Natalia Yurchenko - 1983 Worlds AA - Floor Exercise

[intldawn]

She was terrific. I love how she always appears to be moving in slow motion, even through the faster choreography. She is so deliberate and polished in all her movements. Every move was finished. Beautiful gymnast.

[MTVMANN]

@intldawn I agree! Even her tumbles seem to rotate slow! How did she do it?

[MrJST94]

if i just compare this floor exercise with one of today I think that this is harder....not with tumbling but you have to realize that th flor is almost a trampoline nowdays....in 1983 the first springs came. such a big diffrence.

[faeryquene]

@MrJST94 Not to mention that TRUE dancing/leaps etc. on floor requires strength and endurance between the tumbling passes! :)

[LMA629]

i love her floor music :). it's very dramatic

[MrJST94]

in 1983 it was not compulsory to do that, when u go to the olympics of 1992 (floor exercise) you see no forward tumbels by tatiana gutsu...and she won the AA...that looks quite hard if she had a big diduction on floor. ;)

[LMA629]

were all her passes double backs??

[MrJST94]

@LMA629

im not 100% shure but her first pass was a full in piked.

the last one was a double tuck and the second to but it had a whip before.

[LMA629]

@MrJST94 they didn't have to do a forward tumbling pass back then?

[bbhouk1]

@LMA629

Pass:

1. full in (hard to tell from this angle, but i think it was tucked)

2. whip, BHS, double back

3. double back

[LMA629]

@bbhouk1 thanks :)

[LMA629]

@bbhouk1 and does her full in count as her twisting element? or were they not required to do both multiple somersaults and twisting elements back then?

[bbhouk1]

@LMA629

well this was only 1983 and as the first double backs were done in 76 and first full ins (in competition, that is) in 78, then im assuming multiple somersaults weren't required.

if Natalia won worlds this year with this floor routine, and i doubt she would have won had she had a major composition deduction, im pretty sure twisting elements weren't required back then.

[faeryquene]

@LMA629 The requirements were different back then. You could even get away with single and double twisting back flips, and one double back and still score out of a 10.00.

[TuesdayPillow]

I always found her presentation and choreo to be a little dry. Still, I'll take 100 Natalias over today's gymnasts.

[sochisochi]

perfect

[Evlprincesssara]

these old routines look so beautiful and clean.

[LMA629]

@Evlprincesssara it's because they didn't have the difficulty of today's gymnasts so they had more time to focus on being clean.

[garyj79]

@LMA629 - do you see a difference though in equipment today from 1983??? no wonder they didnt quite have the difficulty then - the gymnasts are aided sooooo much today! in comparison.

[LMA629]

@garyj79 Yes, I realize that. I know that's why they didn't have the difficulty of today's gymnasts. I wasn't trying to imply that they sucked or weren't as good as gymnasts today. They did the best with what they had.

[garyj79]

@LMA629- sorry, I wasnt implying you were saying they sucked but im sure your aware theres plenty of very 'naive' and unknowledgable ppl on here who DO imply that without actually appreciating the reasons why gymnastics years ago wasnt as difficult as today! lets be fair, Natalia prob had more artistic impression in her little finger than most of todays gymnasts including Nastia to a certain degree!

[Kevinsf]

She has a funny hop in her hurdle before the round-off, similar to the Chinese.

[NaomisCellPhone]

Remarkable! Bravo Natalia! A perfect 10.00 sealed the AA for her.

[elamantebilingue]

An unequivocally perfect 10.00!

[tmc8802]

did she win the AA?

[rebecca4717]

Yes she did ;O)

[faeryquene]

@tmc8802 Yes-Yurchenko is the 1983 World AA Champion. I believe she also debuted her famous vault at those championships or at Europeans the same year.