- Joined
- Jul 28, 2003
I found a nice little clip of Moskvina and Mishin on Youtube - http://youtube.com/watch?v=cM5ls3H1plo. Has a bit on them skating together competitively, and then recently. Below is the translation of the accompanying text (numbers indicate seconds from the start that applies to the given segment). The clip appears to be the beginning of a larger program, but at least it's something.
0:00
A Russian bard song (original words by Maurice Careme):
With iron helmet and wooden crutch
The king was coming home from the war.
The soldiers sang, drinking in the dust,
And so the lame king sang with them, hey-ho!
0:19
The team of Moskvina and Mishin was created by Tamara Nikolaevna’s husband Igor Moskvin, a great inventor with a G-d-given teaching gift. Just think of two of his legendary students – Ovchinnikov and Bobrin! He was never afraid to experiment. For this program of Moskvina and Mishin’s, he chose a song of famous bard Alexander Dulin, “Lame King”. Bard songs were officially out of favor then, but they did, after all, try to create something unique, too.
0:43
When Tamara Nikolaevna turned 60, she said she won’t hide her age, that a person is only as old as his inner clock says. Just look at his perfect skating of the duo of Moskvina and Mishin! It’s easy to tear up looking at this. What age?! Many students can be much older than their coaches for one simple reason – according to their inner clock, they’ve been old for a long time. Moskvina has always tried to be ahead of her time – through the rhythm of her life, innovation in her programs, and her approach to the training process. She looked at it like Suvorov – hard in training, easy in battle. Meanwhile, she always tried creating for her students such a training background that would make those difficulties as easy for them as possible. She understood this ever since she came to the rink as a children’s coach.
0:00
A Russian bard song (original words by Maurice Careme):
With iron helmet and wooden crutch
The king was coming home from the war.
The soldiers sang, drinking in the dust,
And so the lame king sang with them, hey-ho!
0:19
The team of Moskvina and Mishin was created by Tamara Nikolaevna’s husband Igor Moskvin, a great inventor with a G-d-given teaching gift. Just think of two of his legendary students – Ovchinnikov and Bobrin! He was never afraid to experiment. For this program of Moskvina and Mishin’s, he chose a song of famous bard Alexander Dulin, “Lame King”. Bard songs were officially out of favor then, but they did, after all, try to create something unique, too.
0:43
When Tamara Nikolaevna turned 60, she said she won’t hide her age, that a person is only as old as his inner clock says. Just look at his perfect skating of the duo of Moskvina and Mishin! It’s easy to tear up looking at this. What age?! Many students can be much older than their coaches for one simple reason – according to their inner clock, they’ve been old for a long time. Moskvina has always tried to be ahead of her time – through the rhythm of her life, innovation in her programs, and her approach to the training process. She looked at it like Suvorov – hard in training, easy in battle. Meanwhile, she always tried creating for her students such a training background that would make those difficulties as easy for them as possible. She understood this ever since she came to the rink as a children’s coach.
