Only Russian coaches? As I recall, it worked out pretty well for Nathan Chen. He also initially kept doing the jumps to the exclusion of anything else. And as I recall, it also worked pretty well for Jin Boyang for a few years, while he was landing those quads. It got him two bronze medals from worlds and 4th at the Olympics.
Scherbakova, Trusova and Valieva. Ideally Kostornaya would have her spot too, but I can’t see who would give it to her...Scherbakova?
Yes, it's a strategy that frequently gets rewarded, hence my comment that Trusova and Plushenko may be right to pursue it.
As I see it, it takes a lot of skills to be landing those jumps, and a lot of guts to even dare to go for it and risk everything. It would be so much easier to play it safe... So I am quite happy that it gets rewarded.
To be fair, Nathan's coach is from the 'Russian school', so...
I thought he started with the quads strategy before he even moved to Arutyunyan! Didn’t he insist on doing all those quads even at some exhibition, injuring himself?
I think you will get 2 of the 3.
Mishin doesn't let that happen to his skaters.Congrats to the Russian men for regaining the three spots!
So how long will it take for the Russian fed to get in Sememenko’s head and destroy him?
Artur Gachinski?
Mishin said he had problems from the get go and wouldn't listen.
Danielian strikes me as too self-confident and convinced of his own rectitude to let RusFed's constant kvetching about adding more quads or whatever interfere with his development. I hope I'm right as he's a beautiful skater and I want him to have a long career.
Congrats to the Russian men for regaining the three spots!
So how long will it take for the Russian fed to get in Sememenko’s head and destroy him?
What is rectitude? Confidence? It's going to be a wild dog fight to see which of the 3 Russian men make the Olympic team. As far as the Russian ladies go it's going to be an incredible monumental competition to see which ladies go to Beijing.
Anna is the 3 time Russian national champion and now the defending world champion. Unless something unforeseen happens she is a lock for Beijing. And she has the right coach too.
Eteri will brawl with the fed for her girls. Valieva is close to a Bejiing lock unless something like puberty kicks in. You can't control mother nature so we have to wait and see what happens with KV.
I totally agree. If anybody should ever ask me who my role-models (as a teacher) are, I'd name Moskvina and Mishin in a heartbeat. I feel my heart beating and warming up whenever I get to talk or write about them. Goddamn legends!My utter respect to both Mishin and Moskvina. This is their Worlds and hopefully 2022 will be their Olympics. 80 years old, more than 50 years in the business and both continue to work without any excuses and tiredness. Full set of medals here between the two of them and a option for the 3 spots in Men.
Anna is the 3 time Russian national champion and now the defending world champion. Unless something unforeseen happens she is a lock for Beijing. And she has the right coach too.
My dream team would be Anna, Kamila and Liza.
Liza is my dream, the rest I will go with whichever ones perform the best at the time.
Precisely. There are no guarantees as to which skaters will make the team. Russia goes for whomever has the best odds of medaling as well they should. It's a long time until next February. We just have to hope they have a full GP series and Europeans to let all of them get ready.
They will make exceptions next season if that's the case or one of them misses Russian nationals due to injury. And juries and sickness could happen and you can't send someone to the Olympics she does not have the ultra jumps unless it's alyona.
Anna is the 3 time Russian national champion and now the defending world champion. Unless something unforeseen happens she is a lock for Beijing. And she has the right coach too.
I meant that he seems very headstrong and invested in his own training methods and developmental trajectory compared to most other skaters his age, who are more likely to offer cookie-cutter non-answers and/or bland praise for their coaches in interviews. So I’m not too worried that outsiders who think they’re entitled to an opinion, like federation officials, celebrity coaches and commentators, etc., will bully him into making the wrong decision for his career (the way I am about Kostornaia, whose self-belief seems to have cratered this season, for example).What is rectitude? Confidence? It's going to be a wild dog fight to see which of the 3 Russian men make the Olympic team. As far as the Russian ladies go it's going to be an incredible monumental competition to see which ladies go to Beijing.
Hopefully the Russian skaters are in optimum health in the Olympic season. Too many of them had c19 this season. I don't think any other country had the massive ***** issue that the Russians did. They need to be more careful in the Olympic season and maybe some less partying too.
