Coach of the Khavronina-Narizhny duo: “Ira and David are individualists. We just have to accept it and try to work with it.

Maria Borovikova, duo dance coach Irina Khavronina /David Narizhny in an interview with , she said that now it has become a little easier to work with emotional skaters and it does not go to extremes.

Khavronina and Narizhny teamed up last winter in the group of Denis Samokhin and Borovikova. In their first season, the skaters became winners of two stages of the Russian Grand Prix, and also won bronze at the Russian Championship and the Spartakiad of the Strongest.

— Irina made an interesting observation in December: “We often get uncomfortable in front of coaches when they see that David and I have been arguing and growling at each other. They are trying to balance us. How to defuse the situation?

“We have our own approach to the guys, they listen to us. There have been times when we had a fight and then made up. It seems to me that this happens to everyone who rides two-up. The main thing is that it does not go to extremes. There is a very important point here: Ira has such a character that if something goes wrong, she is very upset. When the guys first came to us, she immediately honestly admitted this shortcoming. She and David are both individualists. We, the coaches, can only accept it and try to work with it, to educate it a little in our own way. It seems to me that now it has become much easier with emotionality. Or maybe progress has just started – and there are fewer reasons for frustration,” Borovikova told .