For Tutberidze, the loss of coach Rozanov is more painful than the transfer of Trusova. It was he who for two years brought up the super juniors
Eteri Tutberidze’s group has a crisis: queen of quads Sasha Trusova left, followed by the promising Zhilina sisters, and also Yegor Rukhin.
Transitions of athletes are often unpleasant, but natural. As Tat'yana Tarasova correctly noted: Tutberidze will not be left without skaters. That is why the main loss of Khrustalny in May is coach Sergey Rozanov, who also chose Yevgeniy Plyushchenko's team.
For a couple of years in the best figure skating group, he proved himself to be a diverse specialist who puts ultra-si jumps and finds a common language with athletes. Probably, the mass outflow of athletes from Khrustalniy is partly due to Rozanov’s decision.
In juniors he made friends with Gleikhengauz, who recommended him to Tutberidze
Rozanov - Master of Sports in figure skating; but, like all Tutberidze-team coaches, he did not win big titles. His results from the senior Championships of Russia are characteristic: the penultimate place in 2006, the last in 2007. In those same years, Rozanov competed the junior Championship of the country, and there, too, it turned out embarrasing: 12th and 16th (again, the penultimate) places. In the protocols of the 2007 Championships of Russia it is much easier to find the choreographer of the Tutberidze group - Daniil Gleikhengauz, who then took bronze.
Daniil and Sergey became friends as skaters, and the future Olympic champion Nikita Katsalapov joined their company:
“ Sergey Rozanov, Daniil Gleikhengauz - I have known them since childhood, we performed together in solo, we have been together all our lives. I know them, I know their sporting character, and it seems to me that it is perfect (for the Tutberidze group), ” said Katsalapov.
When the opportunity presented itself to help a friend, Gleikhengauz used it by recommending Rozanov to the team - everything happened on the eve of the 2018 Games.
“ This is my friend whom I myself invited (after asking Eteri Georgiyevna) to work for us. Prior to this, Sergey was engaged in prep skating. And like all the coaches of our group, he grew up, received knowledge, technology. And when Sergey came to us, we also introduced him into our system and taught him what we know ourselves. ”
Rozanov completed his competitive career shortly after reaching adulthood. But in addition to the period that Gleikhengauz talked about, he worked in the shows of Ilya Averbukh and performed abroad - with Javier Fernandez; a fresh coach card on the Plyushchenko Academy’s website says that Rozanov also skated with Tarasova.
He set jumps for Kostornaya, Trusova and Valiyeva
In the Tutberidze group, the new specialist got used to it quickly: in the Olympic season, the senior trio of Tutberidze-Gleikhengauz-Dudakov focused on the adult students - Alina Zagitova and Yevgeniya Medvyedeva. So Rozanov worked with juniors and novices (from 10 to 15 years old), of whom there are many in Khrustalniy.
While the rest of the specialists went to international tournaments, Rozanov coached skaters in Moscow - and gradually grew into an universal specialist. This is the merit of Tutberidze, which teaches not only skaters, but also coaches:
“ I am engaged in coaching and productions. Initially, I did not work with programs, but Eteri Georgiyevna said that the trainer should be universal - be able to stage a program, work on sliding skills, and practice the jumping technique. So I am taught how to do it all right, ” Rozanov explained.
The 31-year-old specialist pays great attention to jumping. Before the 2017/18 season, the quadruples in the Tutberidze group were only just emerging - with the first attempts by Trusova and Shcherbakova. Two years later, there are many who have quads in their arsenal: Kamila Valiyeva, Sof'ya Akat'yeva, Veronika Zhilina, Maya Khromykh. Rozanov led them all in their most “jumpy” age: from 10 to 15 years.
According to Alyona Kostornaya, thanks to Rozanov, she went to the triple Axel first time.
“ If I recall the very first time, it was after my first junior season, after the World Championships. I tried to learn quadruple Toeloops and Salchov's in the harness. Then Sergey Alexandrovich suggested that I should try a triple Axel in the harness. I didn’t really want to, I started to deny.
Two or three times in training I jumped, and in the evening he told me to jump without insurance. I was surprised, but decided to try. The first attempt was a on a big lean and curve, I fell. The coach advised me to approach the jump at speed, so everything will work out. The second time I took off for real. And the next day we shot a video. "
After moving into senior ranks, Trusova, Kostornaya and Shcherbakova did not stop training with Sergey.
And already before the 2019/20 season, with the help of Rozanov, Kostornaya returned her trump card. After Open Test Skates, when everyone was talking about the quadruples of Shcherbakova and Trusova, the coach offered Alyona a triksel. And by the beginning of the season she came up with this ultra-si jump, which she used in both short and free programs.
I didn’t go to big tournaments, although I trained the participants
Rozanov played a key role in training skaters in Khrustalniy, but always remained in the shadows.
Most of the time, the juniors worked with him, but at the World Championships in Tallinn, Tutberidze, Gleikhengauz and Dudakov sat next to the winner Kamila Valiyeva in the Kiss and Cry. They also accompanied Dar'ya Usachyova and Maya Khromykh.
Tatyana Mishina also noted this trend:
“ The Junior Championships of Russia was held, but he was not there, although it was him who worked with all these girls. There were Tutberidze and Gleikhengauz. Rozanov probably wants to break through, he felt that coaching is in him, he did not want to sit in the sidelines. ”
And although Rozanov works with almost all the skaters of the group, he was designated as the personal coach only for Dar'ya Usachyova, Veronika Zhilina and Arseniy Fyodotov on the lists of the Russian national team on the website of the Ministry of Sports, and last season only by Sof'ya Akat'yeva. At the same time, in the ISU documents, Rozanov is a coach of the season leaders: Trusova and Kostornaya.
An important argument in favour of the Plyushchenko Academy is the ability to get out of the shadows. The two-time Olympic Champion promised Rozanov a separate group:
“ Seryozha Rozanov will be a full-fledged trainer at my academy. Nobody will push him, he will go to competitions, lead his group with me. Seryozha has his own group and his athletes. What kind? We’ll tell you later. ”
However, Gleikhengauz believes that Rozanov had no problems with Tutberidze’s team: “ To say that something did not suit him is ridiculous. ”
According to Tutberidze, the conditions in the team are equal for everyone. So, perhaps the major role was played by Rozanov’s ambitions, and not by the financial aspect that Aleksandr Zhulin spoke about: “ It is a surprise for me that he left Tutberidze's. Apparently, something is happening in their team, I do not know their pitfalls, what could have caused it. Maybe the lack of financial incentive affected (his decision). ”
He thanked the Khrustalniy trainers after leaving for Plyushchenko's
In addition to a fresh look and experience with the best skaters in the world, Rozanov has another trump card: he gets along well with athletes.
He accompanied Alina Zagitova on the set.
He performed paired elements with Sasha Trusova.
Trusova even separately thanked Rozanov after the Grand Prix Final.
“ Thanks to Sergey Aleksandrovich, who watched our training, skating runs from Moscow, called me and talked with me about mistakes, was supportive, ” Sasha wrote on Instagram after the tournament, where all the group’s main coaches were with her.
Rozanov created a positive image for himself. The transition of Trusova and Rozanov woke our figure skating during a time when there is no sport, or even full training. Tutberidze-team's dance teacher Alexey Zheleznyakov writes (and then deletes) one angry post after another, Plyushchenko replies with caustic comments.
Tutberidze wrote a message with her disappointment. All subscribed and unsubscribed from each other on Instagram.
And Rozanov, after a pause, made a beautiful gesture - he thanked every coach with whom he worked at Khrustalniy:
“ Thanks to all of you for being close at difficult times, helping, supporting with word and deed. I wish you to remain the same friendly and close-knit team. I will always warmly remember our joint work. ”
It looks like Trusova went to Plyushchenko after a coach with whom she had a good relationship. In her statement about the transition, Sasha spoke more warmly about Rozanov than about anyone else from Tutberidze’s staff: “ Special thanks to Sergei Rozanov for his work and faith in me. He speaks little of himself, preferring deeds rather than big words, but without his painstaking and honest work, I would not have achieved my achievements and victories. At the decisive moment, he offered me his shoulder, he is my reliable friend. "
Moreover, Rozanov shares her vision of the staging process: “ Figure skating is primarily a sport, choreography, in my opinion, is secondary. It’s not without reason that it is the second mark in the tally. ”
Maybe Plyushchenko has not yet revealed his own coaching talent, but by having designed Rozanov's transfer, he acted as a competent strategist and an excellent manager.
Ironically, thanks to these very qualities, Eteri Tutberidze created a school of champions.
(c) Мария Селенкова
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https://www.sports.ru/tribuna/blogs/interval/2779431.html
Zhulin's is a bit cryptic, but one can understand that preparing price winning athletes and not receiving a cut of the prize money isn't exactly stimulating, if this is what Zhulin implies?
and 
yes, maybe Shae-Lynn would be great I believe
