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Alexander Petrov

adelia said:
I don't think he made a mistake on the quad. It was intentionally tripled. He did a 3T because the quad didn't go so well during training so I think Mishin told him not to attempt quad. During warm-up he did not attempt the quad. I've never actually seen Sasha pop 4T into 3T. If he pops, it is into a 2T. I also saw some rotated 4Ts during his session on the 6th. He still needs to learn how to control the landings better because it's usually a turnout or stepout. But the quad is progressing.
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Thanks. As you know, I'm not worried about the quad - I only worry that he's worrying about it too much... It will come.
 
LRK said:
Thanks. As you know, I'm not worried about the quad - I only worry that he's worrying about it too much... It will come.
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It's always hard in the beginning, especially when there are some people out there crossing their fingers wanting you to fail.
 
Sasha wins the FS among Russian men and once again he has the highest TES among them. Even though he wasn't even at his best and not feeling that great physically. And even though his PCS was held down severely. Minor thing but something to feel positive about.
 
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Sasha receives 178 ranking points from this competition. When the rankings are next updated, it should reflect that he is now 8th in the world. I think he should be able to start his SP in the second group at CoC.
 
So again, some comments I have, having seen the competition live.

First of all, the warm up didn't look too good. So for sasha doing that good in his FS, he is one hell of a competitor tbh.
I think the program looked quite nice live also so that's good. He really didn't seem too tired after it either so even better.

I saw Sasha in the audience also. (didn't go up to him though. My friend and I didn't want to bother him because he was with Liza and Samoihin.) But I must say he is taller than I thought. Otherwise very easy to recognize.
 
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Skater01 said:
So again, some comments I have, having seen the competition live.

First of all, the warm up didn't look too good. So for sasha doing that good in his FS, he is one hell of a competitor tbh.
I think the program looked quite nice live also so that's good. He really didn't seem too tired after it either so even better.

I saw Sasha in the audience also. (didn't go up to him though. My friend and I didn't want to bother him because he was with Liza and Samoihin.) But I must say he is taller than I thought. Otherwise very easy to recognize.
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Thanks! I was waiting for your report. :)
Yes, the warm-up worried me. Not just the jumps but the body language too. Pity about the lutz but performance wise I enjoyed it a lot.

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It's nice to have a first hand account. I always watch streams wondering if what I'm seeing is similar to what people see live.
And thanks also for the non-skating observations.
 
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adelia said:
Thanks! I was waiting for your report. :)
Yes, the warm-up worried me. Not just the jumps but the body language too. Pity about the lutz but performance wise I enjoyed it a lot.

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It's nice to have a first hand account. I always watch streams wondering if what I'm seeing is similar to what people see live.
And thanks also for the non-skating observations.
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No problem!! And yes, I feel like a good live stream is pretty accurate but obviously there are some things you see differently live.
 
Skater01 said:
No problem!! And yes, I feel like a good live stream is pretty accurate but obviously there are some things you see differently live.
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Indeed. Especially when the camera man chooses to pan to some other skaters in the warm up just before your skater is about to enter a jump! That sort of annoying things.
 
In.ter.view. My thoughts in [ ]

"For me it was a good experience before a performance at the Grand Prix. Especially because here I competed in a strong field. And the audience was supportive ...

It is strange that I had a problem with the Lutz. Perhaps this was because during the short program I was too excited because of the audience, and did not concentrate on the jump. [Thought so! I was spot on with this assessment.] And in the free program I did not have the strength, or the right mindset. I was glad that I was skating a good program, and therefore I lost track. I can't say for sure what happened to the Lutz ...

Before the Grand Prix we will have a launch in St. Petersburg. I will definitely attempt quads. It will be a screening event. Here I tested myself and in St Petersburg I will test myself. Excess competitions aren't really a hindrance to the stage of the Grand Prix, it is more due to the flights [jet lag]...

At the competition I could not insert into the program the quad. I was not set up well for it. If the quad was going well here in training, then I would attempt it, of course. Why wait? Prior to this, attempts have been good, but here it did not go well. And I made made enough mistakes without it, after this event I will draw some conclusions...

I really wanted to attempt a quad, and, apparently, this desire prevented me. I had to exhale and in training do everything quietly, and I tried to jump a triple toe loop, to go further, to do a quad, faster and faster, and perhaps that badly affected me. But on the whole, in spite of everything, to assess my performance in Finland it was rather positive."

http://fsrussia.ru/news/2459-aleksandr-petrov-ochen-khochu-prygat-chetvernoj-pryzhok.html
 
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Mishin was interviewed at Finlandia. Most of it was about other skaters. But the last part (a short bit) was about Sasha. You should read the whole interview at the link below.
M = Mishin
J = Journalist
[ ] = my comments

M: Do know who had the strongest results in the free skate among the Russians?
J: Alexander Petrov. Fourth?
M: Third.

J: The guy has stability but he only dreams of one quad.
M: Dreams, but his skating is good [it's the "skating" in "skating skills" that he's referring to]. We are working on the quad.

J: Do you see a limit for Petrov?
M: I don't, he is still young. Urmanov also mastered the quad later. Petrov will also master it. Anyway today onto the ice goes skaters who represent "yesterday" in figure skating, its "today" and "tomorrow". Who is to be assigned to which category, they will determine themselves.
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http://rsport.ru/interview/20161010/1110577053.html
The last two sentences are a bit difficult to understand. I don't mean the language, I mean what he's trying to get at. But I guess it doesn't matter.

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And if you're wondering why he keeps talking about Urmanov, well, there are only 3 people he could mention for the statement to be one of praise. One is Urmanov, one is Plu and the third one is taboo. So.
 
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I'm very glad Mishin pointed out that Sasha was 3rd in the freeskate. I'm sure most people haven't paid attention. (Individual placements are most noticeable after the SP - most people after the FP only look at combined results. I'm glad he brought Sasha's FP placement to the fore.)

ETA - Sasha had also the 4th highest TES.

ETA 2 - I think what he is saying is that which are the skaters who will be successful in the future, the skaters themselves will have to go out and prove. Probably that people can sit back and anoint whatever future champions they want, but in the end it doesn't matter, and only what the skaters themselves produce on the ice will determine the future. Something like that? Maybe? :scratch:
 
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LRK said:
I'm very glad Mishin pointed out that Sasha was 3rd in the freeskate. I'm sure most people haven't paid attention. (Individual placements are most noticeable after the SP - most people after the FP only look at combined results. I'm glad he brought Sasha's FP placement to the fore.)

ETA - Sasha had also the 4th highest TES.

ETA 2 - I think what he is saying is that which are the skaters who will be successful in the future, the skaters themselves will have to go out and prove. Probably that people can sit back and anoint whatever future champions they want, but in the end it doesn't matter, and only what the skaters themselves produce on the ice will determine the future. Something like that? Maybe? :scratch:
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It's hard to tell what Mishin really meant in the last part. But I don't think it matters all that much.

Anyway, I was pretty confident after the competition ended that if he were to choose to mention Sasha in his post-competition interview at all, that he would bring this up.

Sasha's task at this competition wasn't to medal. He had other tasks to fulfill. Although he didn't manage to achieve one of those tasks, which was landing a quad in his FS (For those who somehow didn't get the memo, he had no plans to include a quad in his SP), he did unexpectedly manage to do some other things, which were to finish 3rd in the FS and 1st among Russian men in the FS.
 
http://www.isuresults.com/ws/ws/wsmen.htm
ISU has added Sasha's points from Finlandia into the international competition column but the total still reflects as 2400 and not 2578 as it should be (if you add up the individual columns, it should be 2578). I hope they fix this error soon because the ranking determines the GP starting order. It appears that only Sasha's total is wrong, the other guys total all reflect the points from Finlandia.
 
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Next week Sasha may perform one or both of his programs at either a competition or a gala in SPB. The details will be confirmed later.
 
Going back to the "yesterday", "today" and "tomorrow" bit in the rsports article. Mishin was referring to the mens field at Finlandia last weekend and which skaters fall into which category, "yesterday" skaters (representative of the past), "today" (representative of the present) and "tomorrow" (representative of the future). It was in another short article.
 
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Russian Nationals 2018 will be held in St. Petersburg (if I didn't read wrongly). I don't need to explain the importance of this.
 
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