- Joined
- Feb 17, 2010
Alina's skills are still there, and she can probably improve in some aspects at the age of 17 (If Evgenia can do it at 19 or 20, why cannot Alina?). The whole issue is motivation. With strong teammates, it is hard to face them from day to day. She could move to a different coach while remains a good relationship with Eteri, but it will be relocation, adjusting to a new environment and so on, all for the sake of achieving what she has already achieved at best? She probably does not have the motivation to do that even though she could.
I think Alina can improve some things but her jump technique is nowhere near as solid as Liza's, so it's hard to see her introducing much harder jumps like Liza has. She would basically need to do quad versions of the triples she couldn't rotate last weekend.