Volosozhar/Trankov - Cheer Thread!

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I wonder if Giuseppe Arena did that EX. It reminds me of T&M's Cotton Club LP, which he did.
I hope so! I hadn't seen T&M's LP tbh, but now that I have it does have a resemblance. Agree with you KinoriH it seems they can do all kind of styles and I hope that with Giuseppe they can experiment more :cheer:.
+ I'm a huge Ella Fitzgerald fan and despite this is not her version I just simply loved it.
 
I'm actually really excited for their Dracula LP.

The question is, who will be biting who? And will they go the corny route with fangs? :sekret: He should be bitten throughout the program if a beard is present IMO. Even vampires need a proper shaving.

Can Tatiana wear a cape? Imagine what the split twist would look like - a bat. :watch:
 
I'm actually really excited for their Dracula LP.

The question is, who will be biting who? And will they go the corny route with fangs? :sekret: He should be bitten throughout the program if a beard is present IMO. Even vampires need a proper shaving.

Can Tatiana wear a cape? Imagine what the split twist would look like - a bat. :watch:

i don't think max will keep his beard, mainly because the SP has an indian theme... and i don't think it fits well with a dracula beard..

But anything is possible... haha
 
That program was packed with transitions and choreography, but unfortunately was skated the year S/Z had Turandot at its peak lol. (Which wasn't as hard of choreography, but I way preferred their program all the same because of the expression)

The thought put into the character of the program is :respec: and I never realized that this was done by Arena. It's a gem, and I also think it would fit Tatiana and Max (XP) a lot more as skaters.
 
He looks 100% better clean-shaven (I realize the interview was taped awhile ago). Please go back to that, Max.

I tried to translate the subtitles, but Youtube does a terrible job with it. I would be grateful if someone can provide a proper translation.
 
He looks 100% better clean-shaven (I realize the interview was taped awhile ago). Please go back to that, Max.

I tried to translate the subtitles, but Youtube does a terrible job with it. I would be grateful if someone can provide a proper translation.

I'll try to do it tomorrow (if no one does it earlier). Now the internet is too slow, I can't even watch it properly...
As for automatic subtitles, don't even try to read them, they are usually absolute trash and write smth absolutely different from what is said...
 
Well, the main highlights of about half of the interview...

They talked a bit about Dexter, their dog. Tanya told the interviewer that she got him as soon as she came to Russia, and that he is 5 years old. The interviewer asked if it's difficult for them to keep a dog, as they travel so much, go to competitions etc. They said that if they have to go somewhere abroad they often have to leave him with their moms or with Tanya's sister. But in general Dex likes very much to be with them, they usually take him anywhere, even to the movies, for example, because he climbs into the bag and sits there quietly, and nobody would even notice that they have come with a dog.

The interviewer asked how they came to skate together, how they got to know each other for the first time.
They told that many people were talking even back in 2006 that it would be a very interesting and strong pair if they come to skate together, but it didn't happen that year, that happened only after the Vancouver Olympics.
They met each other for the first time in 2003 at the junior competitions, Max skated with Maria Mukhortova, and Tanya skated with her first partner, Petr Kharchenko. It was Maria who introduced them to each other, Maria and Tanya were friends at that time.

Their relations were developing little by little. They liked each other since they began to work together, when they had to make a lot of documents and go around a lot of offices, when Tanya was getting the Russian citizenship. They liked to talk to each other, were spending much time together, though at that time they were just good friends and partners, and Max wasn't even thinking then that they could be a couple. Their personal relationships began about two years after their skating together. But even before that it was constantly rumoured by fans that they had personal relations, even at that time when they hadn't.

Max was saying the same things that he said at the commentary of the Worlds, that the pair skating nowadays tends to be not really "pair", and focuses too much on side-by-side jumps and side-by-side skating, and the top pairs now don't pay enough attention to complicated lifts and other pair elements. He also said that in general the pair skating is often disregarded nowadays, though it's the most technically complicated discipline of figure skating - for example, at the Euros the pair LP was put to the Sunday morning, after all the other skaters had already had the closing banquet.

Max also said that he doesn't have such a habit to keep some memorable things from the competitions and so on, for example, he threw away the skates in which he was skating at the Olympics, and he was not planning to keep them as 'keepsakes'. He even keeps all his medals at his mother's, because he feels that it should kind of make him more 'hungry' for the new medals, if he doesn't focus on the medals that he already has.

Tanya goes to the University now, she studies sports management. The interviewer asked if they are planning to be coaches. Tanya said that she would rather prefer being a manager, doing some organizational stuff. Max also said that he doesn't feel like being a coach, but rather a choreographer or a coach assistant. He said that to be a coach it's necessary to know many things that he hadn't studied - biomechanics, biorhythms - he discribed how Nina Mozer plans their trainings taking all this into account, and said that he doesn't know these things thoroughly enough to be a coach.

They were asked what they want to do, but putting away for later, they said that it's having a baby, they would like to, but as they are planning to compete till the next Olympics, they can't afford this yet.

They are also preparing a house to live, though they often don't have enough time. Tanya oversees and manages the furnishing of the house and arranging everything, Max doesn't go into it too much, he said that he fully trusts Tanya to do it.
 
Well, the main highlights of about half of the interview...
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You are amazing! Thank you!

So Tanya is overseeing the renovation of a house, and taking classes on top of training and traveling and everything else? She is a true superwoman. :eek: I feel so lazy all of a sudden...
 
Thank you for the translation!

Max said they're starting the season at Nebelhorn again, right? Because I can't wait all the way until Bompard. :rofl:
 
Well, the main highlights of about half of the interview...

They talked a bit about Dexter, their dog. Tanya told the interviewer that she got him as soon as she came to Russia, and that he is 5 years old. The interviewer asked if it's difficult for them to keep a dog, as they travel so much, go to competitions etc. They said that if they have to go somewhere abroad they often have to leave him with their moms or with Tanya's sister. But in general Dex likes very much to be with them, they usually take him anywhere, even to the movies, for example, because he climbs into the bag and sits there quietly, and nobody would even notice that they have come with a dog.

The interviewer asked how they came to skate together, how they got to know each other for the first time.
They told that many people were talking even back in 2006 that it would be a very interesting and strong pair if they come to skate together, but it didn't happen that year, that happened only after the Vancouver Olympics.
They met each other for the first time in 2003 at the junior competitions, Max skated with Maria Mukhortova, and Tanya skated with her first partner, Petr Kharchenko. It was Maria who introduced them to each other, Maria and Tanya were friends at that time.

Their relations were developing little by little. They liked each other since they began to work together, when they had to make a lot of documents and go around a lot of offices, when Tanya was getting the Russian citizenship. They liked to talk to each other, were spending much time together, though at that time they were just good friends and partners, and Max wasn't even thinking then that they could be a couple. Their personal relationships began about two years after their skating together. But even before that it was constantly rumoured by fans that they had personal relations, even at that time when they hadn't.

Max was saying the same things that he said at the commentary of the Worlds, that the pair skating nowadays tends to be not really "pair", and focuses too much on side-by-side jumps and side-by-side skating, and the top pairs now don't pay enough attention to complicated lifts and other pair elements. He also said that in general the pair skating is often disregarded nowadays, though it's the most technically complicated discipline of figure skating - for example, at the Euros the pair LP was put to the Sunday morning, after all the other skaters had already had the closing banquet.

Max also said that he doesn't have such a habit to keep some memorable things from the competitions and so on, for example, he threw away the skates in which he was skating at the Olympics, and he was not planning to keep them as 'keepsakes'. He even keeps all his medals at his mother's, because he feels that it should kind of make him more 'hungry' for the new medals, if he doesn't focus on the medals that he already has.

Tanya goes to the University now, she studies sports management. The interviewer asked if they are planning to be coaches. Tanya said that she would rather prefer being a manager, doing some organizational stuff. Max also said that he doesn't feel like being a coach, but rather a choreographer or a coach assistant. He said that to be a coach it's necessary to know many things that he hadn't studied - biomechanics, biorhythms - he discribed how Nina Mozer plans their trainings taking all this into account, and said that he doesn't know these things thoroughly enough to be a coach.

They were asked what they want to do, but putting away for later, they said that it's having a baby, they would like to, but as they are planning to compete till the next Olympics, they can't afford this yet.

They are also preparing a house to live, though they often don't have enough time. Tanya oversees and manages the furnishing of the house and arranging everything, Max doesn't go into it too much, he said that he fully trusts Tanya to do it.


Thank-you so much Borzaya...I am liking them better all the time as we get to know them better.
 
And I'm seriously thinking to go at TEB now. Both V&T and Yulia will be there.
If you can then you totally should :) there are so many great skaters there this season (or at least a lot of my favorites). I would die to go!
And thanks a lot Borzaya for the translation.
 
If you can then you totally should :) there are so many great skaters there this season (or at least a lot of my favorites). I would die to go!
And thanks a lot Borzaya for the translation.

Last season I went for S&K and Yulia. Now it's V&T and Yulia, and I haven't seen them live yet. :) I'm going to Euros for sure and I think they will be there but Bordeaux it's 1 hour flight, every day from Milan. Not expensive either.
 
Continuation of the interview :)
The rest of the interview was mostly about their parents. Tanya told that she was taken to the rink for the first time when she was 4. Her parents at that time were going to the rink as well, for fun and for physical exercise, and took little Tanya with them. She was a lively and energetic child, and she liked skating at once.

Max, when he was a kid, didn't like skating at all, it was his parents' wish (mostly his dad's). He also said that, in fact, it was his elder brother Alexei's idea (when he saw a note about accepting children to a figure skating school) to suggest this idea to their parents, to send Max to figure skating (so that Alexei didn't have to sit with him and look after him :D). As for Max's brother, he was going in for skiing when he was a kid, but he didn't become an athlete eventually, but became a scholar, a philologist.

There was said about Max's dad, that he had been an athlete himself, an equestrian, and that it had been his dream to win the Olympics, he had got to the Olympic team twice, but due to different circumstances, never got a chance to go to the Olympics. Max was asked why his dad hadn't wanted Max to go in for equestrian sport as well, and Max said that even nowadays this sport is not so developed, and only the well-off people can go in for it, and at the time of Max's childhood this sport was absolutely in decay.

They talked, of course, about how Max's dad had died, that it happened all of a sudden, when he went to another city. Max said that they tried to dissuade him from going there alone, and even his car, which always worked smoothly, for some reason didn't start that day, so that he had to take Max's car. And Max and Tanya had to go to skate at the Euros the following day, and Max and his brother decided that he should go, because their dad would've wanted him to go. Max also said that for half a year after that he had a feeling as if his dad was still around, as if he was feeling his presence, and this feeling comforted and supported him.

Max said that he talks over the phone with his mom almost every day, and Tanya phones her parents almost as often, too; besides, her mom and her sister often come to visit her.

(The very last part of the video, about 7 minutes, is not about V/T. It's the tradition of this tv show (which is considered as a family show) that the main part is the interview with this or that celebrity, and the last several minutes feature some children from orphanages, to attract the attention of the audience, so that maybe smb would adopt them. So the interview with Tanya and Max finishes at about 31 minute.)
 
Thank you so much for the translation @borzaya . :cheer2:Great job. :)

OT question: I'm making a new Piars video. Which one is correct to write in english: "Top World Pairs in FS" or "World Top Pairs in FS" ? :unsure:
 
I just wanted to say that I discovered Voloshozhar / Trankov's programs through Maxim's commentary of Mao's Sochi LP freeskate. To be honest, Mao's Sochi LP with Maxim announcing is my favorite moment in sports history. Fortunately, I understand enough Russian to really appreciate the impact of that great moment. His commentary was the most thunderous, impassioned and honest of any commentary I have ever heard by anybody and as a huge Mao fan who was overwhelmed by the performance his was my favorite. It floods my emotions every time he says "Natsayashe samaroi" (true samurai) and "It was the performance that only an Olympic champion can do."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C62RN3YikFQ

When I saw Volosozhar's / Trankov's performance in their Sochi LP after listening to his commentary I was so impressed. I don't usually watch pairs but their passion shown through. It's great that they are coming back with Mao and I wish them all the best.
 
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