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sadlikeknivesGOD I LOVE HIGH BAR.
This is some of the best action at the Games. The main event, for me, which is I suspect why they always put it last. "Stick around for SOME CRAZY SHIT!" It's the most go big or go home apparatus. Sure there is some hard shit on pommel horse and still rings but some of it can actually...look kind of boring (not you Sasha baby I love you keep doing your crazy pommel horse). And I must admit I can barely watch parallel bars because I do not understand the appeal of landing all your weight on your inner arm like that OW. But if you play it safe on high bar you pretty much are going to suck. So you've got the "I am trying to qualify so I need to not fall off" routine and the "I am trying to win an Olympic gold medal so HOW MUCH CRAZY SHIT CAN I STUFF IN HERE?" routine and GOD I JUST LOVE IT. And you get stuff like Jonathan Horton stuffing some more difficulty in there at the last minute and the audience booing his score when anything higher would've placed him ahead of their boy wonder. THEY CANNOT DENY THE AWESOME.
And of course, who could ever forget the Great Alexei Nemov High Bar Kerfuffle of '04? "The audience is deeply displeased with your judging. Judge again. No, they're still displeased. They're...not shutting up. They're going to riot. Oh my God. Er, Mr. Nemov, since you are pure class, can you help us out here?
"...TIME FOR A NEW SCORING SYSTEM."
*bounces off walls*
High bar makes me so happy.
This is some of the best action at the Games. The main event, for me, which is I suspect why they always put it last. "Stick around for SOME CRAZY SHIT!" It's the most go big or go home apparatus. Sure there is some hard shit on pommel horse and still rings but some of it can actually...look kind of boring (not you Sasha baby I love you keep doing your crazy pommel horse). And I must admit I can barely watch parallel bars because I do not understand the appeal of landing all your weight on your inner arm like that OW. But if you play it safe on high bar you pretty much are going to suck. So you've got the "I am trying to qualify so I need to not fall off" routine and the "I am trying to win an Olympic gold medal so HOW MUCH CRAZY SHIT CAN I STUFF IN HERE?" routine and GOD I JUST LOVE IT. And you get stuff like Jonathan Horton stuffing some more difficulty in there at the last minute and the audience booing his score when anything higher would've placed him ahead of their boy wonder. THEY CANNOT DENY THE AWESOME.
And of course, who could ever forget the Great Alexei Nemov High Bar Kerfuffle of '04? "The audience is deeply displeased with your judging. Judge again. No, they're still displeased. They're...not shutting up. They're going to riot. Oh my God. Er, Mr. Nemov, since you are pure class, can you help us out here?
"...TIME FOR A NEW SCORING SYSTEM."
*bounces off walls*
High bar makes me so happy.
