Channel 1 interview with Stanislava Konstantinova
(great interview, beautiful video and gorgeous Stasia
)
История российской фигуристки Станиславы Константиновой — о бесконечном терпении, катании сквозь слезы, изменении отношения к себе, жизни за пределами льда и...
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Started skating at 6 y.o., she really loved it and they came for the try-out to Figure Skating Academy at St Petersburg, then Chebotareva surprisingly took Stasia in her group even though Stasia was pretty bad at that time. Stanislava says that her mom still can't believe how everything turned out and that Stasia was accepted. She was much weaker than other skaters, her spins sucked - she had to spend 2 hours on her weekend working just on spins.
Speaking about rivalry she recalls an unpleasant story from few years which took place ago at Russian Junior Nationals. She was in a very good shape, came prepared and ready to compete, but had a huge bloody callus on her foot - couldn't stand on her right foot at all. Small piece of silicon was the only thing that could help and right before the competition she realized that someone had stolen that silicon piece. After the event one of her friends brought her that piece of silicon and said that someone asked her to give it to Stasia and etc. It was a mess.
But her main rival at that time was her own health, and that's why she couldn't progress as much as she wanted and move to seniors at 15 and etc. She had to deal with a chronic knee injury for 6 months, then they started treating it, so she had to skate and practice through tears and severe pain. And right after that new problem appeared - with both meniscus - she couldn't jump for three months and worked only on her spins. Says that she is grateful to Chebotareva as she never pushed Stasia to work more and gave her time to heal her injuries.
She didn't truly appreciate that at that time, but now realizes that she can call herself a healthy athlete because she had a chance to heal all injuries in time.
Her parents give her everything she needs for life and training, so she spends her prize money on fun stuff like cosmetics, clothes, shoes
She is 19 now and says that body still сhanges from time to time. With age stretching becomes much harder, back hurts just from some simple exercises. Now she spends all her day thinking about her health and weight. Weight is another issue as you have to control what you eat, the quality of food, the amount of water and etc. For example, she stopped eating fruits and sweet yogurts in the second half of the day. Says that her family helps her a lot, they have only healthy food in their fridge.
[alert on her phone - time to drink water
]
She is a completely different person off the ice - much more confident, resilient, is no longer shy or ashamed of her appearance.
Sometimes current situation in Russian ladies skating depresses her - "what are you doing here with your triples, when others jump quads?"
But she also knows that for now she has to show everything she can do. Triple axels and quads are difficult and if any skater at the age of 19 would learn and land quad jump for the first time, that would be super cool. She wants to skate for a long time, to progress. At this GP series she just wants to show her best and do everything they had worked on.
Of course she wants to be a figure skating star, but realizes that you have to show great results and win medals in order to become one. She knows that her main problem is that she had never showed her best in competition, had never been pleased with her skate. Wants to wake up one day and say to herself - "wow, Stasia, you are a star! That was cool, great, wow!" . But to achieve it she needs to become stronger, stricter to herself and more confident.
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