Well, a gold at Lake Placid is worth mentioning here!!
We'll probably have to wait until next competition to see a video of their RD but here it is their FD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS_HvfJnE9s&t=181s
Weird, original and funny!! Enjoy
Hi everyone,
I just got back from Oberstdorf where I did quite a few interviews (in fact, 22). Here’s an extract from my interview with Olivia and Adrian. Hopefully it’ll be of interest to some
- If I’m not mistaken, this is already your third competition…
Olivia:
Fourth (smiles)
- …even fourth, and it’s just the beginning of the season. Skate America is coming up soon. It’s a pretty tight schedule. Is it more effective for you to compete a lot?
Olivia:
Yes. Repetitions, competing, getting out in front of a crowd under pressure, it helps a lot. By the end of the season or even the Grand Prix circuit, we are more comfortable with the programs.
Last season, we started at Autumn Classic, so we did less, and we didn’t feel like it sat under our skin as well. So we wanted to go back to how we handled that first season together, doing more before the Grand Prix circuits.
- When you have competitions back to back, what do you do to make sure that you have enough strength to go into the next competition?
Olivia:
Our coaches give us a lot of decent amounts of rest after every competition, that’s one, two, three days. And, on the ice, training isn’t so hard. We do both programs every day, but we don’t kill ourselves. We really pace it.
Adrian:
When we don’t compete, normally we have five workouts a week. Before the competition or between two competitions, we do less “off the ice” activities (cardio, weights, and so on) and more skating.
We keep it simple, but effective.
- With so many strong couples in your group, how difficult is it for you to share the coaches’ attention? Do you feel competitive when you train?
Olivia:
We’re used to it now. In the beginning, it was different having so many teams, but now it’s quite motivating. It’s nice having your friends and teammates around. It doesn’t feel too competitive. We all hold each other.
Adrian:
We also have different schedules, so sometimes we don’t see a team for three or four days. We can be skating in the afternoon, then in the morning, so it’s not like we see everybody every day.
Our coaches do a very good job sharing all this. We have ice from 7:30 in the morning until five. There is plenty of ice, plenty of coaches.