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Ask a psychologist

Sports psychologist Irina Kozyr explains the reasons why a child may want to refuse to participate in sports and what to do if it happens.

Ask a Psychologist: What to do if a child wants to quit sports?

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Sports psychologist Irina Kozyr talks about the causes of anxiety, its differences from fear and ways to deal with it.

Ask a psychologist: how to overcome anxiety at competitions?

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Sports psychologist Irina Kozyr tells how to properly reward a child for success in sports and what mistakes parents sometimes make.

Ask a Psychologist: How to Reward a Child for Success in Sports?

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Аssociation

The tournament will be held at the Alina Kabaeva Sky Grace Rhythmic Gymnastics Academy from April 8 to 15.

Regulations of the All-Russian competitions Sky Grace Cup at the Academy

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MA Academy

Bueso N'Zambi Gnislen Allure and Ibata Okombi Gedeon came to the training camp in Sirius together with the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Congo in St. Petersburg Jocelyn-Patrick Mandzela.

The training camp of athletes from the Republic of Congo over at the Martial Arts Academy

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Competitions

The competition will be held in Kazan. The individual program will be held March 30 through April 5, and from April 4 to 9 — in group exercises.

Academy gymnasts will take part in the Russian championship

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Opinion

It was held under the guidance of the Russian national team Head Coach Tatyana Sergaeva.

"It's very cozy here!" Academy student Anna Vakulenko talks about the training camp in Novogorsk

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The choreographer of the Alina festival worked with a gymnast from Moscow on a tango-style exercise.

Irina Zenovka speaks about choreographing a new program with a ribbon for Alexandra Borisova in Novogorsk

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Rulebook Excerpts

New element in the Rulebook Excerpts section — Asel Arapova's leap.

"Rulebook excerpts". Asel Arapova's balance

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Small steps to big victories

In new cards, Vladislava Nikolaenko, silver medalist of the BRICS Games, shared her secrets of motivation and cheerfulness.

Small steps to big victories. Vladislava Nikolaenko

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Academy gymnast Alexandra Borisova from Moscow took part in the training camp in Novogorsk.

Alexandra Borisova shares advice from the Russian national team Head Coach Tatyana Sergaeva after the end of the training camp in Novogorsk

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Our athletes received two gold, two silver and two bronze medals.

Russian national judokas win medals at the Grand Slam tournament in Tbilisi

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The gymnast won the gold medal in the all-around at the All-Russian Young Sky Grace competition.

Champion of the All-Russian Young Sky Grace competition Veronika Malinina talks about the images in the programs

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Sports psychologist Irina Kozyr explains what athletes need to do when it is difficult to focus due to stress, external noise and other factors.

Ask a Psychologist: How to Maintain Concentration?

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In the new episode of the Ask a Psychologist column, Irina Kozyr gives recommendations for successfully combining education and sports.

Ask a Psychologist: How to find a balance between education and sports?

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Irina Kozyr explains in the new episode of the section how to help a young athlete to believe in herself, why she can lose this belief and how to support her at such moment.

Ask a Psychologist: How to help a child to believe in herself?

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Irina Kozyr explains in a new episode of the section when it is better to start approaching a specialist and how to prepare a young athlete properly for that.

"Ask a Psychologist": From what age should an athlete start working with a sports psychologist?

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Irina Kozyr explains in a new episode of the column how injuries affect the psychological state of athletes and shares pieces of advices that will help to go properly through the rehabilitation period.

Ask a Psychologist: How to support a child if she picks up an injury?

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Sports psychologist Irina Kozyr talks in detail about the problem of emotional burnout and gives recommendations that will help not only gymnasts.

Ask a Psychologist: How to overcome emotional burnout?

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In the new episode, sports psychologist Irina Kozyr explains how competition affects an athlete and what its advantages and disadvantages are.

Ask a Psychologist: What’s the right way for an athlete to treat competition?

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In the new Ask a Psychologist episode Irina Kozyr talks about the basic principles of developing discipline, and also shares advice that will help parents teach their child self-discipline.

Ask a Psychologist: How to learn discipline?

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Academy sports psychologist Irina Kozyr explains what this problem is like and how to deal with it.

Ask a Psychologist: How to prevent a child from getting a big head about athletic achievements?

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Sports psychologist Irina Kozyr gives several pieces of advice that would help gymnasts in difficult moments at workouts.

Ask a Psychologist: How to handle criticism from the coach?

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Academy sports psychologist Irina Kozyr talks in detail about ideomotor training for athletes and how to do it correctly at home and elsewhere.

Ask a psychologist: What is ideomotor training and how can gymnasts use it?

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Academy sports psychologist Irina Kozyr shares and gives recommendations to athletes on how to properly respond to unpleasant emotions and prepare for new starts.

Ask a psychologist: how to cope with negative emotions after a failure at a competition

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...Sports psychologist Irina Kozyr tells what to do when young gymnasts have no desire to go to training because of accumulated fatigue or improper recovery.  Всем привет! ☀️ ...

Ask a Psychologist: What is the right way of dealing with fatigue?

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Academy psychologist Irina Kozyr talks about autogenic training in more detail and gives advice on how to do it.

Ask a psychologist: what is autogenic training and how is it done?

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Academy psychologist Irina Kozyr talks about the importance of this method and gives specific techniques on how to bring meditation into everyday life.

“Ask a Psychologist”: how to use meditation in sports and what are its benefits?

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Sports psychologist of the Academy Irina Kozyr explains the reason of insomnia with gymnasts before competitions and performances and also gives several pieces of advice how to cope with it.

Ask a Psychologist: What to do if you cannot fall asleep at night before the performance?

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Even in the warmest relationships between parents, children and coaches, there are difficult moments. Academy sports psychologist Irina Kozyr explains why it is important to trust your child’s coach and remain calm in tense situations.

Ask a Psychologist: How can parents build a relationship with their child’s coach?

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Sports psychologist of the Academy Irina Kozyr speaks about working with breath, which will help to cope with pre-start excitement during competitions.