Good start from Adian! Despite he doesn't improved in placement, I think his performance at SA this year is a big step forward. It's a pity that he said in his ask.fm account that axel is not his favorite jump anymore... He's struggling with it from summer, but I hope he make it stable again.
Adian Pitkeev
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Adian told about a funny situation before his SP - he forgot the pants of his skating costume at the hotel, and Dudakov had to run back from the rink to hotel to fetch them, but he managed to do that in time for Adian's performance 
- http://fsrussia.ru/news/1333-adyan-pitkeev-sobiralsya-na-prokat-i-zabyl-v-gostinitse-bryuki.html
- http://fsrussia.ru/news/1333-adyan-pitkeev-sobiralsya-na-prokat-i-zabyl-v-gostinitse-bryuki.html
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I think, too
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I think he was undermarked in the SP, but what can you do. It was a big improvement from Ondrej Nepela, so hopefully he can keep up the momentum. I heard a lot of positive comments about his performance from the audience at SA, so his talent did not go unnoticed.
http://самбо-70.рф/news/2015/10/27/2623
Warm greeting from Sambo-70 school in Moscow. Adian is actually smiling and look very happy!
Warm greeting from Sambo-70 school in Moscow. Adian is actually smiling and look very happy!
Skate America 2015: SP FP
Sad about that spin in the Short and unnecessary pop in the Free Program, but anyway congrats to Adian on a New PB: 230.75
He is really trying to improve his second mark. And it partly pans out. Actually he lacks a bit of self confidence. This is the main reason why sometimes he fusses on the ice and loses connection to the music, so his skating begins to look a bit juniorish. For example, he lost a half of transitions in his Short because he wasn't able to keep up with the music, he lingered, and obviously it had an impact on a pcs (as for me SP looked better at the Test Skates). Maybe he needs to grow up mentally a little bit to understand how to relax and enjoy what he is doing and just find out how important is it.
What about the jumps, it's weird to say that he has troubles with his favorite and maybe even the best jump - a triple axel, but that's true and he even had to replace it by another quad... However he visible improves his quad, and says that he feels the consistency on this jump, though the landings don't look perfect atm.
Sofia, actually I didn't know what he really meant, but now we know..
He also talked that he wanted to have a clean skates finally to understand how really judges scores him. But he still can't do it. That's why he looked a bit upset. But he hopes that he will improve during the season, so as always we will see
Sad about that spin in the Short and unnecessary pop in the Free Program, but anyway congrats to Adian on a New PB: 230.75
He is really trying to improve his second mark. And it partly pans out. Actually he lacks a bit of self confidence. This is the main reason why sometimes he fusses on the ice and loses connection to the music, so his skating begins to look a bit juniorish. For example, he lost a half of transitions in his Short because he wasn't able to keep up with the music, he lingered, and obviously it had an impact on a pcs (as for me SP looked better at the Test Skates). Maybe he needs to grow up mentally a little bit to understand how to relax and enjoy what he is doing and just find out how important is it.
What about the jumps, it's weird to say that he has troubles with his favorite and maybe even the best jump - a triple axel, but that's true and he even had to replace it by another quad... However he visible improves his quad, and says that he feels the consistency on this jump, though the landings don't look perfect atm.
Sofia, actually I didn't know what he really meant, but now we know..
He also talked that he wanted to have a clean skates finally to understand how really judges scores him. But he still can't do it. That's why he looked a bit upset. But he hopes that he will improve during the season, so as always we will see
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Paul, thanks for sharing your analysis. I think I just worried too much, and it was relieving that his new plan seemed to work fairly well. Overall it was a gutsy performance from him, despite the popped 3A which imho was partly because it was too close to the 2nd 4T. Perhaps the 3A will continue to be a challenge for some time, but I think it's improving and probably won't be a permanent problem (hopefully so).
As for the scoring, I hope he was more dissatisfied with himself not doing well enough than with the PCS judges gave out, since he still has a lot of work to do to raise the second mark, just as you have pointed out. Nevertheless I do wish judges could appreciate his current style a bit more. Yes, he doesn't look as powerful or energetic as some men but he has some special lightness, gentleness and elegance which go very well with his young age and physical appearance.
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Adian was incredible! What a confidence boost it must be to beat the world champ (at least for today)! He should be very proud. :luv17:
His SP looked soooo impressive on TV! After his skate, the commentator in my country (an ISU judge) kept praising him. He said Adyan has great jumps, power, control and flexibility, is a very strong skater and definitely a future star in Russian men's figure skating.
I skated the short program very well, I did almost my best. I'm happy with myself. Thanks to my coaches which helped me to prepare for the start, not only technically, but also mentally. Before the skate I didn't think about the scores, but after one I hoped that I will got a close points, which I got at the first Grand Prix, - said Adian Pitkeev. - I should have done 4+3 combo to get more points because if I jumped solo quad, then I would do it without entering steps, so I'd get a minus GOE's. Today jumps and rest of the program was easier than it was at the SA, I prepared well for the competition. My mood before free program is fighting. I hope will do as good as today. Thanks again to my coaches - Eteri Georgievna, Sergei Dudakov, etc. Honestly in the trainings not all was ok, but my coaches found the right words, and this helped me to skate good.
http://fsrussia.ru/news/1455-adyan-pitkeev-sdelal-maksimum-v-korotkoj-programme.html
I scared always, and I need to deal with it. But this time I was a little more scared than usual, and I'm glad that I was able to deal with it. Actually it always stabilizes me, because if I scared then I try to concentrate on my movements very much.
Reply how much quads he needs to do in the free program to keep the lead, Adian Pitkeev asked: "I'm going to do one. And how much need - I do not know. I should just skates clean"
http://rsport.ru/figure_skating/20151120/880555849.html
And he finally smiled I hope he will smile too after his Free... Though I understand how difficult it will be for him to skate after current World Champ
http://fsrussia.ru/news/1455-adyan-pitkeev-sdelal-maksimum-v-korotkoj-programme.html
I scared always, and I need to deal with it. But this time I was a little more scared than usual, and I'm glad that I was able to deal with it. Actually it always stabilizes me, because if I scared then I try to concentrate on my movements very much.
Reply how much quads he needs to do in the free program to keep the lead, Adian Pitkeev asked: "I'm going to do one. And how much need - I do not know. I should just skates clean"
http://rsport.ru/figure_skating/20151120/880555849.html
And he finally smiled
I hope he will smile too after his Free... Though I understand how difficult it will be for him to skate after current World Champ
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I'm so much glad for him, it is very nice to see that he's happy. Yeah, maybe his component score was a bit inflated comparing to SA, but he skated last so.. I hope this success will allow him to believe in himself and he will develop his skating
http://www.team-russia2014.ru/article/22969.html
- I can't believe at the moment that I won a silver, I am very pleased - said Adian Pitkeev. - I skated well, but after the fall I was scared for the results, so I tried to do rest elements as best as possible. I think that before the jump (3A), I chose a wrong trajectory, it is necessary to watch the replay.
- Is it difficult to skate last?
- When people before you skate so well, yes (laughs). All the skaters got high marks. And I never got so many points even close to what I received.
- Is first place after the short program pressed on you?
- No, it gave me a confidence. Today it was easier for me.
- They say that second place - the most offensive.
- With such a good performances all the competitors this second place - a great achievement for me. Michael Kolyada was the fifth and scored 247 points - that's a lot, and I took the second place with 250. I'm very pleased.
- Will you have any competitions before the Russian Championship?
- Yes, I will go to Zagreb (Croatia) on the "Challenger". And I am sure we will have a very interesting fight at the Russian Championship.
- And will you be a favorite there?
- I do not think so. We have a strong men's team, and all the competitors have almost equal level.
http://www.team-russia2014.ru/article/22969.html
- I can't believe at the moment that I won a silver, I am very pleased - said Adian Pitkeev. - I skated well, but after the fall I was scared for the results, so I tried to do rest elements as best as possible. I think that before the jump (3A), I chose a wrong trajectory, it is necessary to watch the replay.
- Is it difficult to skate last?
- When people before you skate so well, yes (laughs). All the skaters got high marks. And I never got so many points even close to what I received.
- Is first place after the short program pressed on you?
- No, it gave me a confidence. Today it was easier for me.
- They say that second place - the most offensive.
- With such a good performances all the competitors this second place - a great achievement for me. Michael Kolyada was the fifth and scored 247 points - that's a lot, and I took the second place with 250. I'm very pleased.
- Will you have any competitions before the Russian Championship?
- Yes, I will go to Zagreb (Croatia) on the "Challenger". And I am sure we will have a very interesting fight at the Russian Championship.
- And will you be a favorite there?
- I do not think so. We have a strong men's team, and all the competitors have almost equal level.
An interview with Adyan Pitkeev http://rsport.ru/interview/20151122/881025358.html
(please, don't be strict, I had no English practice for a long time)
-Adyan, you left the rink, where you had performed your exhibition performance. Modestly sat on the chair in the middle of the ice-rink, than stood up in a such modest manner, in a moment became Mickey Rourke from the movie “9 1/2 weeks” and started to skate under composition "You can leave your hat on". How is it possible?
- Some time earlier this exhibition number was ready up to 15 percents, and yesterday we finished it completely. I did not see this movie in particular, although looked over many films.
- In 80th it was regarded as an erotic one.
- Really? I didn’t know it. An idea of this number belongs to choreographer Daniil Gleikhengauz. I perform a man, who fell asleep. He is timid, but in his heart wants to be a scapegrace. At first I supposed, it would be no good in all this, but I used to trust my coaches. I’m going to show such a shy boy, who fell asleep and turned to be another... The dreams...
- And then Alexander Smirnov left Yuko Kavaguti, appeared near by you and started to disturb you.
- Yes (laughes), he tried to drive me away, but I stood my ground!
- Will Smirnov participate in your number in the future?
- I don’t know it yet.
- Why are you so modest?
- I feel shy before unfamiliar people, I fear to make something wrong, to look strange. Generally speaking, I don’t like myself nowadays.
- Why?
- I feel my affairs are not good.
- Nonsense!
- All this is because emotions, maybe.
- I feel shy before unfamiliar people also. But in front of the objectives self-respect drives shyness away.
- When I’m in front of spectators, I summon my strength, but not in the ordinary life. Daily I’m timid, while amidst people I’m cheerful.
- Kalmyk blood runs in your veins. To call a Kalmyk timid is to make him laugh!
- (laughes) Do not forget, I have only 1/4 Kalmyk roots!
- Former president of Kalmykia, current FIDE head, Kirsan Ilumshinov, being modest himself, makes immodest deeds!
- Kalmyks are rather open-hearted people!
- Your dream, the one from your exhibitions, is it reachable in reality?
- Suppose, yes.
- And you? Do you want to be a playboy?
- I want to be happy.
- And?..
- I need nothing more.
- Are you happy today?
- Joyful, not yet happy. I feel joy because of the second place, right after Javier Fernandez. But I try to get the hang of the situation with a clear sight.
- Do you feel, that there are no victories without good sportive insolence?
- I realize it. But why I managed to do all well in this tournament? I had such a mood: to go and perform all well. Frankly speaking, I had no such mood earlier. I get up in Friday, reach the rink and know I’ll make SP well. The FS is in Saturday. And again I feel, that everything will be done correct. On practice everything turned out good. In spite of 1 fall.
- What musiс on the ice is closer to you?
- Lyrical. My FP is not so lyrical, as SP. But both them suit me in musical aspect.
- That means, your ego is not “impertinent”?
- Yes. I should not be made impertinent artificially. There is no need to complicate things in competitions. One must be natural.
- Does Eteri Georgievna have troubles with you in search of your sportive baldness?
- Yes, you may say so. She constantly searches for proper words to make us more confident.
- Coach of London football team Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, said, that confidence is reached by years, but can be lost in one day.
- It is familiar to me.
- For how long will you spend moral strength you got in Cup of Russia?
- For a long time, I hope. At least now I feel, that I have some rest and than will try to skate clean again.
- Whose skater’s temperament is closer to you?
- Patrick Chan. He is my favorite. He has an amazing manner of skating. He possesses natural gift. And he develops all he has.
- Is it easy for you to skate because of natural qualities?
- I feel, I can do much. But I have a problem. Sometimes during a bad day I can do nothing. At all. And it repeats. It is not understandable to me: one day I perform excellent. The next day I feel ill at ease. I know, everybody face with similar. But sometimes it comes to falls in triple under rotated toeloops. It is unbearable! I have good natural qualities and work a lot...
- Will you complicate your programs?
- Yes I will: jumps, step sequences, rotations. But not soon: my step sequences are of 4 level and rotations are quite tolerable.
- What do you think about Jīn Bóyáng: he is first who made 6 quads in 2 programs.
- It is really cool. His merit is great. For me it is on the edge of impossible. His programs? I remember well his last year performances. They didn’t make strong impression on me. There is such an impression, that he will lack of component marks, but compensate it by his jumps. Our kind of sport progresses much, and I hope, jumps will not displace programs. Because I do love figure skating. And I suppose, it does not boil down to mere jumps. The balance must be kept.
- Alexander Smirnov and Yuko Kavaguti perform 2 quad throws during FS. Maxim Trankov mentioned in interview, that it breaks the balance of their’s program. Whose position is closer to you?
- I’m not an expert in pair skating. But I like Kavaguti-Smirnov FS very much. It is good they didn’t change it this season. And 2 quad throws - this is for some degree is right. They both (skaters) are so good!
- One month left before Russian championship in Ekaterinburg. “I’ll go and win it!” - did this moment come?
- Maybe yes. I don’t know, in what physical form Maxim Kovtun is. Except him, I saw all the skaters. Today all have equal chances: Konstantin Menshov, Sergei Voronov, Michail Kolyada. Maxim Kovtun is also in this list, I think. Struggle will be. Everybody can win.
(please, don't be strict, I had no English practice for a long time)
-Adyan, you left the rink, where you had performed your exhibition performance. Modestly sat on the chair in the middle of the ice-rink, than stood up in a such modest manner, in a moment became Mickey Rourke from the movie “9 1/2 weeks” and started to skate under composition "You can leave your hat on". How is it possible?
- Some time earlier this exhibition number was ready up to 15 percents, and yesterday we finished it completely. I did not see this movie in particular, although looked over many films.
- In 80th it was regarded as an erotic one.
- Really? I didn’t know it. An idea of this number belongs to choreographer Daniil Gleikhengauz. I perform a man, who fell asleep. He is timid, but in his heart wants to be a scapegrace. At first I supposed, it would be no good in all this, but I used to trust my coaches. I’m going to show such a shy boy, who fell asleep and turned to be another... The dreams...
- And then Alexander Smirnov left Yuko Kavaguti, appeared near by you and started to disturb you.
- Yes (laughes), he tried to drive me away, but I stood my ground!
- Will Smirnov participate in your number in the future?
- I don’t know it yet.
- Why are you so modest?
- I feel shy before unfamiliar people, I fear to make something wrong, to look strange. Generally speaking, I don’t like myself nowadays.
- Why?
- I feel my affairs are not good.
- Nonsense!
- All this is because emotions, maybe.
- I feel shy before unfamiliar people also. But in front of the objectives self-respect drives shyness away.
- When I’m in front of spectators, I summon my strength, but not in the ordinary life. Daily I’m timid, while amidst people I’m cheerful.
- Kalmyk blood runs in your veins. To call a Kalmyk timid is to make him laugh!
- (laughes) Do not forget, I have only 1/4 Kalmyk roots!
- Former president of Kalmykia, current FIDE head, Kirsan Ilumshinov, being modest himself, makes immodest deeds!
- Kalmyks are rather open-hearted people!
- Your dream, the one from your exhibitions, is it reachable in reality?
- Suppose, yes.
- And you? Do you want to be a playboy?
- I want to be happy.
- And?..
- I need nothing more.
- Are you happy today?
- Joyful, not yet happy. I feel joy because of the second place, right after Javier Fernandez. But I try to get the hang of the situation with a clear sight.
- Do you feel, that there are no victories without good sportive insolence?
- I realize it. But why I managed to do all well in this tournament? I had such a mood: to go and perform all well. Frankly speaking, I had no such mood earlier. I get up in Friday, reach the rink and know I’ll make SP well. The FS is in Saturday. And again I feel, that everything will be done correct. On practice everything turned out good. In spite of 1 fall.
- What musiс on the ice is closer to you?
- Lyrical. My FP is not so lyrical, as SP. But both them suit me in musical aspect.
- That means, your ego is not “impertinent”?
- Yes. I should not be made impertinent artificially. There is no need to complicate things in competitions. One must be natural.
- Does Eteri Georgievna have troubles with you in search of your sportive baldness?
- Yes, you may say so. She constantly searches for proper words to make us more confident.
- Coach of London football team Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, said, that confidence is reached by years, but can be lost in one day.
- It is familiar to me.
- For how long will you spend moral strength you got in Cup of Russia?
- For a long time, I hope. At least now I feel, that I have some rest and than will try to skate clean again.
- Whose skater’s temperament is closer to you?
- Patrick Chan. He is my favorite. He has an amazing manner of skating. He possesses natural gift. And he develops all he has.
- Is it easy for you to skate because of natural qualities?
- I feel, I can do much. But I have a problem. Sometimes during a bad day I can do nothing. At all. And it repeats. It is not understandable to me: one day I perform excellent. The next day I feel ill at ease. I know, everybody face with similar. But sometimes it comes to falls in triple under rotated toeloops. It is unbearable! I have good natural qualities and work a lot...
- Will you complicate your programs?
- Yes I will: jumps, step sequences, rotations. But not soon: my step sequences are of 4 level and rotations are quite tolerable.
- What do you think about Jīn Bóyáng: he is first who made 6 quads in 2 programs.
- It is really cool. His merit is great. For me it is on the edge of impossible. His programs? I remember well his last year performances. They didn’t make strong impression on me. There is such an impression, that he will lack of component marks, but compensate it by his jumps. Our kind of sport progresses much, and I hope, jumps will not displace programs. Because I do love figure skating. And I suppose, it does not boil down to mere jumps. The balance must be kept.
- Alexander Smirnov and Yuko Kavaguti perform 2 quad throws during FS. Maxim Trankov mentioned in interview, that it breaks the balance of their’s program. Whose position is closer to you?
- I’m not an expert in pair skating. But I like Kavaguti-Smirnov FS very much. It is good they didn’t change it this season. And 2 quad throws - this is for some degree is right. They both (skaters) are so good!
- One month left before Russian championship in Ekaterinburg. “I’ll go and win it!” - did this moment come?
- Maybe yes. I don’t know, in what physical form Maxim Kovtun is. Except him, I saw all the skaters. Today all have equal chances: Konstantin Menshov, Sergei Voronov, Michail Kolyada. Maxim Kovtun is also in this list, I think. Struggle will be. Everybody can win.
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Adian surprised me yesterday! 
His gala performance, and two big interviews in one day! The boy seems determined to overcome his shyness!
Here is another interview - http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/860599
Rather interesting as well, I'm going to translate it...
His gala performance, and two big interviews in one day! The boy seems determined to overcome his shyness! Here is another interview - http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/860599
Rather interesting as well, I'm going to translate it...
Adian surprised me yesterday!
Here is another interview - http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/860599
Rather interesting as well, I'm going to translate it...
Wow! Very unteresting and informative interview! Adian is a sincere person. But, as I think, not so shy as he seems to be. A timid person wouldn't smash his phone and PC in case of failure! Yet he has a "good sportive anger" to overcome difficulties and to win!
Another really interesting interview mainly about extremely difficult preparation for Rostelecom Cup
http://fsrussia.ru/intervyu/1487-adyan-pitkeev-pokazatelnyj-nomer-postavili-za-noch.html
http://fsrussia.ru/intervyu/1487-adyan-pitkeev-pokazatelnyj-nomer-postavili-za-noch.html
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Adian surprised me yesterday!
Here is another interview - http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/860599
Rather interesting as well, I'm going to translate it...
Oh, I see that it has been translated already - http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/ind...views-with-pitkeev-krylova-kudriavtsev.97038/
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