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plushyfan

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:laugh: …like a mockery of swanlike performances.

As good as always on triple jumps and a good quad salchow try :clap:

Anyway he can do whatever he wants here. In real competitions it will be a different story ;)

I forgot to answer you, but I wanted. In most cases, he is better in competitons than when exercising. He is in "combat mode" :), as we are saying. It's an Italian fan report from Sheffield. I can't find the link, I uploaded to my computer..

ONLY ONE WORD: PLUSHENKO

I tried in these days to find the right way to express how I felt but I always think to be trivial, repetitive,maybe because there have not been invented yet words to express for real the type of emotion that Evgeni Plushenko was capable to gift us all.

Evgeni has always made me happy. Every time I see him down on the ice skating, no matter if for a show or for a training, I experience a feeling of absolute harmony. But this was my first time in a competition with the presence of Evgeni, and was a long-cherished desire to be able to applaud him during a comp, be there to suffer, to wait, to exult. Never before like this particular time I realized that Evgeni has something more, a special indefinable “something” that can not be defined with only the talent, technique, even with artistic expression. Evgeni is will to succeed even when the obstacles seem too high, is the belief in himself without being let down by hasty or negative judgments, is the determination to face with courage the tests, the humility to make it even starting all over again.

Evgeni Plushenko in the European championships started from the qualification rounds, the skater who won everything put himself back into the sport from the lowest level, beginning with the first group. I arrived in Sheffield running without breathing just in time for the short program, with Elisabetta and Consuelo we crossed our fingers to be able to catch all flights and train transfers and at the end, when we finally entered the arena the first athlete of the first group was finishing his program. Just in time to sit back and to actually realize where are we and the heart starts beating furiously... Here we are, it's his turn to skate and my hands squeeze Elisabetta's one stronlgy. Triple toeloop triple toeloop combination, and the program goes on easily,with intensity, then a beautiful triple axel, the refined and elegant step sequence and Evgeni ends his routine while I still do not realize that it actually happened, I made it, I'm here! He didn't perform the quadruple toe-loop, but his followers are conscious that Evgeni is not in good shape. The left knee still hurts very much, and it's gonna be back to the hospital for another surgery soon. The only fact of his presence here is kind of a miracle, is the result of his steadfast determination. He finished the short program in second place,who did better than him was only Artur Gachinski, sharing an intense and well executed program. The following day we go to watch the practice, and Evgeni is really focused, he enters into the ice rink, begins to warm-up, try a few jumps. Then Mishin, from outside the ice, he raises his hand, waving his 4 fingers ... that's an indication to try the quad. Elisabetta understands the signal and make us to notice that so we are anxiously awaiting. Here is the preparation and the jump and the fast rotation, not a perfect landing, the fall. We tremble but Evgeni gets up quickly, takes up speed again and within seconds after he lands right in front of us a beautiful quad toe loop, and then one more, in combination with a triple toe-loop and again a beautiful triple axel. I reach the stars for happiness I feel in my heart that Evgeni will give us another demonstration of his greatness as an athlete during the free program, erasing in a minute, without too many words, doubts and criticisms that accompanied the last period of his career when heaters said: he is not gonna make it, he is too old than his opponents, he is gonna fail to catch up with the new regulations, he has no transitions skills and he is no longer as fast as he was in the past... I have always believed in him, because I am firmly convinced that Evgeni has a strong self confidence and never gives up. Everybody should be aware of it right now, after many years of career and many titles he won, but maybe someone needs one more demonstration about who is Plushenko.

Saturday morning at 6:30 a.m. we are on the supertram that brings us to the arena. We go inside,in the air spreads the music program of one of the competing athletes. Our heart is flooded with emotion, we sit in the bleachers close to the rink and after a while Evgeni takes the ice: he wears a brand new costume, black, elegant, his face is serious, focused, we feel the tension for the cometition just like he does, because this is a turning point and a confirmation for him. Some laps around the rink, some jumps. We observe him in silence, quivering of his own emotions ... in a few hours on freeskate we will know if our feelings are real: we see him ready and truly motivated. At the end of the practice session he stopped for a moment staring at the ice, immersed in thoughts that maybe we can imagine... And finally, the competition begins, athletes succeed one by one, we applaud, we participate, but our minds and our hearts are all addressed to him. Here he is warming up outside the ice rink, my hands tight to Consuelo and Elisabetta, the heartbeat accelerated. The music begins as well as the magic. First jump, a perfect quadruple we scream all together, and immediately after a beautiful triple axel followed by a triple toeloop. The excitement never seems to end. These are the longest four and a half minutes I've ever experienced. Evgeni skates easily gifting us a jump after another with a confidence that leaves us breathless. The song is in its own strings, a passionate tango, burning just like his sight which catches all the arena's attention to him. The circular step sequence is so beautiful that my eyes fill with tears of emotion, but I have no time because the program is going forward, strong and fast ending in a thrilling finale in which we see all his grit, his desire to be there to make only one thing: winning. The arena is all standing up to cheer him. This is the establishment of a record that nobody can take him away. We have not seen the scores yet, but for us, for every person inside the arena, Evgeni is the winner.

What can I say? There is no need of scores – stellar, by the way - to make clear of what was this competition, and no doubts about who is Plushenko. So I steal the definition of him made by an old man met in the elevator of the hotel,who was listening me talking about Evgeni and who said smiling at me:"Only one word: Plushenko"

Thank you Evgeni.

N.B. Thanks to Elisabetta, Consuelo and Sara with whom I shared this extraordinary adventure.

Do you understand? You don't expect that he will ruin his race ..:p
 

gmyers

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That was an excellent report. And it is rare that Plushenko shows that much enthusiasm after a performance. He was almost totally feeding from the crowd and enthusiastic about his performance. The performance there was just terrific!
 

deedee1

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Thanks alot for the gret report, plushyfan. :)

He was almost totally feeding from the crowd and enthusiastic about his performance. The performance there was just terrific!

:thumbsup: Evgeni still rules the world! :cool:
 

FSGMT

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Sounds plausible!:yes:
And I do like the thought of Adelina trying out other choreographers too.
Did Tarasova still choreograph Adelinas Burlesque Ex she skated at the Ice?
tarasova said in an interview that she choreographed Adelina's FS and EX, not the SP! :eek:
 

snowflake

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I forgot to answer you, but I wanted. In most cases, he is better in competitons than when exercising. He is in "combat mode" :), as we are saying.

Plushyfan :)
What I meant was that I didn't think the test program to be Plushenko's real program in competition and that he will do much better in competition, not worse.

It's the program I found split up and strange. To me his bird arms and some movements look awkward and the Y-spiral weird. It looks like he is fooling around, improvising a bit. BUT! it seems they are serious about this swan program which makes me confused.
 

plushyfan

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Plushyfan :)
What I meant was that I didn't think the test program to be Plushenko's real program in competition and that he will do much better in competition, not worse.

It's the program I found split up and strange. To me his bird arms and some movements look awkward and the Y-spiral weird. It looks like he is fooling around, improvising a bit. BUT! it seems they are serious about this swan program which makes me confused.

No one knows what will be his LP in Rus Nat or ECh etc. But that is sure (in this moment :biggrin:) he will skate this program on Japan Open, they call it Saint-Saense's "Swan"! Plushy said the choreography made Petukhov and Avdysh... and little a bit Plushenko and Mishin... :rolleye: He also said, he "will still work on this program, add transitions, "shvambishions" :rofl:.....everything will be there"... But I disagree, his arms movements are beautiful, like a ballet dancer's arms.

Petukhov's choreography: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPLHGSA6cos&list=FLiq7gYWVwyinmFDs286ioww with CBC commentary
 
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Humor (Russian language).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1syzigv2vA&featur
Soundtrack of humor TV program (see below), video from 15 Sept 2012 test skating - Sergei VORONOV, Konstantin MENSHOV, Evgeni PLUSHENKO, Artur GACHINSKI.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ondm9_sKbqc - soundtrack is from here.
They imitate kindergarten, where children perform "sailors' dance".
"Now goes ahead Jenechka (i.e. Evgeni), he will do all very good" - we all know who is this Evgeni.
Also mentioned "Seryoja" (Sergei), "Kostya" (Konstantin), "Arkasha" (Arkadiy, so Artur become "Arkadiy").
 

plushyfan

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Humor (Russian language).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1syzigv2vA&featur
Soundtrack of humor TV program (see below), video from 15 Sept 2012 test skating - Sergei VORONOV, Konstantin MENSHOV, Evgeni PLUSHENKO, Artur GACHINSKI.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ondm9_sKbqc - soundtrack is from here.
They imitate kindergarten, where children perform "sailors' dance".
"Now goes ahead Jenechka (i.e. Evgeni), he will do all very good" - we all know who is this Evgeni.
Also mentioned "Seryoja" (Sergei), "Kostya" (Konstantin), "Arkasha" (Arkadiy, so Artur become "Arkadiy").

Funny videos, and great idea!:)
 

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^ That funny video has way more views on youtube than any skater's test skate, besides Plu of course. :)
 
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