Briannah Tsang FX EF 2013 Anadia Cup

This was a nice routine for the tumbles.

Tomas Gonzalez's 3/1 Yurchenko (kind of)

It's cool that he is trying to go for it but it was not even close. I wouldn't even consider that an attempt. I might sound like a hater but I think it was funny how he did this vault. It's not that it was bad bad but reminds me of that time when Tatiana Nabieva almost did a 3/1 and then there was another time when Afanasyeva mocked it at Tokyo worlds podium training. Good times.

Just Because

Anastasia Grishina doing Memmel spin + Illusion spin. When I read the new CoP was going to reward spinning combinations one of my dream combo was for a gymnasts to do something similar to this:

Here is Grishina's combo. I'm liking the new spin connection rules. Grishina still needs a little work on the combo but it's nice.

 (source: marycrawleyed)

And here's Afanasyeva's double attitude spin + double spin because why not.

(Source: starkofwinterfell)

Grishina, Bulimar and Shang FX QF @ 2013 Anadia Cup

Yay videos are popping up at piibunina's channel. Here are videos from the qualification round. It's nice to see Grishina wearing the Olympic team finals leotard. It's a beautiful leotard in my opinion. I like Grishina's Memmel + Illusion combination. Too bad I will miss this competition tomorrow.

Team Russia's 2013 Universiade Teams Announced

The team members will be Aliya Mustafina, Ksenia Afanasyeva, Tatiana Nabieva, Anna Dementyeva and Maria Paseka. Source 

I read somewhere that the eligible age is 17 so technically some of the competitors don't have to be in University/College. I'm not 100% sure about this though.

It's nice to see Tatiana Nabieva and Anna Dementyeva on the team. Here is another article where Valentina Rodionenko talks about the MAG & WAG team.

This is just my fun speculation of how the team will be used. The format will be like the Olympics 5-4-3 but if I'm not mistaken the qualifying round will also be the team finals. So 4 gymnasts up and 3 scores count for team finals. The first gymnast I name will be the score that they will most likely want to discard.

Here's my line up, just for fun speculation :)

VT: Tatiana Nabieva, Ksenia Afanasyeva, Aliya Mustafina, Maria Paseka
UB: Ksenia Afanasyeva, Maria Paseka, Tatiana Nabieva, Aliya Mustafina
BB: Ksenia Afanasyeva, Anna Dementyeva, Aliya Mustafina (this one was tricky because Paseka and Nabieva are pretty useless on beam and floor so all these three gymnasts scores must count)
FX: Anna Dementyeva, Aliya Mustafina, Ksenia Afanasyeva

It is interesting to note that Valentina did say Nabieva restored AA but doesn't have a second vault so she could contribute on beam and floor in qualification.