Per Daniil's recent interview Alina has a sweet tooth. "Chocolate" is a one big trigger word for Alina.
He said he yet to meet any girl on their group who does not like chocolate. They trying to influence girls into lower chocolate intake, but not willing and not capable to control that. He meant that like the coaches can only pray about there would be less and less chocolate available on this planet.
He said Alina is often very emotional on ice (he meant more like in a "hot-tempered" way), but calmer in her real life. Per his words Alina usually reacts very lively and passionately on all her small successes or temporary shortcomings during training process. He confirmed they all were in doubts about Alina's participation in WC until the very late. The closer it got to the T-day (boarding the plane to Japan for Worlds) the more nervous and desperate Alina got for some reason. She started making very uncharacteristic mistakes during her run-throughs in Moscow. They got Alina and all the coaches together to decide about participation at Worlds. He spoke a bit how they tried tap into Alina's teenagery psyche and used that rebellious "
they say to me one thing - I do exactly the the opposite" state of mind of hers to turn that anxiety into more positive energy. Per context of the interview it sounded like they tried to trick Alina's subconscious somehow and set her attitude off to a different and more positive way of thinking. I guess their approach worked at the end of the day.
Per context of that interview he was telling a bit how just days before leaving to Japan they channeled Alina's panic attacks into responsible attitude and unflappable approach. He said Alina became more focused right after they set their feet on Japanese ground. I recall Alina mentioned the magic of Japan - she always getting calm and complete in this country. Then they got to the venue and day by day at the training sessions they saw how Alina finally was getting into the zone and for once they felt more sure in her ability to deliver. Well, yes we remember Alina basically owned everyone at all those training sessions. She was on right off the bat.
Daniil confirmed that sometimes one "can see it in Alina's eyes". Interviewer quoted Tiffany Zahorski on her supposedly seeing it "
in Alina's eyes when she was setting her foot down into the initial position on the center of the ice - Alina was definitely going to knock it out of the park". Tiffany was on the same TV show a week ago when she said that. Daniil confirmed - yes, it is very true. He added that Tiffany is a lucky one, because TV viewers can see Alina's eyes very up-close on a big TV, but they (the coaches) unfortunately could mostly see Alina's back far away when she was getting into the zone before the music starts.
That got me thinking. Oh, well. Just look at those 2 pairs of eyes. Both ladies, actually:
https://i.imgur.com/hi9AfYr.jpg
This is what they call "getting into the zone"? The eyes of the tiger soundtrack plays somewhere here in the background. Eteri's magic, I guess. They are not waiting for their men to return from the war, they ARE going into the war. They are the war (with themselves).
Girl power and stuff. After all Eteri seesm to understand the mind of the young women, she has a teenager daughter of her own.
I have also noticed throughout the season that you can see it in Alina’s eyes how well she will perform before she starts
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hwell: It drives me nuts, she's cute though, like Masaru 
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