Korbut Flip

She works those bars.

(Source: ljow)

tripletwistwithastaal:

My Top 20 Favorite Bar Routines

5. Ma Yanhong- 1984 Olympics- Event Finals

Perfect 10 routine. To me these routines were the bars are closer together seem more difficult then they do today. Clean throughout and she hit her dismount :)

One thing I like about the bars close together is that you have to be really flexible to do a tkatchev, so they look a lot cooler than the ones now. Her dismount is one of my favorites, and it’s a shame that gymnasts don’t perform it today. It’s completely possible on modern bars and it has an E rating (I think) so I wonder why it’s not performed more often. It’s also really cute how she bows afterwards.

Great double double. I always love it when gymnasts land tumbling passes like that without their head in between their knees. Zamo’s also very expressive in this, and all, of her routines.

amygym:

Kelly Garrison-Steves (USA) in the 1988 Olympics EF. She only got 7th?! I love all the unique moves that you would never see in today’s routines, like the semi-Valdez, arabesque hold, back walkover-half thingy, and forward roll. Unlike what we see today, with the exception perhaps of Mohini Bhardwaj, Kelly competed at the Olympics AFTER she had competed NCAA, under Becky Switzer at OU. I believe she was also the first woman to score a Perfect 10.0 on beam in the NCAA!

I like her arms, too.