European figure skating champion Alena Kostornaya spoke about the differences in the coaching methods of Eteri Tutberidze and Elena Buyanova.
“Any coach is demanding of his athlete if he wants to get a result. Eteri Georgievna is a charismatic woman, at some point she starts to explode, and it comes very quickly. A thin line, when a person literally walks along a thread, is rubbed along the blade.
Elena Germanovna will endure. I don’t know how much we reworked the same pose with her. It seems that we stood with her for an hour and a half and did it. I have already managed to get tired a hundred times, be reborn like a phoenix and get tired again. And Elena Germanovna all this time monotonously tried to explain to me what they want from me.
And it’s not like I did something wrong on purpose. I really did not fully understand what they wanted from me at that moment. And now Eteri Georgievna at that moment would probably have exploded three times for sure. About the fact that I can not do the most simple, basic movements.
Elena Germanovna calmly explained everything. Then, at some point, I stood up like a doll, so that she would move me herself, show me. But nothing, without shouting everything was decided. Everything is fine, ”said Kostornaya.