Olympic stuff
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icepixieCaught some ladies gymnastics tonight, but only uneven bars and balance beam, with about ten seconds of vault at the beginning. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rensong, any idea when floor routines are gonna be shown? Or did I just miss them?) Holy crap, I have no idea how those people do that. The little Chinese girl on the bars was incredible, as was the one who did that amazing flip/jump/whatever up onto the balance beam. (I'm rooting for China! They're awesome! I have no idea if they're doing more technically difficult things, but they sure looked harder than everyone else's. And they all have adorable smiles when they finish their routines.) I'm a little confused by the "dance" moves scattered throughout the beam routines, though--they serve no purpose that I can see, except for maybe all the toe-pointing helping them center themselves before flips and things. But I'm lost as to why they include little shimmies and butt-shaking and stuff. Seems gratuitous.
I envy gymnastics their camerawork. They show the entire body, and only do closeups on the face at the end! Shock! Amazement! Why can't we have some of those people come film skating? Pleeeeease? Drives me crazy to have the camera staring up some poor skater's nostrils when I want to see his/her feet, to see whether that loop was cheated or that lutz flutzed. If things were done my way, there'd be a top/bottom splitscreen, with the top 2/3 showing the whole body and the bottom third a continuous closeup of the feet. Failing that, at least drop the random close-ups of their faces, especially during important things like, oh, footwork sequences. It's called footwork for a reason, you dolts!
Um. I didn't mean for this to turn into yet another skating rant...
rensong, any idea when floor routines are gonna be shown? Or did I just miss them?) Holy crap, I have no idea how those people do that. The little Chinese girl on the bars was incredible, as was the one who did that amazing flip/jump/whatever up onto the balance beam. (I'm rooting for China! They're awesome! I have no idea if they're doing more technically difficult things, but they sure looked harder than everyone else's. And they all have adorable smiles when they finish their routines.) I'm a little confused by the "dance" moves scattered throughout the beam routines, though--they serve no purpose that I can see, except for maybe all the toe-pointing helping them center themselves before flips and things. But I'm lost as to why they include little shimmies and butt-shaking and stuff. Seems gratuitous.I envy gymnastics their camerawork. They show the entire body, and only do closeups on the face at the end! Shock! Amazement! Why can't we have some of those people come film skating? Pleeeeease? Drives me crazy to have the camera staring up some poor skater's nostrils when I want to see his/her feet, to see whether that loop was cheated or that lutz flutzed. If things were done my way, there'd be a top/bottom splitscreen, with the top 2/3 showing the whole body and the bottom third a continuous closeup of the feet. Failing that, at least drop the random close-ups of their faces, especially during important things like, oh, footwork sequences. It's called footwork for a reason, you dolts!
Um. I didn't mean for this to turn into yet another skating rant...
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Date: 2004-08-17 01:48 am (UTC)As for the floor routines, well, I'm not sure when they might be showing them again, but they were on last night around 9-ish maybe? centeral time, but they were scattered about between the swimming. The only info the TV guide gave on gymnastics is that it was on last night from 7 until midnight (but that was along with swimming and some other stuff, so no real help there) and that it will be on again tomorrow night - Tuesday - 7pm (centeral) until 10, and that's along with swimming and beach vollyball. They don't give any particular times for each event, so yeah... is rather annoying, if you ask me.
But, yes... the bars routines are excellent. The floor routines? Not so much. I mean, they're still great, but a lot of it does look forced. But, I guess I can't really talk since I didn't see a whole lot of floor. I think I saw maybe 4 of the USA routines and maybe one Chinese or Russian. I didn't think the American routines were that great (I mean, compared to what we usually have), but the one other one I saw looked pretty good. So, try and catch some if you can.
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Date: 2004-08-17 05:11 am (UTC)Sure looked like it. It was the Americans, mainly; they would tumble along to one end of the beam, do a little dance move in place--I can see how a pirouette like the ones some of them were doing is technically difficult on a 4" beam, but not how these are really much different from standing in place--and then do their thing to the other end of the beam.
I wasn't watching very religously last night, so I'm not surprised I missed the floor stuff. I'll look for it tomorrow.