The Most Difficult Acro Skills Performed on the Balance Beam (No Mounts or Dismounts)

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In women's artistic gymnastics, beam is the third event in the Olympic order.
This apparatus is 4 inches wide, 16 ft long and 4.10 ft high.
Since the 80s, beams have been covered in leather or suede in order to make them less slippery and are now also sprung to accommodate the stress of high-difficulty skills.
The gymnast has 90 seconds to perform a mixture of acrobatic skills, dance elements and choreography.
In this video, we'll take a look at the 5 most difficult acrobatic skills performed on the balance beam, excluding mounts and dismounts.

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Simone Biles
Sunisa Lee
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Rebeca Andrade
2020
Tokyo 2021

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[ivylin]

I miss all these twisting saltos in this quad. Gymnasts didn't really do them anymore. Gabby Douglas used to do such a beautiful standing full.

[darkmatter]

Katelyn Ohashi 2012 beam routine was the best. That full twisting layout is gorgeous 😍

[AshleyKarys]

Sui Lu did the best Grigoras of all time! I’ve never seen anyone get the amplitude like her. She was one of my favourite beam workers of all time.

[demonsalwayswin]

Whenever I see Shawn I click immediately. 😂❤

[queenofnevers]

Produnova is so underrated on beam imo
Also
That layout full combo is so amazing.

[tildakarlsson]

Nias arabian was really good, she landed with her chest so high

[jbrie]

The piked arabian is amazing! Hope to see her throw that in competition.

[rickywd]

Viktoria Komova's standing Arabian in London was easily the greatest ever performed.

[joshguthrie]

Hi can you make a video about the new compositional changes with the new code of points?? Like the no turns from the same family can be in the same routine, etc. thanks!

[Sarah-wdxr]

Please make a video on the new #2 beam composition requirement and all the skills besides turns that fulfill it!

[MrCph]

Lay out full is my favorite. It’s sad that the development of harder and harder acrobatic skills on balance beam when we exclude mounts and dismounts has stopped many years ago.
I’m looking forward to see if we see Memmel do the piked Arabian and gets it named after her.
I also saw in one of her YouTube videos practice a back full step out. That would be so nice to see.
Otherwise we need someone to create something new.
Back with 1 1/2 twists?
Front with full twists?
It must be possible!
I hope someone surprises us soon!

[EmilyNGymFan]

My favorite skill is the Bahrani because when Simone biles does it, it’s an indication that everyone makes mistakes.

[treyartemov]

I love your videos!! Keep them coming 😂 🤸🏼‍♂️

[gymstyle]

You are one of my favorite youtube channels but when you put Nastia moving her hands like a bird as best choreography I nearly spit out my drink.lol

[ileanajorge]

Wow, felicidades a todas, espectaculares, bendiciones

[OanaBanOfficial]

Yyeyyy👏👏I was curios if you will mention the skill that i performed in 2003 Full Layout...and you did it! 🎉🎉. Yeap, i'm there👀Thanks for you videos

[whatareyoudoingoverthere]

I've of your videos!!! Love em!!!

[jastohrr]

Hey I was wondering if you could please do an edit to this possible uneven bars routine with its difficulty value? I think it would look pretty interesting and i would greatly appreciate it!

// = break in sequence
+ = connections

Uneven Bars (UB):
Piked Arabian Mount (G) // Ono (E) + Healy (E) + Ono 1/2 (E) + Geinger with Full Twist (G) + Bhardwaj (E) + Seitz (E) + Pak (D) + Van Leeuwen (E) // Double-Double Layout a.k.a The Ray as the dismount


***The first three turns following the mount can be found already connected in Nastia Liukin’s UB routine; The Seitz (E) + Pak (D) + Van Leeuwen (E) can be found on a version of Aly Mustafina’s 2013 bars I believe, although her version separates the sequence between the Pak (D) + Van Leeuwen (E) with a Stalder Circle (C).

[thegingermenace]

I loved the back tuck full and the Arabian! The lay out full is extremely difficult. But it's a beauty to behold. I hate seeing good balance beam elements go! Beam was not ever my favorite, but I worked dang hard not to be scared and freak myself out! My favorites are bars and floor! But, alas, I'm an older woman now, married with children. Lol! I can still do it in my dreams though! ❤

[mariusa.]

All of these are underrated in my book, that’s why they are so seldomly performed. At least one letter up, all of them! And adjust the mounts and dismounts as well, for god’s sake!