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Mikhail Kolyada

Tutto said:
I agree with you, performance wise it was better at CoR - there was no pressure as such unlike in Boston.
That was the first time I ever saw Mika and became a fan - hard to believe it was only 12 months ago-what an amazing eventful year it was!
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I've seen him once before in Russian Nats 13-14 on TV when I was interested about the jawdropping young Russian girls. I was interested is there any young man also, but I wasn't impressed with them that much. I remember him as a very cute boy, he outstanded with his quirky, positive programm. And the guy really could dance to music on the ice. However he didn't jump quads and fell from 3A in the SP. And he was 18 already. While 13-15 years old girls did crazy things there, and Kovtun made two kinds of quads at his age, it didn't look promising. I was afraid he will finish couple of years later. Or even worse: he will grow and dye his hair, make it into curly ponytail, do some piercing, and will skate in a glittering costume to Nutcracker with a painfull expression on his face. It was bad luck for him in the FP of this competition, he couldn't finish it because of the boot. And before the next season I've got to know he will miss it because he had a bad injury. So I didn't expect anything about him. But after the CoR he really conquered me. First, he saved everything I've liked about him - his boyish modest charms, a little bit old-fashion style, he became much more confident and artistic, his jumps became better, and spins too - literally everything became better! He really had grown on me as a sportsman after this event.
 
buton said:
I've seen him once before in Russian Nats 13-14 on TV when I was interested about the jawdropping young Russian girls. I was interested is there any young man also, but I wasn't impressed with them that much. I remember him as a very cute boy, he outstanded with his quirky, positive programm. And the guy really could dance to music on the ice. However he didn't jump quads and fell from 3A in the SP. And he was 18 already. While 13-15 years old girls did crazy things there, and Kovtun made two kinds of quads at his age, it didn't look promising. I was afraid he will finish couple of years later. Or even worse: he will grow and dye his hair, make it into curly ponytail, do some piercing, and will skate in a glittering costume to Nutcracker with a painfull expression on his face. It was bad luck for him in the FP of this competition, he couldn't finish it because of the boot. And before the next season I've got to know he will miss it because he had a bad injury. So I didn't expect anything about him. But after the CoR he really conquered me. First, he saved everything I've liked about him - his boyish modest charms, a little bit old-fashion style, he became much more confident and artistic, his jumps became better, and spins too - literally everything became better! He really had grown on me as a sportsman after this event.
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:laugh2:


On a serous note, that's such a common theme: "if you'd looked at Kolyada X years ago you would have never thought he'd amount to this." Misha really needed to grow up to become what he is. I think physical maturity helped in his case - he was lucky not to grow tall or excessively bulky but became visibly stronger, which gave him better control of his jumps. The jumps themselves were always good when and if he landed them, but it's almost like they had been too big for him before. And of course he could also jump two types of quads at that age - the issue was consistency, so they never made it into competitions that season. Then he did include a quad and promptly broke his leg and had to relearn everything, but the time window when he was allowed to skate but not jump must have given him an opportunity to work on other aspects of his skating. And by then he had already turned 20 and finished growing, so it all must have come together.
 
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Congratulations on 3rd place after SP and a new personal record - 90.28! Due to higher PCS not TES I might add as Misha had a stepout on the axel.

Short interview: Misha is not sure what happened on the axel, he felt internally that something went wrong, but could not see the reason when watching it on repeat. 4T+3T was done well. He liked the atmosphere very much, there was a symbiosis of sorts - Misha charged the audience and the audience charged him. All of it together was great.

They are definitely not going to change the SP once again, it's possible they will add 4S to it at somte point, not sure when exactly. Apparently he has been trying 4Lz and landed it reasonably well once.

http://www.fsrussia.ru/news/2527-mikhail-kolyada-pomarku-na-trojnom-aksele-poka-ne-mogu-ob-yasnit.html
 
Congrats Mika!!! :hap10::hap93: A job well done under immense pressure. Pity a mistake on the axel was so costly and also he lost a level on step sq? But it was so great overall. I was so nervous I hardly could watch but Mika delivered! The more clean/near clean skates he does his rep with judges will only grow.
Tomorrow is going to be nerve wrecking
Good Luck Mika!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
vorravorra said:
Congratulations on 3rd place after SP and a new personal record - 90.28! Due to higher PCS not TES I might add as Misha had a stepout on the axel.

Short interview: Misha is not sure what happened on the axel, he felt internally that something went wrong, but could not see the reason when watching it on repeat. 4T+3T was done well. He liked the atmosphere very much, there was a symbiosis of sorts - Misha charged the audience and the audience charged him. All of it together was great.

They are definitely not going to change the SP once again, it's possible they will add 4S to it at somte point, not sure when exactly. Apparently he has been trying 4Lz and landed it reasonably well once.

http://www.fsrussia.ru/news/2527-mikhail-kolyada-pomarku-na-trojnom-aksele-poka-ne-mogu-ob-yasnit.html
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From this interview it seems that he will not try 4S tomorrow or I got it wrong?
 
vorravorra said:
I read it that he meant SP, but we'll see.
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It is just the way he said that he is still training 4S & 4Lz? Maybe they decided to put in a second 4T instead tomorrow. Yes we'll see.
The 3+ points difference between 3 & 4 places is a bit tight oh well...
 
Tutto said:
It is just the way he said that he is still training 4S & 4Lz? Maybe they decided to put in a second 4T instead tomorrow. Yes we'll see.
The 3+ points difference between 3 & 4 places is a bit tight oh well...
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He still can afford a mistake on the 4S is he's clean otherwise like he was at the Panin Memorial. But a 2S of course would be a bad idea.
 
To add: TAT at least said that Misha is going to do 4S in the FS.

Misha was flying today, his previous SP performances this season were rather lethargic compared to this. Crowd support really gives him wings, he is so lucky to have such a temperament.

Funny: I come home today and my mother says "Kolyada didn't jump the quad." Me: ":eeking: and how did he get 90 then???" Turns out she meant a second quad TAT spent so much time talking about.
 
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On a side note: TAT and quads :gaah: I think it's got worse since last season. Quads are the pretty much the only thing she talks about regardless of what's going on the ice. If someone doesn't jump a quad she goes on about how terrible it is, if someone does do a quad she starts on how they should be doing two (or how great it is that they've finally managed one, depending on the skater), if a skater does two quads she can't shut up about that either. If I have to hear another sentence about Shoma's 4F... :dev2: I am dreading to think what we'll have to listen to when she gets to Yuzuru and his 4Lo and 6 quads (thankfully she was not there during SC). The only thing that'll finally make her happy is men jumping nothing but quads and 3A (she actually mentioned it as her ideal last season). I can understand perfectly well how the whole Kovtun thing happened - she shouldn't be allowed near male single skaters early in their career (maybe later too).
 
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Not a success today. Misha said stamina was a problem and he needs more time in the season to gain form. Valentina also suggested it's nerves - most likely both.
One good thing is that people who were in the arena speak highly of Misha's quality of skating (SS, speed, transitions). Apparently live he is impressive and judges don't gift him PCS for nothing.
Well, now for the Ex.
 
I can't wait to see a Gala EX in high quality :hap85:
 
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