The 10 best beam routines of the last decade. I've based my selection on artistry, confidence, poise, performance, grace, difficulty, stuck landings and the overall result.
bravo the routine of Ponor is by far insurmountable until the moment 2018, great strength, precision, high degree of difficulty and limpeza characterize it, there is the insurmountable challenge so far. Great Catalina.
Lack of variety in skills was my issue with it. It was cleanly executed but not very exciting. I loved her teammate Oana Ban’s routines much more as they were more varied in skills including.
As of now I still stand on what I wrote 6 years back. Everyone has their preference in which I respect. I still prefer Catalina's as in my eyes.. Calm and cool making hard elements look easy. Also my personal preference for having fabulous style / look / polish points. For those who state they're not that hard.. Go ahead.. Get up there and do it as fluid as these gymnasts make them look. Record yourself.
I think Pavlova proved that you don't have to have extremely long legs or be super skinny to be very very elegant. She has such great artistry, I love it! :)
Great choices! Usually I disagree with the choices in these types of videos, but you were spot on. As long as you remembered to include Nastia's flawless routine from Pacific Rim I would be happy. Great job!
Before I even watched gymnastics I remember seeing Ponor at the 2004 Olympics and just being in awe. 3 golds! I try to ignore her sportsmanship though after hearing reports of her bullying and emotionally abusing other Romanian team members. The rumor is that Porgras quit because of her. With power comes ego... who knows the truth but where there’s smoke there’s fire... she’s a legend nonetheless.
excellent choices! never watched that pac rim, so that was a pleasant surprise for me. absolutely stunning routine from her. 1-3 are phenomenal. pattersons is so memorable for obvious reasons, mainly because she drilled that dismount. the chinese will always be my faves on beam tho. fluidity of 70s gymnastics with present difficulty. love their beam sets.
awesome vid.. was bummed not seeing ponor all the way through and was sure she wasn't gonna make the list haha.. have u seen her performances in 2006? that routine is even better than her athens routine i think.
that's right, so many Romanians for the simple reason that they dominated that apparatus for a long time, Andreaa, Eremia, Izbasa, Amanar, and Cata Ponor insurmountable
Well I am going to tell ya that I loved and adored Shawn Johnson ever since I was about 3 years old. I want to be the same age as her being in the olympics and I am actually doing the same sport as her, artistic gymnastics and I want to win 3 silvers and 1 gold on beam like Shawn Johnson. So Shawn Is one of my favorite.
Ponor with that Athens 2004 routine left the level reached too high, and so far none has been made with the precision and complexity that Ponor achieved. By far that first place in routines is correct, the biggest one in balance bar is Catalina
Yeah the only thing I saw 'wrong' and that is not the correct word cause it's still better than just about everyone else was her switch ring is usually a lot higher with more flexibility on the right leg.
Ok..I'm.sorry. but the comment about shawn having more "tricks"? Its called GYMNASTICS!! For a reason. There will always be the "personal choice" between elegance and power and its sad because these talented young ladies wjll always be criticised! This is one of the few sports they walk out with a perfect score (the D&E scores) and just get critiqued and deducted. The judges just look for mistakes and deductions lets just applause them all. And all styles
raducan- giving the ladies of the current gymnastics era a lesson in mounting the beam ye- giving everyone a lesson in hitting the sheep jump nastia and shawn have impressive tricks,pace and power but nastia's legs are always bent. shawn doesn't hit splits and has little artistry. ponor looks the most poised, fluid and surefooted.
