A new challenge

Imagine having an opportunity to participate in an international camp in Italy... Imagine doing the activity you love six times a day... Imagine waking up and seeing the view of snow-covered mountains...

That's exactly how this week of mine looked, as I participated in the Ryabinin figure skating camp in Courmayeur.

Courmayeur sport center ice rink

At first, I thought that this week would be too hard for me due to the pain that I had in my legs and that I might even need to take a rest day or two, but in the end, it turned out better than expected.

While it did have some challenges, such as trying to overcome my fear of jumping harder double jumps or not being able to do complicated spins, I overcame them with my head held up high.

Photo of me during the spin practice at the Ryabinin camp

This process allowed me to learn a lot of new techniques and skills, which I can now use during my tournaments and trainings to score better results or increase the quality of training.

Therefore, even though at the start I thought that I would not be able to give my fullest, it turned out to be false, which allowed me to take the most out of every second of the camp while at the same time meeting new people and cooperating with them to help each other.