Honestly, this just reads like he's trying to create a way for his skaters to change feds and it being "justified".Plushenko has just blamed the judges and said there will be country changes if it continues like it. So I don't think there will be any content changes.
Multiple country changes could affect his shows.Honestly, this just reads like he's trying to create a way for his skaters to change feds and it being "justified".
Maybe crumbling isn't the right word but they are more than capable to get better result but always do some costly mistake. Muravieva could have medaled at senior nats and gotten at least silver at junior nats. I won't even talk about Kostornaya and Trusova under Plushy
They lowballed Labutina in the short-IMO-for example, the 3L3T is one of the best I've ever seen-both jumps equal speed, skimming the first jump for distance and flow, the second jump seamless from the first. Incredible technique that is very difficult, and rare to see. Most skater make the first jump too high and the second jump takes off at a standstill. (Big jumpers like Veronika, Amber Glenn etc, often have problems with the combo just because they make the first jump too high) Labutina's FS was scored more fairly, even though I've seen her skate better in the grand prixs.
Could also be that they take time out from consistent training to appear in Plushy's never ending shows. This year it seems as if there has been one show after another.
That's what you think?
That's what you think?
Looking closely, he uses the same business plan than Eteri for his group of skaters. He has his own version of Danill (that young coach whose i forget the name). He suddenly got serial quadsters, trixelers after Rozanov joined him. Rozanov who learned from Dudakov and Eteri. Do you think that Zhilina and Titova attempt that kind of layout by having half of the training time of Krustalni's skaters? They are attempting 4 ultra-C in the free. They are 14yo.
One huge difference I noticed between the two schools is the fact that Plushenko is personally involved in training multiple different groups of (almost) equal importance (Mikhailov/Alekseev and Abt/Zakharov), whereas Eteri seems to mostly only personally work with the main group of skaters, while her assistant coaches (including Dudakov) work with the other skaters.
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Apart from those who have competed internationally (Mura, Nika and Kirill), there wouldn't be much they could do. Apart from inofficial avenues of course (Plushenko's shows are heavily state-sponsored and I'm sure he would like to not lose funding)
Yep, his skaters did get a few international JGP wins (4, one each for Nika, Mura, Kirill and Anastasia Tarakanova). Oh, and a few Novice National titles (mostly Sofia Titova).
That's something i didn't notice. And i wonder how much he is personnally involved in their training. I doubt that he's on ice everyday with them given his other activities.One huge difference I noticed between the two schools is the fact that Plushenko is personally involved in training multiple different groups of (almost) equal importance (Mikhailov/Alekseev and Abt/Zakharov), whereas Eteri seems to mostly only personally work with the main group of skaters, while her assistant coaches (including Dudakov) work with the other skaters.
Independent of your comment, I honestly think people are severely overestimating Rozanov's impact, and I think that was even already the case at Team Tut. Sure, he is credited as having taught Alena and Sofia Akatieva (I think?) her 3A, but if I remember right, it was Dudakov who worked with Anya and Sasha on their quads. And tbh, Rozanov has not really had any success since leaving Team Tut, which one could have kind of expected if he was as much of a coaching talent as he was described as.
I do completely agree that they likely have similarly high workloads and training times under Team Tut. It would be interesting to find out if the focus of training is different (for example ratio of on-ice and off-ice training which could definitely affect consistency)
Better luck in the free guys!AoP has a bigger proportion of off-ice training I think, judging from a number of interviews (Trusova, Kostornaia, Zinina off top of my head, sorry can't find the links just now). Also social media gives the impression they do a lot of general plyometric/strength exercises (besides the usual off-ice jumps/cardio/dance). They have some interesting gadgets (e.g. a motorised rotating platform, which I think I might have seen once elsewhere but not in Russia) and cross-training activities (e.g. boxing, not sure if it's a regular thing though).It would be interesting to find out if the focus of training is different (for example ratio of on-ice and off-ice training which could definitely affect consistency)
I am here for this business!
