#russian bars

[rickinmar]

People’s Republik Cambridge

[linkinis]

Stagnation of Russian Bars

It is of my opinion that Russian uneven bars have stagnated from their highs in the 90s. In the 90s they have innovation and were pushing the limits of what was being done. There was Fabrichnova doing a double double tucked dismount and Dina Kotchetkova doing a tkachev to pak and a shaposhnikva, the real shap, directly to a handstand. There was obviously Khorkina doing here amazing bars and others attempting lay out release moves and little things like that.

Somewhere along the way things just dropped off and then they recovered into cookie cutter routines. The routines are good and they do have a two-time defending uneven bars champion but they could be better. Innovation is somewhere else and it leans more to the United Kingdom. The problem is the skills they’re doing aren’t consistent enough yet they try them anyway.

Khorkina even tried something completely different before she settled on the Khorkina, Shaposhnika 1/2. I’m not even sure what it is but it has something to do with the hips. It was very similar to a skill that was being done in the early days of gymnastics when the bars where much closer together. 

[hallucynation]

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