her mount was enough to impress me. Too bad no one ever performs it or any roundoff something mount. this prooves how innovative yang bo was with her mount and how extremely flexible she is
The mark of a great beam worker: making something insanely difficult look easy and making something easy look incredibly beautiful. To wit: That first leap series and the scale she does after the aerial walkover were just lovely. They are pretty elementary skills, but she gives them elegance and style. Man I wish she'd won the beam title here.
Sometimes I think that the Chinese gymnasts are so clean and lovely in their routines that the slightest of balance checks/bobbles gets them a larger deduction by comparison.
@gravyboatK That is a very good point. I also think that the Chinese are the biggest perfectionists, so have much smaller margins of error. You will never see a Chinese gymnast attempt a skill with imperfect technique though, that's for sure.
Her and Dudnik were soooo ahead of their time on beam. They never got what they deserved. Yang Bo is known as the queen of beam of course but they never got a beam gold at a world or olympic stage.
This is simply divine. The height she gets on that full twist before going low to beam is amazing. She could have made a cup of tea between completing the twist and hitting them beam. this is one routine I'll always watch over and over and never get bored of....<3 Yang Bo!
When Yang Bo does her Yang Bo jump (when she throws her head back), she does it with her back leg straight. All other gymnasts i have seen do it with their knee bent like their trying to make a circle in the air with their head, neck, and leg. Is that a variation of the jump, are they trying to do it with their leg straight, or is it another jump entirely? Thanks in advance!
@bbhouk1 The Yang Bo jump is a split jump with head thrown back. What you see a lot is a switch ring leap, aka a Liu Xuan. I, believe, she first did it at the 2000 olympics in Sydney. When the head goes back and one or both legs are bent it's then a ring jump or leap. Split jump with head thrown back in a Yang Bo jump. Hope that clears it up for you.
@bbhouk1 The one you saw must be a switch ring leap. Switch ring leap (which Liu Xuan did but not FIRST did in Sydney) has a foot switch before form ring status and is an E element (the highest level for leaps) in current COP, but Yang Bo is D. If a gymnast has the flexibility to form circle, she would prefer switch ring leap first. So that's why Yang Bo leap is not very popular even in Chinese gymnasts' routines.
@runtap123 Well i think they are both ver different gymnasts I fel like Nastia gives more on the Beam and Has different tricks and such But Yang brings an elegance hat no other gymnast has right now
Yang Bo is truly one of the best. To bad she never got her shining moment. Love her first combo. I don't think we'll see another yang Bo anytime soon.
those split jumps are amazing. she doesn't even have to lift her front leg. her back leg does all the work. she had amazing flexibility in her back and everywhere else for that matter.
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It's her body type at the age moreso than her form that make her so pretty. When she grew up by 1992 with the same form, she just didnt look as pretty.
i just have to say it again, BEST BEAM WORKER EVER. this is my absolute favorite beam routine ever. no one has her form and i don't think anyone will. many have come close like the equally ill fated mo huilan who was never able to master the dismount on beam just like yang bo.
when i see ill fated, i mean both mo and yang could have/should have dominated beam because their routine, form, and difficulty was far and away better than every one else. the judges were very willing to give them10 had they hit. but they never did. when the time came they always had trouble with the dismount and hardly ever won
I believe this IS the best routine, bar none. Brilliantly constructed and brilliantly performed. The "mistakes" don't even bother me. Other people may have won all the medals over her, but Yang Bo was the very best beam worker ever.
Incredible. Chinese was so great on beam during 1989-1992, everyone has great difficulty, originality, flexibility and extension and artistry. What a pity that the Chinese girls nowadays are too busy to throw difficult yet boring tricks that they don't have time to train flexibility or even bother to arm-wave on the beam.
what's so sad that Chinese look like those who sacrifice medals for artistry. it's just a disappointment that they decide to take the 'more medals but less beautiful' way'
btw chinese today don't dance in their spare time. they pause. if you give them extra time they'd pause even longer.
describing the chinese team as the one which focuses on dance most is not accurate. look at the russians. they are the artistic ones.
I doubt they even put any effort into dancing, both on floor and beam. they kill the time by extending their leap series on the floor, and pausing on the beam
I wish the chinese would concentrate on dance and chereography more. they will look very very good if they can upgrade the artistry to match their characteristic good form.
lol dance and bad form have nothing to do with each other. A girl with good form doesn't mean she doesn't have to dance, a girl with bad form doesn't mean she can cover it up by dancing. They compliment each other. Good form+Good dancing=Good routine.
Of course, a girl with bad form doesnt mean she can cover it up by dancing or has to cover it up by dancing, but at least in 08 Beijing, the russian girls surely did.
To be fair, none of the russian girl can excute well 2.5+ twisting elements from the begining, glad to see they always do some dance after that to separate themselves from romanians and americans.
This is gymnastics. It's a sport, not a dance. I'd rather see intricate, difficult skills performed with good form than watch some girl try and show off her lines or wiggle her hips.
This is ARTISTIC gymnastics. If you want difficult and intricate skills, you can watch trampoline or power tumbling or stuffs like that. AG (in case you don't know, AG stands for artistic gymnastics) is about combining artistry with gymnastics, not just about who can perform the most difficult skills with the best form. Of course it matters, but it should not be the only thing that is important.
There is the name and there is the substance. If this was artistic, why don't you expect the men to do more dance? Why is this complaint limited to women? Good execution doesn't necessarily mean good dancing. And good dancing, or 'artistry' as you put it, doesn't necessarily mean good form. If you want to see long, fluid lines, or good choreography, go and watch ballet, or Cirque du Soleil. Gymnastics I think should be primarily about performing the skills attempted with good form.
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But how do you get that on events like rings? Or for that matter, parallel bars? I think if you can't get that from men, you shouldn't demand it from women.
Nonsense. Men can obviously achieve artistry. Surely there are events that you cannot do much on the artistic side, such as vault or rings, just like women, but you can, and you should, still be original to make it look interesting and exciting to watch. Being original can definitely attract more viewers, and also push the sport forward, and bring it to another level.
@sqekcx Although this is an old comment from a year ago, just watch Ioannis Melissanidis' routines on floor; he was a Greek gymnastic champion and won floor at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics; he shows not only unbelievable difficulty but balletic flair and polish and real artistry, unseen amonst mens gymnastics. Just looks for Ioannis Melissanidis (GRE) - 1996 Olympics EF FX on youtube. Its amazing and beautiful.
in women's gymnastics, dance is a big part of it. Besides, dance is a very difficult hobby/occupation to pursue, just like gymnastics. If you want power and intricate skills, watch Men's Artistic Gymnastics. The artistry is the composition of the routines. Of course, exception gymnasts like Shawn Johnson and Jordyn Weiber don't really dance LOL.
One of the best beam sets of all time; minus the wobble after the Yang Bo leap and the hop on the landing. If she competed today, though, even if I would have given her a perfect ten, the stupid judges would have probably counted her down to a 9.4 or so; the perfect ten is dead. Even Nastia's PacRim beam routine which was virtually perfect only received a 9.8.
Yang Bo was the epitome of chinese gymnastics beauty, they always have such graceful choreography mixed with beautifully executed skills. That series with a ruflova was phenomenal!
Sadly no. In beam finals at the 1989 Worlds Yang performed a perfect set-superior to this awesome one where she has some balance checks. At finals she nailed everything and it was breathtaking-until the dismount. She under rotated her double back and had to lunge forward taking at least FIVE running steps to before catching her balance. She scored a 9.80 and finished out of the medals.
On youtube the entire competition is available and you can see Yang was devastated simply crushed during the medal ceremony. It still hurts to see. :(
Only Yang Bo can make a bhs layout layout a breaktaking moment in a beam routine. We see that combination all the time, but Yang's is the only one with real "flair". That type of air sense and grace can't be taught, I imagine, because nobody else does it like her. And the layout rulfova combo is so forward-looking that they should have handed her a gold medal on the spot for, at the least, taking gymnastics to a more beautiful, thrilling place.
her mount was enough to impress me. Too bad no one ever performs it or any roundoff something mount. this prooves how innovative yang bo was with her mount and how extremely flexible she is
smeetfan1234 1 month ago
The mark of a great beam worker: making something insanely difficult look easy and making something easy look incredibly beautiful. To wit: That first leap series and the scale she does after the aerial walkover were just lovely. They are pretty elementary skills, but she gives them elegance and style. Man I wish she'd won the beam title here.
intldawn 2 months ago
This routine never gets old. It is so innovative, and performed so well. She is so gorgeous.
IseCastles 2 months ago
Breathtaking.....
ATTRACT1810 4 months ago
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90armandito90 5 months ago
Who in the hell disliked this? That's like disliking kittens!
glibster 6 months ago
Wow - she is amazing!
lauraITT 6 months ago
wow...the pass..backhandspring, layout and full twist......soooo difficult
eastrun 8 months ago
Sometimes I think that the Chinese gymnasts are so clean and lovely in their routines that the slightest of balance checks/bobbles gets them a larger deduction by comparison.
gravyboatK 9 months ago 3
@gravyboatK That is a very good point. I also think that the Chinese are the biggest perfectionists, so have much smaller margins of error. You will never see a Chinese gymnast attempt a skill with imperfect technique though, that's for sure.
bernardmvella 6 months ago 3
bravooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
magdutan 11 months ago
Her and Dudnik were soooo ahead of their time on beam. They never got what they deserved. Yang Bo is known as the queen of beam of course but they never got a beam gold at a world or olympic stage.
ShawnVikaKomova2012 11 months ago 2
@ShawnVikaKomova2012 It's so true!!
imshoppaholic 2 months ago
That was beautiful! Every skill almost performed with such perfection!
LaVoix555 1 year ago
This is simply divine. The height she gets on that full twist before going low to beam is amazing. She could have made a cup of tea between completing the twist and hitting them beam. this is one routine I'll always watch over and over and never get bored of....<3 Yang Bo!
getnasty08 1 year ago
okay can someone clear this up for me?
When Yang Bo does her Yang Bo jump (when she throws her head back), she does it with her back leg straight. All other gymnasts i have seen do it with their knee bent like their trying to make a circle in the air with their head, neck, and leg. Is that a variation of the jump, are they trying to do it with their leg straight, or is it another jump entirely? Thanks in advance!
bbhouk1 1 year ago
@bbhouk1 The Yang Bo jump is a split jump with head thrown back. What you see a lot is a switch ring leap, aka a Liu Xuan. I, believe, she first did it at the 2000 olympics in Sydney. When the head goes back and one or both legs are bent it's then a ring jump or leap. Split jump with head thrown back in a Yang Bo jump. Hope that clears it up for you.
MNGYM26 1 year ago
@MNGYM26 thank you! so did Liu Xuan get the idea from Yang Bo?
thanks again, i was beginning to think NO ONE was going to reply!
bbhouk1 1 year ago
@bbhouk1 The one you saw must be a switch ring leap. Switch ring leap (which Liu Xuan did but not FIRST did in Sydney) has a foot switch before form ring status and is an E element (the highest level for leaps) in current COP, but Yang Bo is D. If a gymnast has the flexibility to form circle, she would prefer switch ring leap first. So that's why Yang Bo leap is not very popular even in Chinese gymnasts' routines.
sikaivy 1 year ago
1 person in the world has no taste.....
bbhouk1 1 year ago 2
she's good but i still prefer Nastia on the beam
dreamershavemorefun 1 year ago
@dreamershavemorefun
Watch the World Cup 1990 AA routine.
You still prefer Nastia? There is no way Nastia can even come close to touching Yang Bo on beam.
runtap123 1 year ago 5
@runtap123 Well i think they are both ver different gymnasts I fel like Nastia gives more on the Beam and Has different tricks and such But Yang brings an elegance hat no other gymnast has right now
dreamershavemorefun 1 year ago
@dreamershavemorefun I think Komova has that kind of grace. And her loso are much better than Nastia's. Nastia's best loso were in 2005.
GymchampZW 1 year ago
Despite her inconsistency, I would still rate her as the best beam worker ever. They should name this event after her !
CHOWCWT 1 year ago
Yang Bo is truly one of the best. To bad she never got her shining moment. Love her first combo. I don't think we'll see another yang Bo anytime soon.
IseCastles 1 year ago
those split jumps are amazing. she doesn't even have to lift her front leg. her back leg does all the work. she had amazing flexibility in her back and everywhere else for that matter.
bunnierabbits 1 year ago
Gymnast those days are alot better than ones nowadays, particularly with the likes of Nastia
tamchy2002 1 year ago
Besides the two balance checks and the dismount, perfect.
labsjoao 1 year ago
Excelente! de lo mejor que ha habido en la gimnasia artística. -Salvo Nastia-, en la actualidad las únicas gimnastas artísticas son las chinas.
lunamexitli 2 years ago
no pun intended about her artistry but her hand movements remind me of an artist at work on a painting!! : )
jamesbondrocks 2 years ago 4
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It's her body type at the age moreso than her form that make her so pretty. When she grew up by 1992 with the same form, she just didnt look as pretty.
suegirl145 2 years ago
Absolutely exquisite.
ralucagymnast 2 years ago
her layout step-outs are best i've seen... Even better than Nastia's!
skylark1121 2 years ago 6
a lotta gymnasts have better losos than nastia lol
lingketon 2 years ago 23
I wouldn't even compare Nastia to her.
gymnasticsloverxoxo 2 years ago 10
i just have to say it again, BEST BEAM WORKER EVER. this is my absolute favorite beam routine ever. no one has her form and i don't think anyone will. many have come close like the equally ill fated mo huilan who was never able to master the dismount on beam just like yang bo.
agators212 2 years ago 35
@agators212 I'm curious, why was she ill fated? What happened, and what happened to Mo Huilan?
Kulpa71 1 year ago
@Kulpa71
when i see ill fated, i mean both mo and yang could have/should have dominated beam because their routine, form, and difficulty was far and away better than every one else. the judges were very willing to give them10 had they hit. but they never did. when the time came they always had trouble with the dismount and hardly ever won
agators212 1 year ago
@agators212 Ah, I see - thanks
Kulpa71 1 year ago
the best beam worker ever, unfortunatel she never was able to put it together to win the big meats.
agators212 2 years ago
Watching Bo on this BB routine again. It's like she's tumbling on the ground, that four inch wide beam might as well be a football field.
longdoydoy 2 years ago 2
This is one of the best balance beam routine in the history of gymnastics.
irafa2 2 years ago 3
I believe this IS the best routine, bar none. Brilliantly constructed and brilliantly performed. The "mistakes" don't even bother me. Other people may have won all the medals over her, but Yang Bo was the very best beam worker ever.
Vermontist 2 years ago 3
Incredible. Chinese was so great on beam during 1989-1992, everyone has great difficulty, originality, flexibility and extension and artistry. What a pity that the Chinese girls nowadays are too busy to throw difficult yet boring tricks that they don't have time to train flexibility or even bother to arm-wave on the beam.
sqekcx 2 years ago 3
in the old code, there's 90 seconds, and only about 7-9 elements needed in total.
in the 08 code, there's 10 elements went into account to build up the A score. and now, there's 8 elements needed.
the new code is better, but i think the FIG should give their more time to do some dance.
yueshili 2 years ago
what's so sad that Chinese look like those who sacrifice medals for artistry. it's just a disappointment that they decide to take the 'more medals but less beautiful' way'
btw chinese today don't dance in their spare time. they pause. if you give them extra time they'd pause even longer.
sqekcx 2 years ago 2
Between medals and beauty, i think everyone will go for medals. Gymnastics is not football or tennis, artistry wont earn their anything.
As a team, they're still the one that concentrate on dance the most.
yueshili 2 years ago
describing the chinese team as the one which focuses on dance most is not accurate. look at the russians. they are the artistic ones.
I doubt they even put any effort into dancing, both on floor and beam. they kill the time by extending their leap series on the floor, and pausing on the beam
I wish the chinese would concentrate on dance and chereography more. they will look very very good if they can upgrade the artistry to match their characteristic good form.
sqekcx 2 years ago 2
Russians on beam, really ?
Russians on floor do too much dance and that's why none of them had an A score over 6, the dance they do is essential for covering their bad forms.
yueshili 2 years ago
lol dance and bad form have nothing to do with each other. A girl with good form doesn't mean she doesn't have to dance, a girl with bad form doesn't mean she can cover it up by dancing. They compliment each other. Good form+Good dancing=Good routine.
Chinese have the difficulty and the execution
Russian have the artistry
It would be grat if they are combined
sqekcx 2 years ago 2
Of course, a girl with bad form doesnt mean she can cover it up by dancing or has to cover it up by dancing, but at least in 08 Beijing, the russian girls surely did.
To be fair, none of the russian girl can excute well 2.5+ twisting elements from the begining, glad to see they always do some dance after that to separate themselves from romanians and americans.
yueshili 2 years ago
I also think it's sexist to complain that the women aren't dancing enough when the men never have this type of complaint.
tillhumanvoices 2 years ago
IMO men should have artistry as well. I seldom watch MAG because it is boring. There's no artistry whatsoever.
sqekcx 2 years ago 5
This is gymnastics. It's a sport, not a dance. I'd rather see intricate, difficult skills performed with good form than watch some girl try and show off her lines or wiggle her hips.
tillhumanvoices 2 years ago
This is ARTISTIC gymnastics. If you want difficult and intricate skills, you can watch trampoline or power tumbling or stuffs like that. AG (in case you don't know, AG stands for artistic gymnastics) is about combining artistry with gymnastics, not just about who can perform the most difficult skills with the best form. Of course it matters, but it should not be the only thing that is important.
sqekcx 2 years ago 4
There is the name and there is the substance. If this was artistic, why don't you expect the men to do more dance? Why is this complaint limited to women? Good execution doesn't necessarily mean good dancing. And good dancing, or 'artistry' as you put it, doesn't necessarily mean good form. If you want to see long, fluid lines, or good choreography, go and watch ballet, or Cirque du Soleil. Gymnastics I think should be primarily about performing the skills attempted with good form.
tillhumanvoices 2 years ago
Why do you have the impression that I do not require artistry in MAG?
I watch gymnastics because I want a mixture of artistry and amazing tricks. I guess I've stated that already though.
And I've never said good execution = good dancing = good form.
sqekcx 2 years ago 5
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So, what, you want the men to start dancing during floor routines? Boogie on the p-bars?
tillhumanvoices 2 years ago
I want interesting chereography and good choice of elements.
sqekcx 2 years ago 6
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But how do you get that on events like rings? Or for that matter, parallel bars? I think if you can't get that from men, you shouldn't demand it from women.
tillhumanvoices 2 years ago
Nonsense. Men can obviously achieve artistry. Surely there are events that you cannot do much on the artistic side, such as vault or rings, just like women, but you can, and you should, still be original to make it look interesting and exciting to watch. Being original can definitely attract more viewers, and also push the sport forward, and bring it to another level.
sqekcx 2 years ago 6
@sqekcx Although this is an old comment from a year ago, just watch Ioannis Melissanidis' routines on floor; he was a Greek gymnastic champion and won floor at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics; he shows not only unbelievable difficulty but balletic flair and polish and real artistry, unseen amonst mens gymnastics. Just looks for Ioannis Melissanidis (GRE) - 1996 Olympics EF FX on youtube. Its amazing and beautiful.
ralucagymnast 1 year ago
Men showing dance elements on the floor is ACTUALLY a great idea. I think it should be required.
JPBENEF 2 years ago
If men had to do so I'd totally go for women doing it.
tillhumanvoices 2 years ago
in women's gymnastics, dance is a big part of it. Besides, dance is a very difficult hobby/occupation to pursue, just like gymnastics. If you want power and intricate skills, watch Men's Artistic Gymnastics. The artistry is the composition of the routines. Of course, exception gymnasts like Shawn Johnson and Jordyn Weiber don't really dance LOL.
hitsugaya1001 2 years ago
Wasn't Bo incredible?!!
She just flows through her routine, no hesitations even when she had errors.
longdoydoy 3 years ago 5
wow nice form!
haha i dont think ive ever seen her, shes amazing!
SUGARrushx8 3 years ago
One of the best beam sets of all time; minus the wobble after the Yang Bo leap and the hop on the landing. If she competed today, though, even if I would have given her a perfect ten, the stupid judges would have probably counted her down to a 9.4 or so; the perfect ten is dead. Even Nastia's PacRim beam routine which was virtually perfect only received a 9.8.
QueenieQue 3 years ago
It's so sad she could never hit at Worlds or the Olympics in BB finals. :(
audie83 3 years ago 2
I love that her layouts had perfect splits on top. Nowadays I feel like their legs just split enough to be considered a "walk-out"
beautiful =)
monkeychow212 3 years ago 5
Absolutely GORGEOUS & FANTASTIC; even nowadays she would have scored high.
versace2527 4 years ago
even now she would have got a 10 on the b score
backflipboy27 4 years ago 2
can anyone accumalate her A-score?
angel2116 4 years ago
Yang Bo was the epitome of chinese gymnastics beauty, they always have such graceful choreography mixed with beautifully executed skills. That series with a ruflova was phenomenal!
Yen0389 4 years ago 2
the chinese always have beautiful beam routines. did she win efs?
GymChicksRock 4 years ago
Sadly no. In beam finals at the 1989 Worlds Yang performed a perfect set-superior to this awesome one where she has some balance checks. At finals she nailed everything and it was breathtaking-until the dismount. She under rotated her double back and had to lunge forward taking at least FIVE running steps to before catching her balance. She scored a 9.80 and finished out of the medals.
audie83 3 years ago
On youtube the entire competition is available and you can see Yang was devastated simply crushed during the medal ceremony. It still hurts to see. :(
audie83 3 years ago
Only Yang Bo can make a bhs layout layout a breaktaking moment in a beam routine. We see that combination all the time, but Yang's is the only one with real "flair". That type of air sense and grace can't be taught, I imagine, because nobody else does it like her. And the layout rulfova combo is so forward-looking that they should have handed her a gold medal on the spot for, at the least, taking gymnastics to a more beautiful, thrilling place.
stgybo 4 years ago 2
Wow how beautiful, such long legs and flexibility there I saw the elements of two futur mounts, Elvire Teza's and Hollie Vise's
isa1285 4 years ago
Thanks so much for this! I'd never seen Bo's 1989 BB routine in the AA! :)
audie83 4 years ago
She never had much trouble hitting beam in AA...
sazarific 4 years ago
stunning
juliehashipbones 4 years ago