Senior coach of the Russian national team Egor Sorine said in an interview with that he wants the skiers in his group to periodically argue with him and have their own point of view.
Egor Sorin’s group includes Sergey Ardashev, Alexander Bakurov, Sergey Volkov, Savely Korostelev, Ilya Poroshkin, Sergey Ustyugov, Elizaveta Pantrina, Anastasia Prokofieva, Tatyana Sorina, Veronika Stepanova, Yulia Stupak, Anastasia Faleeva and Daria Nepryaeva.
— Do you often have arguments with your skiers, or do the guys accept your every word and just do what you say?
“Sometimes I even demand that disputes arise.” And I want them to arise. I want people to have their own point of view. Sometimes this does not coincide with the coach’s point of view. Sometimes I even have to agree with a skier if he explains everything to me in detail. In that case, I will hear it and understand it. I tell a lot of people that no one can feel better about an athlete than the athlete themselves. A trainer can see something, suggest something, but in a good way, it is you yourself who will understand best if you are tired, if you need to increase your loads… From time to time, I I want an athlete to tell me that they want to do something more, or to oppose it by saying that they have enough load. I’m exaggerating a bit, but still.
Even before the Russian Championship, we were saying: “Guys, who thinks he needs to go to the mountains for a training camp before the competition, please.” Everyone thought about it and made their own decision. Someone refused for reasons explained to us. We have such a dialogue in this regard. Therefore, I want there to be constructive debates within the team,” Sorin told .
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Source : MatchTV
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