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Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva talked with Karolina Tarasova about this and overcoming her own challenges. The gymnast made some mistakes in her ribbon routine, but thanks to her persistence and the support of her coaches, she overcame everything!

During the ball routine, Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva praised Mariia Borisova from St. Petersburg for her fast pace, but emphasized the importance of maintaining concentration until the end. Together with coach Irina Gusarova, they taught Mariia how to stay focused even in the most challenging moments.

An athlete’s program should be composed in such way so that to highlight all her advantages and not to forget elements with the high score at the same time. Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva emphasized that for coach Evgenia Eliseeva and Academy professionals after the run-through of Ksenia Savinova of Gatchina.

At a control training session, Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva explained the appropriate approach to training. She advised Ksenia Savinova from Gatchina and her coach, Evgeniya Eliseeva, to work on the quality of their run-throughs and learn to give their best here and now, just like at competition.

This time Alina Kabaeva and Academy coach Evgenia Eliseeva helped Ksenia Savinova from Gatchina to find a variant of more eye-catching preparation for the risk.

Mariia Borisova from St. Petersburg made several mistakes in the ribbon program at the assessment training session. Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva explained to the gymnast how these little faults should be perceived in order to cleanly complete the remaining part of the exercise.

To have the risk always ended with the catch, it is important for a gymnast to know specificities of its execution technique and not to give up when having the first failure. During a workout with Karolina Tarasova, Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva showed nuances of ribbon handling to the gymnast and explained why there should be no relaxation after the loss.

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Mariia Borisova suffered two losses in the ball routine during the first run-through at the assessment training session at the Academy. The Olympic champion cheered the gymnast up and said that upsides should be looked for in everything and the work should be completed to the end. Masha listened to words of Alina Kabaeva, braced herself and performed the program without mistakes, having deserved applause by that.

And Alina Kabaeva wished the athletes successful training sessions at the training camps in response.

Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva helped Yana Sakovich from Moscow work out all the inaccuracies in the exercise with the ball. She showed the correct position of the hand, as well as the exit from the side pirouette and table.

Mariia Borisova from St. Petersburg couldn't do a fouette during training, but Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva and coach Irina Gusarova explained to the gymnast why it's important to go all the way, even if you have no strength.

This is what Alina Kabaeva pointed out to Yana Sakovich from Moscow. Want to know how an Olympic champion suggested that a gymnast can improve her program with a ball? This is what our new video is all about!

Sometimes gymnasts underestimate their strength, and it is the coach's job is to show them that they can do more. This is exactly what Alina Kabaeva and coach Irina Gusarova talked about with Sasha Borisova from Moscow, helping her to work on pirouettes and jumps.

Immediately after Alina Kabaeva’s important words about the importance of overcoming the "dead point" in the program, it was decided to start working on the side pirouette.