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Interview in the comments:
It's a quite long, so only a start of it. I hope it will appear soon with a proprer translation:
“We want to turn the story with“ Tutberidze’s daughter and actor’s son ”. Davis and Smolkin - about stellar parents and heights
Exclusive interview with rising stars of Russian ice dancing.
- So, the daughter of Eteri Tutberidze and the son of the famous actor Boris Smolkin from My Fair Nanny. What is the reaction when you see such headlines to yourself? Not annoying?
- Gleb: It’s not that annoying ... It doesn’t cause any emotions in us. Well, they just wrote the same thing again. People lack vocabulary or something else.
- We understand why this happens - naturally everyone needs headlines. And for journalists to read the news, this is understandable. We just hope to turn this story around. So that someday it was just written "Davis / Smolkin" and people would recognize us right away.
- We will talk about this in more detail a little later. Gleb, there is little information about you on the Internet, especially about how you got into figure skating. How and when was it?
- At the age of five, my mother brought me to single skating. It was in St. Petersburg at Yubileiny. It happened because parents are creative people - dad is an artist, mom is a pianist. Plus, my mother loves figure skating, she even understands something about it. They wanted to develop me both in sports and in creativity.
I started to succeed more or less. Everyone said that I had the ability, so we continued. Trained with Evgeny Rukavitsyn, then - with Alina Pisarenko, then returned to Rukavitsyn. And at the age of 14 ... By this time, like many others, I started having problems with my knees, I could not really jump - now one hurts, then another. I didn't find any motivation for myself.
But I liked playing football. And therefore, having entered a conscious age, I decided that I needed to do what I wanted - to try to play a little football at the St. Petersburg Lokomotiv. As a result, I took a break from figure skating, took a break from it, and did not touch skates for a year and a half. And then at one point, when I was on vacation, Elena Sokolova, the trainer of St. Petersburg dancers, called my mother.
She often suggested that I try it before, but like any single skater, dancing did not attract me at all. What is there to do in these dances? There are no jumps, but what else is left? It wasn't interesting at all, but my mother persuaded me. She said: “Well, what do you feel sorry for, or what? After all, they ask. Come for a workout or two, try it. If you don't like it, you will leave. " In the end, I went, in fact, to do a favor for both the coach and my mother ... But I liked it.
The first few months I combined it all with football. I could play a game on Sunday, and in the evening I could go to learn dancing. It didn’t work well to combine, there wasn’t enough time. Then he decided that he had to finally give up football and went to Moscow.
- They say you managed to try beach football.
- In fact, we were engaged in beach activities exclusively in the winter, because we did not have games. And in this way, we just recruited physics and technique, like many footballers. I played five matches in beach soccer.
- Why did you decide to quit football?
- I just came to the conclusion that figure skating is closer to me. I have devoted my whole life to this sport, I understand how it works. I felt that I could do something here.
And in football, I clearly lacked experience. Well, imagine: I have been playing figure skating since I was five, and they have been playing football since the same age. What I could catch up, I probably caught up. Somewhere physics, a little bit of technology. But I still lacked some things, and this is logical - the opponents played for 10 years longer than me.
I returned to figure skating, in fact, like to my home. I decided that I have a better chance here. Plus, I liked skating with the girl.
- I heard somewhere that you did not like to jump.
- Not true! When I did it, I loved jumping (laughs). When nothing came of it, I hated it. Like, probably, many singles. The only thing is that I've always loved to slide. The sliding lessons were not annoying at all, it was just a thrill for me.
- How difficult is it to re-enter this river after a one-year break?
- In fact, when I returned to the ice, there was a feeling that I was after the weekend. It was 200 times more difficult to leave after quarantine than after a football break of one and a half years. But, naturally, I had to learn a lot of new things.
"Mom wanted to send me to military school"
- So, in 2018 you pair up. A skater who was a football player for the last year, and a skater who considered ice dancing a sport for losers. Why, Dian?
- Diana (laughs): I always wanted pair skating more. I was given jumps, I did everything except the triple rittberger - it turned out every other time. In singles, I had stability issues. And one day I left after a vacation - I lost a lot of weight, grew up. And all my jumps were lost at once, even the elementary ones. As a result, mom got tired of it, and she said: "Everyone, let's go to the dances."
The first time I combined dancing and singles - I went to one training to jump, the second - to skate in pairs. Then, with the combination, somehow it did not really work out and I finally switched to dancing.
- As far as I remember, you started to practice figure skating professionally at the age of six ...
- In fact, even from five.
It's a quite long, so only a start of it. I hope it will appear soon with a proprer translation:
“We want to turn the story with“ Tutberidze’s daughter and actor’s son ”. Davis and Smolkin - about stellar parents and heights
Exclusive interview with rising stars of Russian ice dancing.
- So, the daughter of Eteri Tutberidze and the son of the famous actor Boris Smolkin from My Fair Nanny. What is the reaction when you see such headlines to yourself? Not annoying?
- Gleb: It’s not that annoying ... It doesn’t cause any emotions in us. Well, they just wrote the same thing again. People lack vocabulary or something else.
- We understand why this happens - naturally everyone needs headlines. And for journalists to read the news, this is understandable. We just hope to turn this story around. So that someday it was just written "Davis / Smolkin" and people would recognize us right away.
- We will talk about this in more detail a little later. Gleb, there is little information about you on the Internet, especially about how you got into figure skating. How and when was it?
- At the age of five, my mother brought me to single skating. It was in St. Petersburg at Yubileiny. It happened because parents are creative people - dad is an artist, mom is a pianist. Plus, my mother loves figure skating, she even understands something about it. They wanted to develop me both in sports and in creativity.
I started to succeed more or less. Everyone said that I had the ability, so we continued. Trained with Evgeny Rukavitsyn, then - with Alina Pisarenko, then returned to Rukavitsyn. And at the age of 14 ... By this time, like many others, I started having problems with my knees, I could not really jump - now one hurts, then another. I didn't find any motivation for myself.
But I liked playing football. And therefore, having entered a conscious age, I decided that I needed to do what I wanted - to try to play a little football at the St. Petersburg Lokomotiv. As a result, I took a break from figure skating, took a break from it, and did not touch skates for a year and a half. And then at one point, when I was on vacation, Elena Sokolova, the trainer of St. Petersburg dancers, called my mother.
She often suggested that I try it before, but like any single skater, dancing did not attract me at all. What is there to do in these dances? There are no jumps, but what else is left? It wasn't interesting at all, but my mother persuaded me. She said: “Well, what do you feel sorry for, or what? After all, they ask. Come for a workout or two, try it. If you don't like it, you will leave. " In the end, I went, in fact, to do a favor for both the coach and my mother ... But I liked it.
The first few months I combined it all with football. I could play a game on Sunday, and in the evening I could go to learn dancing. It didn’t work well to combine, there wasn’t enough time. Then he decided that he had to finally give up football and went to Moscow.
- They say you managed to try beach football.
- In fact, we were engaged in beach activities exclusively in the winter, because we did not have games. And in this way, we just recruited physics and technique, like many footballers. I played five matches in beach soccer.
- Why did you decide to quit football?
- I just came to the conclusion that figure skating is closer to me. I have devoted my whole life to this sport, I understand how it works. I felt that I could do something here.
And in football, I clearly lacked experience. Well, imagine: I have been playing figure skating since I was five, and they have been playing football since the same age. What I could catch up, I probably caught up. Somewhere physics, a little bit of technology. But I still lacked some things, and this is logical - the opponents played for 10 years longer than me.
I returned to figure skating, in fact, like to my home. I decided that I have a better chance here. Plus, I liked skating with the girl.
- I heard somewhere that you did not like to jump.
- Not true! When I did it, I loved jumping (laughs). When nothing came of it, I hated it. Like, probably, many singles. The only thing is that I've always loved to slide. The sliding lessons were not annoying at all, it was just a thrill for me.
- How difficult is it to re-enter this river after a one-year break?
- In fact, when I returned to the ice, there was a feeling that I was after the weekend. It was 200 times more difficult to leave after quarantine than after a football break of one and a half years. But, naturally, I had to learn a lot of new things.
"Mom wanted to send me to military school"
- So, in 2018 you pair up. A skater who was a football player for the last year, and a skater who considered ice dancing a sport for losers. Why, Dian?
- Diana (laughs): I always wanted pair skating more. I was given jumps, I did everything except the triple rittberger - it turned out every other time. In singles, I had stability issues. And one day I left after a vacation - I lost a lot of weight, grew up. And all my jumps were lost at once, even the elementary ones. As a result, mom got tired of it, and she said: "Everyone, let's go to the dances."
The first time I combined dancing and singles - I went to one training to jump, the second - to skate in pairs. Then, with the combination, somehow it did not really work out and I finally switched to dancing.
- As far as I remember, you started to practice figure skating professionally at the age of six ...
- In fact, even from five.
