Part 1 translation:
Mikhail Kolyada became a sensation of this season but he was pointed out to the author of this interview 5 years ago as ‘our Patrick Chan’.
- No I never heard that I was compared to Chan whom I respect very much. When he is skating you want to keep watching him. His season hasn’t been that good so far but I think he is still ‘recovering’ from the Olympics. He is really great…
-You disagree that your skating skills are exceptional
- I don’t regard myself as a master. Chan yes his SS are amazing. Mine are so so not great…
-Who are your idols?
-Aleksei Yagudin, Zenya Plushenko. But everyone has to have own style. I try not to copy anyone.
-How come you chose figure skating and not football or hockey?
-My Mum liked figure skating she brought me to the rink when I was 5. To be honest I always wanted to switch to footfall.
-After the practice, went to play a football with kids in the yard, yes?
-Oh yes I used to, even missed the practice sometimes. There was a moment I didn’t want to skate at all. Was trying to find an alternative but thank God I didn’t.
-When you got a serious injury an year and a half ago, probably wanted to give up too?
-No it was just the opposite I was determined. I realised that it would be difficult to come back but tried not to dwell on it. I knew it was realistic, many athletes made a recovery after very serious injuries and succeeded.
-I read that you would never tell on what element you got injured because everybody would laugh.
-No not exactly but what happened was like this: I was doing the step sequence, on a twizzle the skate got stuck in the ice crevice. I fell and realised that could not get up. Was taken away on the stretchers.
-That’s horrible
-Yes I am trying not to recall this
-I know one tennis player who was scared to play again after the injury for a long time.
-I was lucky to recover quickly. The first surgery was in August 2014. I was told that the plate would be removed in February – March 2015. I had a course of physio. Started to walk normally without limping, began to skate a little. Then in about 2.5 months had a x-ray that showed that all was well. So there was another surgery to remove the plate. Then was a rehabilitation period but all was improving much faster then.
-Did you have a psychological barrier?
-Yes I had. It was hardest of all. All kind of thoughts… But many told me that the legs not to be broken twice in the same place. I got over it gradually.
-At Junior Worlds 2013 you beat Shoma Uno. This season Shoma went to GP Final. If it was not for your injury do you think you would have skated now at his level.
-Hard to say. I think the break from competing was bound to happen. If not then maybe later. So that I could take a break mentally, let all the thoughts go and started afresh like from basic skating, all sigle jumps, doubles and so on.
-That’s why you started on a quad with a delay
-Maybe. I could already do a quad in August 2014 both in practice & competition
-A Chinese Jin Boyang too was at that Junior Worlds 2013. And now he stunned everyone with his quads. How he can do that?
-Hard to say really. Chinese are very reserved people. Generally it is realistic to do 4Lz, and 4Sal with 4T too. But to put together four quads in the long program? First of all it is mentally very hard. It is a barrier you need to overcome.
-While doing a jump have you got a sensation of flying?
-When I was learning a 3A and a quad I had very unusual sensations. There are only just seconds when you are in the air but it feels much longer.
-Can you manage to think of anything in the air
-I am trying not to. Thinking is confusing. Jumps ought to be like from a conveyor belt in the factory
-Do you work with a psychologist?
-Yes, I do, mainly before the competitions. He tells me how to get ready what to think what not to think. But mainly it is down to you.
good luck Mikhail!! i hope hardships are behind you now and we will get to enjoy your skating 
) But I'm so grateful that he chose to skate and never gave up. See what he achieved this year 
Mika is such a frank guy! I remember that Mishin once said that ice dancing should be excluded from the figure skating sport. 
