80s Beam and Bars Gymnastics Montage

[ludvka]

They did better tricks than gymnasts do today... yes, maybe it´s more difficult now, but a little bit boring..

[nichelleSeizures]

Who is the gymnast at 1:48?

[MunchTheSilivasFan]

@nichelleSeizures Yang Bo of China at the 1989 worlds

[anthony66363]

Nice Short Video

[dalmationham]

yeah i don't think they even allow four element tumbling passes on beam anymore. like the girl at 1:29. they had those through the 96 olympics for shure tho.

[EdGringo78]

@dalmationham Yeah, it's really a shame too. 4 element passes were my absolute favorite :-) The only girl I know of today that does that is Li Shanshan from China. She does a back handspring, back handspring, layout, Korbut flip. That's really the only series I've seen since "96. :-(

[watermellen77]

the beam and bars really fascinate me at this time. It was so different and cool back then.

[sshanan1]

Routine those days are full of difficulties... we hardly see such moves now.

[MsBoricua12345]

whoever put 1 dislike is crazy i would like to see you do that

[mrparke007]

You always make the best montages. That was so great.

[missmouse35]

what happened to this kind of gymnastics? so much better than today's

[panicatthediscoxgirl]

I love that first bars mount... what is it?!

[kiwigymnast16]

i think that gymnastics is easier now in some aspects than it was then

[kid4orange]

what's the name og the gymnast on 1:23 ? Please :)

[MunchTheSilivasFan]

@kid4orange Depends which one you mean. The one in red was Natalia Yurchenko, the one just before her was Wu Jiani

[vyyn]

who is the romanian gymnast with the strange haircut?

[hockeygirl789]

difficulty on bars has definately decreased... the dismounts thopugh pretty much easier than now. i dont know if it is for safety or just because the gymnasts arent pushed as much..?

[NYCBlonde]

Beautiful montage, really shows off how much these gymnasts pushed the envelope. Nice job.

[cassie05]

holy fuck! :50 what the hell was that!?!

[kid4orange]

Thanks.

And what's the name of the gymnast in 0:45 ? :) Please?

[MunchTheSilivasFan]

@kid4orange If I remember correctly that's Alla Misnik of the USSR at the 1981 Europeans

[kid4orange]

Who are the very firt one gymnast on this video and the very last one? What are their names? Please? :)

[MunchTheSilivasFan]

@kid4orange First girl is Zsuzsa Csisztu of Hungary, the last is Boriana Stoyanova of Bulgaria

[Elemarth]

I think I should watch more 80s bars. It's the transition - a bit of old bars and a bit of new.

I swear some of the beam tumbling was better than what I see today.

[aleksdeabreu]

This was the defining era in gymnastics

[lairsantos]

Who's the gymnast at 3:40-3:42? Thank you so very much!

[MunchTheSilivasFan]

Olessia Dudnik of USSR, 1989 world EF

[TheYoPaigewebshow]

i love it

[rafaregisss]

great video

[missmouse35]

the 80's is definatly a good eara in gymnastics to make a montage about. in the early to mid 80's the had the uneven bars as close together as parallel bars and in the late 80's they had the further apart ones, its good cuz u can see history in just one decade

[flyergymgirl125]

Is it just me or does it seem like the gymnastics of the 1980's was so much more creative and unique than now? It all seems so cookie cutter now with not much originality--ya know???

[xokatieeeexo01]

i agree. everything bac then was so much more unqiue. and the gymnast seemed way more fleixble

[svetlana60656]

@flyergymgirl125 - I was just about to write - this is when gymnastics was truly *artistic* - not just tumbling routines like today ..... almost breaks my heart to watch it.

[MATG66690]

@flyergymgirl125 i agree. like the flips before they enter the bars... now its all boring and too many technicalities so theres not much room for uniqueness

[doublefrontpike17]

whos the gymnast at 0:58-1:02

[MunchTheSilivasFan]

Tunde Zilinski of Hungary. I may have spelt her name wrong

[caramelcreamsauce]

Great job :)

Is that wee baby 1989 Jr Tatiana Lyssenko doing the Layout Mount + Layout?

Cool x10!

[MunchTheSilivasFan]

That is indeed tiny Lysenko. Thank yous :)

[caramelcreamsauce]

Welcome :)

In 1991 (Worlds) she added another layout. Can you believe that!?

Awesome, like this montage.

[MunchTheSilivasFan]

Yeah she's amazing. And I'm not convinced she was entirely sane either lol

[caramelcreamsauce]

She wasnt even the tiniest bit sane, just adorable. She says BB is her fave event "because the beam obeys me". How cute is that!? You've gotta have guts to say a 4 inch strip of wood (no offence, anyone) obeys you.

[XxSandraWongxX]

I was watching a video on Nastia Liukin, then someone commented that during the 80's, gymnastics had more elegance, I searched for it and I found this. I agree with that person who said the 80's was much better. If only gymnastics is still that way

[testosterxxx]

who's that gymnast at 0:54 who just did what gutsu and johnson had perfected on balance beam?

[MunchTheSilivasFan]

Aleftina Priakhyna of USSR at the 1986 Chunichi cup

[LaGinnasta]

chi è quella a 0:24???!!!!

[briaberger]

Rankin

[LaGinnasta]

grazie =)

[larsmonty]

great montage. One of the best I've seen. The 80's was an amazing time for world gymnastics

[dragu88]

woooo beautiful montage

[mkkolasa97]

it was soo easy the routines back then but like now its so hard...... in the 50's & 60's a backhandspring seires was an olimpic move on the beam now like a backhandspring back lay-out i don't get it

[garyj79]

the beam was wood and polished in the 1960's and not designed for back handsprings...the floor was not springy then either....Mukhina did a full twisting double... on 2 inch thick mats...i'd like to see gymnasts today doing their elements with yester years equipment...

[Yernar]

Great to see Choe Gyong Hui. Where's the love for Omelianchik? :)

[frauklavier]

This is one of the coolest gymnastics montages on youtube

[jamesbondrocks]

The skills starting at 1:08 and 3:27 blew me away. Wow. Would they try that today??? Even if they wanted to try the first one, the bars are farther apart, so I think that would be a bit too difficult.

[MostepanovaFan]

I love the 80s, there was so much more variety of skill back then. Great to see Sarah Mercer's double front :)

[isa1285]

Absolutely loved it. All the clips are so awesome, but I didn't think the music went too much with the vid.

I want to know who these gymnasts are: First two gymnasts, 1:02, 1:10, 2:22. Thanks

[MunchTheSilivasFan]

Ok, the first gymnast is Zsuzsa Csisztu of Hungary (88 olympics), second is Aleftina Pryakhina of USSR (86 Chunichi up), 1:02 is Tunde Zsilinski of Hungary (82 Tokyo Cup), 1:10 is Zoya Grancherova of Bulgaria (83 Europeans), and 2:22 is Rodica Dunca of Romania (81 euros)

[ClayBabe6]

loved it!

[Athlete065]

Amazing!

The 80s gymnastics was the best years of gymanstics. Such new faces and everything was original.

[postlemonkey]

*sigh* I wish some of these moves would come back...

[gongolo65]

NICE JOB!