Coach Anzhelika Krylova explained why she transferred figure skater dancing pair Kaganovskaya / Angelopol from juniors

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Figure skating coach Anzhelika Krylova told that she decided to transfer dance couple Vasilisa Kaganovskaya/Valery Angelopol from juniors to adulthood to increase their motivation in the absence of international competitions.Last season, 16-year-old Kaganovskaya and 18-year-old Angelopol took second place in the Russian Junior Championship, as well as first and second places in the Junior Grand Prix series. The pair will perform at the main Russian team’s trial skates, which will be held on September 24-25 at the Megasport Palace of Sports in Moscow.– Vasilisa and Valera will be on trial skates in the main team. Vlada (Pavlenina) and Alexander (Aleksanyan) are substitutes, so they are still hooked. We are preparing for the Grand Prix. Maybe we will go to St. Petersburg for the preliminary competitions. We plan to skate programs there with these two pairs.

If we talk about Valera and Vasilisa, then for them this is a sudden, important step – the transition to the master. We hadn’t planned it, we wanted to ride as juniors, because they could perform there for another two years. We had planned that they would go to the Grand Prix, the junior world championship, but with this whole situation, we cannot do it. So I decided to try them by the masters. This is done for their motivation and competitive spirit, of course they have room to reach out and strive for top pairs.

What else do you need to work on? Above the technique, above the speed, above the pure execution of the elements, because the programs are complex and rhythmic. This year we have Latin, and last year we had blues, which is slower. Now they have removed the compulsory dance and created other elements with an emphasis on dance and tempo. We are also working on it. In a free program, physically difficult support on the elements.We coaches have a story: to prepare the guys for the season, so that they are healthy, so that the competitions take place, so that everything works out in our team and we can compete! – said Krylov “”.Pavlenina and Aleksanyan in the past became 11th in the Russian championship and took third place in the final of the Russian Cup.