Artistic Swimming Olympic Qualifier - USA's most complex lift landing ever? 

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The only limit is the mind.

@@ThePerchance and physical ability...

Honestly with practice and having practice with cadence will come in handy, alot of communication behind the scenes

@@ThePerchance and oxygen

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Right cause after swimming I need a full nap just to get my life together

Treading? Shoot... im winded just watching 👀them

I can tread water but not be as coordinated and controlled as them. That's another level.

I bet it's even more difficult than diving

I bet you if men did it, it'd probably get more attention. It's absolutely incredible and difficult, and these athletes are certainly the fittest on earth with the most incredible lungs 👏

@@theAdamAronggear personally I don't think you should compare the two, the only similarity is the fact they're both in water, can we just appreciate the difficulty and beauty of sports without putting other ones down?

@@nick_h143 true , that as at the world championships now the water polo is on too and you have to be super fit , fast and strong to play at the elite level. How is that I know because I was part of the coaching team that Won Gold in Sydney 2000, the Australian women.

​@@kokim4209Some men do do it.😅

Actually, sound travels better underwater. There are speakers in the pool, otherwise, you'd be correct. They wouldn't hear any sound from outside the pool. 😉🙂

@@davidgoldstein1526 i remember when there was a transition to underwater speakers at the high school level. Massive change in routine difficulty.

You hear better under the water.

What!! Even when they flip her in the air and catch her landing?

@@x-x101 YESSSS

That's the most impressive part for me

Wow, I didn't know that. I think know that you mentioned it. I might have heard it years ago, but I forgot. That makes it more amazing.

I was about to say it seems like they're doing a lot of dancing on their feet.

So I played high tier division 1 water polo in college, and our school also had one of the best synchro teams in the country as well. We trained in the same pool as them and let me be the first to tell you, those women made us all feel like we couldnt tread water to save our lives. They are amazing athletes.

I used to also do competitive swimming and man these women train just as hard and also have to learn choreography while doing it and all without goggles, incredible.

Same! And I just realized that can’t even wear goggles! Not only can my eyes not stand chlorine, my eyesight is so bad I need prescription goggles during practice. I can’t imagine racing without goggles!

Its like combining swimming with gymnastics, dance, and competitive cheerleading. Impressive indeed!

@@greywaren6034 bruh same! I have to wear prescription goggles too Hkh

Ssss

Team USA got so much better in it. Hope this Olympics they will compete back to back with italy and russia!

Me either n looking at the scores I somehow knew they were disrespectful to that performance

Check out Spain from the last Olympics. It was sick.

@@olgapolygalova5369 They are no way near even fourth place

Fun fact! They aren’t allowed to touch the bottom of the pool so all the lifts are just pure leg strength by pushing themselves up through swimming!

I used to do synchro: Competition days are days you just open your eyes underwater because you *have to*

@@johannasildam3835 yep! super not fun lol

I think some of them wear contacts with a very low prescription too so it’s not as painful to open their eyes underwater. Thought I read that somewhere?

@@jodinewhauser9966 interesting!!

@@jodinewhauser9966 Nah, I don't know any kind of contacts besides maybe scleras (the really large ones, but they're not approved for use all around the world) that would stay in underwater... Maybe the hard ones, not the flexible ones? I'm not sure.

hello!! i am a synchronized swimmer and can answer your questions. like a lot of dance sports, its expected that you start at a really young age to get "good" or have any chance of competing professionally (not that i have ever or will ever compete professionally lol). i liked to swim and dance, so my mom recommended it to me and signed me up for classes when i was about 8. i liked it so i kept going. also, they can hear the music underwater! there are speakers down there. they stay synchronized based on counts of 8 rather than the music though. theyre expected to keep swimming even if the music cuts out.

I was a competitive swimmer and had 8 years of classical ballet; synchronized swimming seemed the natural next sport! You can hear the music underwater. The training was difficult but I loved it!

@@lillianb1516 Very interesting, I also wondered everything that KJ Ujhazy was wondering, thanks!

Competitive swimmer and did ballet for years. My high school had it as a sport and I had a lot of fun. I was the only competitive swimmer on that team. Most were gymnasts. Underwater speakers!

@@lillianb1516 You must be incredibly fit, strong & agile. That’s a tough sport indeed with water resistance & treading water constantly to add to all the moves.

It’s the years of breath training they have to do

They actually have prosthetic gills put in. Incredible new technology.

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They’re extremely in shape.

And they can’t touch the floor either

Makeup is waterproof and hair is put into tight bun secured by many many bobby pins then slathered in Knox gelatin which dries like shellac. My daughter was a synchronized swimmer for 8 years. practices were between 14 & 20 hours a week depending on age. Unbelievable stamina conditioning and athleticism. It still amazes me!

@@dorish.712 oh wow cool to know. That gel must be powerful lol even gorilla snot gel isn’t powerful enough for water.

@@dorish.712 oh wait you said gelatin. Like what’s used to make jello and stuff?

For the makeup, it’s all waterproof, for the hair it’s Knox gelatin, for the synchronization it’s counts

Yep...subjects to some trying to keep certain teams out of top competition?? Just got to wonder...they deserved to be in the Olympics...

@@user-bw3fl7fj9w I agree this was amazing.

Maybe you can help me. This was an amazing routine. Can you help me understand the scoring process. I'm used to the 10s like gymnastics. Sorry for the ignorance.

@@avishagisrael6386 maybe you can see the scoreboard at the end. This video is a free routine. There's 3 main scoring. For difficulty (technical aspect, highness of your eggbitter position, leg position). Art impression is for the artistic aspect (choreography, expression). And execution is how well you put those together in the routine, n how synchronized the move. Its kinda tricky n complicated. This goes as well as the technical routine. But for tech. R, there's couple of Requirements of movements that you have to achieve. For artistic swimming, the perfect score is 100. I remember that the highest score in whole olympics is around 98-99(?) I'm a former artistic swimming, sorry if its too long. I try to explain each scoring

It's so unfortunate, this routine was incredible! They missed out by something insane like 0.1. This routine was by far one of the best of the day, but they just are not as strong as other countries in their technical routine

Wait till you see the Russian team 😂. My mouth was literally wide open when I watched Russia's artistic swimming team perform

@@arrietty1619 I know righttt the Russians are always out of this world with their routine and skills but I feel like the US can be a serious contender for the medal with this robot routine. Simply amazing!

@@arrietty1619 I just did. They were no better. It was all legs

@@brittanytatman6318 Their routines are harder. Try staying upside down for that long

@@arrietty1619 I have. I used to do gymnastics and did swimming in college. But my point remains. This team had many more tricks and flips involved

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Same here. I was just thinking this. I was not expecting this in the slightest. The last time I saw synchronized swimming I was just a kid and it was definitely not like what I just watched (still brilliant nonetheless) I am still in shock with how far the sport has come.

If you think this is impressive, you should see the Russian and Chinese team.

Me too. This has definitely progressed in leaps & bounds (literally) since the last time I watched synchronised swimming. So much more acrobatic & active. Amazing!

Agree! There is no art in this! They are good at what they do but it is not beautiful or artistic. Just a nice bunch of tricks. I prefer “ your grandmother’s synchronized swimming.”

@@janeflip1 Don't think that's what that person was saying. They caught someone after they tossed her in the air and they still scored low. This IS art, watch the older Olympics if you want your grandma's synchronized swimming.

Really? I didn't know. Which one would you say was their best team? I would like to see more

@@sandrajyg1999 I've always liked the free routine combination from 2006..IMO, but I'm sure there are more.

@@corrie6744 It seems that because people try to cram in as much as possible during the time limits, there is no more room for slow movements. I prefer the greater artistic expression allowed when slow movements are included, and not just required figures in technical routines.

This did NOT WIN?! 😱 Which team did?

@@jyll Obviously, the better teams did

@@arineems6059 yeah, Italy played after I watched this haha so I understand now

@@jyll not a fan of this sport, but if you look at the difficulty score of USA 26.3 vs Italy 28 then no prize for guessing why Italy won over USA

.....what? LiTerally, What? Are you rooting for them or not? Do you litter with friends or something?

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Their team routine was fantastic but they faltered in their tech routine. The scores are combined free and tech, so bc of that fumble in tech it just wasn't in the cards :(

@@srishtipatel561 I’ve never been exposed to synchronize swim, if you don’t mind explaining but I’m curious as to what you mean/what techniques they look for. I know timing and synchronization is definitely huge but what else is there?

@@forevarever generally there's three panels: difficulty, artistic impression, and execution. Height in the water and lifts add to difficulty, as well as distance traveled. Artistic impression can include creative choreography, facial expressions, makeup + hair, etc. Lastly, execution is just how well the techniques (jumps, lifts, hybrids etc.) are performed. Hope that helps!

@@forevarever I might have misunderstood- there are two events. Tech team and free team are two different routines. The final scores are the total score of the two routines. USA did great in free, but they fumbled in tech team. Free team has more creative freedom, but tech has required elements and is more restrictive in what you can do.

@@srishtipatel561 ohhhhh that makes so much more sense! I interpreted it as each team are judged based on tech + free which then the outcome will be their final score kind of like figure skating and other sports haha. Thank you so much!

So agree! They were cheated!!

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Yes ... It's great...

Yeah, wasn’t as good as theirs. They were cheated out of qualifying for Olympics.

italy, you can look their FINA routine up. and then ROC won at olympics

It sucked compared to this.

Clearly you know nothing about synchronized swimming, this routine was just a hot mess, nowhere near a 90 level.

definitely

@@spandau4065 :/

90!? You clearly don't do synchro or haven't done it long

@@spandau4065 i wouldnt go as far to say hot mess but i agree not 90 level

Same, this was amazing on artistic side, but I understand the judges. On the difficulty side were the lifts good, but the rest was maybe a bit too slow in comparison with the other teams. But still a great routine, and I would give them more points!

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I think so too.

It wasnt hard enough thats why

Lol. It's always a conspiracy for some people.

Not biased at all.. check out the 2016 rio olympics artistic swimming replay.. its magnificient. This competition is cut throat..

@@river6208 I am sorry, but you don’t know what you are talking about. I didn’t see anyone else doing the high splits, double backflips (like a train) one after another, and lifts where the girl jumps like a gymnast on a balance beam and sticks the landing, as well as lifts at the very end and all done with amazing precision. This was a very difficult and demanding routine. Nope! This was stolen from them and I am disgusted that lesser teams like China and Russia (who cheat, btw) got in. I am a judge for synchronized swim and I know what I am talking about. That performance deserved a score close to perfection. Listen to the announcer, even she sees nothing wrong with that routine.

No, Greek's overall elements are much better than USA, and Greek is higher in the Technical routine which help them to get the spot.

@@spandau4065 Maybe, but I personally found their performance boring compared to this one.

@@tnsloek it’s not just about the choreography but the height and other technical stuff (+difficulty) count more

@@oxi6805 the point is that, to the lay person, no one cares about any of those aspects, they just care about which routine is "cooler", and this one was cooler.

@@spandau4065 i'm a goose, and i can make better patterns than greece did. embarrassing for greece.

There are underwater speakers, but still this sport is EXTREMELY underrated

Damn. Lol 😝

Imagine them in bikinis. Toned is an understatement

Most people in America look forward to watching the Americans...surely you realize this isn't the case in the rest of the world?

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