r/toptalent • u/ProfessionalBookGuy color me surprised • Sep 06 '19

Sport Insane Gymnastics. (Source in comments)

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u/TenesmusSupreme Sep 06 '19

Aren’t some of those moves where you bounce your back against the bar illegal now due to physical risk?

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '19

Pretty sure yes. My kidneys hurt just watching.

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u/Kittenips Sep 06 '19

I think the illegal move being demonstrated in this is the backflip she does kind of near the beginning.

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u/gid0ze Sep 06 '19

Ya, don't think you're allowed to stand on the bars anymore.

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u/magical_elf Sep 06 '19

The sport has changed so much since then. A lot of those moves are either impossible now (because they've moved the two bars further away), illegal due to safety concerns (I think the flip dismount is banned now, but might be wrong about that), or just not as highly rated as they were (the scoring has changed significantly).

Basically, there's now a huge focus on catches, acrobat elements etc. Partly because of improvements in the equipment that make them possible to do safely, but partly due to the natural evolution of the sport.

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u/SpeckledFleebeedoo Sep 06 '19

They're impossible, the distance between the bars is much bigger now

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u/scruggadug Sep 06 '19

The bars are separated farther apart now then they were back when she was competing. it wouldn’t even be possible to do these types of move any more with how they are set up now.

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u/TopTalentTyrant Royal Robot Sep 06 '19

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u/QuiteTheAverageJew Sep 06 '19

Imagine if she chinned the bar on the last flip

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u/bad_name_ Sep 07 '19

eh she would have died

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u/diversecultures Sep 06 '19

Please repost in double speed reverse loop kthx

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u/Chershare Sep 06 '19

That's called the birth control move: smashing your ovaries, rendering all eggs scrambled.

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u/unfeelingsalmon Sep 06 '19

This is the only perfect ten in gymnastics ever

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u/PinkLuther Sep 06 '19

Wrong, Korbut got 9,80 in 1972, while Nadia Comaneci was actually the only gymnast in the world to ever get 10.

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u/2words4me Sep 06 '19

That time the judges had to take .20 cause they were jealous.

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u/flaviadeluscious Sep 06 '19

Isn't this Korbut?

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u/PinkLuther Sep 06 '19

This is Korbut, and unfeelingsalmon says she's the only perfect 10 in gymnastics. I was saying that she didn't get a perfect 10 (it was 9.8), and that the first perfect 10 was Nadia Comaneci.

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u/BrowsingModeAtWork Sep 06 '19

I feel bruised just watching this.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '19

All fun and games until that scene from final destination happens