Shannon Miller - 1991 Worlds EF - Balance Beam

[PhenixJoe]

That mount is INCREDIBLE.

[ShawnVikaKomova2012]

I could watch her wrists all day...

[msms68]

did she medal

[metsdudenj]

@msms68 no. fifth or sixth place

[AimeeBlamey]

this was the most beautiful / best gymnastics video i have seen ever.

[kimster521]

I'm a big fan of Shawn Johnson but Shannon Miller's tumbling pass is way more impressive.

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

Such original routines in this EF, Gutsu, Okino, miller, yang bo, and yet bogi wins gold. Ohhh what it means to have a reputation...

[russianskatingfan]

@gymnasticsloverxoxo Yang Bo and Millre couldnt win gold with their botched dismounts. I agree Gutsu and Okino were better than Bogi though.

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

@russianskatingfan I know neither could I have medalled I was just pointing out the amount of difficulty and originality in this event final and yet the simplest routine takes gold.

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

@luv4cookie1 How come milo and okino are not in your medal listing?

[kiwigymnast16]

you can tell that she upgraded her skills for the olympics! and her skills in 1991 were still AMAZING>. :)

[MegaBabycakes12]

wow incredible she is so flexible and outgoing

[QuadPencheeTurn]

They need to bring this code back. Especially the rewarding of four skills in a row. This competition was one of my favorite beam finals ever. With the '89 Worlds being a close second.

[kras118]

i miss Millers mounts! she changed it to a punch front for the next cycle, which was smart, SV wise, but I thought her handstand-combo-flip mounts were so pretty

[puaalaaumoe]

especially with a needle scale like the one she did... incredible control and position.

[chitownslygirl]

I have always loved this choreography.

[htownhomie06]

gutsu, okino, yang and miller had the most original sets. it's a travesty that boguinskaya took the title this year with the most basic set.

[mrparke007]

It's obviously more difficult to connect any two skills rather than doing them singly. What I mean by "over the top" is that the finished position is PAST vertical in Yang Bo's connected front aerial, whereas Shannon's finishes straight up (or "at the top").

[molly2222]

Who won this event?

[mrparke007]

Boginskya, then Gutsu. Shannon went all the way to 6th with that slip on the dismount! It's crazy how tight it was back then.

[TikiBoy382]

@mrparke007 and to think she was doing a more difficult dismount than most of them! I love her extension...her extension on beam was always so beautiful, beautiful & graceful lines! :)

[mrparke007]

God... she really does that front aerial PERFECTLY. I think it's the way she finishes the skill, such extension. It's such a common trick nowadays, but Shannon really did it the right way. She was so articulate in her movement.

[puaalaaumoe]

Check out the Chinese women on beam. They do some nice front aerials!:)

[mrparke007]

Yeah, I know, but Shannon is SO young in this video, and it's really rare for an American to have such elegant execution. Plus, I was trying to speak from a historical perspective. Back then, front aerials really weren't common on beam.

[puaalaaumoe]

True. She was quite graceful! But even in the time of this routine, Yang Bo of China really did have a spectacular front aerial in her routine! :)

[mrparke007]

It's different, though, because Yang Bo carries the front aerial over into a needle scale, which made her go over the top with the skill. Miller was just executing an aerial that was unconnected... and it's incredible.

[puaalaaumoe]

ok :)

[todosobretodo]

Yes, Shannon really does exemplary work on the beam. I think that the Chinese women learned their elegance in part from having seen it from Miller.

[intldawn]

Oh I don't agree with that. The Chinese were known for their great beam workers long before Shannon came along. Think Yang Bo in 1989. The Chinese and Shannon both had styles and techniques all their own.

[LCAmarkymark]

@intldawn Yep..Yang and Shannon were kind of in the same time period though so if yang bo came first it wasn't by much.

[ShawnVikaKomova2012]

@mrparke007 Nadia did a front aerial in Montreal.

[mrparke007]

@ShawnVikaKomova2012 I meant during this period in gymnastics. In Nadia's era, that was a very common skill on beam.

[ShawnVikaKomova2012]

@mrparke007 Ah, yes.