He needs a much better and North American coach
He needs a much better and North American coach
All three medal-winning teams were led by Russian-born, American-based coaches, Igor Sphilband and Marina Zueva. The rest of the top ten was also dominated by Russian coaches: Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat (Alexander Zhulin and Oleg Volkov), Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje (Anjelika Krylova), Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev (Elena Kustarova and Svetlana Alexeeva), Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov (Zhulin and Volkov), Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte (had gone to Nikolai Morozov a few months earlier) and Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein (Sphilband / Zueva). Vanessa Crone / Paul Poirier had one Canadian coach, Carol Lane, and one Soviet-born, Yuri Razguliaiev.
Russia have very strong tradition of good coaches, he doesn't need an american coach.
In St. Petersburg where he lives now, there is Alexei Mishin, the best coach ever in FS.
There is no need for that but most definitely U.S female skaters and pairs need a much better and Russian coach.
And also, never have coaches from one country dominated more than what Russian coaches dominated at the 2011 World Championships where all the TOP ice dance teams had a Russian coach. You can be coached abroad but you need to have a Russian coach.
well NA skaters are BALLETIC ya know! so everyone should go thereYes, and this was his first Junior Worlds. Daniel was 12th and 8th at the last two Junior Worlds, for reference.
I know I shouldn't bother trying to engage with gmyers, but what's so special about North American coaches as a group? There is only one Brian Orser, and he can't coach every promising skater on the planet...and having him as a coach still isn't a guarantee of instant success. There are a lot of skaters at TCC who aren't doing as well as Javi and Yuzuru. Then there's the rest of the NA coaches, who certainly don't seem to have any better success rates with their men than the Russian coaches. Young male skaters are nearly all inconsistent, regardless of their coach, especially with the crazy tech content they are attempting these days. Dmitri has solid technique so if he can learn to calm his nerves, I think he will be just fine in the long run.
gmyers, you post your repetitive rubbish all over the forum like a broken record. Leave it out of Dmitri's fan thread if you want to moan about Russian men, Mishin, etc. Go pollute another thread.
I'm still looking for the ignore button...
both had bad luck here so I doubt any fluff will appear :sad21:I have only one complain: how so Dima & Alisa are in the same competition and there is no fluff from them? :dev2:
this +100!gmyers, you post your repetitive rubbish all over the forum like a broken record. Leave it out of Dmitri's fan thread if you want to moan about Russian men, Mishin, etc. Go pollute another thread.
I'm still looking for the ignore button...
He's been practicing 4Lz for awhile now...and 4T, 4S and 4Lo.
Some nice pics from Mikhail Sharov:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BERHL_6R9Y8
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEQ_07xR9Vw
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEO0SsdR9bs