Are these skills even possible? 

About the only one in this video that I think could possibly (?) be performed with an acceptable risk is the Triple Twisting Double Tuck Dismount on UB. The rest I agree, look way too dangerous. Nobody's watching gymnastics to see a gymnast break their neck or back, and something like that can actually turn people away from the sport.

I don’t think we’ll see the Carey get added to the code. Not sure if she’s trained it since we saw that video in 2021 but she absolutely looked like she was about to break her ankles

To be fair, the Mo salto is pretty dangerous too

The Counter-Kim would be another amazing one to see resurrected.

one I'd actually like to see is the Ma dismount off UB. It's an F, so on par with the double double for difficulty, but quite possibly the most elusive skill in the code. Pretty sure she's the only one whose done it in competition

Yes plsss

yeah sure 😊

@@gymnasticsmasterclass 🤩🥰😃

of course, when you are not risking a finger

Fusuke actually catches the Double Kovacs, making it already possible. This video concept focuses more on attempts (close or not to being successful). But thank you for your input and I’ll definitely add it to other video concepts! 😊

@@gymnasticsmasterclass You're welcome, thank you for your answer)

Forward somersaults are way more dangerous than backwards. For one thing, backward flips are much easier to land. They usually go like this: roundoff + back handspring + somersault. The roundoff back handspring adds momentum and easily connects into literally any backward flipping skill. But to execute something like a triple front, you would need a front handspring/bounder. This is a problem because front handsprings/bounders are not as easy as roundoff back handsprings and it's much more difficult to generate enough power for such a dangerous skill. Plus, forward flips have a blind landing, which make them much harder to land. It's definitely more likely a gymnast will over/under rotate in a forward somersault than a backward somersault. It's also more deadly to mess up a forward flip; under-rotate and you will probably snap your neck, over-rotate and you'll land on the back of your back or your spine. However, for a backward flip, under-rotate and you'll land on your hands and knees, over-rotate and you'll aggressively roll to your back or land on your butt. Hope this answers your question!

My question was a rhetorical one. I honestly just don’t see how a triple front is sufficiently more dangerous that the FIG would not recognize it while recognizing triple back variations. Your point about the mechanics are taken, but for some gymnasts (and zapata is definitely among these), front tumbling isn’t so impossibly difficult compared to backward. Some are more comfortable with front tumbling than the average gymnast. They’d likely be the ones attempting this (hence why we’re seeing Zapata being the one training it). Blind landing and mechanics explain why a triple front is more difficult than a backwards triple back, but they do not justify not permitting one and permitting the other.

@@jorgebonilla2234 I get your way of thinking, it's just as a former gymnast I can say that for me and my teammates, front tumbling was greatly disliked and more difficult to execute than back tumbling. Our coaches let us attempt double backs and yurchenkos into the pit, but not double fronts. I think it was because one of my coaches was a stuntman, and his co-worker snapped his neck attempting a double front into a pit because he hit the bottom of the pit, which was made of concrete. Our pit wasn't made of concrete; it was a trampoline, but still.

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Really? I don’t think any other vault comes close to how dangerous this one is. And it’s 3 flips instead of 2. Off of the hands no less. And the best he ever landed was on his butt. He even landed double fronts up to mats higher than the vault and still wasn’t even close to landing the triple. I think it was a good idea to ban it

Very high risk of landing on the head/neck if underrotated

@@marissaurias5116 it's all around just a ridiculously dangerous skill! Glad we got to see Radivilov perform it but also very glad it's banned!

I think they need to open up the scoring to allow many paths to the same destination... Allow more difficulties.. Or uncap dance difficulties or something. Everything becomes so repetitive.

Amen to that!!

So true.

@@amakasan2083 Uncapping dance elements is the most stupid suggestion EVER!!!! Especially considering the harsh e-scoring of this CoP. We will never see a tumbling pass more difficult than a DLO because acrobatics are more deduction heavy than dance elements. You need to realize that originality and creativity are NOT problems with a panacea-like solution. Uncapping dance elements will turn this regressing sport into a sad version of rhythmic gymnastics.

@@tambam6744 uncapping the dance element values and/combinations would and some originality. No one is asking for more dance elements.. Just let those who are capable of doing more difficulty do it. Gymnastics is so boring now. The harsh E scoring is pretty accurate most of the time when you look at the overall execution of gymnast from today.. Compared to 15 years ago. Originality and creativity is exactly the problem right now!!! Creating easier rules so everyone can have better execution of just dumb. Step your game up or get out..