Keepsake photographs with the Olympic champion after the Alina-2024 festival in Minsk

During a training session in Novogorsk, Mariia Borisova from St. Petersburg was practicing her routine with a ball, while coach Irina Gusarova and choreographer Lyudmila Duganova helped her adjust her movements so they looked wide, bold, and graceful.

We've collected beautiful photos from the classes so you can feel the atmosphere.

Choreographer Natalia Belugina continues to assist Yana Zaikina from Volgograd with new routines. Together with the gymnast's personal coach, Evgeniya Eliseeva, she oversees her clubs routine.

This is how the gymnast from Moscow worked on her rear balance.

The Academy held a class with Nisa Chusovitina, a choreographer at the Alla Dukhova's TODES dance studio. Together with her, the gymnasts learned a new routine.

Russian national team senior coach Marina Govorova and Irina Gusarova shared their advice with Alexandra Borisova from Moscow.

With choreographer Natalia Belugina, the gymnast worked through the details of her new ball routine. Afterward, she presented the results of her collaboration to her coach, Evgeniya Eliseeva.

This approach will help not only the coaches but also the gymnast identify weak points in the routine and understand how to improve them early.

During a test practice in Novogorsk, the Olympic champion noticed that the gymnast was having trouble entering the element. How Alina Kabaeva, the Head coach of the Russian national team, Tatyana Sergaeva, and Evgeniya Eliseeva, proposed fixing this, that is what our new video covers!

She explained to our gymnasts the importance of understanding the mechanics of the element and controlling each phase.

Take a look at how the senior coach of the Russian national team, Marina Govorova, and the Academy coach, Irina Gusarova, helped Mariia Borisova from St. Petersburg refine a new ball exercise in Novogorsk.

Marina Govorova is helping Yana Zaikina from Volgograd and Ksenia Savinova from Gatchina practice new routines.

We'll show you how they worked on balance and the approach to the throw.

We show how Ksenia Savinova from Gatchina and Yana Zaikina from Volgograd are perfecting their dance steps and transitions.

In classes with psychologist Irina Kozyr, the Academy's gymnasts are mastering useful self-regulation techniques, including ideomotor training and elements of neurogymnastics.