It's the fact that she sticks the front layout at the end most of the time. It's just amazing. And the music. Just everything about that pass is iconic.
Thank you for honoring Aly. Always thought she was an exceptional athlete but overshadowed by the GOAT. It's nice for her to get some credit for amazing gymnastics. And beautifully and gracefully done.
She also fulfils 3 CRs with this one pass 1. Salto with minimum 360 twist 2. Double salto 3. Salto backward and forward in same or different acro lines
I was thinking the same thing. She's been in this sport just as long as SB and only have on skill credited with her name - are they kidding or they just that ready to try and replace SB as the G.O.A.T. Even Dominique Dawes was had tumbling passes more difficult than this one. As Janet Jackson say - "This is the State of the World Today". OMG!
it's physics. When you incorporate the laws of physics into the choreography of a routine, you will see this type of perfection. For those wondering how she sticks the front layout at the end after the double front Arabian, it's actually a genius move to temper the force and speed of the acrobatic run with the layout so that she sticks it with no correction. So when you see that extra move you think she's achieved difficulty when in reality, not adding the layout would probably cause her to take a step forward, possible out onto the white if it had ended on the double arabian
I have to disagree with you. It may be physics but its ALL ALY'S PHYSICS. It takes great strength. Many can not just step into that pass and fit it corner to corner. In her other passes, such as has dbl lay out and dbl pike, she does run into more than, lets say, Simone needs to pull off much more difficult passes (such as the Biles, and incredibly even the triple double~that is pure power, not physics btw). Aly used to perform it without an ending front pass. Then added a front tuck which them evolved into the front layout. POWER! CONTROL! SKILL!
@@jojox9791 yes... We know it still requires skill to control the acrobatics, no one is saying that. I said the reason she is able to do it is physics. Without it, her physique and athleticism is meaningless
The best masterpieces are always dynamic, and the fact that this was developed and built upon over a series of years and competitions just adds depth and character to the routine and highlights the artist's style!
UNIQUE & BEAUTIFUL are definitely Aly's trademark description. Her "Line" will constantly be a symbol of excellence yet her gymnastics will never live up to her true strength and that's her heart. That's a 20+!
The athlete who launched the craze for complex tumbling passes was Soviet Oksana Omelianchik in 1985 at the World Championships, earning the Gold on floor to accentuate her Gold in the All-Around… the hype for back-to-back tumbling runs was launched and lasted for a decade. Following the fad included such stars as Silivas and Dobre of Romania and Zmeskal and Dawes of the US,
@@afridgetoofar1818 true. But we have to blame FIG and their CODE for this. Their requirements and the need to throw as high a D score as possible sort of takes out any room for originality. Aly managed to be unique, as does Simone with signature skills of course, but the COP has so many requirements and it set up in such a way that these ladies construct routines in a "maximize" score way. Simply look to the beautiful Brooklyn Moors...she is one of the few who chooses not to sacrifice her own uniqueness for difficulty. But sadly her scores reflect that 😕
I don't remember Kim Zmeskal ever doing back-to-back tumbling passes (although here 3 whips to double tuck were quite the crowd pleaser back in the day). Dominique Dawes probably had the most complicated series (with the most skills fit into a double pass) than any other gymnast, although it wouldn't be considered as difficult by today's standards.
Changing the front tuck to a layout was smart because I always found front layouts easier to land than a tuck. And with so much momentum from the pass, it's easy to over-rotate a front tuck.
I just love that routine and Aly is ,y favorite gymnast ever. She's up there with Simone Biles, Aliya Mistafina, Catalina Ponor & Svetlana Khorkina and so many others. I've been a fan for so long there are people that come along and for one reason of another stick in your heart and mind forever.
I love this pass and love Aly's gymnastics in general. Beth tweddle also did this pass without the final layout when she won gold on floor at the 2009 world championships
I still don't know why any layout ups the beauty bonus, but it just does. Every now and then I like to search for this and watch it just for its sheer beauty. It's already jaw-dropping, and then that layout at the end is the tumbling equivalent of the world's most transcendent mic drop. Retton's double layout in her floor routine did the same thing in 1984, and Raisman's pass adds three more decades of advancement to it.
@@phishfearme2 You don’t see as many Jewish athletes (unless they’re from Israel) because we’re a minority in the U.S. She’s just an inspiration to me.🤷🏼♀️
@@phishfearme2 Yeah, probably because you aren’t Jewish. Sometimes people are inspired by athletes that they share traits and a similar background with. Why do you think so many American girls rushed to take gymnastics in the 80s when Mary Lou Retton won the all around?
This lady was ICONIC, and yes- ARTISTIC. It irritates me to hear so many people degrade her gymnastics by saying she wasn’t artistic. Artistry is an individual, interpretive concept that has no mold or formula to it. Gymnasts are not ballerinas, nor are they doing “dancing with the stars.” They are doing GYMNASTICS. Thank you for so graciously recognizing her immense talent- talent that won her SEVEN Olympic medals and a multitude of international accolades.
You are right- it is HARDER. Dominique had the back to back passes but they had little variation in the skills performed. Still tough and exciting, but this is far more difficult.
You should review some of the gymnastics in Simone's Gold Over America Tour!! I bet they're performing a lot of rare skills that we don't usually get to see in competition. They've finally been given a chance to train more complex skills.
Not really, since they're focused on getting through show after show and don't quite have as much time to work on their big skills. Unless they're hauling along a vault I haven't seen yet, they can't do too much work on that.
My hypothesis is the layout was the necessary final piece of this pass. It allows her to arrest more rotational momentum and overall power (by being able to direct it upward, she can do a "shorter" flip), *and* she can basically spot the landing. Does anyone know if she ever tried to twist the final layout?
The closest i've ever gotten to this pass is a roundoff back layout 1 1/2 stepout roundoff backhandspring back layout 2 1/2 to front layout full. (I'm a men's gymnast though, so I do not get the same connection bonus as this iconic pass)
Agreed. Such a pity she was cowboying her legs. She can pull off such a hard pass with perfect execution, but cowboys legs? It seems she wants to cowboy them for some reason. 😅
@@chaiboix I know that's the reason in general, but she would be able to stick knees together I guess. I meant it seemed like she was not caring to cowboy them and did not try to put knees together.
@@demonsalwayswin well, I'm sure that if Aly was actually able to do so, she would lol she wouldn't just say "of fck it, let's get those deductions in"
Unpopular opinion, I prefer much more the front tuck version, it's more simple but cohesive. For me, the immediate transition from a double tuck to layout is just visually weird. Wonderful and iconic combo anyways!
the most iconic piece of WOMENS gymnastic - there are lots of mens "pieces" that smoke this. eg: Epke Zonderland on high bar three major releases in a row
I actually like the older floor routines. There was grace and the tumbling passes weren't a mishmash of skills to collect points. You did an amazing skill cleanly and sticked it.
Wow I had no idea the connection rules were so generous in WAG. Can't believe you get 0.2 connection bonus for a C skill connected to an E by a round-off and a handspring!
Can we just talk about the fact she mostly came for Olympics. Like a year before the Olympics: oh yah I wanna go to the Olympics better go to some comps prior
With the exception of some of Simone's stuff I don't find today's gymnasts iconic at all. (Runs and hides:) The quality has gone so down hill that the sport is just chucking difficulty with no form or execution even considered. To me (and this is MY opinion) iconic is something, I still watch from the 80's and 90's and even 70's but when all is said and done, the last few Olympics (besides Simone's tumbling and vaulting) and some Chinese beam, it's just a sport now.
Don’t watch then child. There’s no need to disparage today’s hard working, amazing and equally talented gymnasts in favor of those of yesteryear. The quality has most certainly not diminished, the sport has evolved and revolutionized. I find it just as enjoyable, and if you don’t I’d say that’s a poor reflection… on YOU.
She needs no one to brag about her, her career accomplishments do that in themselves. Something you will never experience. All you will ever be is an afterthought.
It's the fact that she sticks the front layout at the end most of the time. It's just amazing. And the music. Just everything about that pass is iconic.
I have screamed from my mountain top that her music edits in 2012 and 2016 where absolutely gold standard.
It is INSANE. That front punch landing!!
Thank you for honoring Aly. Always thought she was an exceptional athlete but overshadowed by the GOAT.
It's nice for her to get some credit for amazing gymnastics. And beautifully and gracefully done.
My favorite gymnast ever. I could watch literally any of her tumbling runs for hours, but this one is just so special. Queen.
When I red the title, I knew it was Aly's pass! God, I got chills watching it, it's her legacy
Aly Raisman is my favorite gymnast of all time! She also lives in the town next to mine!
@@elliesoska5687 and about 30 minutes from me 😁. Hey neighbor
She also fulfils 3 CRs with this one pass
1. Salto with minimum 360 twist
2. Double salto
3. Salto backward and forward in same or different acro lines
I kid you not, when I read this title the first thing that popped into my head was "Is it that one tumbling pass from Aly Raisman?"
I was thinking the same thing. She's been in this sport just as long as SB and only have on skill credited with her name - are they kidding or they just that ready to try and replace SB as the G.O.A.T. Even Dominique Dawes was had tumbling passes more difficult than this one. As Janet Jackson say - "This is the State of the World Today". OMG!
it's physics. When you incorporate the laws of physics into the choreography of a routine, you will see this type of perfection. For those wondering how she sticks the front layout at the end after the double front Arabian, it's actually a genius move to temper the force and speed of the acrobatic run with the layout so that she sticks it with no correction. So when you see that extra move you think she's achieved difficulty when in reality, not adding the layout would probably cause her to take a step forward, possible out onto the white if it had ended on the double arabian
I have to disagree with you. It may be physics but its ALL ALY'S PHYSICS. It takes great strength. Many can not just step into that pass and fit it corner to corner. In her other passes, such as has dbl lay out and dbl pike, she does run into more than, lets say, Simone needs to pull off much more difficult passes (such as the Biles, and incredibly even the triple double~that is pure power, not physics btw). Aly used to perform it without an ending front pass. Then added a front tuck which them evolved into the front layout. POWER! CONTROL! SKILL!
Ps... there is no "thinking" she achieved difficulty, gymnasts know it is "knowing" its difficulty!
@@jojox9791 yes... We know it still requires skill to control the acrobatics, no one is saying that. I said the reason she is able to do it is physics. Without it, her physique and athleticism is meaningless
@@derpcapades6878 well, physics plays a part in every aspects of this sport ?
@@jojox9791 and yet you literally said it's her. And minimised what is the most important part. Stop romanticising her.
I REALLY missed not seeing her make this pass at the 2020/1 Olympics. This first pass is absolutely PERFECT!!!
love seeing Aly get the praise she deserves.
The best masterpieces are always dynamic, and the fact that this was developed and built upon over a series of years and competitions just adds depth and character to the routine and highlights the artist's style!
Tumbling lines should be named after gymnasts.
FIG says no
Everything would get so original because a lot of gymnasts would start to try different combos to get their name on it
Agreed!
Why? You're not creating anything
@@narancia8229 because the combination of moves is created/unique.
UNIQUE & BEAUTIFUL are definitely Aly's trademark description. Her "Line" will constantly be a symbol of excellence yet her gymnastics will never live up to her true strength and that's her heart. That's a 20+!
The athlete who launched the craze for complex tumbling passes was Soviet Oksana Omelianchik in 1985 at the World Championships, earning the Gold on floor to accentuate her Gold in the All-Around… the hype for back-to-back tumbling runs was launched and lasted for a decade. Following the fad included such stars as Silivas and Dobre of Romania and Zmeskal and Dawes of the US,
Omelianchik's "Birdie" routine is still one of my all-time favorite. It's much more creative than anything done today.
@@afridgetoofar1818 true. But we have to blame FIG and their CODE for this. Their requirements and the need to throw as high a D score as possible sort of takes out any room for originality. Aly managed to be unique, as does Simone with signature skills of course, but the COP has so many requirements and it set up in such a way that these ladies construct routines in a "maximize" score way. Simply look to the beautiful Brooklyn Moors...she is one of the few who chooses not to sacrifice her own uniqueness for difficulty. But sadly her scores reflect that 😕
I don't remember Kim Zmeskal ever doing back-to-back tumbling passes (although here 3 whips to double tuck were quite the crowd pleaser back in the day). Dominique Dawes probably had the most complicated series (with the most skills fit into a double pass) than any other gymnast, although it wouldn't be considered as difficult by today's standards.
When did zmeskal compete a double pass?
@N L Thankfully I don't carry your opinion in my pocket when I travel or I'd never get through passport control!!!
I’m so glad she got this recognition. Absolute legend!
Changing the front tuck to a layout was smart because I always found front layouts easier to land than a tuck. And with so much momentum from the pass, it's easy to over-rotate a front tuck.
She is amazing and so is the suits she is wearing that my mom sewed for her. 79 years old, still sewing FT for 40 yrs for Gymkin
Please make more videos like this covering other gymnasts special signature moves
The only gymnastics experience I have is taken classes from like age 7 to 9, but for whatever reason I'm obsessed with this channel
I haven’t done gymnastics ever in my life & I’m obsessed w this channel
For whatever reason? ...you are jk right? 😜 that's like a heroin addict saying the same thing. ...duh. cuz it's fkn awesome 👌!!!
I probably should use something else as an example huh ?
Legendary champion. Thank you. Great video of a gymnastics star. Beautiful and flawless.
Cannot express how pleasant a surprise it was to me for this video to be about Aly.
I just love that routine and Aly is ,y favorite gymnast ever. She's up there with Simone Biles, Aliya Mistafina, Catalina Ponor & Svetlana Khorkina and so many others. I've been a fan for so long there are people that come along and for one reason of another stick in your heart and mind forever.
I love this kind of video! Would love to see other “iconic” videos-especially of routines that are from the 20th century.
That is the tumbling pass that makes my eyes tear up every time.
She’s so powerful all her tumbling passes were really HUGE!
the way this pass lives rent free in my head 😭
I also LOVED the 2009 performance of Anna Myzdrikova. Triple twist, IMMEDIATE back tuck, not the usual stop then standing back tuck
That’s a spectacular tumbling pass.❤ Aly Raisman got them tumbling skills.❤
I love this pass and love Aly's gymnastics in general.
Beth tweddle also did this pass without the final layout when she won gold on floor at the 2009 world championships
Is a queen of Aly Raisman.
I still don't know why any layout ups the beauty bonus, but it just does. Every now and then I like to search for this and watch it just for its sheer beauty. It's already jaw-dropping, and then that layout at the end is the tumbling equivalent of the world's most transcendent mic drop. Retton's double layout in her floor routine did the same thing in 1984, and Raisman's pass adds three more decades of advancement to it.
SO DOPE! LOVE IT AND HER!
The fact that she’s also Jewish like me makes me so happy and proud!!♥️
why?? what does being jewish have to do with anything
@@phishfearme2 You don’t see as many Jewish athletes (unless they’re from Israel) because we’re a minority in the U.S. She’s just an inspiration to me.🤷🏼♀️
@@AveryWeinstein i guess i don't see many Jewish athletes because i don't look for "them".
@@phishfearme2 It’s usually in the last name. I’m just proud of my heritage. That’s all.
@@phishfearme2 Yeah, probably because you aren’t Jewish. Sometimes people are inspired by athletes that they share traits and a similar background with. Why do you think so many American girls rushed to take gymnastics in the 80s when Mary Lou Retton won the all around?
The quality of your videos 😭🔥🤌
I will surely miss seeing this amazing gymnast perform ❤
I like these combinations better than super complex single skills that get lots of form deductions
Love Allie!!! She is a hero and a courageous female athlete!
In early versions of the pass, she also tacked on a stag leap. Icon.
A Queen 👑
Amazing. Agree with this so much
This lady was ICONIC, and yes- ARTISTIC. It irritates me to hear so many people degrade her gymnastics by saying she wasn’t artistic. Artistry is an individual, interpretive concept that has no mold or formula to it. Gymnasts are not ballerinas, nor are they doing “dancing with the stars.” They are doing GYMNASTICS. Thank you for so graciously recognizing her immense talent- talent that won her SEVEN Olympic medals and a multitude of international accolades.
She’s beautiful and her signature moves will last in our minds long after she retires♥️👍🏼🤩
Shelley- she has already retired
I miss Aly so much! 😭😭😭. I knew this video would be about her before I even started it…
It’s an awesome pass!
I remember in an interview she mentioned that initially they thought this tumbling pass was impossible
You could make an entire floor routine out of this ONE pass.
Beautiful & talented!
Sorry it does not come CLOSE to Dominique Dawes 1st passes in the early and mid 90's.
You are right- it is HARDER. Dominique had the back to back passes but they had little variation in the skills performed. Still tough and exciting, but this is far more difficult.
Do a video about Vanessa Atler‘s Double layout punch front punch double stag jump
You should review some of the gymnastics in Simone's Gold Over America Tour!! I bet they're performing a lot of rare skills that we don't usually get to see in competition. They've finally been given a chance to train more complex skills.
Not really, since they're focused on getting through show after show and don't quite have as much time to work on their big skills. Unless they're hauling along a vault I haven't seen yet, they can't do too much work on that.
My hypothesis is the layout was the necessary final piece of this pass. It allows her to arrest more rotational momentum and overall power (by being able to direct it upward, she can do a "shorter" flip), *and* she can basically spot the landing. Does anyone know if she ever tried to twist the final layout?
She said in a video the reason she does a layout instead of tuck is because it looks more beautiful
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It’s here. It’s a cool video actually.
I’ve been looking, she’s front tucked out of it and done a leap but I can’t find any twists, so no I don’t think she ever did
Komova also did it without the layout but with stag for many years, like 2007-2012
I love the "Black" and "Oliveira" lines too.
The closest i've ever gotten to this pass is a roundoff back layout 1 1/2 stepout roundoff backhandspring back layout 2 1/2 to front layout full. (I'm a men's gymnast though, so I do not get the same connection bonus as this iconic pass)
This is awesome, Alynis so good. I thought this was going to be Daniela Silivas floor routine tho before I clicked on it
Can you imagine playing in the preschool yard with a fellow student like this?
Talk about feeling uncoordinated 😁
Beautiful.
💐💐💐 such a special gymnast.
It is incredible.
You should do a video on the Dudnik: arial cartwheel to two arial layout step outs perfected by Olessia Dudnik.
i was hoping this video was about this tumbling pass before i clicked. she’s so fucking cool
the cowboying on the double arabian is awful but the rest is beautiful
Agreed. Such a pity she was cowboying her legs. She can pull off such a hard pass with perfect execution, but cowboys legs? It seems she wants to cowboy them for some reason. 😅
@@demonsalwayswin to rotate faster
@@chaiboix I know that's the reason in general, but she would be able to stick knees together I guess. I meant it seemed like she was not caring to cowboy them and did not try to put knees together.
@@demonsalwayswin well, I'm sure that if Aly was actually able to do so, she would lol she wouldn't just say "of fck it, let's get those deductions in"
@@hannibaljustincase9985 yeah that’s the point - she can’t do it with proper form
I have a question. Is it possible/permitted nowa days to learn 1970s style gymnastics (uneven bars close together)?
I think the reason no one else has done it isn’t necessarily because it’s too hard, it’s probably because it’s HERS
The never ending jigsaw!
I know aly will be there
AMAZING
As far as I know, I’ve never seen another gymnast combine another skill after an Arabian double front.
Elena Produnova did it
She nailed it for Book of Gymnastics
She is the BEST
This is so cool
I'd have to the say the pinnacle of gymnastics was Epke's triple flight element combination.
For the men. This is about WOMEN’s gymnastics. I definitely agree, his triple high bar sequence was insane though.
WOW.
She should get all the attention
Gymnastics gold medalist.
Unpopular opinion, I prefer much more the front tuck version, it's more simple but cohesive. For me, the immediate transition from a double tuck to layout is just visually weird. Wonderful and iconic combo anyways!
I always think the layouts are beautiful. I like the layout walkout too!
@@melissagreene4174 Yes, I said the *transition* from tuck to layout is weird, layout skills themselves are very beautiful.
Wish we had a reaction video from her parents for her tumbling. Bet they were chill, compared to beam.
Watching them watching her bars is the most amusing 😊
Powerful
The Raisman connection is still much more doable than the Produnova.
today it´s not a floor but kind of a trampoline. we (in the 60th) had to use a hard floor with leather mats.
the most iconic piece of WOMENS gymnastic - there are lots of mens "pieces" that smoke this. eg: Epke Zonderland on high bar three major releases in a row
I knew it must have been Raisman pass!
making strides for the jewish community!!! love her so much ❤️
Aly is a 5x Olympic medalist! She has 2 gold in the team event
“3-time Olympic GOLD Medalist”
She actually has six. Team and floor gold plus beam bronze in ‘12, Team gold, floor and AA silver in ‘16.
I actually like the older floor routines. There was grace and the tumbling passes weren't a mishmash of skills to collect points. You did an amazing skill cleanly and sticked it.
Wow I had no idea the connection rules were so generous in WAG. Can't believe you get 0.2 connection bonus for a C skill connected to an E by a round-off and a handspring!
Can she do a quintuple Salchow??
Can we just talk about the fact she mostly came for Olympics. Like a year before the Olympics: oh yah I wanna go to the Olympics better go to some comps prior
31 thumbs down? Really people?
Some people just childishly have to hate to feel better about themselves. They fail completely.
How is this not a human circus entertainment, full of injuries, exploitation and smiles through pain?
Years of training is how.
Incredible!!! Love watching her added pizzazz!!
The fact she only takes one step in is the craziest thing. It is strength and not momentum! She could probably do this slowly if she really wanted ro
Big facts
I wonder if she ever tried to do a piked Arabian instead of a tucked one to add even more bonus
She didn’t, and it’s only because her second pass was a piked double arabian.
Lol.. watch the 1991 world floor finals and 1992 Olympics also Victoria Karpenko
This combo one will “always score well” but Simone Biles combos won’t? Explain gymnastics.
I still have to go with Maroney’s legendary amanar
How do you spell Queen?..... Aly Raisman
I could do that just as well as she . All I need is an anti gravity pill .
With the exception of some of Simone's stuff I don't find today's gymnasts iconic at all. (Runs and hides:) The quality has gone so down hill that the sport is just chucking difficulty with no form or execution even considered. To me (and this is MY opinion) iconic is something, I still watch from the 80's and 90's and even 70's but when all is said and done, the last few Olympics (besides Simone's tumbling and vaulting) and some Chinese beam, it's just a sport now.
Don’t watch then child. There’s no need to disparage today’s hard working, amazing and equally talented gymnasts in favor of those of yesteryear. The quality has most certainly not diminished, the sport has evolved and revolutionized. I find it just as enjoyable, and if you don’t I’d say that’s a poor reflection… on YOU.
@@saragrant9749 You're an idiot lMAO. The equipment now a days is helping them.
Omg does she pay people to post brag videos like this about her?
Maybe the same people who pay you for posting stupid remarks?
@@duranca Honestly her routine is well done for her but sorry she’s just nothing to keep writing about.
She needs no one to brag about her, her career accomplishments do that in themselves. Something you will never experience. All you will ever be is an afterthought.
Shushonova's passes were better and more dangerous.
And way overscored considering how messy they usually looked.