gonna be close at the olympics between He kexin and nastia they both have a 7.7 in difficulty i think tweddle is going to be 3rd

[russiyya]

yes the olympics will be close because semenova will be first and nastia second, maybe he kexin third or tweddle will be there too. DONT FORGET SEMENOVA SHE´S THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN THIS APPARAT

[uwoeric]

Semenova hasn't upgraded her routine.

[elena1141]

nastia definitly gets tired as these meets progress...i remember elfi (the newscaster at NBC) commenting on how tired Nastia looked by the time she competed in the AA at worlds. Hopefully she will be in the best shape of her life by Beijing!

[naturevalley10]

Valeri Liukin is the only coach I've ever seen actually catch their athlete in competition LOL, he saved her from a major faceplant.

[NastiaLiukinFreakMmM]

awt was her score

[DinkleBerry143]

i know exactly!!

[KarenLovesGymnastics]

THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT SHAWN

[markoparko]

Who will medal on Bars in Beijing?

[mistybabe5489]

nobody knows but i predict the following could make the efs

nastia liukin, ksenia semenova, beth tweddle, li ya, yang yilin, steliana nistor, daria zgoba

[tigerbear9]

If my calculations are correct, Nasta gold, He Hexin silver, Memmel or Joura bronze.

[djm71675]

what...pray tell...are these calculations?

[crazy4gymnastics4224]

where is semenova in these predictions?? i thought she was good as well??

[gymnast08ia]

thats funny cause memmel and joura are not gonna be in ef. bronze is gonna go to yang yilin cause she has a 7.7 A too

[KarenLovesGymnastics]

Joura medaling on bars? LOL, yeah right. I love Dasha but she only makes EF on bars in weak fields. The podium will probably be:

Gold: He Kexin

Silver: Nastia Liukin

Bronze: Ksenia Semenova

Depending on who goes in EF and who performs better.

[athlete987]

omg amazing prediction that's exactly who got the medals!!!

[KarenLovesGymnastics]

Excpet Ksenia, Yang Yilin got bronze. :)

[Megzer1992]

Yeah but Nastia and He tied!

[crazy4gymnastics4224]

oops...

[SquirtGymnast]

Havnt seen her fall in ages

[chinagurl673]

i know same.. when i jsaw that i was like WOW

[Doug1233]

can nastia not do a full out dismount? her form on her DLO and her front half out are horrendous. a nice full out, like khokina, would easy save her 0.3 in B score.

[markoparko]

I agree. If that dismount hasn't improved by now it needs to be axed.

[dilemmababe3462]

i guess this just sorta happened. in the first day they said that she only planned to do 2 events and probs the 2 ef events aswell. so all considered she looked very tired at the end of her floor routine so she just

looks tired with the american cup and pacific alliance close together but all in all i think this was a brilliant meet for her x

[FireDannyAinge]

She was doing AA way before 2 days. Hill was slightly injured a week before the event and Nastia knew she was doing AA then.

[seethesun08]

Actually I think you are wrong. From the looks of things, Darlene and Nastia were intended to act as one gymnast (Darlene VT, FX + Nastia UB, BB) until Jordyn Wieber got hurt the day before the team left from San Jose and was replaced by Rebecca Clark. Then they needed some more strength than Rebecca offered on vault and floor and so Nastia was added to those lineups.

[FireDannyAinge]

aCTUALLY i AM RIGHT BUT BELIEVE WHAT YOU WILL

[pety95]

great routine! too bad she fell!!

[rondeenmyqueen]

she said in an interview she was tired, but that the back to back days of comp was good for her.

[gymnast08ia]

rondeen, shell NEVER need to do this back to back competition again. at nationals, u have a day in btwn for rest and at olympics, there r several days between the qual AA and the AA final

[rondeenmyqueen]

yea im glad. i dont think back to back is good.

[gymnast08ia]

btwz has neone EVER seen nast muscle a kip b4?? at 00:39, god i never wanna see that again

[gymnasticsforever95]

do you mean at 1:39 when the muscled up kip takes place?

[gymnast08ia]

yea...that was embarassing lol

[GymnasticsAddict]

She said her stomache is her weakest muscle, so that could sort of make sense that she'd have to muscle up sometimes.

[gymnast08ia]

the point is that shes NEVER muscled a kip before in all the thousand vidoes of her on youtube. she was forced to muscle it here cuz she got no swing left out of the pac

and either way its not cause shes weak. it takes more strength to muscle a kip than to kip out of a good swing

[GymnasticsAddict]

It's because she was tired and probably still a bit shakey from the fall. she's still amazing, though!

[ClayBabe6]

i think she only muscled because she was so close to the bar on that pac. i don't think anyone could pull a kip out without muscling when you are that close to the bar.

[GymnasticsAddict]

Wow, it's kind of funny how we're talking about this, because almost the exact same thing happened to my sister yesterday. of course, she wasn't doing it out of a pac, though. haha.

I would have hardly noticed she muscled up her kip at first glance. Other than her fall and such, her routine is perfect. I just wish she'd work on a different dismount, isn't working for her form-wise. I love Nastia!

[GymnasticsAddict]

Wow, that was really odd seeing her fall on that. wasn't the last time she fell on bars(other than her dismount at last years Nationals) at the 2005 American Cup?

I love her in that pink leo!

[gymnasticsforever95]

im pretty sure thats when her last uneven bars fall is...except the one in 05 americn cup was a lot more painful!!!

[gymnasticsforever95]

probabl exhuastion from winning the all around

[HoneyGotMeHooked]

i knew she was going to fall as soon as she mounted, she was unstable and unfocused

[USAgymnast52]

its to bad that she fell but she gets a 15.225 on this routine and ties for second place!!! that shows how amazing she is!!! i think shes going to win the Olympics!!!!!

[FireDannyAinge]

It shows how over scored she is.

[gymnast08ia]

they gave her a 7 B score! thats pretty damn fair if not too low

[tombarnes123]

Its only a 7 B score because she fell from her geinger so she doesnt get the value of that skill which is why her B score is low.

[gymnast08ia]

wtf the value of the skill is not included in the B score! every1 knos that

[FireDannyAinge]

Get glasses and figure out the form breaks because your Nastia colored glasses are clouding THE FACTS.

[gymnast08ia]

i see tbe form breaks, u cant be perfect; but compare it to other top bar workers

ksenia is archy, and she always bends her knees on her piked dismount; kexin muslces up after the shoot thru (surprise, surprise)

tweddle looks masculine and doesnt have 'the line' like the other 3 girls.

nast has stuff to work on; she just has the better flow (uninterrupted by arching and dead hanging)

[FireDannyAinge]

A form break is a form break and she wasn't deducted enough.

Others have nothing to do with this routune's score being a joke

[gymnast08ia]

hello this routine got a 7 B score, how the hell is that overscored?? i think that was actually a tad too low

[mizzben]

i heard that she is practicing for an dty on the vault! if she does that an work on her floor routine she could win the olympics!

[parkerbawl]

I hope so much she will beat Shawn Johnson ! She's the only American (with Shayla and Ivana) who doesn't look like a cow !!!!! Tha others are totally graceless ....

[DinkleBerry143]

hey!!! dont be rude!! shawn is a really great gymnast. she has more talent thatn oyu and i wil ever have. cut her some slack

[parkerbawl]

Of course she is more talented ! That's not the point ! She's one of the best, that's obvious ! But I really dislike her style ! IMO she's too muscular ! I prefer the thin and elegant gymnasts such as the Ukrainians or the Chinese.

[Joccy101]

You think she's too muscular! Nastia is the most elegant gymnast of this generation!

[Yuri92001]

I woudn't go THAT far....

[eMthegymnast]

she had a nice same on hert low bar work. adding the kip didnt get a deduction did it?

[KarenLovesGymnastics]

Uh no that would be Anna Pavlova. And parkerbawl was saying SHAWN was too muscular...

[athlete987]

ya, but let's not forget Hollie Dykes....

[moopoo66]

@Joccy101 just because a gymnast is muscular doesn't mean a gymnast can't be elegant

[gymnast08ia]

haaaaaaaaaaaaa nastia wishes she were muscular!

[DinkleBerry143]

OMG!! you ve got to be kidding me!! she is NOT too muscular!!! she is one of the thinnest gymnast!!

[gymnast08ia]

she wishes she were muscular!

[KarenLovesGymnastics]

THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT SHAWN

[mistybabe5489]

yea and wen was the last time 1 of the won a world or oympic aa in the last decade?

[mizzben]

every goo gymnast make mistakes shawn did make some mistakes too it's better her then she falls than in the olympics

[vivelagym]

I agree. But hey... that comp is in USA, it's normal that she gets high scores

[gymtaxi07]

She had a bad day. She's human. Her bars are always amazing. Give her a break. Better luck next time.

[elena1141]

she's not getting as much height as she usually does on that geinger release..

[mathejczyk93]

can i watch the whole comp. on youtube?

[Joccy101]

No, they didn't release the compitition on TV yet. It'll be on NBC April 13.

[mathejczyk93]

ok,thanks:)

im from germany so i cant watch it on nbc but im sure that someone will upload the competition soon:)

[liukin95]

i bet if she didnt fall on that release skill she would have won hope she does better next time

[HumanFamous]

She does look tierd when doing some of those moves

Even with a fall she got a good score and not a great landing

It would have been better if the EF's had been the day before she was great then

[havarahel]

she said she was tired. i believe her. she did great the day before.

[curmeow]

thx for that!

so clear

[Jessicaz2910]

that was one bad meet for nast. im pround of her that she was able to keep going and improvise the remaining routine.

[swcranford]

She is so overrated!

[twirlerbabe2448]

Ummm...you're dumb! She's fantastic!