A coach at the Alina Kabaeva Sky Grace Rhythmic Gymnastics Academy, bronze medalist of the 1996 Olympics, Irina Dzyuba spoke about how the preparatory plan of the Academy students changed ahead of the new season.
“We decided to add more acrobatics to the daily warm-ups, to the daily warm-up routine. There were also plenty of recommendations in regards to composition pieces, regarding the changes from one element to another one,” Irina said.
The coach also spoke about the advice given by Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva.
“Alina Kabaeva gave an excellent piece of advice to some of the girls, the ones who are ready. There are girls with very good abilities and we will try to do elements without preparation. For example, to do a balance right with standing on half-toes and maintain it. Definitely, this is a very challenging task but some girls are already doing it. We already started trying it, having introduced it to our daily routine,” she said.