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Polina Tsurskaya

Also guys, there is an interview with Polina on the horizon. Maybe it will be released tomorrow but for sure this week. The interviewer promised. So stay tuned :cool:
 
RemyRose said:
Also guys, there is an interview with Polina on the horizon. Maybe it will be released tomorrow but for sure this week. The interviewer promised. So stay tuned :cool:
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https://mrsport.ria.ru/interview/20180828/1140930235.html

- In one of your comments on instagram after the transition to Buyanova, you noted that you faced a completely new approach to the training process. What was it, if not secret?
- The work has become much more individual. In the former group was a some kind constant competition. I mean, I watched what someone was doing on the ice, and tried to follow. In CSKA, coaches try to divide all athletes in such a way as to be able to work with everyone individually. Separate work with jumps, skating, separately choreography. To be honest, I did not like work in rivalry. It's not fit to me.

- Did you decide to leave the coach at the end of spring yourself or your parents?
- It's my decision. Understood that I urgently need to change something. Perhaps not only change the coach, but change yourself, your attitude to training, the approach to work in general. And this meant that I need to leave the group. My parents hesitated for a long time, tried to keep me from this step for a long time, to change my mind. I continued to go to training, but one evening I returned home and said firmly: "that's it"

- I know that Buyanova always works very hard with skating.
- Yes, indeed. But I actually always liked skating. I really like skating. It seems to me that now I have progress in skating and presentation. Let's see how it all works out at the competitions.
 
Polina Tsurskaya: "For the sake of the result, they all somehow sacrifice something"

Three years ago, Polina Tsurskaya was considered the most promising junior of the country and even managed to get ahead of Evgenia Medvedeva in the final of the Cup of Russia-2015. A year later, she won the Youth Olympic Games, then the junior Grand Prix final. In an interview with a special correspondent of RIA Novosti Elena Vaitsekhovskaya, the figure skater told how she suffered a serious injury, why she decided to go to Elena Buyanova, and admitted that it was very difficult for her to put the program under the direction of Tatyana Tarasova.

Victims for the sake of result

- In one of your comments after the transition to Buyanova, you noted that you faced a completely new approach to the training process. What was it, if not secret?

- The work has become much more individual. In the former group we all went on some kind of constant competition, on competition. That is, you look at what someone is doing on the ice, and you yourself are dragging yourself behind it. In CSKA, coaches try to divide all athletes in such a way as to be able to work with everyone individually. Separate work off jumps, slip, separately - the choreographic part of the skating. To be honest, I did not like work on rivalry. It does not suit me very much.

- It's logical: it's one thing when the same little girls do the same job, and quite another, when the athlete stands out from the general series with both height and physique, as you stand out. This alone was supposed to create problems for you.

- And created. I also had injuries. The trainers tried to give my state some attention, somewhere they reduced the load, they were allowed to work at their own discretion, but when you are constantly in the group, you involuntarily want to keep up with the others. The mind is like and you understand that it's worth stopping, but not always it turns out. So sometimes I myself was to blame for the fact that the injuries continue to worsen. You leave after the injury on the ice, you see that everyone is working, everything is in good shape, everyone is jumping - and you start hurrying yourself, driving yourself. As a result, I never managed to recover to the end, and all this accumulated, turned into a snowball.

- And how did the injury happen, because of which you could not perform at the junior world championships in 2016?

- I approached that start in good shape, I won both stages and the Grand Prix Final, the junior championship of Russia, was the fourth in the adult championship, but just five days before the trip to the world championship, I unsuccessfully tucked my leg in the warming-up room - I torn the ligaments . My leg was so drenched that I could not ride at all. Coaches then very much doubted whether I should even go to Debrecen, and together with the management of the rink put a question in front of me. Like, if I'm ready to ride, then we go to perform. If not, we're filming. But, when you were preparing for the start, was in good shape, before that the whole season stayed in the first-second places, it's very difficult to refuse the performance. And I said that I will endure. In training before the short jumped all as usual, but there were two not very good touchdowns, after which I realized, that I almost can not walk. So we had to withdraw.

Back is forever

- Did you decide to leave the coach at the end of spring yourself or your parents?

- Ya. I realized that I urgently needed to change something. Perhaps not only change the coach, but yourself, your attitude to training, the approach to work in general. And it turned out, whatever one may say, that you need to leave the group. My parents hesitated for a long time, tried to keep me from this step for a long time, to change my mind. I continued to go to training, but one evening I returned home and said firmly: "Everything."

- You are not confused even that you have to go to training all over Moscow?

- It does not really matter if there is a result. Many athletes do not live near the ice rink in two minutes walk, do not have ideal conditions. But for the sake of the result, everything is sacrificed in one way or another.

- Does your injured back still cause you problems?

- Back is such a thing that if it starts to hurt, it's forever, and you just have to watch it. This is not a fracture that has grown together - and everything does not bother anymore. It is necessary to select exercises, pump muscles, regularly do massage. When I had an exacerbation, the doctors made up for me a list of exercises that need to be done every day. And now, for a long time, I follow these instructions. Already got used to that for training you need to come 20-30 minutes earlier, so that there was enough time to conduct a warm-up, make swap, stretch. Before the second ice I also do special work for about 10 minutes. After training, I try to stretch my back well, so that the muscles will return to their previous state. In breaks I can go to massage, sometimes - to the manual therapist. In addition, my mother is a doctor, she also constantly monitors,

- How smooth was the process of setting up programs?

- Rather, everything was vice versa, very difficult. I went to the new coach at the very end of the season, when it was already densely painted, to whom of the skaters when the programs are put, and in this graph there was not a single free window. Elena Germanovna also pondered for some time whether to take me to the group or not. She knew that I had an injury, and was very afraid that I simply could not work at full strength, to cope with the stresses. So there was no talk about putting the programs at all. Then we decided that we would put them at a gathering in Courmayeur, but it turned out that Tatiana Anatolievna Tarasova and Nikita Mikhailov, with whom I planned to engage in staging work, could not come to Italy for some personal reasons. Therefore, there we worked out a functional: I sketched the layouts of old programs, collected jumps, practiced technique,

- Difficult situation.

- Well, yes, sometimes I was worried that everything is already full of new programs, and I do not approach them. I was also very worried before going to the production to Tatyana Anatolyevna. After all, Tarasova herself! Before that, I had never worked with her, I did not know how it would all be. But it turned out that everything is very simple. Nikita was showing. Tatyana Anatolyevna corrected, said what and how she wants to see.

It was hard to get used to another. In the former group, we were immediately put in with jumps. This process took an hour and a half in the morning and the same evening, and in a few days all fit. Here, the production was on a separate ice, without jumping, and took 4-5 hours a day. The first three days I was so sick all the muscles that I came to the rink, as on crutches. I consoled myself by letting it hurt, but all muscles are pumped well.

- I know that Buyanova always works very hard to slip.

- It's a yes. But I actually always liked the slip. I really like riding. It seems to me that now I have progress precisely in slipping, in the filing of programs. Let's see how it all works out at the rentals.

15 centimeters per season

- What do you think, when you see how little girls jump quadruple jumps? What is she, my sporting death has come?

"Why not?" With all you can always fight. The key thing in your phrase is not that the jumps are quadruples, but that the girls are small. Which very quickly grow up, will grow up. Then we will look at the results.

- And for you the period of your own growth was heavy?

- I have always been high about my age ,. When she first came with her parents to see Eteri Georgievna (Tutberidze) for the first time, she looked at me, at my mother, at my dad and even asked: are you sure you will cope? So we somehow managed all this time. But I did not have one that in one season I grew by 15 centimeters. It grew, though quickly, but fairly evenly. Therefore, there were no fears that I would suddenly stop coping with my own body. Now the second season my growth does not change. To starve to keep myself in shape, I also do not have to.

- Is mother watching for food too?

"I used to watch." Now she entrusted this process to me.

- Does your mom come to your training?

- In CSKA this is not too common. I used to come, especially since we live very close to my former skating rink. But, since it works, it's not very convenient for her to go to CSKA training with me. Is that the competition.

- I know that there are skaters who do not like that relatives come to look at their performances - they experience additional stress.

- I'm already used to it, although sometimes I try to grumble about it. But not seriously. I know that my mother loves to watch figure skating, even when I'm not on the ice - she is interested. And this should not distract me. My job is to go out and do my job. It does not matter who is at the moment sitting on the rostrum.
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Orlov said:
https://mrsport.ria.ru/interview/20180828/1140930235.html
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Also, sometime this week, there will be an interview published with Buyanova. Maybe she will talk about Polina :cool:
 
RemyRose said:
Also, sometime this week, there will be an interview published with Buyanova. Maybe she will talk about Polina :cool:
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wow, you translated so fast! :)

Oh, wait, I understood - you used only Google-translator :)
I continued to go to training, but one evening I returned home and said firmly: "Everything." :biggrin:

I continued to go to training, but one evening I returned home and said firmly: "that's it"
 
Orlov said:
Believe me, without human editing... :)
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Sometimes I go back and edit but it seems alright here. Maybe TAHbKA on FSU will translate and then I will link it here.

Good read by the way :agree: I hope in Buyanova's interview she will talk about her new kids :pray:
 
RemyRose said:
Sometimes I go back and edit but it seems alright here.
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I dunno. It's not about only this funny "Everything", which was a direct translation of the Russian exclamation "Все!" (that's it!) - the general meaning was clear in this case. But in other cases, important little things will simply be lost. For example:

Когда впервые пришла с родителями на просмотр к Этери Георгиевне (Тутберидзе), она посмотрела на меня, на маму, на папу и даже спросила: вы уверены, что справитесь? Вот мы как-то и справлялись все это время.

google-translate: When she first came with her parents to see Eteri Georgievna (Tutberidze) for the first time, she looked at me, at my mother, at my dad and even asked: are you sure you will cope? So we somehow managed all this time.

google-translate with Orlov's editing: When I first came with my parents to exam for admission to group of Eteri Georgievna (Tutberidze), she looked at me, at my mother, at my dad and even asked: are you sure you will cope? So we tryed cope all this time.

It's different meaning - she emphasizes that her life-style in the group was continuous cope.
 
Orlov said:
I dunno. It's not about only this funny "Everything", which was a direct translation of the Russian exclamation "Все!" (that's it!) - the general meaning was clear in this case. But in other cases, important little things will simply be lost. For example:

Когда впервые пришла с родителями на просмотр к Этери Георгиевне (Тутберидзе), она посмотрела на меня, на маму, на папу и даже спросила: вы уверены, что справитесь? Вот мы как-то и справлялись все это время.

google-translate: When she first came with her parents to see Eteri Georgievna (Tutberidze) for the first time, she looked at me, at my mother, at my dad and even asked: are you sure you will cope? So we somehow managed all this time.

google-translate with Orlov's editing: When I first came with my parents to exam for admission to group of Eteri Georgievna (Tutberidze), she looked at me, at my mother, at my dad and even asked: are you sure you will cope? So we tryed cope all this time.

It's different meaning - she emphasizes that her life-style in the group was continuous cope.
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Sometimes you have to take what you can get :laugh:
 
I'm impressed, that was a very insightful interview. Sounds like she's had some struggles with the coaching change - Hopefully it'll smoothen out over the course of the season and in the future.

By the way, I find it very easy to read google-translated Russian text. The meaning's almost always conveyed properly and when something sounds odd, you can generally figure the meaning out anyway. Like that "Everything"-thing. By the context you can pretty easily figure out what it means. Essentially every time I've double checked something in the original Russian language, my initial interpretation was correct. That's why I just tend to read Russian with google translate, saves me quite the headache as my actual Russian abilities are still a work in progress. Google translate for Russian seems far better than for Korean, Japanese, Finnish etc.
 
Shayuki said:
I'm impressed, that was a very insightful interview. Sounds like she's had some struggles with the coaching change - Hopefully it'll smoothen out over the course of the season and in the future.

By the way, I find it very easy to read google-translated Russian text. The meaning's almost always conveyed properly and when something sounds odd, you can generally figure the meaning out anyway. Like that "Everything"-thing. By the context you can pretty easily figure out what it means. Essentially every time I've double checked something in the original Russian language, my initial interpretation was correct. That's why I just tend to read Russian with google translate, saves me quite the headache as my actual Russian abilities are still a work in progress. Google translate for Russian seems far better than for Korean, Japanese, Finnish etc.
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Yeah, I can pretty much figure it out too and sometimes not all the skaters are so lucky as to have a Russian native translate their articles so it's really helpful.

By the way, here's is Polina's schedule so far:

Test skates: Sept 8-9th
Cup of Russia I: Sept 14-18th
Ondrej Nepela: Sept 19-22nd
Skate America:Oct 19-21st
Rostelecom: Nov 16-18th

Fairly short turnaround for the skaters doing CoRI and Ondrej Nepela :think:
 
RemyRose said:
Yeah, I can pretty much figure it out too and sometimes not all the skaters are so lucky as to have a Russian native translate their articles so it's really helpful.

By the way, here's is Polina's schedule so far:

Test skates: Sept 8-9th
Cup of Russia I: Sept 14-18th
Ondrej Nepela: Sept 19-22nd
Skate America:Oct 19-21st
Rostelecom: Nov 16-18th

Fairly short turnaround for the skaters doing CoRI and Ondrej Nepela :think:
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Oh, I didn't even realize it was so packed! Is it really such a good idea for her to do the first stage as well as Ondrej Nepala? You'd imagine that some of the later stages of the Cup of Russia would be better for her schedule. And then there's a month-long wait for no real reason...
 
Shayuki said:
Oh, I didn't even realize it was so packed! Is it really such a good idea for her to do the first stage as well as Ondrej Nepala? You'd imagine that some of the later stages of the Cup of Russia would be better for her schedule. And then there's a month-long wait for no real reason...
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Voronov and Sinitsina/Katsalapov are doing the same thing. I hope they all drop CoRI and focus on Ondrej Nepela. If she wants to do a cup event, CoRII is Oct 2-6th. Maybe that would be better? I guess we shall see.
 
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