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Adelina Sotnikova

You can definitely be right about it, I just have no idea what to do with it. Hopefully we'll get vids from later shows, then we'll know :)

Funny how the fancam is better than the cameraman in Beijing. He got some weird angles doing the footwork, etc. Hopefully some YouTube vids will appear. Can't get the Youku vid to play from yesterday's show.
 
^ It was a flip, albeit with a bit of a wonky entrance edge.

Protip: look for the steps preceeding the jump (this is how the judges tell lips apart from Lutzes and flutzes apart from flips. Flips (and lips) are preceeded by a 3-turn or a mohawk turn ("flipping" onto the take-off edge, thus the name). In this case, Adelina entered the jump from a 3-turn, and, despite the wobble, got back on the inside edge. :)
 
^ It was a flip, albeit with a bit of a wonky entrance edge.

Protip: look for the steps preceeding the jump (this is how the judges tell lips apart from Lutzes and flutzes apart from flips. Flips (and lips) are preceeded by a 3-turn or a mohawk turn ("flipping" onto the take-off edge, thus the name). In this case, Adelina entered the jump from a 3-turn, and, despite the wobble, got back on the inside edge. :)

Okay, maybe that's my queue I should go to sleep but......
 
Well, I just saw a clip of Ashley's new SP, and the skating is totally choreographed to the beat and nuance of the music, and looks sexy, too.

This season is going to be the great battle of Canadian choreography vs Russian choreography. I think, in terms of choreography, the Canadian might win. :popcorn:
 
Well, I just saw a clip of Ashley's new SP, and the skating is totally choreographed to the beat and nuance of the music, and looks sexy, too.

This season is going to be the great battle of Canadian choreography vs Russian choreography. I think, in terms of choreography, the Canadian might win. :popcorn:

Amazing what you can get out of a 15 sec clip.......
 
Can't you guys tell the attention to detail that's there for you to see in that 15 seconds? If this level is maintained for the rest of the program... :popcorn:
 
Can't you guys tell the attention to detail that's there for you to see in that 15 seconds? If this level is maintained for the rest of the program... :popcorn:

if last season someone would asked me who could to do a good samba I would said Ashley, Adelina and Kaetlyn O. , so I have high hope with Ashley's program. And I already love Adelina's program.
 
Well, I just saw a clip of Ashley's new SP, and the skating is totally choreographed to the beat and nuance of the music, and looks sexy, too.

This season is going to be the great battle of Canadian choreography vs Russian choreography. I think, in terms of choreography, the Canadian might win. :popcorn:

And this is supposed to do what in this thread? Make people swear of Adelina and join the Ash bandwagon? Enlighten us how much Adelinas SP is not choreographed to the music?

I'm not going to judge anything from the short clip. Generally, I prefer Shae-Lynn to most russian choreographers, but I'd rather see the whole program (given how empty Ash's programs were last season, that's definitely the smarter bet than hyping the SP now).
Also, dancing > stuffed with details.
 
Adelina wrote a column in "Russian pioneer no 56"

Source: http://ruspioner.ru/cool/m/single/4729
Well google tried :slink: :hopelessness:

Olympic champion figure skater Adelina Sotnikova - that her people about how she dealt with the soul of the Internet, and whether it is possible to combine love and sports. And most importantly - how.


If you want to achieve something, you need to learn to step over failures. Wake up, push them aside and move on. Because it will be a victory for overcoming. Because otherwise idleness of the hands. So I had before the Olympic Games: the failure of the failure, I thought that all, it's time to give up on your dreams, throwing sports, because nothing happened. Every time I gave myself one last chance, I had to overcome itself and get into the team. By doing this, I realized that you can never stop. My failure in the past that can not return or change. I will continue to fight and prove to myself that I can.

I love their work, figure skating. I go out on the ice, enjoy, forget about all the problems, I would like to skate and want to work - there's probably a hundred in one! Moreover, in addition to the joy of skating it provides an opportunity to earn. For me it's very important because I have a man for whom I do it. I want and, more importantly, can help the sister who had some health problems, but it needs to succeed. In the most difficult times, I asked myself, "What would make my sister, if I give up the sport?" The funds will not be such. And I dream that in her life everything was fine, that treatment is successful. These thoughts are always helping me.

When you want to win, you climb out of the skin to make the impossible possible. When I was younger, I am looking at Irina Slutskaya, Shizuka Arakawa. I watched and admired. I wanted to act in the same way as they are, at the international level, winning medals. Choosing for yourself this way, and now I'm going for it. Yes, it is difficult, but I was happy with everything in life. I am a strong man, used to set goals and achieve them. Of course, sometimes you want to be soft and sweet, but do not always succeed. Today, coaches, athletes, and see what can be achieved. Grows a lot of talented girls, all eager to win, learn new elements, trying to break through, to get to the world level. Speaking in Russia, now face even greater stress than in overseas competitions. Simply win the championship of Europe than to get into the team. Of course, such competition would only spur to good box office. And then it all depends on the character. Someone looking at the girls and clamped, thinking, "What if I just go out and fall?" Someone, on the contrary, sees that all do everything, and says to himself: "Now go out now to skate for me going! "Therefore, a person chooses what he will do - and afraid to stand up for the rim, or to go out and perform. I like to take risks. For example, I will always try to go for a complex element: do it, do not do that, but I still go. I do not look at others, I go out and do my job, because I have only one chance to get over yourself, calm down, go out and skate as much as I can. And there already will all depend on the judges.

Undoubtedly, the victory is very important, but it is only a consequence. In preparation for the performance, I never think about it, my head is occupied only with thoughts of good theaters. Honestly, even his promise to win the Olympic Games, given in childhood to our president, I remembered only in Sochi before any program. Somewhere I read about it or heard and wondered e-my, why did I do that? And then just left it on the fourth, the fifth, the hundredth plan, went out and did my best. At the moment I have nothing can make to abandon the sport.

I missed a year due to injury, so, of course, will be much harder to enter the competitive process, but I will work on it to get it to all, God forbid, it was well into the next season. I also have added responsibility, because now I'm out on the ice in a different role - as the Olympic champion. Of course, my life has changed dramatically after the Olympics, a lot was invited to various events, such in my life I never had. A lot of attention has been - and from the media and from the fans, the fans. At first I even lost, I was somehow scared. I'm very vulnerable people, all take to heart. Before reading the comments on the Internet, I was upset: a lot of nasty things written. Watched, then I think about it all the time, even my mother would say, "Mom, can, indeed, why I do it? Why, if people believe me so bad? "And then I realized: that's what I people? People are just stupid to sit at the computer and write what they want. And they themselves do not do anything. They do not seek, do not know what the athletes are going through, how they work, they do not realize how hard this all goes. And why did I imagine I will hammer his head with some people when I have my own family, there are native people, friends who believe in me? That's the most important thing. And I stopped to read everything. Now sometimes I look through when social networking is something written. I'll read it, laugh at the negative and read the following comment. The parents are very supportive of me. But at the same time, they seem to understand that I'm an adult, and give some freedom to myself, I realized that I need in my life. They quietly released somewhere, because they know that there is a head on his shoulders. Basically they are saying, "We'll be able to what, help. You can always appeal to us to tell, to share ... " In fact, probably the only family I can be weak. And even better with a friend. No one else will not show. With me is easy to find communication, but what is in my heart, I will reveal only the closest. With them, I can talk about everything, because I know that it will remain in our minds and hearts, but not outside. Recently, I really changed. I try to be independent and to understand life.

Once I had a dream to enter the GITIS. But then I realized that if I wanted to go to the Olympics, GITIS to sacrifice. And I sacrificed. Let's see what will emerge, but the second I want to finish the Institute for sure. In general, I do not like to plan life. Let everything goes as it goes. I once had planned and doplanirovalas. Then I decided for myself that this should never need, so put some goals, tasks, but not to plan. I live for today. The future does not look much, but in the past ... whichever the past. If it is good, why not see and did not remember those moments. I also wanted to be a designer. It was very interesting to come up with some things, drawings, combine the colors. Now this wish turned into my own line of clothes for figure skating. I want to do it is not like everyone else - something new, exclusive, it would be interesting to look on the ice. After the training time is so small that it almost no matter what is missing. Therefore, every hobby a little bit: I sew, knit and learned - my mother taught. Even contacted some scarf itself. Of course, there are thoughts that oyyy we tired all tired, but still put on skates and on the ice. And you do not remember, you're tired, you've got some problems. You are already out, and you need to exercise.

Moreover, even in childhood, we never complained, had to feel it in all colors, and it was fine. Between workouts, rather than relax, we ran and played salochki - that is, all the same games that also have children with non-athletes. And we have a triple that was interesting because a lot of people. For me, childhood is very bright, it has always been fun. At the same fees last night we called "royal." There were, paste paint the children. We do not sleep, waiting until all will fall. These great moments! In summer I went with my grandparents in the countryside, or to his dacha. There the boys walked, climbed trees, rode bikes, went into the forest. Come up with a mini-performances, evening concerts were given. Normal children's recreation. And then, later, in the years 12-13, the first time the sea has gone. Now the beach is probably the best holiday for me. The sea heals our bones, wounds, and so now, if you can, of course, I will choose the sea - to receive medical treatment, rest, and with new forces will work. Also, as any normal girl, I dream to have a good family, to have children, of course.

But while I can not say that I can quickly combine sport and love. There may be two options. If there is love, and it helps, it can be combined. And if she only gets if I dressed in love, not in sports, then I will leave love in the background and go to the sport. And maybe, will come a time when I really fall in love with someone and I want to give the family. I remember in school, read "first love" by Turgenev. This story really hooked me was my favorite piece. I do not know how my life goes. At the moment I have the most important sport, but already there to see what would happen next. I can not say I do not know what will happen in my life. I do not want to look ahead and I do not want to anticipate. I have plans, I know what I want, and I tell it will not. Why would tell? Each person has their own, each has its own principles. Show it to tell ... I do not think it's right.
 
"In preparation for the performance, I never think about it, my head is occupied only with thoughts of good theaters".:laugh2:

She meant good skating

"that's what I people? People are just stupid to sit at the computer and write what they want. And they themselves do not do anything. They do not seek, do not know what the athletes are going through, how they work, they do not realize how hard this all goes. And why did I imagine will hammer his head with some people" :laugh:

Why would I care about the people? People just sit stupidly at the computer writing whatever they want. Not doing anything themselves. They do not achieve, do not know what athletes feel, how they work, what amount of efforts it takes. And why would I bother myself with those people?! :agree:

"Once I had a dream to enter the GITIS"

Russian University of theatrical arts.
 
"In preparation for the performance, I never think about it, my head is occupied only with thoughts of good theaters".:laugh2:

She meant good skating

"that's what I people? People are just stupid to sit at the computer and write what they want. And they themselves do not do anything. They do not seek, do not know what the athletes are going through, how they work, they do not realize how hard this all goes. And why did I imagine will hammer his head with some people" :laugh:

Why would I care about the people? People just sit stupidly at the computer writing whatever they want. Not doing anything themselves. They do not achieve, do not know what athletes feel, how they work, what amount of efforts it takes. And why would I bother myself with those people?! :agree:

"Once I had a dream to enter the GITIS"

Russian University of theatrical arts.

:laugh2: google tries, bless its heart :biggrin:
 
Thanks for the article and the corrections! :) Ah google, maybe it just has a good sense of humor too ;)
 
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