Definitely miss Nastia!, she was a unique talent. She was, in her fathers own words a "fragile" gymnast. She may not have been very powerful (for a gymnast),but they took her strengths and turned her into an Olympic Champion and THAT should be an inspiration to all gymnasts!!! She made I t with basically front tumbling only and while I appreciate the strengths in the double doubles, etc...the grace and elegance at its finest....
i was very much like her (NOT as good of course) but i wasnt a very powerful tumbler when i did competitive gymnastics. my russian teachers really liked me because i was so flexible, but the gym i was at favored power gymnasts. i do ballet now so i wish i had someone who couldve played to my strengths. who knows maybe i couldve become really good. oh well
+Queensofprep870 yes, she was a rare talent. the gymnastics world is geared more towards the power gymnasts, BUT..have you seen the gymnasts from the Netherlands? they have managed to use the code to their advantage by upping their D scores with dance elements. They do pretty simple tumbling passes, which may not win gold medals but they are doing well and are gorgeous to watch!! I was the opposite, I was a power gymnast and despised dance class lol.
@QPHashSS77 Artistic gymnastics is supposed to showcase the artistry and dance as it's also a compulsory requirement... You have no idea what ballerina's go through in order to execute their moves as gymnasts would be considered weak compared to their lower body strength as dancers usually showcase lines of artistry that gymnasts these days don't have as they're too obsessed with coming up with more difficult power tumbling moves to where most of the apparatus including beam, bars, and floor have basically become compulsory as there isn't any diversity within the combinations in bars with stalders, van leuweens, jaegers, tkatchevs, beam with at least a full, backhandspring with two layouts, WOLF TURNS, and double double, double pike dismounts. With floor, the tumblings include Silivas, Chusovitina, double saltos in general, and a single turn. And with VAULT, I usually see a double twisting or an amanar or a handspring front 2 and a half to the point where there isn't any uniqueness towards vault anymore. Try practicing in pointe for 6-8 hours without having your feet hurt to the point where it's numb and a toenail comes off!
@@kiersontitus7322 ive been a ballerina for 3/4 of my life and i was a gymnast also. i must say, ballet is harder in my opinion. it takes a lot of core strength, leg muscles, balance, timing, technicality, emotion/expression, etc. to be a great ballerina. ballet comes with a lot more requirements than gymnastics does. whereas i enjoy watching gymnastics more, i think ballet is far more elegant, peaceful, graceful and for sure, a lot more work.
I love how she was giving out her autograph when she found out she won and she just immediately drops the pens after finishing with a huge smile. and runs and hugs her dad it's was so adorable
Back then Nastia connected the Onodi and the wolf jump a tad bit more than she did in the 2008 Olympics, but here she still did not really connect her free front walkover and her back walkover. Starting from 2008, she also began to see the beam a split-second before landing on her switch split ring leap. Other than those, all her beam routines were done with mind-blowing execution. Still my favourite gymnast to this day.
if doing gymnastic for 10 years. i'm from the netherlands and she always was my idol. she does everything so perfect. i stoped with gymnastic because it was so hard to came on the top. and i'm proud of her that she never gived up she is great! sorry for bad english ;$
I love Nastia so much, miss her in gymnastics!!! Why do they have to pronounce her last name wrong? Not trying to be mean, but it bothers me when they pronounce her last name wrong,
Alex Arulf Nastia’s Mom would leave the gymnasium when she marched out with her teammates. She could not stand to watch Nastia perform her routines. Have a tape of the 08 all-around in Beijing and it ran over. She ran to call her mother but apparently her mom had turned off her phone.
Excellent performance there by Nastia Liukin!!! She really did get alot of height on her two and a half twist! Great performance and beautiful, excellent work. I love Nastia, She's great. Her flick layout layout was a little wobbley, but, she pulled it back, great!
That was funny how she stopped in the middle of signing an autograph to run and hug her dad/coach. So cute! I really hope Nastia returns for the 2012 Olympics.
Her mom didn't come the past events Nastia was part of in Stuttgart where Nastia messed up but when she showed up to cheer her daughter in the beam final loud enough for us to hear Nastia got gold :D!
yeah i agree. y did everybody thumb down my first comment? it's true that this wasn't her best. nastia is my favorite gymnast. what was her best is the olympic beam final. i still think that she deserved gold here, though.
Raeanna5! Love your posts! The truth always will prevail. Nastia was trained in the U.S, is a U.S citizen and is just as much a Texas girl as any other Texas gal!! Love ya Nastia! Go USA
I'll admit I don't know much about gymanstics other than what I've seen on the Olympics, but to me she is very artistic and elegant. I was mesmerized by her Olympic performances because she looked so much like a ballet dancer. I felt she brought a maturity and elegance that the other gymnasts lacked. To each her own I guess.
Though Gabby Douglas was brilliant in London, the absence of Nastia Liuken at those 2012 Games kinda ruined the gymnastics event,,,,hope she comes back,,,,,nobody else has her grace and long legged lines.
Ok so if you look back at the older bars, there are some tricks they did I never understood but you never see it anymore. Like swinging from the top bar and bouncing your tummy off the bottom bar. Anyone got a list of banned or obsolete bar stuff?
Lol, I'm calm... It's just Nastia Liukin is like, my favorite person ever, and beam is my favotite event, so I get a bit defensive. And oh, you're welcome for the speech. Haha (:
girl, calm down!! you're right, i don't know anything about this stuff but i also don't talk any shit about it or about her, i'm just talking about what it looks like to ME so don't be pissed! and thank you for the lecturing btw ^.^
Ok, to all the people who have crap to say about Nastia or her routine...screw off. Seriously, your all just mad your not the kind of gymnast she is. Face it, you'll never be as amazing or as talented as her. So she had a wobble or two...who cares. Shes done multiple flawless routines in competition and she deserves to win. Now get over yourselves and accept the fact that shes the best. She wouldn't have won the olympics if she wasn't.
she just does beautiful gymnastics, it dosent hurt that she is just pretty much all legs!! i was an elite gymnast 1998-99, and i am built , alot like she is. It was really hard for me because you could see every mistake i made because of my long legs. it is alot easier for the girls who have short legs because it sort of hides little mistakes. When you have long legs like that you have to really watch your form.
Skinnyness doesn't benefit you in those sports, those sports just happen to be riddled with eating disorders and body shaming and therefore have many very skinny athletes. I was a ballerina so I know first hand at least for ballet
Definitely miss Nastia!, she was a unique talent. She was, in her fathers own words a "fragile" gymnast. She may not have been very powerful (for a gymnast),but they took her strengths and turned her into an Olympic Champion and THAT should be an inspiration to all gymnasts!!! She made I t with basically front tumbling only and while I appreciate the strengths in the double doubles, etc...the grace and elegance at its finest....
i was very much like her (NOT as good of course) but i wasnt a very powerful tumbler when i did competitive gymnastics. my russian teachers really liked me because i was so flexible, but the gym i was at favored power gymnasts. i do ballet now so i wish i had someone who couldve played to my strengths. who knows maybe i couldve become really good. oh well
+Queensofprep870 yes, she was a rare talent. the gymnastics world is geared more towards the power gymnasts, BUT..have you seen the gymnasts from the Netherlands? they have managed to use the code to their advantage by upping their D scores with dance elements. They do pretty simple tumbling passes, which may not win gold medals but they are doing well and are gorgeous to watch!! I was the opposite, I was a power gymnast and despised dance class lol.
@QPHashSS77 Artistic gymnastics is supposed to showcase the artistry and dance as it's also a compulsory requirement... You have no idea what ballerina's go through in order to execute their moves as gymnasts would be considered weak compared to their lower body strength as dancers usually showcase lines of artistry that gymnasts these days don't have as they're too obsessed with coming up with more difficult power tumbling moves to where most of the apparatus including beam, bars, and floor have basically become compulsory as there isn't any diversity within the combinations in bars with stalders, van leuweens, jaegers, tkatchevs, beam with at least a full, backhandspring with two layouts, WOLF TURNS, and double double, double pike dismounts. With floor, the tumblings include Silivas, Chusovitina, double saltos in general, and a single turn. And with VAULT, I usually see a double twisting or an amanar or a handspring front 2 and a half to the point where there isn't any uniqueness towards vault anymore. Try practicing in pointe for 6-8 hours without having your feet hurt to the point where it's numb and a toenail comes off!
@@jojox9791 thank you for pointing out the netherlands. they are powerful, but they sure are elegant. e.g. sanne wevers
@@kiersontitus7322 ive been a ballerina for 3/4 of my life and i was a gymnast also. i must say, ballet is harder in my opinion. it takes a lot of core strength, leg muscles, balance, timing, technicality, emotion/expression, etc. to be a great ballerina. ballet comes with a lot more requirements than gymnastics does. whereas i enjoy watching gymnastics more, i think ballet is far more elegant, peaceful, graceful and for sure, a lot more work.
I love how she was giving out her autograph when she found out she won and she just immediately drops the pens after finishing with a huge smile. and runs and hugs her dad it's was so adorable
She was so elegance and gracefull.
Back then Nastia connected the Onodi and the wolf jump a tad bit more than she did in the 2008 Olympics, but here she still did not really connect her free front walkover and her back walkover. Starting from 2008, she also began to see the beam a split-second before landing on her switch split ring leap. Other than those, all her beam routines were done with mind-blowing execution. Still my favourite gymnast to this day.
She’s so graceful! She is one of the very best at gymnastics
if doing gymnastic for 10 years.
i'm from the netherlands and she always was my idol.
she does everything so perfect.
i stoped with gymnastic because it was so hard to came on the top.
and i'm proud of her that she never gived up
she is great!
sorry for bad english ;$
She looks tall and has really long legs and arms, a beautiful gymnast:)
I love Nastia so much, miss her in gymnastics!!! Why do they have to pronounce her last name wrong? Not trying to be mean, but it bothers me when they pronounce her last name wrong,
Incredible gymnast and an incredibly beautiful woman.
Nastia's mom was a rhythmic gymnast and so that plays a part in the gracefulness of Nastia.
Alex Arulf Nastia’s Mom would leave the gymnasium when she marched out with her teammates. She could not stand to watch Nastia perform her routines. Have a tape of the 08 all-around in Beijing and it ran over. She ran to call her mother but apparently her mom had turned off her phone.
Nastia-beauty and grace personified in gymnastics! Love ya! GO USA! GO USA!
i love how happy she is to win its nice to see!!
All the gymnasts are so easy to describe in one word;
Nastia: Elegant,
Shawn: Strong,
Sacramone: Powerful,
all the Chinese Gymnasts: Delicate
I loved her incredible grace last time round. She clearly has a ballerina's form, which makes for the grace and beauty of her movements.
I am so glad she won back her world title.
she has such beautiful lines :)
regardless of looks or likes, shawn is a great athlete and a great competitor
Excellent performance there by Nastia Liukin!!! She really did get alot of height on her two and a half twist! Great performance and beautiful, excellent work. I love Nastia, She's great. Her flick layout layout was a little wobbley, but, she pulled it back, great!
That was funny how she stopped in the middle of signing an autograph to run and hug her dad/coach. So cute! I really hope Nastia returns for the 2012 Olympics.
loved when she and her dad hugged. just pure happiness.
I think that's an onodi it's pretty elegant :)
I miss her so much!
Her mom didn't come the past events Nastia was part of in Stuttgart where Nastia messed up but when she showed up to cheer her daughter in the beam final loud enough for us to hear Nastia got gold :D!
It's amazing how people can do that. I love it. :)
her reaction is so happy its nice to see :)
yeah i agree. y did everybody thumb down my first comment? it's true that this wasn't her best. nastia is my favorite gymnast. what was her best is the olympic beam final. i still think that she deserved gold here, though.
in awe....absolutely amazed
@XxXHorseLoverXxX1 Its because they have no memorise it off by heart for every competition, and they have to feel comfortable when performing it! :D
she's sooooo graceful!!!
why do people feel the need to say bad things...she is amazing...yes 2007 was not her year...but she is back better than ever
AND they are best friends, and shared a room at the Olypics :)
Amazing!
my favorite gymnast
Raeanna5! Love your posts! The truth always will prevail. Nastia was trained in the U.S, is a U.S citizen and is just as much a Texas girl as any other Texas gal!! Love ya Nastia! Go USA
Nastia lives about a town or 2 over from me. She is such a good gymnast.
Dio che linee meravigliose *_______*
E' sempre un grande piacere guardarla
I'll admit I don't know much about gymanstics other than what I've seen on the Olympics, but to me she is very artistic and elegant. I was mesmerized by her Olympic performances because she looked so much like a ballet dancer. I felt she brought a maturity and elegance that the other gymnasts lacked. To each her own I guess.
i love anstia liukin she is amazing!!:) she inspires me!!:)
i always love her leotards.
they're all so pretty!
Nastia te adoroo
GREAT JOB NASTIA YOU DESERVED IT GIRL
Daniela Silivas and Svetlana Khorkina had that quality also--looks especially spectacular on bars and beam.
she is my favorite gymnast
Nastia's balance beam performance is the best
"All those wobbles"? I saw two.
Wow Nastia!! You are great!
What is the value of hte connection?
Aerial Front Layout + BHS + LOSO + Layout tow feet
and Back pike?
i love her so much.
I agree DavidArchuletah!!!! She deserved that 2nd gold medal!!
i love nastia luken and shawn jhonsen they are so good at gymnastics:} he he they are coooool
beautiful free walkovers
Though Gabby Douglas was brilliant in London, the absence of Nastia Liuken at those 2012 Games kinda ruined the gymnastics event,,,,hope she comes back,,,,,nobody else has her grace and long legged lines.
Ok so if you look back at the older bars, there are some tricks they did I never understood but you never see it anymore. Like swinging from the top bar and bouncing your tummy off the bottom bar. Anyone got a list of banned or obsolete bar stuff?
So, when did Nastia start doing the "Liukin"?
2008
Oh, you didn't mean the Triple Back in FX? :P
e2theeyepie No, the triple back was his dad (Valeri)'s own move, nastia have her own move on BB :)
Could someone tell me the title of that Wo-ow Wo-ow music that plays after the gymnasts finish their routines...
@itsEmmaa zat je op de topsportschool ?
why was the song "kids in america" in the background i thought gymnasts aren't aloud to have word in their music?
SPECTACULAR JOB, Mademoiselle!! fantastic!! bless you
Whats that move called where she goes into a back flip then comes out of it like it were a forward walkover?
@CheezSteakCake oh gosh you must be right, can you put a video of how it should be done by yourself up on youtube? thanks im really interested! :D
@OneThingITrulyKnew Uh that might also be because she just did a backhand spring and two backflips while standing on a not very thick piece of wood .
THAT SWITCH RING THO
She is so talented! nice!
pssh. i can do that. hold my beer.
lasing kaba pre
Lol, I'm calm... It's just Nastia Liukin is like, my favorite person ever, and beam is my favotite event, so I get a bit defensive. And oh, you're welcome for the speech. Haha (:
so before your conclusion???? did u wacth the other competiers????
@FrozenFourthSeason haha, where are you from maybe?
Something great about this is she pulled it off so it looked like part of the routine even if it wasn't!
girl, calm down!!
you're right, i don't know anything about this stuff but i also don't talk any shit about it or about her, i'm just talking about what it looks like to ME so don't be pissed!
and thank you for the lecturing btw ^.^
was that a slip at like 0:22?
I feel like she would be good at ballet :)
Higher starting value for risk shows that even if routine is not polished, you can win.
@OneThingITrulyKnew Ya they did but the reason the crowd cheered was because she recovered.
hmm...6.6 d score...what was her d score in beijing? just curious
Nota mais que merecida!!!
what was her move b4 the bhs lay
She's beautiful and her routine is aswell.
Good in gymnastics👌👌
Ok, to all the people who have crap to say about Nastia or her routine...screw off. Seriously, your all just mad your not the kind of gymnast she is. Face it, you'll never be as amazing or as talented as her. So she had a wobble or two...who cares. Shes done multiple flawless routines in competition and she deserves to win. Now get over yourselves and accept the fact that shes the best. She wouldn't have won the olympics if she wasn't.
Are her knees double jointed or something?
It looked like they bowed the opposite way sometimes.
was this after her ankle injury or before?
what would you call her dismount? that was waaay more than just a full.
how do get the splits? I need my left splits
1:51 she's looking for her score, and you can see in her smile the exact second she sees it! She's so cute.
Are you freakin kidding me?! She. is. AMAZING!!!!
is she going back to gymnastics again?? anyon know?
is she going back to gymnastics again?? anyone know?
how is that possible?whos better olga korbut or her?
Does anyone know the name of the mount she uses?
she just does beautiful gymnastics, it dosent hurt that she is just pretty much all legs!! i was an elite gymnast 1998-99, and i am built , alot like she is. It was really hard for me because you could see every mistake i made because of my long legs. it is alot easier for the girls who have short legs because it sort of hides little mistakes. When you have long legs like that you have to really watch your form.
@elmoallan55 That's called an Onodi, named after Henrietta Onodi (HUN).
she looks so pretty! she is amazing! my favorite gymnast! XD
what is the move called from 42 - 45 seconds
finalmente ha vinto una ginnasta non solo potenza e sopratutto non una bimba..
l'eleganza e la grazia fatte persona..ed è anche bella..complimenti.
is there kids in america in backround ???
@BeautyPageant101 im not talking about the part where she almost fell, im talking about right after that
What is the very first flip she does??
@rolstoniusmac Not positive how its spelled but its an note or anote?? Something like that
what year was this?
with her body, she'd be an amazing rythmic gymnast, or even ballet.
Skinnyness doesn't benefit you in those sports, those sports just happen to be riddled with eating disorders and body shaming and therefore have many very skinny athletes. I was a ballerina so I know first hand at least for ballet