I really wish Ksenia Afanasyeva would stop trying to be an all arounder. She is past her prime on uneven bars. I give her respect for trying but this is sad:
That happened during European AA qualification on bars. She is amazing on floor exercise and good on beam and vault. She should stick to those events. Russia is pretty much covered on bars. But whatever makes her and the Russian Federation happy, they are the ones planning her program. I just rather she become a very great specialist. If she spends more time on the other events she can become very very dominate in event finals:
Ksenia has upgraded her floor routine to 6.4 D-score! Unfortunately I cannot embed a video yet :(
Here is a breakdown of her 6.4 routine:
DLO (F)
Two whips indirect to 3/1 (E) 0.2
Dbl attitude spin + dbl spin (D) 0.1
Split ring leap + split leap 3/2 (C+D)
5/2 Twists + layout (D) 0.1
Dbl L-turn + Y-turn (D) 0.1
Dbl Pike (D)
3.4 + 0.5CV = 3.9 + 2.5CR = 6.4 D-Score.
It's a very ambitious and risky routine because there are a lot of chances for almost everything to be downgraded and not credited. She must work hard to complete everything. She was credit with everything in qualification and scored 14.633 with 8.533 execution and 0.3 penalty for out of bound. She qualified first to floor finals. I wish her all the best!
That happened during European AA qualification on bars. She is amazing on floor exercise and good on beam and vault. She should stick to those events. Russia is pretty much covered on bars. But whatever makes her and the Russian Federation happy, they are the ones planning her program. I just rather she become a very great specialist. If she spends more time on the other events she can become very very dominate in event finals:
Ksenia has upgraded her floor routine to 6.4 D-score! Unfortunately I cannot embed a video yet :(Here is a breakdown of her 6.4 routine:
DLO (F)
Two whips indirect to 3/1 (E) 0.2
Dbl attitude spin + dbl spin (D) 0.1
Split ring leap + split leap 3/2 (C+D)
5/2 Twists + layout (D) 0.1
Dbl L-turn + Y-turn (D) 0.1
Dbl Pike (D)
3.4 + 0.5CV = 3.9 + 2.5CR = 6.4 D-Score.
It's a very ambitious and risky routine because there are a lot of chances for almost everything to be downgraded and not credited. She must work hard to complete everything. She was credit with everything in qualification and scored 14.633 with 8.533 execution and 0.3 penalty for out of bound. She qualified first to floor finals. I wish her all the best!
"I really wish Ksenia Afanasyeva would stop trying to be an all arounder. She is past her prime on uneven bars. I give her respect for trying but this is sad"
ReplyDeleteDon't you see? A Russian girl who's terrible on bars is *gasp* an American! Afanasyeva is having a real identity crisis here. She's gotta do this!
Seriously, with a bars maestro coaching her, she is more apt to medal here than on vault. And I'm sure this is what a Grishina/Komova/Mustafina replacement should be able to do.
Hi anon, "Don't you see? A Russian girl who's terrible on bars is *gasp* an American! Afanasyeva is having a real identity crisis here. She's gotta do this!"
ReplyDeleteI guess you're right. The Russians don't give up AA easily and she has always been a good all around gymnast from the start. I wish her good luck on bars.