Daniela Silivas, Legendary Queen {Floor Routines 1984-1991} 

Queen on beam too!

It is impossible not to love her *

ABSOLUTE PERFECTION

Nothing will beat the drama and show of the 1988 Olympics... The individual finals, omg. With sikuvas and shushaniva, one 10 after another...and the incredibly different styles of the two gymnasts couldn't be further apart, which made it more awesome

Totally agree. Best ever floor compulsory imo, Podkopayeva in 1996 second. Just unmatched. I firmly believe that she was the worthy winner of the floor event gold medal because of that compulsory routine. No one came close.

Forever the gold standard!

Me too

Também acho, me lembro dela quando eu era criança e fiquei encantada, ela tem uma aura delicada e pleno domínio das habilidades da ginástica artística. Não me canso de vê-la.

You are totally correct. The best true floor worker ever. Modern gymnasts are wonderful acrobats.

Why did she retire so young?

@@cecilianovais212 Burnout and injuries

@@cecilianovais212 back then that was the average age to retire. Also revolution took place in Romania and everything was messy. Her head coaches left the country too.

I have been looking for her 1987 floor routine. I never forgot it. One of the best routines ever expressed. I found it tonight.

Thank you for enjoying!!!

Isso que eu pensei. Me lembrou Moceanu

Same with 1986 and 1987.

I agree! So much tumbling leaves little room for dance. It's made for boring gymnastics in my opinion 😴

@@sallydaniel1023 maybe they could introduce a 5th event - separate tumbling to have it separate, or create a second floor event where dance and artistry are more heavily favoured....

@@anovemberstar They already have power tumbling

Yes yes yes. I find routines today without the soul of the past. Tourischeva's coach Rastorotsky said that choreography, dance and artistry was critical to the presentation of the routine, and difficulty in the gymnastic elements performed should work in harmony with the artistic presentation. He said that each gymnast had something unique to present to the judges, and that is her artistry - difficulty should supplement that. I feel that has been lost now - in order to do well, gymnasts must show difficulty that has not necessarily been mastered. The choppy choreography and 'hard' leaps/spins detract from the overall gymnastic experience, in my opinion.

@@sallydaniel1023 actually, better plan woudl be to bring back compulasries, even if its just for beam and floor. gymnasts could pic which event they want to add, only do one of them even.

They called it the “two-in-one” back in the day! Watch this! This is where it originated! Omeilianchik ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LHeZkFdUMPA.html

@@worldartgym. And it’s colloquially known as “back-to-back” tumbling!

@@yuiop6611 it is now, yes - you’re right, but my point was television commentators in ‘85 called it “two (passes) in one” or at least the versions I watched called it that

I don't think she was ever trained by Belu, who had already defected to the US. Her head coach was Adrian Goreac who defected in the revolution and was taken over by Bellu.

Cuál canción?

Ahhhh yooooo

She did it in the 88 Olympics at team finals, which is not included in this compilation.

@@soledadferrer1325 Thank you!

She only competed it once and it arguably cost her the gold in the Olympic all-around.

When you said signature move, I immediately thought of the the hoedown from her 85 routine 😭. I refer to her signature move by the name of its true inventor, the Pryakhina 🙏

In several of my other videos… look around!

​@@worldartgymlol we have to avoid the IOC at all costs 😭

@@thesovgc the wrath of the ioc is no joke

When there were less rules to worry about, there was more artistry. Now gymnasts have to accumulate points rather than tell a story. It’s not any specific gymnast’s fault, rather the scoring system and what has evolved over time.

You would be right, Simone has far surpassed any of them. She is the most decorated gymnast(male or female).

​@@jacobmiller2663 with doping ithen me can run maraton all medals of biles are with doping

Uh oh!!! What are they saying???

Like than the American commentators from the 80s and 90s.. Calling them fragile little girls - when they were 15, 16 years old.....?

@@worldartgym it's not too bad but he is like "the acrobatics are not the problem. the dancing however...well...a matter of taste"

@@lpoco0006 oh!... The story of my RU-vid channel 😂

Нормально она выглядит. Она гимнастка, а не штангистка и не борец сумо))

En realidad el nivel artístico y virtuosismo de Silivas y Dobre era a mi parecer superior, sin embargo Sílivas no tenía la dureza mental de Nadia, y Dobre estuvo plagada de lesiones, por eso no brillaron en JO como Nadia. Por ende no son tan recordadas o exitosas como Comaneci, además Nadia fue primero y quien pega primero pega dos veces, según un dicho popular.

Te has lucido con tu comentario, pero si eso le sobra a Daniela, mucho más que a Nadia..

Those Nadia fans... The girl will always have the title for the best ever (although that's highly debatable, again: highly debatable), but you guys keep comparing her to all the other gymnasts. What for? That's kinda pointless and stupid, I must say. But hey...

Nadia fue revolucionaria porque tiró elementos que nadie había visto antes y además era infalible. Pero en suelo, Daniela tiene más gracia. A mí Nadia en suelo nunca me impresionó demasiado. Tampoco creo que haya sido tan innovadora. Ella era espectacular en barra y asimétricas. Innovadora y como un reloj.

Nadia was perfect but was never considered the most artistic, I need to side with Silivas here (moreso later in her career) as being more artistic than Nadia.

@@worldartgym even Dobre was one of those gymnast that had the it factor, also her level of virtuosity and artistic expression were incredible. In my book Silivas and Dobre were as talented as Comaneci, too bad Dobre was injured in 1988.

@@worldartgym But what is it to be perfect after all? I mean, Comaneci was AMAZING, don't get me wrong, but I can name a few that I find better (or let's say more interesting/daring) than her, just to start with: Mukhina, Shushunova, Silivas, maybe Nellie Kim. I think we were led by the media to believe she was the best ever, and that remained an untouchable issue.

@@hjaidar Nadias Perfection nabady equalized She have more 10s than your mukina o shushunova and in 80 in Maskva mafiotic judges stolen gold Team from Romania