A great quote from The Couch Gymnast:
… you should treat Mostepanova fan’s montages and code videos as your GYMNASTICS EDUCATION!
… if you want to see some old gymnastics, even just to see how we have arrived at the state the sport is in now (in good and bad ways) Mostepanovafan’s videos show some of the greatest, most innovative, graceful and influential routines in gymnastics history. …
A good point.
I appreciated the Mostepanova fan videos more than any other montages over the past year or so. You will too if you feel the new code “absolutely murdered the sport of gymnastics“.
Here’s a sample. Kicking it OLD SCHOOL on Bars. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Ask any of the best gymnasts in the world today to WRAP the low bar. And do Tkachev in the same routine. … They will laugh you out of the gym.
See more like this on the Mostepanova fan YouTube channel.
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im 18 and have never seem one of those wrap things in person but i can only imagine the bruises that come with learning that skill.
are you kiddin’ me? back hip circle immediate full for dismount, back hip circle immediate back salto off low bar?
wow….for you youngsters, THIS IS WHY so many of us prefer “old school” women’s gymnastics!
I think there’s a good reason the wrap skills are no longer done.
I gotta say, though, Kim Gwang Suk’s routine was pretty effin’ sweet.
The wrap on bar was an excellent equalizer. I wasn’t the strongest gymnast but my bar routine still had a decent level of skill because I could wrap into numerous skills. ie. wrap low bar to catch in the high bar with a full twist to mixed grip, in bar beat low bar to full twist beat to uprise, wrap low bar to what used to be called a hecht dismount(?), etc… I could go on.
My girls think it was crazy. I did almost always have bruising from the inbar twisting but I don’t remember it being very bad – I loved these tricks. We used the guys parallel bar pads to go on the low bar when working the in bar tricks.
The closer bars made for some very interesting routine variation at the lower levels that you almost NEVER see today. For a provincial level 1 -3 routine, the lack of variety almost makes it look like we’ve brought back compulsories!
I also remember that the inbar kip was usually the first kip most girls could do. It didn’t require a glide swing – just a good kip action.
Once in a while, you would hear a resounding crack across the gym when the hips hit the bar. It was never as bad as it sounded though.
What did suck is when you beat the bar on the wrong setting. Unfortunately, with teenagers screwing around in a gym – that can happen.
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