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Ask a psychologist

Fear often becomes an athlete's main adversary on the path to the podium. In a new video from the "Ask a Psychologist" series, Irina Kozyr shares a special technique and examines several causes of anxiety in athletes.

Ask a Psychologist: fear. How can a gymnast determine what exactly frightens her before going on the carpet?

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The new issue of the Ask a Psychologist column focuses on time management. Irina Kozyr shares there her recommendations for effective planning that will help to cope with a busy schedule.


Ask a Psychologist: how do parents of athletes reconcile work, sports clubs of children and life?

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A favorite activity is not just a way to spend time, but an important tool for children's development!

Ask a Psychologist: what should attention to be paid to when choosing a hobby or sport for a child?

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The Alina Festival

In this series of cards, we’ve gathered some interesting facts about Indian culture and shown how its traditions resonate with the world of gymnastics.

Some interesting facts about Indian culture

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Competitions

Competing in the event will be Evelina Tandalova from the Tyumen Region and Diana Kotlovskaya from St. Petersburg in the pre-junior category, as well as Alisa Shunina from Volgograd, among gymnasts born in 2015–2016.

Gymnasts from the Academy will participate in the international tournament for the prizes of Olympic champion Marina Lobach

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Yana Zaikina holds first place with a score of 52.150. Eva Chevtaeva is second (50.100), Alesya Naifonova is third (50.100), and Ksenia Savinova is in fourth (49.850).

Yana Zaikina and Alesya Naifonova finished in the top three on the first day of the Aura Cup tournament in Croatia

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Opinion

She arrived to the Academy with her daughter: they took a tour of the Museum of Rhythmic Gymnastics History and dropped by to watch training sessions with the teachers.


Interview with the 2000 Olympic champion in group exercises Vera Shimanskaya

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Academy Life

The Russian Gymnastics Federation sent the Russian specialists for training.



The Academy specialists are attending coaching courses in Spain, organized by European Gymnastics

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She, in turn, handed it to her mentor, Russia’s Honored Coach Veronika Shatkova.

The Academy team congratulated Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva on Teacher's Day

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Ksenia Savinova from Gatchina, Yana Zaikina from Volgograd, and Alesya Naifonova from Vladikavkaz will compete in Zagreb, alongside junior group gymnasts from the Academy and the Russian National team. 

Gymnasts of the Alina Kabaeva Sky Grace Rhythmic Gymnastics Academy will be competing in the international Aura Cup tournament.

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Rehearsals of the Alina festival with Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva took place in Novogorsk.

Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva visited the Alina festival rehearsal

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Training

Работа с олимпийской чемпионкой над новой программой Маши Борисовой из Санкт-Петербурга с обручем.

Работа над новой программой Маши Борисовой с обручем

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Thank you for your hard work and for your ability to spark interest, offer support, and provide the right advice at the right time. May your students delight you with their successes, and may you always find reasons to take pride in your work.

We congratulate all educators on Teacher's Day!

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Finding out the causes of lack of the desire together with Irina Kozyr in a new episode of the Ask a Psychologist column. The professional also shares her recommendations on how the parents can drive training motivation of children.


Ask a Psychologist: what to do if your child does not want to go to training?

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 Irina Kozyr shares her recommendations in the new Ask a Psychologist episode.


Ask a Psychologist: how to help a child get used to an unfamiliar environment faster?

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How should parents respond to such outbursts properly? And what can you offer a child in such a situation? Irina Kozyr answers these questions in a new episode of the Ask a Psychologist column.

Ask a Psychologist: children's manifestation of anger

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Irina Kozyr speaks in the new episode of the Ask A Psychologist section about causes of anger in children and shares advice how to cope with such crisis.


Ask a Psychologist: how to help your child to cope with negative emotions in case of failure?

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How can сonscious breathing be used in sports? And what techniques should be used? Irina Kozyr answers these questions in a new episode of the Ask a Psychologist column.

Ask a Psychologist: сonscious breathing

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What should be praise, what should be criticism? Irina Kozyr answers this question in the new episode of the Ask a Psychologist column.

Ask a Psychologist: how can the parents maintain a healthy self-esteem of a young athlete?

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What is the psychology of winning? And how does it help athletes? These topics are discussed in detail by Irina Kozyr in a new episode of the Ask a Psychologist column.

Ask a Psychologist: what is the psychology of winning?

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If you get into the habit of keeping it regularly, you can learn to manage your emotional state. Irina Kozyr will tell you more about the benefits of this diary in the new Ask a Psychologist episode.

Ask a Psychologist: emotions diary

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Irina Kozyr will help to find out the causes of fear and give tips how to overcome this barrier in the new Ask a Psychologist episode.

Ask a Psychologist: what to do if you fear telling a psychologist about your problems?

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What is the sports triangle of interaction? How to correctly distribute roles between parents and coach so as not to harm the young athlete? Irina Kozyr shares recommendations in the new episode Ask a Psychologist column.

Ask a psychologist: the proper relationship between a child, parents and a coach

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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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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.