Full video , from Sochi training 2017
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0kcFUPQhHc8
- You are moving to senior level, is it complicated?
- Well, technically it’s nothing new for me, the most complicated thing is to set yourself into the right mood. You just do your best and try to show your best skate. My free program is the same, honestly speaking it’s easier for me to skate it than my new short program. There are more difficult elements in it, for ex., the step sequence, it’s really fast and I have to match all the musical accents. So the short program is more complicated. We were training in Novogorsk, at a sports centre where all Russian athletes train. We have been there for 45 days, if I’m not mistaken, then we returned to our skating rink Chrustalny.
- Your Dad is a hockey coach, I think he keeps following your career, does he give you any advice?
- Of course, he helps me because he’s been in the sports for much more time than me. He has much more experience and naturally he shares it with me. This is very helpful.
- This summer you went home, you visited your home rink. How did they meet you there?
- Very warmly. Children were running there and when I came they ran to me yelling: Oh, Alina, Alina and they wanted to hug me. It was during the training, so I said: Hello everyone! Now lets’ train! If you want to skate well you have to go training. And the kids were like: OK, we are going! And they ran away.
- That means since you are training with Eteri you have become more serious?
- Yes, I can say that I have not only improved my skating skills, my jumps but also I have matured a lot psychologically. I spend almost all day long with Eteri Tutberidze so I watch her and I’d like to look and talk so calmly and confidently as she does. And I also like the way we are trained by our team: Dudakov, Gleihengauz.
- And the last question: you spoke about your pet chinchilla during summer. What happened with her? Tell us.
- (laughs)
2 days before the test skates I was watching her in her cage. Usually she runs around it trying to get out of it. But then she just lay there and was looking at me. So I opened the cage and she moved a little bit and I saw a small fluffy animal there. I was in shock that it happened. It turned out we took her already pregnant, so it was a shock and a big joy for me.
- So now you have chinchilla’s kindergarten there.
- Yes, and a cat (laughs).
Translated by user khalisi202 (YT)