Men try Women's BANNED Gymnastics Skills | {Ex Olympians} 

I mean, that's all gymnastics.

Ditto! Despite it being my best event, I broke my ankle on a stupid low beam on April Fool's Day, (low key glad I was so low to the ground). Everyone thought I was joking at first until my outer ankle became the size of a softball. While waiting for an ambulance my teammate fell off the bars and broke her arm. Needless to say practice was canceled that day.

@@monicabang_ oh yea, it was a jinxed day. I broke so many bones doing gymnastics.

You can still do a somersault tell me you can still do that. I've always wanted to do that

@@starspangledhiker Yes, But Men's gymnastics is also a lot of "Do this and see how long it takes for your shoulder to get wrecked."

Exactly!

I as coming here to say the same thing. Their hands never touched the “bar”. Try again guys. Lmao

Yeah, I mean I get why guys wouldn’t try it on the raised beam itself, but why not set a bar directly on the ground so we can see their balance and whether they hold it properly without requiring that they risk their ‘family jewels’?

01:38 And the 2nd and 4th ones in the series don’t use hands at all.

Yeah, that’s why I don’t understand the point of this video…. How is doing these backhand springs on a line attempting the beam skill? This is a joke. They can do a single backflip into the foam, at best

@phantagirlableput them side by side with the women and the men doing the womens skills look like children

​@phantagirlableThe key here is little girls compared to grown men with excellent control over their bodies.

​@phantagirlable there's a reason that men don't do beam and women don't do rings. Men are not as good at balance and they aren't as flexible. Women have wider hips and a lower center of gravity, which makes them better at balancing. They also have more flexibility in their backs generally and can therefore do all those walkovers, etc., on beam. I can barely imagine men seriously doing beam work. It would look much different than women, even if they started at a young age. There would be a lot more arm strength moves and no walkovers, wolf turns, and things like that. And even if women started doing rings at 3 years old, they would never be able to do those crazy arm strength things men do on rings. The p bars and pommel horse would also not be suited for women's strength, which is in the legs. Overall, men are obviously much stronger than women. I read that the average man has arm strength SIX TIMES that of an average woman. It's easy to see when you watch the floor routine differences. Men are just so incredibly strong, but again they do not show the flexibility in their routines on floor. They also don't do balance skills on floor like the ubiquitous wolf turns (on beam and floor) that women do.

@@vangu2918the way you say little girls as if I should be any less impressed by their abilities.

The focus on different skills/fitness attributes. Men focus very much more on balance and strength

You need back flexibility for that 😅

@@charitybosua lol Very true! Another thing they would benefit from working on

Same!

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I'm pretty sure there are videos of athletes going crazy in the practice gym, just like these lovely dorks 😂

It'd be rad if vault would let you do a skill out of your vault to use up that inertia. That sideways vault into a handspring for the stick or something would be rad!

I was wondering why no one tried it. He said it wasn’t banned just not done. Hmm 🤔

Came here to say this

@@amesappreciated5823 maybe it's not worth much. The scale is not banned either but the rules now say the athlete must be in full arabesque to get credit and pretty much no one can do that. I don't even think that's a safety reason, I think it's just, like stag jumps on floor, people were adding them on too much for extra points.

She was brutal

...there's a video of Sofia Campana trying the Korbut Flip and discovering how HARD it is. So, so many falls into the foam pit.

That's called the death loop! Banned for good reason.

Came to say the same 😂

I agree! I've been trying to figure out what I hate so much about them so I started paying careful attention. I noticed in old school routines when they would do maybe just a half or full wolf turn it wasn't as bad. That's when I realized I think it might have something to do with their arms. They do numerous turns on there in a row now and they have to move their arms around to balance but it makes the turn ugly imo. Like when a regular pirouette is done the arms are held in the same position during the turn. It could be something else too. I'm not sure yet, I'm still investigating it lol. But yes I wish they would stop with those. They also have boring routines all around now because they all do the same thing and there is very little if any creativity involved. I think the sport is way over regulated.

Well probably because they care about the safety of the gymnasts about what you enjoy. And the fact that you would rather be entertained before their safety because it doesn’t seem appealing would say something awful about your character. But a real fan of gymnastics would care about the gymnast before the entertainment for them right?

​@@treenutbutter Many of the skills they do now are way harder than many years ago,the regulations didn't make the sport safer,they discourage criativity bc skills that are different receive less value points. Sure there is some regulation on safety and banning skills that are dangerous but many skills are discourage solely for lack of value when many of them actually are hard and had a sense of creativity. The routines should defenetly value more creativity and that is what many gymnastic fans are pointing out about the actual elite gymnastics system

@@guilhermealmeida6181 that is not the point I’m making here. I understand how the code of points works and what it has changed to. I’ve been following mens and woman’s gymnastics for decades. My point is the original comment focused on the “audience” before the banned moves because a wolf turn looks ugly to them. It’s one thing to miss a move, it’s another to say the CoP needs to think of the viewers before the gymnasts

@@treenutbutter I didn't say I don't care about safety, you said that about me. There are far more dangerous elements still left in the code than arabesque landings. I used to perform the arabesques on beam when I was young, and I can't find any evidence of injuries resulting from this element. There are multiple reasons to take elements in and out of the code. Back to back wolf turns were recently removed from the code, most likely because of how overused they are (my speculation, though I've heard others say this as well). You can disagree with my point of view, but attacking the character of someone with little information about their intentions is pretty low. Of course I care about the gymnasts, or I wouldn't even watch this channel. If you have some information I don't about the danger of arabesques on beam you would like to share, I'd be interested to be informed on the matter.

Honestly, I feel this. I wasn't even a good gymnast but I can't drive head first into the water without doing a roll when I touch the water

I switched to diving for college, and I had to fight over a decade of habits. It's not just landing on your head it's maintaining the position until you've gone all the way through the water

I recommend the videos with Nile and Tom Daley. They talk about exactly that.

Yes! For real! I love watching them ALL. They are mega talented guys, but Ash always wins my heart. He always kills every challenge!

Maybe she can win gold one day!

Believe me she will have lots of injuries! It’s part of the process!

Yeah I saw that too. Those "flicks" would have been "thwack's" and "thuds" as they hit their heads and faces.

Those routines hurt ME to watch, as a woman and former gymnast. That’s an impossibility for men. 😂☠️ Just ask them to kick each other in the balls 10x, same result.

And broken necks

Fronts are blind landings, meaning you can't see the floor before your feet hit the floor. And the more you lay out, the more true that is. Backs you can spot the ground before landing and therefore adjust as needed.

What does this have to do with anything?

Remember the new soft mats? All of 1" of cellular rubber. Still felt luxurious after the thick coir mats of primary school.

Congrats on graduating soon!!

I’m actually graduating from high school soon and same 🥳 congrats

Which is essentially how the sport bans things. If they devalue an extremely difficult skill, the gymnasts stop doing it. It's parsing words to say they aren't banned. The code makes it clear they don't want gymnasts doing them