Svetlana Boginskaya, Legendary Queen {Floor Routines 1987-1999} 

If the code of points said dance and choreography or what-have-you mattered, it would. There is no reason there cannot be beautiful flow and position in their routines as well as tumbling. Beautiful Leaps . turns and originality should matter

I couldn't agree more. I miss traditional gymnastics. Even the simple traditional leotards too. Nowadays they're more worried about makeups and sparkle

@@kathleenirish I think that is what the comment meant. There is not a beautiful flow nor leaps. Great athletic skills but I wish they took the "artistic" out of it cause it makes it unwatchable to me. Its like watching bodybuilders do ballet VERY badly! I am one of the few that will admit I really do not enjoy watching Simone Biles at all except when she is doing a tumbling pass. Im a dancer and growing up watching the graceful gymnasts of the past I can not get past things like horrid flat feet, no turn out, or anything that could make them tech better and more aesthetically attractive.

She is way better than today's gymnasts

@@fremontpathfinder8463 mmm not really

Her choreographers totally nailed it

I don't know where you are located, but she is a coach and lives in Houston, Texas, USA. Maybe you could reach out?

I'd love to have her autograph. she's my favorite.

I really like everything you wrote. She's truly one of the most unique and creative dancers the sport has ever seen.

True!

Haha no, never.

ONLY a TRUE CHAMPION can be _THAT SMOOTH_ 😆👏

Simone has won gold on every floor event in worlds for 10 yrs. Her domination speaks volume. You are just a hater.

Excellent point

Biles eats dope. She is an acrobat, but not a gymnast. She has a muscular, ugly torso. Zero elegance and femininity.

"Belarusian Swan" 😊

where?

@@matthewdunaway7739 12:44

@@jaepeac that's a back hand spring

Thank you very much!

She’s doing very well, or so it seems from her social media presence. She runs a highly schedule gym camp every summer, a yearly invitational and appears at various world championships

@@worldartgymthank you for sharing! Glad to hear she’s well

That Bolero piece never saw much action, so I wanted to make sure it made into the final version so more people can enjoy it!

Also, I completely agree about her belly dance pelvic thrust! I feel like this was an experimental choreography experiment. {Bolero}

I know, luckily we now know a career can span a decade rather than a few seasons!

Superb!

On Instagram, she recently talked about how she had a mental block on that skill during this time period and how she overcame it 🙌

Could you imagine going to college with Boginskaya!!! ❤️

@@worldartgym lol I wouldn't have gotten much studying done 😂😂

I disagree because she has a class about her that is not present in this current generation. She is able to hold on to her class oh, and I don't think the others ever had it.

yes

I don’t know... unfortunately

@@worldartgym one day we'll find out! 💗

@@thesovgc I feel like it’s from an opera or something, so if anyone out there knows, let us know.

I am pretty sure it is from the ballet Swan Lake. You can see her impersonating a swan. In the ballet the white swan dies and Bogi clearly 'stabs' herself during this routine. After all she was known, among other nicknames, as the Belarusian Swan. This is me speculating... I might be wrong

@@patrizioorru772 haha I guess your guess is as good as any 😂. I tried to see if Shazam would recognize it, but it doesn't recognize 99% of floor music, sadly. Apparently classical music isn't a popular thing for such a service unfortunately.

And for that, I blame the Code. The judges turned gymnastics into a trick show... However, she is meeting the requirements the judges have set on all four events for artistic gymnastics.

No. Shes A gymnast. Your comment is stupid

@@MrChrismlamorte Yeah--she's a MALE gymnast!

@@viktoriaironpride4977 So you're far along the spectrum I see

Maybe she is a gymnast, but far from an "artistic" one. I hope the wind shall change and we will see more beauty in this sport again.

Oh I love this 1996 routine in the video! But her 96 olympic routine isn't my fave

@@lottamarie9197 Her 1996 Olympic floor routine was in fact an improvement in terms of difficulty to her previous routines: 2 front and 2 back series, 2 1/2 twisting to front tucked, 1 front serie with connection to front sommersault and the usual twisting double back tucked.

Well, I find old gimnast as a troupe of underweighted teens. Right now you can tell they are not underweighted, which is better for their health outside of sport

Who said? They were kids, most with a different body shape. Some people are naturally leaner than others. The women today look so thick they must do a ton of weights, which is not good on your joints. Sorry if I hit a nerve, but you can’t be a fatty and be a good gymnast. That’s just the way it is..

@@gadeaiglesiassordo716 Yes it is healthier to take drugs in order to keep in shape (and to cut women's body develpoment including their period and to look like a man) rather than to be skinny. Sure LOL. Ask Pantani, Eddie Guerrero and all the athletes that passd away for taking stetoids

@@dylanthepickle6428 you are just body shaming. And none of them are fat, you just like the look of starved little girls. Weirdo

I believe princess Khorkina is slightly taller than Queen Boginskaya

@@worldartgym So Khorkina is about 5'4?

That sounds about right

@@lanpingpug yes Svetlana Khorkina is 5’4, Boginskaya is 5’2, so not by much

Boginskaya is the queen

Taste is certainly subjective isn’t it

Actually, before her growth spurt she was competing double-doubles before it was known as a “Silivas.” She was quite a trickster when she was younger! Plus equipment has really changed throughout the years, she was certainly a worthy star of her era!

Simone would have never survived as a gymnast in the '80s. Not that many springs back then, she is definitely not artistic at all, and does many mistakes in her routines, she is not consistent. It's the high difficulty of her routines that gets her ahead of others today, back then the slightest obvious mistake was getting you immediately out of the medal race, and into the 4th place and even below it.

@@leykimayri Simone isn’t consistent?! Lmao she hasn’t lost a single all around competition she’s competed in since 2013 nationals but ok...

@@WAGgymSuperFan Yes, she is inconsistent. Back in the ‘80s and 90s, with the perfect 10 system, the tiny mistake and she would be out of the medals in the 8th place immediately. Look at Prudunova, she never even got close to a medal in vault, while in 2016 Olympics if she had participated and landed it, she would have had serious chances to challenge Simone for the gold medal, if not, she would have taken the silver one for sure. Simone nowadays depends on the difficulty of her acrobatics which put a large gap between her and the other athletes. But she makes mistakes all the times, or most of them, and still gets the gold. Back in the ‘80s and 90s she would never have gotten any medal, no matter how hard her exercises would had been. Plus she’s no artistic at all, another reason which would have kept her away from any medal.

@@leykimayri Exactly, therefore it’s not fair for people to even compare today’s gymnasts who are very skilled and all, but still can’t be compared to the trailblazing legends of the sport because it was a different time. People forget that, so well said