These are all fair points just as unflattering statistics presented by other posters and myself.
I think, it's the matter of finding a golden mean between looking after young pupils' health and being demanding, innovative and successful. It's a bit bothering, we (and Eteri) may find it out only in even longer period of time and injuries, but maybe there are no other ways to achieve excellence?
Maybe between 2018 and 2022 Eteri will have 0 injuried skaters, because she's acquired enough knowledge already? :think:
We'll see, they improved almost everything, but 0 injuries with that many skaters i don't think it's possible.
Kostornaya had never even skated internationally before until working with Eteri. (FWIW, I like Kostornaya's polish and expression, but her lack of speed kills me.)
Polina S., Adian, Yulia, Serafima - all had pretty good to overwhelming success at the junior or senior level with Eteri. They then began to struggle or got injured, and subsequently were never again able to find success. Liza T. struggled immensely with puberty, and has had more struggles since winning her World title, but Mishin has always supported her, including bringing her from the low point of 2013-2014 to winning a world title in 2015. What is even worse is that Eteri does not take any responsibility - she blames puberty or the student's attitude.
It will be interesting to see what happens to Polina T. I adore her skating, so I hope she is able to make a comeback under Eteri or another coach.
She has never blamed Serafima, Adian and both Polina.
When i said that she is not the best psychologist i wasn't joking, Mishin is a good guy but he is also old: he's not producing the best skaters as he used to do in the past, so he has the time and the patience to wait.
Eteri wants to work with motivated skaters, and if you are not that's the door: she said it publicly to Julia when she moved to Urmanov, but i think when you're facing puberty or things aren't working for you, it's easy to get frustrated and even think to leave the sport. They (because Averbukh was also rude) could have handled better the situation.
Polina T. despite all her issues wants to continue to skate and compete at an high level, that's why she's still there.