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Fizicultura - Youtube channel

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The videos you have been able to see in the previous posts come from a Youtube channel entitled Fizicultura. In addition to the videos embedded on the pages of this blog, you can find the following; they are a fascinating document of the Soviet Union's training regime and show familiar gymnasts in a relatively unfamiliar role.

Basic women's gymnastics, 1990

Featuring Svetlana Baitova, Svetlana Kozlova, Irina Viatinina, Elena Abrashitova, Tatiana Gutsu, Oksana Chusovitina, Tatiana Lyssenko, Tatiana Ignatova and Tatiana Toropova.

Men's all around, compulsory programme, 1989

Video features Valeri Belenkyi, Dmitri Vorobaev, Valentin Mogilnyi

Consultant video editors, Nikolai Andrianov and Alexander Alexandrov

Compulsory programme (men) for the 1980 Olympic Games 

Compulsory programme for Candidate Master of Sport, (women and men) 1981

Features Tatiana Frolova, Elena Polevaya, Tatiana Arzhannikova, Pavel Sut, Vladimir Artemov, Stanislav Sitnik, Artur Akopian, Oleg Bratasov, Alexander Tumilovich

Soviet TV documentary (Russian language) on the psychology of sports coaching, including shots with Leonid Arkayev, Olga Bicherova and Elena Shevchenko training with the Razumovsky couple (now train Anastasia Grishina), Alexei Tikohnkikh working high bar with Arkayev, Andrei Rodionenko. There are shots of a moustachioed Vladimir Artemov and members of the 1985/7 MAG World Championships teams. In black and white, very atmospheric!!


 

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