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Workouts

Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva helps the gymnast practice the fouette technique with a ball pass behind her back during another training session at the Academy.

Continuation of Alina Kabaeva's training with Alexandra Borisova at the Academy

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Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva, together with the choreographer of the Alina festival Irina Zenovka, show Mariia Borisova from St. Petersburg how to achieve a beautiful and comfortable preparation for a pirouette.

Alina Kabaeva helps Mariia Borisova improve her preparation for a pirouette in the clubs exercise

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Participants in the second stage of the group exercise gymnasts’ selection in the Academy are practicing not only in halls for workouts and choreography but also in the dancing class. Alesya Makh, the teacher and the director of the Alla Dukhova TODES Adler Studio-School, explained to us the importance of dance classes for modern gymnasts.

Dances in the training camp of group exercise gymnasts in the Academy

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Alina Kabaeva

Olympic champion and International Sky Grace Rhythmic Gymnastics Clubs Association President Alina Kabaeva thanked the organizers of the international tournament in Hungary.

Alina Kabaeva thanked the organizers of the Golden Autumn Cup tournament in Hungary

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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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Rulebook Excerpts

We continue to study the International Sky Grace Rhythmic Gymnastics Clubs Association rules.

"Rulebook excerpts". Lateral rotation with balance front split

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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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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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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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Ruslana started crying during the selection in September 2023 and Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva reassured her. We talked to the gymnast at the start of the second year of practicing and asked to share her impressions from training sessions. Academy Coach Elizaveta Chernova commended her progress in the meantime.

Our little star Ruslana Varlakova

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After the session, she shares her work plan with the gymnasts and tells what qualities in athletes she pays attention to.

Tatiana Sergaeva holds the first training session for group athletes as part of the second stage of selections at the Academy

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This time, Academy preschoolers from free early development groups, together with teacher Anna Pukhova, learn to feel the strong beat in music.

An exciting rhythmics lesson for the youngest Academy gymnasts

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We are sharing an interesting fragment from a training session at Alina Kabaeva Sky Grace Rhythmic Gymnastics Academy.

Kristina Voitenko continues to prepare her hoop routine under the guidance of coach Irina Dzyuba

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Venera Fadeeva, the grandmother of young Volodya, and Maria Brazhnikova, the mother of little Olya, talk about how convenient the transportation is, whether the kids like it and whether the parents are happy with the Academy classes.

How young athletes from the Martial Arts Academy attend classes at the Alina Kabaeva Sky Grace Rhythmic Gymnastics Academy

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Academy coach Evgenia Eliseeva and Ksenia Savinova from Gatchina are working on the leap to ring by two legs with hoop bouncing before the competition in the capital of Azerbaijan.

Preparations of Ksenia Savinova for Ojaq Cup international tournament in Baku

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Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva explained to Lia Rodionova from St. Petersburg the technique of performing an interesting catch in an exercise with a ball. After that, during lessons with the Academy coach Evgeniya Eliseeva, the athlete continued to practice it.

Lia Rodionova practices an interesting ball catch after a lesson with Alina Kabaeva

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During an Academy control training session, coaches Irina and Alina Gusarova tell Diana Sobyanina from St. Petersburg how to behave if the music turns off during a performance.

Advice from Irina and Alina Gusarov: what to do if the music suddenly turns off during a performance?

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Academy student Karolina Tarasova from Donetsk, together with her coach Evgenia Eliseeva, works on a risk and a spectacular finish in a ribbon routine.

Footage from Karolina Tarasova's training with her coach Evgenia Eliseeva

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Academy student from Novosibirsk Olga Chernykh amazes the Academy coaches by performing four somersaults under a throw in the ball exercise.

What gave Academy coaches Zlata Tulubaeva and Alina Gusarova goosebumps during the latest control training session?

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Irina Gusarova reminds Academy student Sabina Samatova from Izhevsk of importance of emotions during the assessment training session.

Performance of Sabina Samatova at the assessment training session in the Academy

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Eva Tregubova from Ulyanovsk is learning a new routine with clubs together with choreographer Natalia Vlasova during training at the Alina Kabaeva Sky Grace Rhythmic Gymnastics Academy.

Choreographer Natalia Vlasova works with Eva Tregubova on a new routine

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Mariia Borisova from St. Petersburg is preparing to perform at an international tournament in Baku.

A fragment of Mariia Borisova's performance at an Academy control training session

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In Sirius, the gymnast trains under the guidance of coach Irina Gusarova.

Alexandra Borisova talks about the Academy control training session before the tournament in Baku

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During the control training session before the international Ojaq Cup tournament, Academy coaches Zlata Tulubaeva and Alina Gusarova noted the performance of Lia Rodionova from St. Petersburg.

Fiery run by Lia Rodionova at the control training session at the Academy

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After training at the Academy, we spoke with preschoolers from free early development groups Marta Golubeva, Alexandra Pakhomova, Alina Chipizubova and Ruslana Varlakova.

Young Academy stars talk about their favorite elements

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The gymnast and her coach Dominika Adama received an invitation to the training camp from Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva. All of their expenses have been covered by the Academy.

Alina Kabaeva evaluates the progress of Congolese gymnast Nkenko-Sita Davina Shanselvi

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For the new season competitions, Academy student Ksenia Savinova from Gatchina is learning a new program with clubs.

Fragments of Ksenia Savinova's work with choreographer Natalia Vlasova and coach Evgenia Eliseeva

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Earlier, gymnast Diana Sysoeva from Ulyanovsk worked on an exercise with a ball together with Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva.

A lesson by Diana Sysoeva from Ulyanovsk with the Academy coach Elizaveta Chernova

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The gymnast and her coach Dominique Adama received the invitation to the training camp from Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva. The Academy covers all the expenses.

Gymnast from the Republic of Congo Nkenko Sita Davina Chanselvi is perfecting apparatus handling during the training camp in the Academy

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Athletes are learning under guidance of Alina Kabaeva to perform helicopters with the move to the back pirouette and the Olympic champion prompts how to keep the balance at the same time.

Another training session of gymnasts with Alina Kabaeva in the Academy

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Nineteen girls eventually passed the selection and will practice since now on with our professionals.

Alina Kabaeva is checking details of young girls during the selection to Academy’s free early development groups

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During one of the classes, Alina Kabaeva noticed that many gymnasts were working with the objects wrong and were making simple mistakes. After that, our athletes began to improve their object preparation together with Irina Dzyuba, coach and 1996 Olympics bronze medalist.

Academy gymnasts’ object preparation with coach Irina Dzyuba

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During a recent training session, Academy student Karolina Tarasova from Donetsk doesn’t do a run at full strength, but Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva explains to her why she needs to give it her 100%.

Alina Kabaeva shares wisdom from her athletic past with Karolina Tarasova

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We‘ll show how the Academy students train at the gym and outside.

Jogging and general physical training sessions for Academy gymnasts

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The Olympic champion noticed that the athlete was holding the ball wrong during the fouette.

Alina Kabaeva gives advice to Lia Rodionova on working with the ball

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11.09.2024. We are sharing with you another fragment of a lesson of Academy student Karolina Tarasova from Donetsk with Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva.

A fragment of a lesson by an Academy student Karolina Tarasova from Donetsk with Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva

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11.09.2024.During one of the training sessions, Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva helps Academy student Karolina Tarasova from Donetsk practice the right catching technique in the exercise with a hoop, and the gymnast starts to succeed.

Alina Kabaeva helps Karolina Tarasova practice the right catching technique in the exercise with a hoop

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Take a look at a fragment of a lesson before the international tournament in Italy: Academy student Karolina Tarasova from Donetsk practices an element under the guidance of Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva.

Karolina Tarasova practices a pirouette under Alina Kabaeva’s guidance

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The gymnast and her coach Dominika Adama received an invitation to the training camp from Alina Kabaeva. All expenses are covered by the Academy.

Academy coach Olesya Kovaleva explains ribbon technique to Nkenko-Sita Davina Chanselvi from the Republic of Congo

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Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva is working with student Karolina Tarasova from Donetsk during the next practical session in the Academy.

A fragment of a training session of Academy student Karolina Tarasova with Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva

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Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva advises Anna Vakulenko from Volgograd to add apparatus work in the exercise with clubs during the next workout in the Academy.

Alina Kabaeva advises Anna Vakulenko to add apparatus work in the exercise with clubs

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Gymnasts often focus on performance of elements during run-throughs and forget about artistry and expressivity at all. This is exactly what Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva reminds of to our student Anna Vakulenko from Volgograd.

Alina Kabaeva reminds Anna Vakulenko of expressivity in performance during a workout in the Academy

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Alina Kabaeva explains the secret of the spectacular and artistic performance to Sofia Smirnova from the Moscow Region at a workout in the Academy.

Alina Kabaeva shares the secret of a spectacular performance with Sofia Smirnova

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Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva tells Academy student Karolina Tarasova from Donetsk during the workout that the success can only be achieved when constantly working on herself and not giving up.

Important motivating words of Alina Kabaeva for Karolina Tarasova

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Academy student Karolina Tarasova from Donetsk apologizes for her behavior. Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva supports the athlete in the meantime.