 That same season, two single skaters from the San Sebastian ice skating club, Txuri Berri, were approached with the intention of skating as Pair Skaters with the Rodríguez Long sisters.Both Aritz Maestu and Felipe Montoya accepted and at the end of March, the two pairs went back to Oberstdorf for a week's seminar with Alexander König.A few weeks later, at the beginning of April 2010, they also attended the yearly ISU Pair Seminar in Berlin, Germany.