Gleikhengauz – about Akatieva: “We are working on the stability of the quadruple sheepskin coat”

Choreographer of the Eteri Tutberidze group, Honored Figure Skating Coach of Russia Daniel Gleikhengauz said that Sofia Akatieva works on the stability of the quadruple toe loop and rolling programs.

— What is Sonya Akatieva’s emotional state? What’s stopping her from only showing what she can do at the box office?

— Sonya arrived after the competition, and we have all already spoken to her at headquarters. Now it’s working, we are working on the stability of the quadruple sheepskin coat, because it was not yet stable enough to 100% wait for it to go into competition. We always say that to perform an element confidently at the beginning, you have to do it at 80-90 percent during practice, and then at the beginning you will go out and do it with more confidence. This is why we are currently working on the stability of the sheepskin coat and rolling out programs.

The main thing is that she has enough strength for the second half, which bothered us now at the St. Petersburg stadium. But it still affects us very often because of nerves, because when we worry too much and are nervous, we lose our strength more quickly. And in the second half (of the program), the legs no longer obey, so these errors appear, which do not appear so often in the training process,” the correspondent reports, according to Gleikhengauz’s words.

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