Floor Routines of the Year, 1976- 2012

 Simply, the one routine per year that stands out from all the rest.

2012- Eythora Thorsdottir, Netherlands, Junior Euros

Yes I've mentioned her quite a lot. Anyway, here she is on floor in all her glory- perfect precise form, beautiful graceful dance. I can't find myself to care that her difficulty is low. Just a masterpeice. And yes it does beat the various Olympic routines, for me. Her main contenders were Aliya Mustafina, Mai Murakami and Larisa Iordache.

2011- Mariya Livchikova, Ukraine, World Cup- Ghent

Just gorgeous. That double front is truly exceptional. Love her flair and form.

The best floor routine in London

Victoria Moors is a brilliant combination of beautiful dance AND power. Like Sarah Finnegan. Grishina could do with some of this difficulty to pep her beautiful routine up. Anyway, Moors is awesome here! This routine is out of either a 5.9 or a 6.0, which is of course competitive but not enough to clinch a gold probably. If she upgraded her turns that would work out well for her. As is stands she could easily medal with this, especially if Aly gets a lot of form deductions. I DO want Aly to be successful in her own right byt this floor routine deserves to beat her. Go Victoria! Plenty of comments stating she copied the routine from Jordyn, ignoring the fact Victoria has had this routine for years. And ignoring the fact that plenty of gymnasts have more than one floor pass in common- so what? Go Victoria!

The most memorable floor choreography

Not whole routines, though often the entire routine IS iconic. Here is just my favourites, the parts that I most remember. Not all of them are beautiful, some were just a big departure in choreography and noteworthy because of that. Or just plain awesome to see.




Chellsie has put this into almost all of her routines. A master of illusion turns, it isn't elegant or pretty but it looks amazing. Originality is usually the key to a part of a routine's dance sticking in your head.



Daniela Silivas showcasing the greatest way I have ever seen of uniquely getting from the floor to standing. I would love to see this again, but I doubt it'd ever be used because it's so recognisable.



The best part of the best 'cute choreo' routine. Mo also had great tumbling here.



Yes, I love Groshkova. This has been done in a variety of ways and is a great way of getting out of a spin, chose this because both the spin and her extension are just beautiful.



This entire routine by Olga Strazheva is famous and rightly so. Side-by-side with the most beautiful elegant routines, Olga performed her modern dance extravaganza with great aplomb. This is the most memorable part of the routine for me.



Another ground-breaking routine, Camelia Voinea displays her breakdancing skills. Always overshadowed by Silivas and Dobre (HOW deep was that team), Voinea not only had brilliantly unique choreography, she also had very difficult tumbling- double layout punchfront!


Elena Produnova attacks the floor so fiercely even in her dance!