Hey Kitty Girl wrote:
6403 wrote:
I watched Biles beam routine and didn't see where any of the moves were that different from the Comaneci era.
Comaneci on the beam was ridiculous, I don't think there has ever been anybody with that kind of command.
Uh yeah no dude! For one, ur comparing 2 different eras/basically 2 different sports!
For another, Biles' dismount off beam is considered super hard to do on the floor. She does it on beam (4" wide) with almost no momentum. There's no way Comaneci could've done it. Comaneci wasn't training for power, she was training for cutesy and delicateness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyzdDu7ZHz8&t=70ssurveysays wrote:
I don't think you understand that there is more to the execution score than the landing.
This has been explained to him already yet he is still trying it. So obnoxious
Well, first of all, she didn't "do it", because she fell backward, so she did not "stick the landing".
And you are indulging in not a little bit of hyperbole by saying Comaneci was going for "cutesy". That's just ridiculous.
She stuck three consecutive what they used to call "aerials" (don't know if jargon has changed) without so much as a bobble, and I distinctly remember the judges couldn't believe what they were seeing. That was about the furthest thing from "cutesy" you can get. It was so rock solid that it looked like she was doing it on the floor.
The gap between then and now is just not as big as you say it is. No, I am not a "technical expert" in gymnastics, but I know what I am seeing, and I just did not see a "different sport" when I watched Biles routine and what Comaneci was able to do.