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Ask a psychologist

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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Competitions

The International Sky Grace Rhythmic Gymnastics Clubs Association team is taking part in the international competition in Budapest.

Live broadcast of the international Golden Autumn Cup tournament from Hungary

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The international competition will be held in Budapest, November 2- 3.

Sky Grace gymnasts to take part in the Golden Autumn Cup tournament in Hungary

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Academy Life

Our staff received congratulations from Academy administration representatives  and after the evening training session, the gymnasts read poems for the coaches.

Academy congratulates coaches on their professional holiday

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Alina Kabaeva

Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva wished good health, endless energy for creativity, prosperity and all the very best to all coaches.

Alina Kabaeva congratulated all specialists on Coach's Day

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Due to the emerging cases of mailings sent on behalf of the Alina Kabaeva Charitable Foundation representatives, we’d like to state that the foundation does not send letters and does not practice any fundraising.

Important information!

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Rulebook Excerpts

The following excerpt from the International Sky Grace Rhythmic Gymnastics Clubs Association rules is dedicated to the fouette rotation.

"Rulebook excerpts". Fouette rotation in combined Difficulty

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They are preparing for the Sky Grace Cup international tournament that will be held in Qatar from November 20 to 22.

Asel Arapova and Coach Natalia Belugina came to the Academy to prepare for the Sky Grace Cup in Qatar

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The Open Day was held in the Academy in honor of the All-Russian Gymnastics Day.

Academy guests visited the rhythmic gymnastics museum on the Open Day

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The new series is titled the Ribbons of Friendship. Characters of the cartoon go in for rhythmic gymnastics in the story.

A new series of the Three Cats cartoon was showed to Academy guests on the Open Day

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Alina is the champion of the 1st CIS Games, the multiple prizewinner of the Russian championship, and the winner of international and all-Russian competitions.

Alina Protasova is the new Academy coach!

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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.