WAG Oh wow.....

[Faith]

Being a relative newbie not sure if these have been posted before- a montage of bar skills from the 50's through to today.

uneven bars developments (50s to 2005) - YouTube

And a newer version : The Uneven Bars Developments (50s-2010s) - YouTube

Some of the early stuff is so inventive. I love the fluidity of modern bars, but it's really giant swings with some releases thrown in. Not sure which decade I prefer!

 

[MayDay]

I like watching the older style better. I think that a mixture between the two, keeping fluidity, would be awesome!

 

[Allieonbeam]

some pretty cool moves there, but in the old days they kept smacking their hips on the low bar too much and with such speed, ouch

 

[GymSurvivor]

Makes me want to be alive in the 50's, I could be an elite gymnast

Haha, I like te elegance of the older style quite a bit. But I agree all the hip hitting bar action looks painful.

 

[Cr7]

Those bars do not look safe to me! not even a little bit

 

[Iwannabemargo]

some pretty cool moves there, but in the old days they kept smacking their hips on the low bar too much and with such speed, ouch

Hey - less of the "old days" - we did it in the 70's and 80's too (oops showing my age now !)

 

[Mag_7_Fan96]

I guess it depends on what your looking at. Artistically I prefer the 50's to 70's. I love the creativity and the artistic aspects of the 50's to 70's gymnastics. As for the technical aspects and favorite skills I would prefer the 90's and 2000's. The skills are much more difficult now (check out Emilie Lepenec's uneven bars routine at the 2004 Olympics) and are very well done. I find though that routines these days don't seem to be as artistic as they were.