Maria SOTSKOVA - poetry on ice

Sotskova warns skaters of heeding online criticism
Two-time Grand Prix Final qualifier explains affinity for classical music
Posted 12/4/17 by Jean-Christophe Berlot, special to icenetwork
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2017/12/04/262382782
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Sotskova: I must say that the internet is far worse. There are so many readers, and they always write stuff. You'll read comments like, "Her competitor is better, she should go to the Games" or "She is not good enough." That's quite demoralizing. People have to know something: We always want to show the best programs, and also beautiful skating. We don't skate only for us but for everyone. We just try to make the world better and people happier than they were before watching us. That's our goal! Some people who criticize us don't know how much we are working for that goal.
The problem is, modern life without the internet is just impossible. I, of course, don't want to read those criticisms, but they are there, as toxic as they are. Athletes shouldn't read internet comments. They make you more nervous and make you lose some of your confidence. If you follow them, you can lose your way.
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Icenetwork: When we see you skate, or during press conferences, you always look so discrete and shy. Now I see you're not exactly so.
Sotskova: I'm not shy! I'm a rather confident person; at least, I have confidence in myself. I'm certainly very focused on my competition, that's for sure. But when I'm out of the rink, I'm a rather funny person; I'm always laughing. In fact, I love laughing! In real life, I'm really different from what you see (on the ice).
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Icenetwork: May I ask you where your excellent English comes from?
Sotskova: Of course! I went to the USA in 2015. I skated in Los Angeles, and I took from Rafael Arutunian. I was staying with an American family, and they allowed me to practice my English. They were so good. I love them, and I love the U.S.
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I believe Sotskova stayed with the family of Olivia Serafini when she was training in Los Angeles 2 years ago.
 
So happy to see Maria move up to win the silver! Will she ever win the gold though, at least at a GP? She has been consistent all season. Wish her the best in the upcoming competitions.
 
Here's some really pretty Getty pictures from GPF http://www.gettyimages.com/photos/f...aria sotskova&recency=last48hours&sort=newest

Interview (google translated)

Maria Sotskova: "We need to go out on the ice and think not only that you're riding for yourself, but for your team"
December 09, 2017

Russian figure skater Maria Sotskova became the silver medalist at the final of the Grand Prix in Nagoya. After the competition the sportswoman answered the journalists' questions and assured that she would take home all the gifts of the Japanese fans.

- Masha, congratulations, how do you assess your performance?

- Of course, we did a lot of work, so the relevant results. At this start I got a good short and arbitrary program. I'm happy with the result. But at the national championship I want to show the level a little bit better.

- So the quantity became quality?

- With experience there is confidence, in the first place. Secondly, some qualities of my skating are improving. It all comes with time. I'm glad that I'm gradually progressing, I'm not standing still, and even more so, I'm not going down. Every start urges me to work even more. The main thing is that all the elements are stable, and when you make them stable, then I'm sure of them. Consequently, there is skating, lightness, more relaxed feel, you can show all the emotions.

- You so confidently rolled back the whole program, that there was a feeling that you were not worried at all?

- Actually worried and strong enough. For me this is the first time in the final. Usually I'm always very relaxed, get pleasure from riding, and here for some reason I was worried, because, probably, I already want to get on a pedestal and from this such excitement.

- Japan - for you a happy country? In 2013, you won the Fukuoka Junior Finals and now silver on the adult start.

"Japan always helps me, it's easy to ride here." On arrival, you get a bunch of positive emotions, because here all people are so friendly, everyone is smiling, and this is fueled by energy, and it helps. You come out on the ice in the stands in Russian flags, everyone supports. Of course, this always helps and adds confidence.

- If you compare that Grand Prix finale and this one, where was it harder? In Fukuoka, then, a strong company was also picked up.

- Then it was my first junior season. I discovered everything for myself, everything was new. When I arrived at the finals, I was in Japan for the first time. I did not know how it was. I always dreamed to get here.

Then, I think, it was easier, because I rode the penultimate or last number, and felt absolutely calm. I just wanted to perform, discover a great sport. And now I come to the competition for the result.

- Then after the final you said the phrase that the athletes - this is the face of the coach. Do you still think so?

- Yes, I still think so, because coaches put their souls in us. Every day they work, they try to teach us something not only in terms of figure skating, but also in life. They help us to reveal ourselves on the new side, try to teach something new, so that we become more experienced and skilled. Therefore, always when we go out on the ice, we represent our coach. If we play poorly, then the coach will be upset. So, the coach will be dissatisfied with his work. And if we act accordingly, then the coach is satisfied, you are satisfied and in principle the whole support group, everyone is happy and happy. Just need to go out on the ice and think not only that you're riding for yourself, but for your team.

- The second suitcase for toys fans?

"I came with a half-empty suitcase, specially for gifts, because I know that I will not leave this place empty-handed." I already have huge packages with toys in my room, which are all vital to me and everyone will go with me home.

- Thank you, Masha.

Olga YERMOLINA
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Source http://www.fsrussia.ru/intervyu/344...ataeshsya-za-sebya-no-i-za-svoyu-komandu.html


Interview from yesterday (google translated):

Figure skater Sotskova said that she "easily rode" in the short program of the GP Final
NAGOYA (Japan), Dec 8 - R-Sport, Anatoly Samokhvalov. Russian figure skater Maria Sotskova said she felt light in the short program in the Grand Prix Final in Japan.
The final of the series Grand Prix takes place December 7-9 in the Japanese Nagoya. Competitions in women's single skating started on Friday. Sotskova on the basis of the short program scored exactly 74 points and takes an intermediate fourth place . The day before the athlete made a number of mistakes in training.
"I'm happy that I passed the mark" for 70, "Sotskova told reporters." After the unsuccessful (training) hire yesterday (coach) Elena Germanovna (Buyanova) told me: "Forget today is a new day, and tomorrow a new day, we must fight and start with a clean slate. "And today, unlike training, it was easy for me to go, I was worried at first, although I usually feel at ease at the Finals (Grand Prix), because I do not need to go anywhere, I'm already here. there was excitement for some reason and a special desire.I think after the flight was an incomprehensible state of " .
As for physical growth, the figure skater said she hoped that she would never grow up again. "I hope that's not enough, maybe because of the hairstyle such a feeling develops, I think I did not grow up," she added.
Also Sotskova noted that she intends to experiment with the images in the programs, but will think about this before the next season. "Next season I will experiment, but so far I have not even thought about anything concrete," she explained.
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Source https://rsport.ria.ru/figure_skating/20171208/1129790677.html
 
Vash01 said:
So happy to see Maria move up to win the silver! Will she ever win the gold though, at least at a GP? She has been consistent all season. Wish her the best in the upcoming competitions.
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If she rotates her jumps like she did at GPF, sure why not? I'm sure next season her PCS will improve and she's looking for new images so I guess we will see how it goes.
 
DreamSkates said:
Lovely new dress for the Grand Prix Final.
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Yes, lovely dress. And I feel like it enhances the program more and really highlights her line. Not sure which element of nature she was portraying this time, but it looked more like a river and less like a bush :lol: i.e. her movements were more fluid.
 
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Weve3 said:
A little late to the party, but congrats to Maria re GPF!
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Better late than never!!! Maria :respec:! Three new PBs!!! :respec:

Je l'adore! :encore:

Her new dress is also PERFECTION!! She looks like a million bucks in it! :hat1: I can't get over how stunning and beautiful she is! I know it's genetics and she was very blessed in the looks department, but still.. She's just flawless! :smokin:
 
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Babies Sima, Masha, and Zhenya from the 2013 Jr. Grand Prix Final!! How times have changed! :lol:

Masha's outfit! :glamor: And those fans are great!

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Dr.Siouxs said:
Maria, like most of her compatriots, has some dreadful lines and sloppy style. She certainly has potential but unfortunately the current judging system carries little incentive for her to improve in these departments.
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Quoting my bitchy comment from years ago to say I like her now. :P :lynch: :scream:

Both she and Tsurskaya share a calm and restrained style paired with sublime toe jump technique.I hope we see them continue to mature in the next quad . The best skaters peak in well into their 20's IMO...Kwan, Cohen, Arakawa, Rochette, Lu Chen, Butyrskya etc etc .
 
MARIA SOTSKOVA: "THE MOST IMPORTANT THING NOW IS TO COME TO YOUR SENSES"
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Source: http://www.sport-express.ru/figure-...glavnoe-seychas-priyti-v-sebya-1352370/?ua=dt

Silver medalist of the Russian championship Maria Sotskova - about the rivalry with Caitlin Osmond and about what was the most difficult at the national championship.

- Has already released the emptiness that you had after the execution of an arbitrary program in St. Petersburg?

- A little bit moved away, but of course, fatigue is still felt.

- Further - deserved rest?

- Let's return to Moscow only tomorrow, so I will not train yet, but the day after tomorrow I will already go out on the ice and will train until December 31, because the European Championships start on January 15!

- You can be ranked among the most hardworking and diligent sportswomen. However, non-stop training sometimes leads to the fact that the body can not stand, as in the case of Yuzuru Hanyu and Yevgenia Medvedeva. Do you somehow especially care about the team in the Olympic season?

- The coach monitors this process and if he sees that I'm overworked, can give me an extra weekend or break so I can rest. If I have something hurts, I immediately inform about it, that the problem is solved at the root and there were no consequences and complex injuries. The main thing is to say everything in time.

- During all your career, there was a time when you had to ride with a trauma through pain?

- At the junior world championship of the season before last, our two girls Polina Tsurskaya and Alisa Fedichkina acted in film (at the junior world championship in 2016 Sotskova won silver and kept three quotas for Russia - note "SE"), I also had an injury. The truth was that the girls had tears and something very direct, but my muscles in the groin were overworked and over-stretched. Plus at that time I was very sick, but there was no other way out. It was the pain that could be tolerated.

- When in the course of the season they realized that the swans theme attracted you and many other figure skaters besides you, were upset?

- Girls are swinging a swan, and I'm a girl at a ball, just to the music from "Swan Lake", plus I have other pieces of the work. Yes, I do not feel like a swan, so I did not get upset.

- You communicate well with Polina Tsurskaya, even went on vacation together. These competitions ended well for her. You in fact in that year also had such a moment - the eighth place at the World Championships. How not to sour in this situation?

- Sports is not a sport without taking off and falling. We all know what we want and all have their goals. Even Polina had something wrong yesterday, but I do not think that this is critical. Yes, it did not occupy the desired place on the pedestal, but in general the rental was worthy. He can not always be perfect, man is not a robot. Our performances can not be equally flawless at all tournaments. Motivation should be drawn in the fact that you like figure skating and want to do it. I go out on the ice and ride for myself, the audience, my team and family.

- How does the family experience all these competitive vicissitudes?

- Parents can not watch the live broadcast with my performances, not that I come to the competitions and watch from the rostrum! This is a closed topic. They will first look at the scoreboard, and only then - repeat. Mom is terribly worried, she walks about the room back and forth and can not calm herself down. Plus, all their excitement is transmitted to me, so I ask them not to come, so it's calmer both to them and me.

- The national championship is the most difficult start of the season because of ...

- Excitement and excessive desire to be selected in the national team. Every athlete goes to this all his life and this season happens only once every four years. Plus it is, of course, a secondary factor, but yesterday I felt that I was skating for the whole of CSKA. Our guys did not perform well, and it was necessary to defend the name of the school. The most important thing now is to come to your senses. I put the best I could and gave everything I could at the rentals, so I need to save energy for a new one.

- But Alexander Samarin became the second!

- Any athlete wants a maximum. And if it does not work out, we criticize ourselves for this very much, we are angry. So I think that Sasha is upset. We are friends with him, and we train together. He's a good boy, and we get along very well.

- His coach Svetlana Sokolovskaya even led you to the ice at the Canadian stage of the Grand Prix.

- Yes, my coach Elena Germanovna Buyanova could not go, after all the flight was distant. Svetlana Vladimirovna me tuned me with Irina Anvarovna (Tagayeva - prim "SE") and supported as they could. It was their support that led me to silver at that stage. This year we as one whole and one team, somewhere Svetlana Vladimirovna helps us out, and Elena Germanovna helps her in return.

- At that tournament you lost to Canadian Caitlin Osmond, but then twice bypassed it - and at the French stage of the "Grand Prix" and in Nagoya - in the Final of the series. This added confidence in their own strengths?

"It's always a joy to climb a pedestal, but Kaitlin was not in the best shape in the cases indicated and tore up the elements. It's more pleasant to win when you and your opponent were perfect, and you were better!

- The first part of this season was incredibly intense for you. In addition to the pre-season tournament in Finland, the stages of the Grand Prix and the finals of the series with the Russian championship in late November, you also went to the tournament in Shanghai ...

- Initially, I was told there by coaches as a backup in case I do not get to the final of the Grand Prix. But then I got selected for the final of the series and decided that the trip to Shanghai would not be superfluous, and there was only an arbitrary program to perform there. So this tournament did not hinder the passage of the season, except that it knocked down emotionally (Maria became the third, losing to the winner of the competition Elena Radionova about 3 points.) - Prim "SE"). But then in Japan, I was able to prove everything to everyone.
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MARIA SOTSKOVA: “I DON’T HAVE ANY ROOM FOR MISTAKES”

At the end of last season, 2015 World bronze medallist Elena Radionova joined Sotskova in being coached by Elena Buianova. It was a welcome addition to the training group and Sotskova finds it stimulating to have a skater of a similar standard nearby.

“It’s normal when in one group there are some strong skaters who can compete against each other. The main thing is for this rivalry to be effective. That’s what we have because we are both grown-ups and we both understand what we want from this season, from this sport, and we don’t waste our efforts on any unhealthy competition. We are divided in practices by our coach: Lena trains during the first half of practice and I on the second one, so the coaches don’t make us to play off against each other. We have quite a calm atmosphere. Of course, we see what the other does, but it helps. When I trained with my previous coach, I was the oldest skater in that group and I always was alone on the rink. When I transferred to Elena Germanovna, Adelina (Sotnikova) had left and I was alone in the group again, so I was thinking, “Will I always be alone?” And then Lena came, and it really helps and motivates me.”

In the little time off that she has, Sotskova prioritises family and friends with some cultural pursuits thrown in for good measure.

“I don’t have a lot of free time, but when I do have it, I spend it with my mother or my dog. Of course, I try to meet with my friends most of whom are skaters too. All of us spend a lot of time at practices and that’s why on Saturdays or Sundays we try to go somewhere to relax and to have a good time. However, we do it quietly so as not to get tired by Monday. Sometimes we go to theatres or museums. But in the museums there are rarely interesting exhibitions. As for theatres, I just adore them.

Sotskova has drawn on her trips to the theatre as a source of inspiration for her skating throughout her career.

“Especially when I was younger, when I came to practice after the theatre, I was so inspired and was skating so well that my coaches were just shocked thinking what had happened to me. Now, of course, I became different and quieter. I still get inspired by theatres. I try to learn some things from the actors because to go to the theatre is like to going to an acting lesson. You feel this special energy, and, on the one hand, you get it from the actors, and on the other hand, actors get it from you. And it is very important for us too to get the energy from the audience.
“Before it was a big problem. I saw only the ice and nothing around. Now it’s not so difficult. I don’t feel as scared as I was before when I really was afraid to compete, I felt very nervous. Now I made some conclusions why I do it, what I should do and how, so now it’s much easier.”

This season Sotskova wants to build on what she accomplished last season while learning from her mistakes at major events.

“Before some certain competitions, the most important ones, I skated quite well and clean. Then I had a little breakdown. I failed at the European and Worlds Championships and it gave me some doubts about myself after that. This season I want to always skate clean no matter what. I don’t have any room for mistakes. I must skate clean and work to do everything right till the end. It’s the most important things for all skaters, I think. You can get high so quickly and then fall the same and it hurts much harder. I want to get higher and higher, step by step and not to be a one hit wonder. Of course, for me it is very important not only to do the elements in my programmes, but to make them become art, to show all my emotions, beautiful lines and movement. Anybody can jump, but what is most important is to show programmes which give people goose bumps and that will be remembered for years.”
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full English article (long): https://europeonice.com/2017/12/20/maria-sotskova-i-dont-have-any-room-for-mistakes/
 
No need for Maria to be upset, she always tries her very best at every competition. It has been a long season, and she has been great. It is challenging to be in the zone all of the time, but Maria comes close, and up against Zag, Med and Caro? Are you kidding me? She held her own.

Congrats to Maria for delivering the 3rd best FS. :)
 
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Sotskova: went to the free on the European Championship as a clean sheet.

Russian figure skater Maria Sotskova said that she went to an arbitrary program at the European Championships, to roll back both from scratch.

Sotskova scored on Saturday 200.81 points on the results of both programs at the European Championship, held in the ice palace "Megasport" in Moscow.

"The struggle never ends, today I'm glad that the competition has come to an end." During the rental, I abstracted, came out as if from a clean slate, "Sotskova told reporters." There was excitement, it always exists. "There was no excitement in terms of selection, the excitement was in order to show the best skating, but made an unfortunate mistake, so this result. "

"I want to restore stability, which will help me feel (confidently) myself." I can not say that I was skating, I was riding emotionally thanks to the public, "she added.

According to the Russian figure skater, she "is always concentrated" during the hire. "I am accumulating energy in order to give it out in full.In training, I am always very collected, I try not to be dispersed, but to do my work purposefully," Sotskova noted.

Maria Sotskova: "There was no goal to beat Costner, I wanted to prove to myself that I can"

I do not know why I made a mistake on lutz - either I hurried or slowed down.

I've never been to the Games in my life. I'm still not completely sure that I will go, but I believe and hope. I do not want to make a guess, I just want to prepare well, restore stability, which will help me feel confident, "Sotskova said.

"I did not set a goal to beat Caroline Costner, the main thing was to prove to myself that I can! Could get around Carolina? It's a shame, but I myself am to blame "

Coach Bujanova: skater Sotskova never failed, we hope to hit the OI.

"Who will go to the Olympics, we do not decide, but we hope (to get into the Olympic team.) Masha did not fail once during this season, neither at the Russian Championship, nor in the Grand Prix Final," Buyanova told reporters.

Coach: Skater Sotskova needs to work on competitive activities.

Russian figure skater Maria Sotskova needs to learn how to better adjust to the competition. This was told to the journalists by the coach of the athlete Elena Buyanova after the performance of her pupil at the European Championships in Moscow.

"Masha has such a feature - a very serious person, serious about what she does." My task, besides how to train, is to teach her how to compete. "Not every athlete is given this siyusecond," said Buyanova .

"This is her first unsuccessful start for us, when she listened to the ratings she sobbed, she gives so much, she wants, I can not say anything to her as a coach, because she is absorbed in it," the coach added.

Buyanova noted that since Sotskova is a tall girl for figure skating, she has to be more difficult.

"She is laid out, she is not so easy to give at all." She is not so small, twisting. "A tall man is a different philosophy." She must be in time to catch the accent so that she gets caught, "she said.

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