Russian figure skater Mikhail Kolyada won his first in this season tournament "Ondrej Nepela Trophy" in Bratislava. After the competition Tatiana Flade had a talk with Mikhail.
- Misha, this is the first start in the season and the first victory. What do you think about your performance?
- The performance was, in my opinion, quite bright. Still, this is the beginning of the season. Of course I need to get in shape. Not everything was successful, not everything was so smooth, but there is always something to work on. I think that at the next competitions I will look different, I will skate more confidently and there will be no problems with the jumps.
- This time you and your coaches changed the jump content. Why?
- We decided to try the program with two quadriple toeloops. It is obvious that this layout is not polished up yet. After the test skates in Moscow, there was only one full training week before the competition in Bratislava. There’s not much time passed so that the order of every element became comfortable enough. But today I did everything I could. I tried to follow how many combinations in the program I needed to jump, how many rotations to do, I counted everything in order to avoid any non-routine situations.
- You replaced the second triple axel by quadriple toeloop in the free program. Why? After all, you have really good axels.
- The triple axel is good, beautiful, but we decided to try this way.
- The next start is "Finlandia Trophy", will you still try something different?
-- Yes. We will come home, analyze and calculate everything. Perhaps, we will try another version of the program, and we will become determined more or less for the main competitions, which one to skate.
- Your free program music is "Carmen". When you told me about it in the summer, then, frankly, I was not sure that it would suit you. But you're good in it. And you've been wanting to skate to this music for a long time. Why?
- I was 9-10 years old, when I said that I really like music, I would like to use it in programs, because it hypes me up. But then this idea was put off to the Greek calends and only recently it came to my mind. And not only me. Three figure skaters of our team have chosen the same music. So I declare the season of "Carmen" has begun.
- I have already told Alina Zagitova that she, you and Maxim Kovtun can create altogether an exhibition program to Carmen.
- Well, I don’t know, but the idea is good.
- What are the opinions about your program?
- Positive. Both from the judges and the experts, we hear good words, In Novogorsk and here in Bratislava. If you look at my score you’ll see that the judges liked my program. But it is clear that it still needs to be skated more and more times. There are “rough edges”. We we'll watch the perfomance with my choreographer. Maybe we'll add it something. Now there is a process of "molding", like the masters who make pots or something. It is clear that the main work was done in the summer, and now we add minor adjustments, which relate to the presentation, interpretation and everything else.
-- Thanks and good luck.
Source:
https://fsrussia.ru/intervyu/3917-mikhail-kolyada-sezon-karmen-ob-yavlyayu-otkrytym.html
) that I’ve ever seen.
And my husband (an accomplished amateur violinist and concert master in several large-city community orchestras) used to humor my passion and follow skating with me, but lost interest once more and more pop music began to be used, especially after lyrics were allowed. He did watch some of the skating during the Olympics, but said that a lot of the music “hurt” his ears LOL.
It's not even that she dislikes Misha, she uses the same approach on CSKA skaters too, and look at the results so far.
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