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The Tutberidze Effect

Tolstoj

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Many on Twitter are angry at such a "translation".

Eteri Georgievna posted this video on her instagram and wrote

"Часть интервью с Асахи TV.
Lost in translation / Трудности перевода.
Читаю якобы мои интервью и даюсь диву.
Неужели нельзя нормально перевести, чтобы не искажалась суть сказанного?
Это и есть причинно-следственная связь, что я не хочу общаться со СМИ.

#учитеязыки #искажениесути #полныйбред"


Part of an interview with Asahi TV.
Lost in translation
I read supposedly "my interviews" and I just wonder.
Is it really impossible to translate properly, so that the essence of what was said is not distorted?
This is the reason why I don't want to talk to the media.

#learnlanguages #distortionofessence #completenonsense

If she doesn't want mistakes with translations, maybe she should do interviews in english for the rest of the world considering she can speak it.

In Japan it is widely known that they have issues (partially cultural) with any other language.

I understand the frustration on seeing your own words twisted by journalists, but russian too is a language sometimes open to interpretation, there are several words or says that don't quite have a direct translation.
 

flanker

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If she doesn't want mistakes with translations, maybe she should do interviews in english for the rest of the world considering she can speak it.

In Japan it is widely known that they have issues (partially cultural) with any other language.

I understand the frustration on seeing your own words twisted by journalists, but russian too is a language sometimes open to interpretation, there are several words or says that don't quite have a direct translation.

Yes, because there can be misinterpretation when translated from russian to japanese, maybe from english to japanese it will be better? :biggrin: It's not supposed to travel to Russia to make an interview with a russian in english, I would say.

Eteri speaks solid english, it's not her native language and many things are just impossible to express properly the way you intend. Also, I don't think the differences between the version originally published and the original can be credited to "russian is sometimes open to interpretation", when there were some completely different excerpts.
 

Albus

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If she doesn't want mistakes with translations, maybe she should do interviews in english for the rest of the world considering she can speak it.

In Japan it is widely known that they have issues (partially cultural) with any other language.

I understand the frustration on seeing your own words twisted by journalists, but russian too is a language sometimes open to interpretation, there are several words or says that don't quite have a direct translation.

She speaks perfect Russian for the rest of the world. She shouldn't care if anybody doesn't know the world language and is not able to read her words without double translation.
 

Edwin

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Valiyeva's Kaleidoscope, Tutberidze does not play at tin soldiers

Thirteen-year-old Kamila Valiyeva last weekend received not only the title of World Champion among juniors, but also the prime crown of figure skating come the the future. Anatoly Samokhvalov discusses the concluded World Championship in Tallinn in the context of the Russian Junior Championship in Saransk and concludes that coach Eteri Tutberidze again shook all the cards, acting both beautifully and cruelly.

“ Yesterday there was a persistent tin soldier, and today there is a sluggish tin soldier, ” this is how Bronze medalist of the World Championships and coach Artur Gachinskiy addressed his skater Sof'ya Moroz in the kiss'n'cry of the Saransk Ice Palace. Artur Andreyevich involuntarily shed light on all of the Russian junior girls' skating, found the very magnifying glass that Yevgeniy Plyushchenko was looking for, and didn't put it on Sof'ya Moroz, but on most of our young performers. They all spend parental money, suffer pain in the periosteum, plow around the clock, to become soldiers dressed for the front line.
They dream of skating their programs cleanly, striking off all their elements and getting a good standing with their coaches. But they are still not allowed to take the exam, because in the meantime the leaders are not guided by persistent tin soldier performance, but by solid dance, in which it is no longer accepted to knock on the marching grounds with a tarpaulin boot for the sake of jumping.

Representatives of a maximum of two Moscow groups so far demonstrate harmony in technique, plasticity, presentation and complexity on all these points. And in production volumes - one. When in our conversation with Tat'yana Tarasova we spoke about the inseparability between technique and components in figure skating, the merited coach of the country wanted to identify a couple of coaching companies, but, thinking, decided to single out one - the group of Eteri Georgiyevna.

Once, she and Sergei Dudakov and Daniil Gleikhengauz “blew up the market,” of which everyone was afraid, but to which they rushed for lack of choice. Quadruples began to be taught everywhere, even by those who do not even make sense to get involved in this extravagant undertaking. But while most of the groups are only on their way to complexity, the Tutberidze team brings two generations of skaters of a fundamentally new quality to the ice at once, the real competition is provided by Yelizaveta Tuktamysheva, lonely in all senses and the only one of her kind.

The first blow to the idea of ​​limiting senior tournaments to seniors by age, so that experienced skaters will not lose to the young, was inflicted during the Open Test Skates of the junior National Team of Russia in Novogorsk. There, the girls from Khrustalny: Kamila Valyieva, Dar'ya Usachyova, Maya Khromykh, Alyona Kanysheva, who had just left the Snow Leopards, and representing the Leopards Kseniya Sinitsyna, sent greetings in absentia to friends who would try to divide the podium among themselves at the senior World Championships.

Hello meant equal rivalry in the near future and then victory. The new generation won the moral victory already then - in September - not by points, but by a concept that is even worse and more convincing. They showed, and at subsequent starts confirmed, that they offer a completely new figure skating.
The fact that it’s really what it’s not been before was confirmed by the technical specialist of the federation Aleksandr Kuznetsov, who in an interview for FFKKR's website was not shy about exclamation points: “Dream skating!”, “The whole gamut of beauty that specifically is female figure skating!”, “Juniors are now showing skating of the future, setting trends for the world's figure skating in the next four or eight years! "

Little time passed, and at the January Russian Championship in Saransk, Tutberidze presented an even younger generation, which will soon squeeze itself between the generations of Valiyeva and Kostornaya.

To the question of age limits. If it weren't for her youthful level, 12-year-old Sof'ya Akatieva would have competed in the World Championships in Tallinn, and if somehow she couldn’t get into the tournament, then her same age compatriot Adelyia Petrosyan. Both are already aware of what a quadruple is and how it is done, but both at their age show such a level of harmony, unmatched by many of those we see at senior World and European Championships.

Petrosyan, who didn’t get on the podium in Saransk, skated to Edith Piaf, which is extremely difficult to adequately convey in early adolescence. But the combination of technique and skater's artistry destroys all stereotypes. “'You think that she’s too early to skate to such music at her age, and then you catch the idea 'to hell with this', this girl is still amazing, she hears this music, ” said Tarasova, who determined the fact of new figure skating in two theses:

“ I don’t see in the performance of these girls any trace of fatigue or impending fatigue, I only see that a person skated half the program and then added some more - this is the first distinguishing feature: endurance with an extraordinary complexity, which Tat'yana Anatolyevna correctly noticed. - They don’t stop for a second, they don’t stand, they don’t take air. We don’t see all this. It is hidden from our eyes. "

“ At the same time, I can’t say that they skate like robots. No, they skate with their souls. Everyone hears their music, ” the second note from Tarasova suggests that the skaters, despite the abundance of valuable technical elements, do not fail in the presentation of their programs. This just never happened before.

The work of Tutberidze makes you fiercely admire figure skating. On the one hand, it’s interesting to look at the progress, not just of the skaters, but of the sport as such, but on the other hand, it is unclear how everything that's good doesn't get lost along the way. While Valiyeva and her company are on their junior starts, Khrustalniy is offering new 12-year-old material that is not focused on Rika Kihira or Brady Tennell, but on a forced pursuit of the same Kamila.

“ ... you don’t have to bring an 11- or 12-year-old girl who jumps two or three quads and displaces the beautiful Alina Zagitova, ” coach Rafael Harutyunyan said in an interview with RIA Novosti. “ Or can you say that you already displaced her? Let it not be an 11-year-old. Why am I sad? Because Zagitova has a completely different presentation of figure skating, ” the trainer insisted, bringing deep and almost undeniable arguments behind which are not primitive interests of rivalry with The Russian Federation, as many people think, but the understanding of figure skating as a lifestyle, or so the minority thinks.

But the charm of the problem is that the work of the Tutberidze group is even more convincing, because by the age of fourteen the skater is able to give that picture of quality that you can’t cover with the argument “I love Ashley Wagner” or “Give us Karolina Costner”. Because these arguments are old, and above all, not by time, but by their simplicity. There are no easy ways out of difficult situations.

At the same time, the rest of the schools work hard on complexity, and don't wait for what ISU will ultimately decide about the age limit. Federation technical specialist Kuznetsov commented in an autumn comment: " It is gratifying that they (figure skaters) represent different coaching schools. " It’s true that other coaching groups do not stand still, but, by and large, they only catch the signals of “Khrustalniy”, playing at tin soldiers, but do not affect what's the ruling fashion.

Apart from the Tutberidze group, this fashion, perhaps, was formed only by Svetlana Panova and Tat'yana Moiseyeva in Snow Leopards, but, firstly, the modern presentation, integrity and complexity of the Novokosin pupils has not yet been supported by quads in working order, and, secondly , their volumes are not so industrial, unlike Belyaevo.

CSKA embraces, as befits the army, battle preparations. The team of Sergey Davydov crossed the triple Axel with the skates of Sof'ya Samodelkina, broke through the quadruple Toeloop with Yelizaveta Berestovskaya, and emerging from temporary stress the group of Yelena Vodorezova showed sprint figure skating by the sweeping Yelizaveta Osokina. Petersburgers arrange their tin soldiers. Skating cleanly - applause, with errors - a pat on the shoulder: you will get there.

But the audience in figure skating is not deprived of taste and it pecks not at tin soldiers, but at ballerinas with confusing jumps. The Junior World Championships in Tallinn officially crowned Kamila Valiyeva a model of the present and future figure skating.

“ God, how old is she? ”, I remember how the Olympic champion in short track Semyon Elistratov wrote to me, looking at 13-year-old Kamila, who answered questions from journalists. “ When I was thirteen, me and my friends threw kefir from the ninth floor! ”, - Elistratov returned to his childhood.

Before the start of the season, Valiyeva couldn’t really be represented in the news feeds, because by age she did not manage to win at least one significant title, but in March she mentally threatens the titled masters, who are all in thought and observation for the sole purpose of reaching the next Olympic Games.

And on these, either through binoculars or through a kaleidoscope, Valiyeva’s imagination is focused, and shimmering on the side, Akat'yeva, Petrosyan, Shcherbakova, Kostornaya, Trusova and, as always, Zagitova and Medvyedeva.
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From: https://rsport.ria.ru/20200311/1568437487.html
 
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Edwin

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Daniil Gleikhengauz: “ It is important that a program is remembered by the athlete’s performance ”

In an interview with Japanese and German publications, as well as the website of the FFKKR, coach and choreographer Daniil Gleikhengauz summarised the performance of the Khrustalniy figure skaters at the Junior World Championships in Tallinn, describes each of them, tells how the programs are born, why the jumping technique is changing and revealed Eteri Tutberidze's group's secret to success.

- Daniil, how do you rate the performance of the girls at the Junior World Championship, where Kamila Valiyeva became the champion, and Dar'ya Usachyova won Silver. Did your coaching team's plans come true?

" Nothing can be foreseen in advance. We could only prepare as much as possible for the World Championships, to show the best skating. In the short program, not everything was successful for Dasha Usachyova and Maya Khromykh. Kamila Valiyeva was closer to the perfect skating run, but her short program was still not quite, and Kamila knows this. "

As for the free program, in Tallinn all our athletes performed close to their maximum. Yes, Maya did not get the quadruple Salchow, but she did a great job with the rest of her program. Not only with jumps, but also with choreography, presentation. This was one of her best performances.

Dasha, finally, in her own free program did not allow herself to make mistakes, because it is already a little worn, especially to herself. We talked a lot with Dasha on this topic. And she really worked a lot during the preparation for the World Championships and deserved such a result.

Kamila skated perfectly, except for the error on the first quadruple Toeloop, which made us all nervous, because the athlete herself made the decision: to change the program and go to other jumps or take risks and make the second quadruple Toeloop, realising that if there is a mistake again, then this jump will go under as “REP”. We discuss all this in training, and the fact that Kamila went, and it was a risk, but she got herself together and made a cascade with a quadruple Toeloop, which allowed her to set a new world record.

- How did you manage to bring Valiyeva in this form to the World Championsnips, because the season was not easy for her?

" The most difficult moment was after Kamila got injured, and it was necessary to recover. Not only physically, but also psychologically. At first, psychologically, she had a fear of entering complex elements, like quadruples, so we trained on a fishing rod to overcome this feeling. Then there were the first attempts at jumping. Then a set of “physics” to skate through the program ... But we conducted all this preparation before the junior Championship of Russia. In Saransk, Kamila was absolutely ready, and in the period from junior Russia to Worlds, it was a question of keeping the athlete at her peak, without overloading. We gave her the opportunity to leave training earlier, slightly reduced the load in order to bring her well in shape and head to the World Cup. "

- In Tallinn, three athletes of your group performed. You can tell about each of them.

" With Maya, the most important thing is to shout to her, to get across, because she does not always react, for some reason doubts what her name is. But if she responds and skates up to me, then the rest is simple. Maya is a calm, judicious girl. She'll do everything you tell her.

Dasha has days when her body does not want to do anything, although perhaps even the athlete herself does not understand this and really wants to. At such moments, the training process for Dasha turns into a large number of skating runs, because the first ones were terrible. For the rest, Dasha is quite positive, funny. You can always talk to her, laugh. She understands everything.

And Kamila is a bunch of all kinds of emotions. Constantly looking for something with her eyes, sometimes shy out of the blue ... Kamila is growing, developing, and the main task is to help her go this way from juniors to moving into seniors, so that she gets stronger. Reinforced not from the point of view of technology, the complexity of her programs, but psychologically. In this sense, she is still very fragile. But all this comes with experience. And regarding what happened to Kamila at the first competitions, even internal starts, and what she is now - a big difference. Kamila is on the right track, became more confident, better copes with emotions.

- You now have not two, but three age groups - the oldest, middle and youngest. A new group of 5-6 year olds has appeared recently. Is this a conscious need?

" The sooner you start working with an athlete, the better. When you lead a skater from 5-6 years old, he gets your vision, technique and you don’t have to waste time retraining. "

- Do you like working with kids?

" There are two points. On the one hand, it’s hard to change from older to smaller ones. It is. On the other hand, the kids are so positive, such energy comes from them! When they all run out onto the ice, smile, shout something, make nods and, happy, skate around all over the ice, then you are so charged! "

- How are the roles distributed among the trainers in your group, although, most likely, you have been asked this question many times?

" This is the biggest misconception - people believe that in our group there is a distribution of roles between coaches. In fact, we are all fully involved in the training process - from sliding lessons, jumping technique training, choosing music, an image, a costume, a hairstyle, to stretching and exercising. Sergei Dudakov does the same, with the exception of choreography. He does not do choreography and this is the only thing that he does not do.

It is strange to me that people think differently. But how then do athletes travel with each of the trainers individually to competitions? If, for example, I didn’t understand jumping, couldn’t teach the requirements, then how to send a skater for a week to compete with a man who can only straighten his arm?

Every day we are all together in training. Over the years, we have combined our vision, presentation on technology and other things, we have no disagreements. We all think, explain, show, teach the same way, and there is no confusion in the heads of athletes that one coach says so, the other - differently. That is, for our students we are as one. "

- Was it difficult to come to such an interaction?

" When I first came to the group of Eteri Tutberidze, they naturally looked at me, and if I explained something in my own way, they corrected me. But we are all developing, we are all studying different techniques of other athletes, we are not standing still. Lately, a lot has changed. And although we are starting from a basic technique based on the knowledge gained from our trainers, for example, Viktor Kudryavtsev, today, to do a quadruple, the bases alone are not enough.

Every day we look for, try to help our students in the development of complex elements, find ways to reduce the load so that it is easier to jump, so that they spend less time on this, which, accordingly, will reduce the risk of injuries.

As for technical issues, we repeat, are in a constant search for solutions. And perhaps in five years time the technique will be very different from what we have today. "

- Athletes in your group jump quadruple jumps. But can skaters go further - jump fivers?

" I can’t say no, because once the same question was asked about the quads, which today have become a reality. Both in men and women. The next 4-5 years, probably this will not happen. Possibly later? Figure skating will still progress, move forward.

But at the moment I’m very interested to know if Yuzuru Hanyu will jump the quadruple axel - a jump, more than four turns. Perhaps this will be the first step on the road to revolution towards the quint. "

- Together with Eteri Georgiyevna, you are staging programs. Where do you get your ideas, topics?

" Absolutely everything can serve as sources of inspiration, ideas - ballet, any art, as in the program of Eteri Georgiyevna for Kamila Valiyeva “Girl on the Ball” ... Films, musicals ... Even just hearing some kind of music on headphones, you begin to imagine how it would be on ice. And if you yourself like it, you feel that it can turn out interesting, you start trying on ice, on skates. By the way, one of the ideas for the program was born now, while I was riding the bus. "

- What is “good program”, “good choreography” for you?

" A good program involves many components. And here a lot depends on the athlete. You can come up with something incredible, it will seem to you, this is a masterpiece. But all this will remain in your head if you don’t correctly transfer your idea to the ice, and, individually, to a specific athlete.

A good staging is an idea, the completeness of the composition, so that everything is “read” from beginning to end. But the most important thing is not to have too much of your “I” as a choreographer. So that the athlete in this program could express HERSELF and show HERSELF from her best side, and not like the choreographer emphasised, he staged it, this is his handwriting. It is important that a program will be remembered by the performance of the athlete. "

- Probably not every choreographer shares your opinion. But I want to ask about this: in the Olympic season, Alina Zagitova skated both programs in ballet tutus. Why did you get such an idea? What role did your personal “background” play?

" This “Background” is really big. My mother was a ballerina ... But first, Eteri Georgiyevna and I put Don Quixote for Alina in her final junior year. And in the Olympic season, I definitely wanted to make a “Black Swan” for her. I brooded on this idea for a long time. I once said in an interview that when I first joined the Eteri group, I suggested that Yuliya Lipnitskaya should perform this program. But at that moment, I was probably too young. And so it would be easy for anyone to stage a program for the Olympic champion, although Tutberidze was not opposed. As a result, “Swan” was delivered to Alina, but even since there was a direct reference to “Swan Lake”, it was immediately clear what the costume would be. We talked a lot with Eteri Georgiyevna then, and she believed that it was significant - two ballet programs, two tutus in the Olympic season.

Plus, I had the idea of ​​turning a white swan into black. And it was necessary to express and emphasize this in the costume of Alina. Now we have moved to a new level of costume change in programs. Back then was the beginning. "

- Do you mean the costumes of Sasha Trusova and Anya Shcherbakova?

" When we staged “The Firebird” for Anya, I understood that Stravinsky’s music is a bit heavy for perception in 4 minutes, therefore I combined the classics with the first part of the Six Gnossiennes program. In order for viewers to become more clear about the moment of transformation, it was necessary to focus on it. Therefore, a change of costume was needed. The thought even crossed my mind that the athlete should go out onto the ice in black, and then “catch fire”, as if a Phoenix bird had emerged from the fire. But Eteri Georgiyevna said, let it remain in your head, and came up with other colors - purple and red. This is what we did. "

- Your group has many talented students. How much do they trust the coaches? Can you share some secrets?

" We talk a lot with our students. I can’t say that in these conversations they tell very personal things, but how they spend the day, what they wanted to buy, what they liked, which of the girls had manicures, anything, these topics are discussed without problems. We laugh, joke, discuss, communicate, watch the Internet ...

But all this should not turn into very friendly relations, because otherwise subordination will be violated. The athlete should have a feeling, not of fear but of the understanding that next to her is an adult who will always support her, who knows what to say, how to help, so that the skater becomes better. Of course, everything depends on trust. I don’t see any reason to train with a coach whom the athlete does not trust.

But the main thing is that the student must not lie. If she did something badly, there is no need to deceive, say: this is cool, wonderful. It’s better to immediately call a spade a spade, say: you need to go back and redo it. Of course, we don't feel what they do, but from the side we always see things better. And here, trust is just showing. If you trust the words of the coach, and, despite your own feelings, go and retry, then the correct relationship is formed between the coach and the athlete.

- Reveal the secret of the success of coach Eteri Tutberidze? From the side, she seems strict, very serious, but how is she in reality?

“ This is how it should be, and only relatives know who Eteri Georgiyevna really is. All that she has achieved is the result of working every day. She started from scratch, like any coach. There was no ice, a quarter of the rink ... I won’t go into details, I can only say that Eteri Georgiyevna is madly in love with figure skating and this love, her great desire to realise herself, helped her to come closer to her goal. To work with such a trainer means to grow and develop. She lives figure skating. So do we all. And we really want to bring our sport to a new level. This love and this attitude to the cause of Tutberidze attracts. This is just her life.

(c) Olga Yermolina, Tat'yana Flade, Akiko Tamura
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From: https://fsrussia.ru/intervyu/4979-d...gramma-zapomnilas-ispolneniem-sportsmena.html
 

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" This is the biggest misconception - people believe that in our group there is a distribution of roles between coaches. In fact, we are all fully involved in the training process - from sliding lessons, jumping technique training, choosing music, an image, a costume, a hairstyle, to stretching and exercising. Sergei Dudakov does the same, with the exception of choreography. He does not do choreography and this is the only thing that he does not do.

It is strange to me that people think differently. But how then do athletes travel with each of the trainers individually to competitions? If, for example, I didn’t understand jumping, couldn’t put the equipment, then how to send a skater for a week to compete with a man who can only straighten his arm?

Every day we are all together in training. Over the years, we have combined our vision, presentation on technology and other things, we have no disagreements. We all think, explain, show, teach the same way, and there is no confusion in the heads of athletes that one coach says so, the other - differently. That is, for our students we are as one. "

Maybe the dummies from TSL will read this one day and stop saying the nonsense that they usually say - that only Dudakov teaches tech, that Eteri and Gleichengauz don't do this (how do you even know that? you're just gossip dummies).
 

Edwin

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Maybe the dummies from TSL will read this one day and stop saying the nonsense that they usually say - that only Dudakov teaches tech, that Eteri and Gleichengauz don't do this (how do you even know that? you're just gossip dummies).

Those dummies of TSL have their own agenda, and will stick to it, no matter what evidence is in front of their eyes.

I do hope, next season, Rozanov is given a role more in the front, like accompanying skaters to international tournaments.
 

brakes

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Those dummies of TSL have their own agenda, and will stick to it, no matter what evidence is in front of their eyes.

I do hope, next season, Rozanov is given a role more in the front, like accompanying skaters to international tournaments.
First, Rozanov should accompany Mrs. Kostyleva with flowers and bring her daughter back to "Khrustalnyi". :p;)
 

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But where's Sashulya?��

Mother of dragons is above all viruses.

Do not panic like so many posters, there is rarely a situation when they are all ont he picture. This could be taklen during a break and Sasha, if I remember correctly from before, goes home for a lunch. and there can be thousands of other possibilities.
 

Edwin

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Mother of dragons is above all viruses.

Do not panic like so many posters, there is rarely a situation when they are all ont he picture. This could be taklen during a break and Sasha, if I remember correctly from before, goes home for a lunch. and there can be thousands of other possibilities.

Good to see Daniil Samsonov was on the ice.
 

Edwin

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Who is the most important on the ice? 10 most influential people in figure skating in Russia

1. Eteri Tutberidze - Coach


There will be no discussion - in the first place should be Eteri Georgiyevna Tutberidze. Over the past four seasons, Tutberidze and her staff had virtually no defeats in women's single skating. Starting with the success of Yevgeniya Medvyedeva in the 2015/2016 season, all the major tournaments (with rare exceptions) were won by skaters from the Tutberidze group.

Skaters from all over the world dream of getting to Tutberidze, and Eteri herself, not embarrassed, conducts strict selections and attracts the best skaters of other coaches (remember Alyona Kanysheva from “Snow Leopards”, who was invited to “Sambo-70” immediately after her first serious success), which greatly spoils the relationship with them. They have no choice but to wish their pupils good luck - there is practically no chance to compete with the Tutberidze group. For judges, the fact of working with Eteri is a sign of quality and an occasion for good grades.

In the Khrustalniy department of the Sambo-70 school Tutberidze managed to create a unique training system where skaters of the highest level are released in a conveyor way. Eteri herself calls the group "factory", and the athletes "product". Tutberidze managed to build a team system in an individual sport, where the success of the whole group is more important than the personal success of a particular athlete. Eteri Georgiyevna broke the rules of the game and destroyed the patterns: after the Olympics, her skaters staged a “quadruple revolution” and forced the whole world to learn new elements. Before Eteri, quadruples in girls were kitsch. Now they are an urgent need, without which it is impossible to win.

An important factor in the success of Tutberidze is her team. She very accurately selected her assistants and everyone in her coaching staff is doing their own thing. She revealed to the world the talent of Daniil Gleikhengauz the choreographer, thanks to Tutberidze, the technique genius Sergey Dudakov was able to supply the miniature girls with quadruple Lutzes, and Sergey Rozanov is responsible for the very young athletes in Khrustalniy.

In the 2019/2020 season, Tutberidze's successes went beyond reality: at the senior level, Anna Shcherbakova, Alyona Kostornaya and Aleksandra Trusova arranged a total domination, and at the junior level, the victory of Russia was ensured by Kamila Valiyeva, Dar'ya Usachyova and Maya Khromykh. And this is only the tip of the iceberg: the group still has a huge number of young athletes who do not yet have the right to compete at international starts, but already perform elements of ultra-si. Even during the quarantine period, Lyubov Rubtsova from Sambo-70 learned the triple Axel at home.

Last year, Tutberidze decided to try herself as a producer of ice shows, having organised a trial event in Krasnodar. This year, she planned a full-fledged tour in five cities with her entire group, but the coronavirus intervened. Surely, Eteri will not give up the idea and will stage a show in the fall, because not only her, but also the host parties are interested. She is the only active trainer in Russia who, under her own name, is able to provide full houses.

At the same time, Tutberidze rarely participates in behind-the-scenes intrigues, except that she helps her daughter Diana Davis. She used to train her herself, and with the transition to ice dancing she found her a famous coach Igor Shpilband and a wealthy partner - Gleb Smolkin, the son of actor Boris Smolkin. One can rightly criticise Tutberidze (and many of the critical points may be true) whether or not to love Eteri is everyone's business. But the fact is the fact: Tutberidze is now the mainstay of the success of our figure skating.
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I completely forgot that Diana and Gleb were in the US for training. Are they in Russia now or are they stuck in the US?
 

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“ While I am still young, it is better to channel my strength in the right direction.”


Interview with a former Tutberidze skater about the transition to pair skating

Georgiy Kunitsa about learning quadruples, training at Khrustalniy, the reasons for his problems in single skating and his plans for the future.

Georgiy Kunitsa began the 2019/20 season, training under the leadership of Eteri Tutberidze. The plans were significant - to establish a triple Axel, a quadruple Toeloop and a quadruple Salchow and be in the top three at all the main starts of the season. In fact, Georgiy did not manage to take part in the Grand Prix series, and his fourth place at the Russian Championship left him without a place in the national team at the junior World Championship.

A couple of weeks ago, in the official Instagram account of the Tutberidze team, information appeared that Kunitsa left the group and moved to Sankt Peterburg to try his hand at pair skating.

“Match TV” talked with a 17-year-old athlete about his training experience at the world's strongest single skating school and plans for the future that are currently associated with Tamara Moskvina's club.

In this interview you can read about:

- With what jumps did Kunitsa come to Khrustalniy
- Why he could not go to the World Junior Championship, although he was the first substitute
- How was the decision to leave Tutberidze
- How are the first attempts of the elements of pair skating taught to a singles skater
- Does Georgiy continue to maintain relations with his former classmates

" KHRUSTALNIY IS ALWAYS OPEN FOR PARENTS "

- How and when did you join the group of Eteri Georgievna?

“ It happened in October 2018. By that time, my athletic performance had fallen; I had grown tremendously. I wanted to make changes in my life. Mom called Daniil Markovich Gleikhengauz and put me up for assessment. ”

- What did you show on the assessment, you remember?

“ Everything I had learned at that time. I showed all my triple jumps and cascades 3-3. ”

- How were training sessions organized at Khrustalniy? What did you manage to do in a day?

“ I got up at 8 in the morning. Upon arrival at the rink - warm-up or choreography. Then an hour and a half of ice, again a warm-up, a lesson in general physical fitness. Then the second training on ice and again the lessons in the dry hall. All students skate together, there is only a division into senior and younger groups. We devoted our time free of sports mainly to school lessons. Occasionally managed to go somewhere to have fun. ”

- Are parents present at the training?

“ Yes, the ice rink is always open for parents. But my mother can hardly attend because of her work. She is a pediatrician at a clinic and children's hospice. Only once a week on her day off did she come to the rink. But mom is always interested in my successes, I keep her informed of the news. In Sankt Peterburg, I’ll be engaged without parents. ”

- Why did you decide to switch from single skating to doubles?

“ We discussed everything with Eteri Georgiyevna and came to the conclusion that I have more chances in pair skating to break into the top level. In single skating, the presence of my quadruple Toeloop and Salchow no longer guarantees first places. How to deal with the somebody like Nathan Chen in technique? Therefore, it is necessary, while I am still young, to direct my strengths in the right direction. ”

- How was the process of studying these Toeloop and Salchow?

“ First you need to hone the jumps in the dry hall, make as many turns as possible. As soon as the coach sees that your body and psyche can, he allows you to try the quad on ice. Boys from the younger group and girls first jump with insurance. I tried a quadruple Salchow on a fishing rod, and the Toeloop - already without a fishing rod. In general, if you did everything correct technically, then the risk of getting injured on a quadruple is very small. ”

- In your opinion, what is more difficult - a quadruple jump or a triple Axel?

“ You know, there is hardly a definite answer. Everything is individual: it depends on the body structure of the skater, his features. I quickly mastered the Axel, while Sasha Trusova and Anya Shcherbakova first learned the quads and are now trying the Axel. Sasha already showed it in training. I hope the girls will soon complete this element in competitions. ”

- Is there a difference between boys and girls in learning difficult jumps ?

“ In my experience, the scenario is identical. It’s just that one quickly masters the preparatory phase and goes to try on ice, while the other needs more time. ”

A DAY BEFORE THE GRAND PRIX STARTED RIGHT IN THE WORKOUT I BROKE MY LEG, I HAD TO WITHDRAW

- Someone leads a ballet class in the Tutberidze group after the death of Lyudmila Borisovna Shalashova (the mother of Daniil GleiKhengauz passed away. - “Match TV”)?

“ Yes, there is a choreographer from the world of ballet, the skaters practice several times a week. But I'm not sure that I myself can publish the name of this specialist. ”

- The lack of a technical minimum prevented you from getting to the World Junior Championships in Tallinn (a week before the tournament, Daniil Samsonov withdrew due to health problems, Georgiy was the first substitute according to the results of the Russian Championship. - “Match TV”). Was there an opportunity to get the technical minimum during the season?

“ They give vouchers for the stages of the Grand Prix according to the results of the Open Test Skaters, but I have not scored the necessary form by the beginning of the season and, alas, have not made an impression - I have remained without stages. I also didn’t perform at other international starts, so I ended up without a world rating and a technical minimum. ”

- Why do you think you never managed to get to the main starts when you were a single skater?

“ Not enough difficult jumps. I got them in training, and at the decisive moment I rarely showed them. To qualify for the World Championships, you had to participate in the Grand Prix, and I got there only once - in 2016. And then, the day before the start, right in training, I broke my leg, I had to withdraw. ”

- Perhaps your jumping problems were affected by a higher than average height?

“ Of course, those who are shorter have it easier in jumping. Also your build plays a role. ”

- After leaving Sambo-70, do you continue to communicate with your former classmates?

“ Of course, everything remains the same. Only now will we rarely see each other in person. My closest social circle is Dania Samsonov and Kamila Valiyeva, because we already rode together in Moskvich. I am also friends with Lesha Erokhov, Morisi Kvitelashvili, Nika Ekadze and Dasha Usachyova.

- You managed to skate on the same ice with Shoma Uno. How was that experience?

“ Honestly, we only talked a little. Shoma does not speak English well, and we don’t know Japanese. There was always a translator at the rink who helped Shoma communicate with the coaches. And all the guys communicated with him a little with gestures. In general, it’s cool to share ice with a skater of this level. When you see his work closely, it stimulates. ”

IN PAIR SKATING THE MAIN THING IS TO KEEP CONCENTRATION AND SAFEGUARD YOUR PARTNER

- You trained with the strongest coaches, now you have come to the group where the current European Champions in pairs skating are training. How are you feeling?

“ It's very cool to work with super professionals. I am proud of such opportunities. Already I've managed to ride on the same ice with Sasha and Dima (Alexandra Boykova and Dmitry Kozlovsky, European Champions 2020). But I have always been taught: no matter who your coach is, don't be arrogant. In any case, I must learn myself, absorb the maximum in new knowledge. I hope everything conceived will work out. ”

- Tell us about the trials in pair skating at the Moskvina club.

“ I arrived in Sankt Peterburg somewhere in the middle of March, I don’t remember the exact date. Skated as usual, just showed my whole background. I also tried the basic paired elements: spins, dashes. Assessing me were Tamara Nikolayevna and Arthur Minchuk. I was happy when the coaches told they were taking me to their club. ”

- In your farewell post on the social network there is a video with your paired elements. In my opinion, it’s not bad for a person who has just begun to master this species. When did you manage to learn?

“ We had only a few training sessions before quarantine. We practiced on the soccer field, then on the ice. It turned out, and I decided to share these changes in my life with the world. ”

- Your partner is Yekaterina Storulev'tseva?

“ She has recently been engaged in the Moskvina club, previously skated with Sergey Dobroskokov and Natal'ya Pavlova. Katya and I were introduced to each other at the assessment. While we were skating, we mastered some elements together. But there is still no final decision on our pairing - the coaches will take it when they see fit. ”

- How do you keep fit now in isolation?

“ I’m doing it myself: building muscles, stretching, jumping on the floor and skipping rope. Katya, I hope, is also training hard. I spend quarantine at home, in Moscow. As soon as the restrictions are removed and the rink opens, I will go to Sankt Peterburg. We have not even rented a flat yet, we just looked at the options. But I’ll settle down somehow. Moreover, I have close friends in this city, so I certainly won’t be sad in the evenings. ”

- You are used to answering on ice only for yourself. Isn’t it scary now to hold another person in your hands, to be responsible for the life of your partner?

“ Of course, exciting. In pair skating, everything is different, I have to get used to. But I believe that everything will be fine, without excesses. We will learn in stages. The main thing is to keep concentration and safeguard your partner. ”

(c) Марина Чернышова-Мельник
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From: https://matchtv.ru/figure-skating/m...nika_Tutberidze_o_perehode_v_parnoje_katanije
 

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Figure skating has always been a special sport for our country. But after the confrontation between Alexey Yagudin and Yevgeniy Plyushchenko, which the whole world watched with bated breath, we no longer were able to watch such emotional duels.

Before the Olympics in Pyeongchang .... In February 2018, everything changed ...


For two seasons in a row, Yevgeniya Medvyedeva absolutely was the strongest figure skater in the world. She easily and gracefully won all tournaments, regardless of their difficulty: from passing challenges to European and World Championships. From 2015 to 2017, the prima of the group of Eteri Tutberidze didn't win Gold only once, becoming second at the Russian stage of the Grand Prix - 2015, losing to Yelena Radionova. Before the Olympic season, no one doubted that it was Medvyedeva who would become the queen of the Games in Korea.

But right before the 2017/18 season, fifteen-year-old Alina Zagitova, another pupil of the same coach, made her debut in senior competitions. She immediately won two stages of the Grand Prix and absolutely deservedly won the final. True, Medvyedeva was not there because of an injury. Likewise in the Russian Championship, where Zagitova again took first place. They first met on ice at the European Championships in Moscow - the last tournament before the fateful Olympics. Their first duel ended with a victory by Zagitova - and a very convincing one, by 5.5 points. But no one attached much importance to this: after all, Medvyedeva had just recovered from her injury and had been proving her level to the whole world for two years in a row. But has already ceased to be the unconditional favourite.

What happened at the Olympics itself is hard to forget. The neutral flag, the absence of victories and the atmosphere of total gloom. It was like this everywhere, except for women's single figure skating, because there were two applicants for gold medals at once!

First out was Zagitova, and her skating run in a red tutu with the cunning transfer of complex jumps into the second part of the performance was wonderful.

Then, according to many, an even more heartbreaking performance by Yevgeniya Medvyedeva followed. It is even called the best of her career.

But the result was severe: Medvyedeva lost by just a small point. Alina Zagitova became the Olympic Champion.

On live air Channel One merited trainer and commentator Tat'yana Tarasova cried openly. She frankly wished victory to Yevgeniya and was very upset when she lost. Moreover, the reaction of her colleague Aleksandr Grishin, usually calm and reasonable, turned out to be especially indicative, when even he couldn't hold back his tears and talked about the need to hand Russia two Gold medals.

The ice began to crack literally right away, even before the award ceremony. Sobbing after her skating run, Yevgeniya Medvedeva threw Eteri Tutberidze the legendary phrase with which it all began. At the same time, the athlete herself did not confirm her words, referring to memory problems, so we know them only from the words of the coach.

Medvyedeva was sure that she had lost unfairly. Zagitova, because of this couldn't even be happy about her victory. Tutberidze, instead of celebrating with one of the students, was engaged in comforting the other. She'd raised her for eleven years and did not expect such a stab in the back, which took place later.

It seems that Medvyedeva already knew that she was leaving. She simply disappeared for several months, retreated into herself, stuck in prostration. And then she loudly declared that she was leaving Tutberidze and flying to Canada to train with Brian Orser.
From her beloved student Eteri Georgiyevna did not receive either traditional flowers or even words of gratitude.

It was this day, February 23rd, that changed everything. If Medvyedeva had been ahead of Zagitova then, everything could have ended differently, but now this is all a reflection in the format of an alternative story. But today we can only state the current reality, which has finally and irrevocably changed after the Olympics in Pyeongchang.

Yevgeniya Medvyedeva: from an invincible champion - into a pale shadow of herself

The defeat at the Olympics hit Medvyedeva very hard. She was so offended by the whole world that she decided to completely change everything. Left the country, went to another coach. Unfortunately for herself, she lost something else important: her magical skating and incredible results. After leaving Tutberidze, she didn't win a single more serious tournament. Medvyedeva herself became embittered and closed, and this could be understood: after deciding to leave for Canada, she experienced loads of hatred from 'fans', who believed that she almost gave up her homeland.

Periodically, Yevgeniya sparkled with bright skating runs: like at the 2019 World Championships or at the Russian stage of the Grand Prix last season. But these were all just small flashes; on a regular basis, she no longer covered the world of figure skating.
But there is another aspect. It is possible that a victory in Pyeongchang could also have deprived us of the outstanding athlete Medvyedeva. By that time, she had won all the tournaments, and Olympic Gold would have been a wonderful cherry on the cake of her career. If she had taken Gold, most likely, her sporting path would have concluded, because there would have been nothing left to prove. And now Medvyedeva continues precisely to pursue this highest goal: she wants to prove to herself and to the whole world that she is worthy to stand at the highest level of the Olympic podium.

Alina Zagitova: from a promising junior to a figure skating superstar

Nobody denied Zagitova’s talent and performance before the Olympics. But it was the victory at the Games that launched a series of events. The fifteen-year-old girl from Izhevsk became a world star and did not break under the incredible tension. By that time, she already had victories in the Grand Prix finals and the European Championships. Only one thing was missing - the Gold medal of the World Championships.

Zagitova, as we later learned from herself and Eteri Tutberidze, tried several times to escape the winning path. The eerie pressure of everyone's attention and careful analysis of each mistake strongly weighed down on the Olympic Champion, but she managed. She did not even want to go to the 2019 World Championships, but the coaches still convinced her. Alina came and won, collecting the so-called Grand Slam with victories in all significant tournaments and becoming only the second athlete in history to succeed.

Having achieved everything, Zagitova paused her career at the age of 17, which once again stirred up the whole figure skating world. But if she did not have Olympic gold in her pocket, then there wouldn't be this complete attention to her person. And here everything could turn out much more interesting. In theory, without such pressure, Alina would be able to calmly work on her results and achieve big victories, especially if Medvyedeva faded into the background. But would she have "lived" in sports until her second Olympic chance - far from a fact. Especially considering the imminent appearance of a new generation of super skaters.

Eteri Tutberidze: from a first-class coach to the Snow Queen

The incident with Medvyedeva left an indelible imprint on Eteri Tutberidze’s soul. Feeling such a painful blow, she realised that she cannot be so open anymore: it can come around. Now you will not see kisses in kiss and cry from Tutberidze, as it was with Medvyedeva. She became much tougher and hardly speaks to the press. At least, certainly not at competitions, although the same Brian Orser, or, for example, Alexei Mishin, sometimes do not mind sharing a few words with journalists.

Tutberidze changed her approach to training and preparing athletes. Aleksandra Trusova’s quadruple jumps, which revolutionised the world of sports, were to some extent the answer to Medvyedeva and her current coach Brian Orser. Tutberidze openly spoke about what she wants to hear from the Canadian regarding the recognition of her merits.
If Medvyedeva had not left Tutberidze, their love story would surely have continued. Alina Zagitova and the Trinity of Trusova - Shcherbakova - Kostornaya would have been relegated to the second plan. After all, they don’t have this chemistry with their coach: they came to the group at a later age, and Eteri Georgiyevna did not replace their mothers for eleven years. Now Tutberidze is talking more and more about her athletes as 'material that needs to be worked with'. Of course, for big victories, this approach is perhaps even more productive. But the warm glow that existed in her relationship with Medvyedeva, we are now unlikely to ever see again.

(c) Дмитрий Садылко
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From: https://life.ru/p/1316505
 
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