Where and when do figure skating. Revelations of the Russian figure skater: here everyone sleeps with each other. Why do adults need skates

Price

Figure skating is expensive. Good skates are assembled separately - boots and blades. On average, it costs 30-40 thousand rubles (up to 580 euros). Skates you change once a season at best. In adult athletes who perform triple and quadruple jumps, shoes break more often. In addition, costumes are also expensive.

Each figure skater dress is sheathed with Swarovski stones - 6-7 thousand stones each. This is another 30-35 thousand rubles (505 euros). At least there is enough dress for the whole season, and then it can be sold. I am silent about the silicone that skaters need to keep their boots from chafing, sponges, blade sharpening, laces, hooks on boots that constantly fall off. It seems like a trifle, and then you look back - and herax, 100 thousand are gone.

The most important thing is training. If you are not in the national team, no one pays you anything: neither the coach, nor the choreographer, nor the physical training coach. There are schools of the Olympic reserve, in which classes are not so expensive - 20-30 thousand per month. This is for training and coaching.

Roll-ups are now popular - individual lessons, tutoring. A good coach costs from 1.5 to 3 thousand rubles per hour (20-40 euros). There are stories when the coach forces students to take individual lessons: "So that's it. On Saturday, individual, you come, Vasya, you, Masha, and you, Katya. Don't come - next week you will be without my attention." Yes, this is blackmail.

Nutrition

Someone eats once a day, because every morning there is a weigh-in: without breakfast, you go to training, you were weighed - it passed. Worked out and then you get drunk for lunch, because they won’t weigh more today, and that’s it, this is your only meal. You can’t eat in the evening, because in the morning again weighing.

Naturally, girls who eat and do not gain weight are simply hated. You bring cookies or candy for your birthday, and your parents go, "She brought candy on purpose to make you all get better."

Children also have problems with being overweight. And it happens that the coach does not let the girl go to class because she is fat. "You're left without ice, without choreography, without OFP. You'll know how to eat, honey."

Parents

While the children are at the rink, everything is done in the locker room. Parents do everything for their children and gossip about everything: who went where, who was seen with whom, who undeservedly got into the national team, who needs to finish at all. They are not allowed to train because they are too active. They quickly forget that there is a coach at the rink. They think they know everything. They yell at the child how to raise a hand, how to put a foot. So they sit in the locker room.

On one rink there are glass windows in the locker rooms, they were specially painted over, but the parents pick off the paint and peep. And then they come to the locker room and say to some neighboring mother: “Oh, Mash, the coach didn’t pay any attention to your child today.” And then it begins: "Why do you pay more attention to her, but you don't pay any attention to mine?"

locker room

Sometimes athletes fight. "I skated the program today, and you, ***, interfered with me." And herak - in you discs with music. Or: "What are you, blind? Why are you not inferior to me at the rink!".

Athletes who go to the world and European championships are already adults, they have achieved their goal, they have broken into the elite that goes to big competitions. They are no longer up to this trash, which is not even selected for the Russian championship.

They fight for the attention of the coach, for a place on the rink, for a place in the locker room - for everything, and this is some kind of madness. Everyone has 3-4 chairs in the locker room. I had a case. Winter, a lot of outerwear. I put my things down and went to get ballerinas, and my bag, apparently, ended up in someone else's territory. I come: she is lying on the floor, of course, she was opened before that, so that everything fell out. I was shocked. Therefore, skates carry everything with them. My friend was given a needle that went into her thumb - right under the nail. Naturally, she did not skate for several weeks.

Upbringing

In the figure, children are stretched in the same way as in gymnastics. It all depends on the choreographer: for example, I was never torn, pulled calmly. But 80 percent of kids vomit because they need to stretch. Instead of the stick that Chinese gymnastics coaches have, we have a plastic sheath for the blade. The trainer holds this case in his hands and slaps him on his knees, on his hands. And it is not perceived as something terrible. This is already normal.

"Why didn't you work, why didn't you raise your hands?" - and 15 people around start talking about it. Hitting a child on the head is fine. Pushing your head against the wall is also normal.

And the coaches… I don’t know how brutal it is to make a little girl a ponytail on top of her head and lift her by her hair while jumping. This is a training process, there is no other way to teach. Older skaters have a so-called fishing rod - the athlete puts on a vest, a long stick clings to it. The coach rides behind you and lifts you up during the jumps - such a mini-insurance so that you learn triple jumps. It is not considered wild.

Alcohol

In figure skating, they thump, but not all. And if they thump - then so that the whole hotel is then carried. Much depends on the organizers. After the competition, everyone is gathered at a banquet: everyone is civilly dressed, in dresses and high heels, the bosses come.

If the organizers rented a club for skaters and arranged a disco there, everything ends well. Everyone got drunk in the club and returned to the hotel. If this is not the case, everyone falls into someone's room. Nothing happens without the participation of Russians and Japanese. How the Japanese drink - I have not yet seen from anyone else.

The hotel administration does not like it at all when something extraordinary happens in their rooms: and then the manager comes, followed by the administrator, followed by the director. Sometimes the police came, she managed to calm down. Somehow, the party moved to the hotel pool, and the disgruntled administrator ended up in the water.

binges

One very talented girl lost her season because she went on a drinking binge. I lost the selection for the European Championship, I decided, apparently, that figured life was over. She just swelled up - and she actively posted everything on social networks: how cute it is for her in an embrace with a bottle and a glass, various friends. But she got out. Now this is a cool Russian figure skater.

Another girl said that without drinking, she could not go on the ice. I didn't get drunk, of course. She was just wildly nervous, drank a little - and everything is ok. She was 16 or 17 at the time. There are also those who thump at the training camp at 12. And why not, in fact? When everyone is drunk, why don't you drink too.

Psyche

There was a girl, at the age of 12-13 she won the stages of the Grand Prix, at the junior world championships she was in the top, she jumped unique jumps - such as a triple flip and a triple rittberger, which no one jumped then. She constantly had psychological problems: fighting for medals is always incredibly stressful. She began to lose. She was 14-15 years old. At some point, it just disappeared. She was treated in a psychiatric clinic, and everything became fine with her, but she did not continue to ride.

Money

But there are no obligatory elements in the show - you can jump what you do best: wake up the skater, he will put on shoes on his bare feet and still jump a triple sheepskin coat - and the audience will be: "Ahh, he is a god, how he jumped."

At competitions - if you are top, if you take 1-2-3 places at the Grand Prix - you also earn money. For the first place at the European Championships, single skaters receive about 20 thousand dollars, at the World Championships it was 50 thousand: 20 percent of them you give to the Federation, 30 percent to the coach.

Plushenko

Of the Russian figure skaters, he is the richest, because he is the most titled and travels to shows the most. By status, he is generally from another planet - this is evidenced at least by the fact that he was allowed to speak at the Olympics.

Of course, Zhenya is a unique skater. Very few people can perform at such a high level for such a long time. He deserved this status. At all competitions, he lived in luxury rooms. I don't see it as some sort of snobbery. And in behavior he is completely different from everyone else. At competitions, he does not travel with everyone by bus, but by car. But he greets, smiles.

Nobody discusses his marriage with Rudkovskaya in figure skating - he got married and got married. For some reason, everyone thinks that not a day goes by without discussing Plushenko. This is wrong. Everyone has already forgotten him. Maybe that's why he periodically gives interviews and says he's coming back.

Sex

There are also rumors that figure skaters are messing with hockey players. But this is not true: all hockey players have models in their wives. This is rude, but they are not up to *** (tortured) by figure skating girls. They need a model that is free at any moment and can go anywhere with them, fly anywhere with them. And the figure skater will simply send the hockey player: "I'm sorry, I have my own world championship."

One figure skater disappeared in Sochi after the team championship. The coach was looking for her all evening and night, and then she was seen leaving the house of the Russian hockey team. Not very sober. But be that as it may, she won a medal.

This same girl lived with her coach. Yes, they slept, met. Her then coach was generally a fan of sleeping with his wards. But he is beautiful: in great shape, like all skaters. He looks very good, always neat, combed, dressed to the nines. There is nothing strange in the fact that his students fall in love with him and give themselves up.

Sex between partners

Maybe it ruins everything. And maybe it helps. Because there must be a connection between partners, they often roll love stories. 70 percent are love stories. Of course, it helps if they live together, love and feel each other, sleep. They don't waste energy playing love.

Often couples break up when love ends. How did Averbukh leave Anisina? He fell in love with Ira Lobacheva and began to ride with her, and Anisina went to France to look for a partner. Volosozhar met with her partner Morozov, then he finished, began to train her, put her in a pair with Trankov - now they have announced their engagement. Trankov himself skated with Mukhortova, and Mukhortova lived with a coach. And often they drove on Maxim. And in the end, he left, and for Mukhortova it came as a surprise: "He went to some kind of Tanya Volosozhar." I don't know where Masha is now, but we know where Maxim is.

There are a lot of gay people in figure skating, it's true. Almost all Americans are gay. Johnny Weir has been married twice - I don't know for sure. And he does not hide it. I'm okay with gays. I rode with Johnny and felt great because he is friendly, he is like the sun. You come to practice for several days in a row - and here is Johnny, who is lucky to ride. He is absolutely earthly - despite the merits and completely wild popularity. He never got angry or scolded. He is unique.

Maxim Trankov is friends with Stéphane Lambiel. I think Swiss is gay. They are friends, perform together in the show. There is no such thing in figure skating: you are gay, then you are an outcast, get out of here. I don't know about gays in Russian figure skating. But I don't think we have. Because we have a very homophobic society.

Women's standings in Sochi

Not to let Russia win its first women's Olympic medal would be a sin. Do you think it was a scam? Well, what a lie. Technically Sotnikova was stronger than Kim Yong A. The Korean skates divinely, but emotionally Adeline performed better. It was the skating of the winner: when at the end of the program she was in tears, and everyone had goosebumps. This is the pride of the country, it does not matter how others roll back. Well, they pulled it up a little bit, can't it, or what?

Everyone was waiting for Lipnitskaya's victory. In the world of figure skating, they said this: who skates cleanly, she will become an Olympic champion. Regardless of the rivals - we have a home Olympics, we decide who wins. Both of them were worthy, we have never had such a thing. They have the most complicated programs, they make cool jumps and spins. Adeline's problem is instability. She had never skated purely two programs in a row in her life: either she flunked the short program or the free program. And so the stars agreed that for the first time in her life this did not happen to her at the Olympics.

Sotnikova

Adelina won the Russian championship at the age of 12, and she acted like she took the last place. The rudest thing they can say about her is: "She's so good that I hate her. But damn, she's so good."

Lipnitskaya

It's no secret that she swears like a shoemaker. This is a 15-year-old child whose words make the ears curl up and fall off. They have this form of communication with the coach: they send each other three letters, sparks fly in training. This was also said by those who went to them for interviews. No one wrote about it, but everyone knows about it and is silent. Yes, Lipnitskaya is very important. It must be hard to endure so much attention at the age of 15. Why is that? Maybe her mother raised her like this: behold, you are a star.

Julia does not give her phone number to anyone, to anyone at all: even those who ride with her do not have it. She lives such a closed life, but at the same time she is open to suggestions: shoot for a cover or something like that. Nothing is known about her father.

Skaters often have divorced parents. All coaches love the poor, the unfortunate, with whom you can do whatever you want. They love that the child is completely given to you. And when a full-fledged family - the child has family holidays, and he already belongs to his parents.

Mom takes Lipnitskaya to the skating rink, watches her for 24 hours, goes to competitions, because, they say, Yulia can gain 3 kilograms over the weekend, get drunk. They talk a lot about her. For example, that she took out the brain of the Federation with her demands: she allegedly went to Sochi in an armored car. Like, "I'm so screwed up." Someone said that she recently said to Averbukh: "What kind of program did you put me crappy?". What? Who are you?

After all these stories, I cannot say that I was disappointed in figure skating. If relatives ask whether to give the child to figure skating or not, I will say yes. Despite everything. It's tempering.

As you know, any sport allows you to form important qualities in the character that will certainly be useful in everyday life. Figure skating is no exception. In addition to this essential feature inherent in each sport, figure skating has a number of obvious advantages.

Figure skating is one of the most beautiful sports

These include, for example, receiving aesthetic education. It should be noted that this sport requires not only physical skills from a person, but also stimulates him to study such areas of art as ballet, music, theater, literature, because in order to correctly compose a program of demonstration or ordinary performance, you need to be knowledgeable in these areas. .

The athlete should not thoughtlessly choose a piece of music, but clearly understand what its meaning is, what thoughts the composer put in, so that the skater's movements merge with the music and carry the same semantic load. And the essence of the work, its ideological direction can be realized only by being familiar with the era of the creation of a musical composition, with the work of the composer, as well as with the plot of creation in the case when it comes to a film, opera or ballet.

Every skater faced this, because everyone spoke to the public, including those who are engaged in health groups. Here is another plus of figure skating - help in overcoming stage fright. When practicing this sport, the ability to focus on the task at hand develops, because you have to perform in front of an impressive audience, which can lead you out of balance, therefore it is very important to gather strength and prove yourself in the best possible way. Overcoming his fears, fears, a person tempers his character, which in ordinary life will help him to react calmly to troubles or to easily speak in front of a large number of people.

Another important feature is that only diligent individuals will be able to achieve the desired achievements. Therefore, figure skating has a positive effect on skaters, especially young ones, having a significant pedagogical impact. They demonstrate to children that success can only be achieved through hard work and, importantly, only on their own. Repeated repetition of the elements of figure skating, devoting a lot of time to it teaches children that success does not come immediately, but only after a certain time period. Scientists have calculated that, on average, for ten years of training and performances, a high-class figure skater travels about fifty-four kilometers on ice.

The performance of intricate figures stimulates the improvement of a thoughtful attitude to the tasks set, develops the ability to analyze movements. The child begins to show creativity, trying to come up with his own movements, combinations.

Children are sent to the figure skating section, as a rule, at a very early age - even in preschool. Figure skating then becomes a lifelong passion. It helps keep the body in excellent physical shape. The body will always be in good shape, flexible, normal weight, strengthened lungs - health will be at the highest level.

The modern rhythm of life forces us to almost always be in standard poses, that is, nothing out of the ordinary, no unusual movements. According to Lenin Prize winner P. Anokhin, with such a rhythm of life, sand and stones form in the human kidneys due to the high salt content in the body, which is why it is so important to change the location of the body often - figure skating is suitable for this, helping to successfully cope with the problem.

In addition to the healing effect on the human body, the practice of figure skating significantly improves a person’s ability to work and endurance due to rapid changes in the position of the body in space, speed of movement, unexpected braking, acceleration and rotation of the body. You can compare the loads in figure skating with the loads of people serving in naval units, landing or tank troops, which also require significant physical training.

In order to develop certain physical qualities, specific technical devices are often used, focused on strengthening the athlete's vestibular apparatus, to improve the ability to keep balance. As you know, the endurance of the balance organs is very important in professions such as astronaut, for example, because people who want to devote themselves to this profession can practice figure skating and thereby hone abilities that will be useful in their professional activities. Experiments have shown that people involved in this sport showed higher results in endurance tests than athletes who practiced other sports.

We note two more features that are formed in a person who practices figure skating - reaction speed and excellent coordination. Despite the fact that the skaters move chaotically and rather quickly on the ice, collisions between them happen quite rarely due to the developed speed of reaction. This feature is quite important in today's rapidly developing world. Now there are a huge number of professions in which one of the key qualities required from a specialist is the ability to quickly respond to various situations. In this case, sports professions or military professions are not considered - and so it is clear that this characteristic cannot be dispensed with here.

This refers to areas such as industry. For example, coordination of the work of complex equipment, work on the control panel of some ingenious systems require a person to be constantly on guard, to be ready to quickly take an adequate decision in case of an emergency to resolve a difficult situation. The same skills are necessary for ordinary drivers of transport, the number of which is constantly increasing.

The latest scientific tests by scientists A. Gandelsman and K. Smirnov have shown that figure skating has a number of features due to the stimulation provided to the human body. In most sports, the contraction of the heart is directly proportional to the muscular work of the whole body, while experiments conducted with the involvement of figure skaters have revealed that this sport requires significantly less muscle work, but at the same time the heart rate is significantly higher.

The energy consumption of athletes was measured by analyzing the composition of the air exhaled by the skaters. According to A. Gandelsman and K. Smirnov, such relatively insignificant energy costs are due to the fact that figure skaters have excited vegetative functions, that is, they have to counteract excitement and be outwardly absolutely calm. Adaptation to such changes in the body is clearly necessary in everyday life. It helps to counter the many anxieties that are common in life, and thus contributes to the long-term preservation of good health. Perhaps this feature of figure skating favored its wide distribution among the elderly.

There was also another interesting experience. The subjects were figure skaters and people who had nothing to do with figure skating. The emphasis during the test was placed on the endurance of the vestibular apparatus. The experimental figure skater, namely the master of sports and the famous world champion in pair skating of the Soviet Union team, was able to withstand about five hundred rotations in a specially designed chair and at the same time continue his teaching activities. Another test subject, a person in good health who practiced various sports except figure skating, could not withstand more than three hundred revolutions.

It should also be noted the emotional impact of this sport not only on the skater himself, but also on a simple spectator. There are a great many magnificent performances that live in the memories of a grateful spectator for many years, and, of course, many athletes whose merits, iron character, and skill will not leave anyone indifferent.

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A participant in the World and European Championships anonymously told Eurosport.ru about a sport that lives in intrigue and deceit.

Price

Figure skating is expensive. This is not swimming - I bought swimming trunks and go. Good skates are assembled separately - boots and blades. Naturally, not Russian production. On average, it costs 30-40 thousand rubles. Skates you change once a season at best. In adult athletes who perform triple and quadruple jumps, shoes break more often. In addition, costumes are also expensive. Each figure skater dress is sheathed with Swarovski stones - 6-7 thousand stones each. This is another 30-35 thousand rubles. At least there is enough dress for the whole season, and then it can be sold. I am silent about the silicone that skaters need to keep their boots from chafing, sponges, blade sharpening, laces, hooks on boots that constantly fall off. It seems like a trifle, and then you look back - and herax, 100 thousand are gone. The most important thing is training. If you are not in the national team, no one pays you anything: neither the coach, nor the choreographer, nor the physical training coach. There are schools of the Olympic reserve, in which classes are not so expensive - 20-30 thousand per month. This is for training and coaching.

Roll-ups are now popular - individual lessons, tutoring. A good coach costs from 1.5 to 3 thousand rubles per hour. Therefore, you need to earn very well in order to send your child to figure skating. There are stories when the coach forces students to take individual lessons: “So that's it. On Saturday, individual, you come, Vasya, you, Masha, and you, Katya. If you don’t come, you will be without my attention next week.” Yes, this is blackmail. I didn’t have this, thank God: my coaches were all professionals, all of them were honored coaches of Russia. And it’s unlikely that my parents would take me to individual ones, I already have three hours of ice every day.

Nutrition

Sometimes, 200 grams in the black - and that's it, there are no jumps. And it happens that a person recovers by two kilograms - and at least he has something. Skaters eat everything. How not to try chocolates and burgers at foreign competitions, which we don’t have? Some don't eat at all - to keep the weight off. Someone eats once a day, because every morning there is a weigh-in: without breakfast, you go to training, you were weighed - it passed. Worked out and then you get drunk for lunch, because they won’t weigh more today, and that’s it, this is your only meal. You can’t eat in the evening, because in the morning again weighing.

Naturally, girls who eat and do not gain weight are simply hated. You bring cookies or candy for your birthday, and your parents go, “She brought candy on purpose to make you all get better.”

Children also have problems with being overweight. And it happens that the coach does not let the girl go to class because she is fat. “You are left without ice, without choreography, without OFP. You'll know how to eat, honey."

Parents

On one rink there are glass windows in the locker rooms, they were specially painted over, but the parents pick off the paint and peep. They do everything possible to see the child: they look through any crack, climb into the room to the pourer. And then they come to the locker room and say to some neighboring mother: “Oh, Masha, the coach didn’t pay any attention to your child today.” And then it begins: “Why do you pay more attention to her, but you don’t pay any attention to mine?”

locker room

Sometimes athletes fight. “I skated the program today, and you, ***** [damn], prevented me.” And herak - in you discs with music. Or: “What are you, blind? Why are you not inferior to me at the rink! Athletes who go to the world and European championships are already adults, they have achieved their goal, they have broken into the elite that goes to big competitions. They are no longer up to this trash, which is not even selected for the Russian championship. I don’t understand why they are fighting - this is not the Olympic Games, not the World Cup, not even the Moscow Championship. They fight for the attention of the coach, for a place on the rink, for a place in the locker room - for everything, and this is some kind of madness.

Everyone has 3-4 chairs in the locker room. I had a case. Winter, a lot of outerwear. I put my things down and went to get ballerinas, and my bag, apparently, ended up in someone else's territory. I come: she is lying on the floor, of course, she was opened before that, so that everything fell out. I was shocked. Therefore, skates carry everything with them. My friend was given a needle that went into her thumb - right under the nail. Naturally, she did not skate for several weeks.

Upbringing

In the figure, children are stretched in the same way as in gymnastics. It all depends on the choreographer: for example, I was never torn, pulled calmly, quietly, while I always had a good stretch. But 80 percent of kids vomit because they need to stretch. Instead of the stick that Chinese gymnastics coaches have, we have a plastic sheath for the blade. The trainer holds this case in his hands and slaps him on his knees, on his hands. And it is not perceived as something terrible. This is already normal.

By the way, parents bludgeon even more than coaches. After training, the child enters the locker room, and there the tin begins: parents bludgeon the children in front of everyone, they saw everything through the crack. “Why didn’t you work, why didn’t you raise your hands?” - and 15 people around start talking about it. Hitting a child on the head is fine. Pushing your head against the wall is also normal. None of those sitting next to you will say: “What are you doing?”.

Alcohol

I haven’t heard of any sport yet, wherever it was: “Oh, how we thumped.” In figure skating, they thump, but not all. And if they thump - then so that the whole hotel is then carried.

Much depends on the organizers. After the competition, everyone is gathered at a banquet: everyone is civilly dressed, in dresses and high heels, the bosses come. If the organizers rented a club for skaters and arranged a disco there, everything ends well. Everyone got drunk in the club and returned to the hotel. If this is not the case, everyone falls into someone's room. Nothing happens without the participation of Russians and Japanese. How the Japanese drink - I have not yet seen from anyone else.

binges

One figure skater (she was not noted for anything in sports) was devastating the mini-bar in other people's rooms. Then people left and they were presented with a bill, and they did not even know about it. Another girl said that without drinking, she could not go on the ice. I didn't get drunk, of course. She was just wildly nervous, drank a little - and everything is ok. She was 16 or 17 at the time. There are also those who thump at the training camp at 12. And why not, in fact? When everyone is drunk, why don't you drink too.

Psyche

There was a girl, I don't remember her last name. At the age of 12-13, she won the Grand Prix stages, was in the top at the junior world championships, jumped unique jumps - such as a triple flip and a triple loop, which no one jumped then. She constantly had psychological problems: fighting for medals is always incredibly stressful. You enter the arena, 4-5 thousand people look at you, especially if it is some kind of crazy country in terms of figure skating - the USA, Canada or Japan, where stadiums are packed in training. Apparently she just couldn't take it. Plus - a transitional age, the girl began to recover, and jumping left her. As you grow, it's new coordination, new long arms, new long legs and torso. She began to lose: she was no longer applauded, the anthem was not staged in her honor, and even no medal was hung. She was 14-15 years old. At some point, she just disappeared. Then I found out that she was in a psychiatric clinic; she recovered, and everything became fine with her, but she did not continue skating.

In general, children are often haunted by mental problems - nervous tics, twitches. Because it's hard. You either make it or you don't. And coaches are different: some yell obscenities at children, they can call names, and distribute the load in training incorrectly. If earlier it was normal that you are still a junior until the age of 18, now if you are 16-17 years old and you have not yet been to the European Championships, it’s like, well ... Now children participate in adult competitions and win.

Money

You can earn money only if you participate in commercial shows. Now there are a lot of them. If you are a world champion, you get an average of 10 thousand dollars for a show - you have to go to demonstration performances, wave to everyone and leave. They, of course, jump: whoever takes risks, the audience likes him, and he is called again. But there are no obligatory elements in the show - you can jump what you do best: wake up the skater, he will put on shoes on his bare feet and still jump a triple sheepskin coat - and the audience will be: "Ahh, he is a god, how he jumped."

Plushenko

Of the Russian skaters, he is the richest, because he is the most titled and travels to shows the most. By status, he is generally from another planet - this is evidenced at least by the fact that he was allowed to speak at the Olympics. He did not qualify for the Russian Championship, after that it was decided that the one who would perform better at the European Championship would go to Sochi. Voronov took second place, but for some reason Kovtun and Plushenko argued over a ticket to the Olympics. Here the world of figure skating did not understand the logic of the Federation a little - what does Kovtun have to do with it? Yes, he won the Russian championship - what does Plushenko have to do with it? After all, the conditions of the trip to Sochi were announced. Kovtun failed the European Championship, drove instead of filling machine.

As for the Olympics itself. Someone says that Zhenya's vanity played after the team championship: now I'll still win. And these guys, his rivals, were doing such quadruple jumps that he was just scared. Someone says that his back really hurt and he could not endure this pain. I believe in it. Although it looked unnatural.

Of course, Zhenya is a unique skater. Very few people can perform at such a high level for such a long time. He deserved this status. At all competitions, he lived in luxury rooms. Could afford. I don't see it as some sort of snobbery. And in behavior he is completely different from everyone else. And he walks differently. Well, he's a king. At competitions, he does not travel with everyone by bus, but by car. But he greets, smiles. When he goes out on the ice, you can see by his skating, by his hands, by the way he takes steps - he is beautiful. I can't say anything bad.

Sex

In figure skating, everyone sleeps with each other. Like actors - a very narrow circle, except for these people you do not see anyone in life. Therefore, everyone met each other, recaptured suitors, wives, husbands from each other, give birth to children from each other. Like in a circus. There are also rumors that figure skaters are messing with hockey players. But this is not true: all hockey players have models in their wives. It's rude, but they don't care about ********* [fucked up] figure skating girls. They need a model that is free at any moment and can go anywhere with them, fly anywhere with them. And the skater will just send a hockey player to hell: “Sorry, I have my own world championship.”

This same girl lived with her coach. Yes, they slept, met. Her then coach was generally a fan of sleeping with his wards. But he is beautiful: in great shape, like all skaters. He looks very good, always neat, combed, dressed to the nines. At the same time, he is very smart, very talented. There is nothing strange in the fact that his students fall in love with him and give themselves up.

Sex between partners

Often couples break up when love ends. How did Averbukh leave Anisina? He fell in love with Ira Lobacheva and began to ride with her, and Anisina went to France to look for a partner. Volosozhar met with her partner Morozov, then he finished, began to train her, put her in a pair with Trankov - now they have announced their engagement. Trankov himself skated with Mukhortova, and Mukhortova lived with a coach. And often they chased Maxim: “He doesn’t train well, he’s lazy, because of him Masha can’t win anything.” Max even said in an interview that they slandered him, that he did not want to work with them. And in the end, he left, for Mukhortova it was a surprise: "He went to some kind of Tanya Volosozhar." I don't know where Masha is now, but we know where Maxim is.

gay

They say that Yuzuru Hanyu, the Olympic champion, is also gay. They also talk about Daisuke Takasahi. This is not advertised by them in any way, but it can be seen in the manner of skating. In figure skating, no one asks this question - they are your friends, they skate awesome, they are very flexible, they have a different emotion on the ice. Here is Jason Brown. I didn’t ask anyone if he was gay, but he’s amazing - he lights up so much that then everyone gives a standing ovation. Although he does not even win a medal. He rides like that! Awesome dude, the 9-thousand hall raises to its feet.

I don't know about gays in Russian figure skating. But I don't think we have. Because we have a very homophobic society.

Women coaches

There is a story about the relationship of two female trainers in a female figure. One had a husband, the other was his mistress and gave birth to a daughter. Either he lived in two families, or left his wife at that time. And the female brain remembers everything, even if it was in the last century. For a woman, this rivalry will last a lifetime - and not just in terms of the fight for Olympic medals. What happened next, I don't know. I only know that these two women have children from the same man.

Both of them were in Sochi. They are unable to intersect. It is unlikely that they avoid each other: to avoid is the lot of the weak. And there she and the other - those still young ladies who rebuff each other. I never heard anything bad about one of them: some dirty rumors, as if she had betrayed someone or yelled at her children. She is a strict coach - without this there will be no champions. Yes, they say, she brings her students to psychological exhaustion, but if there are good results, why blame her?

The other one is the opposite. There were rumors that she agreed with the Federation, and one figure skater was kicked out of the team event in Sochi. She was told at the last moment that her services were not needed. Another rumor is that her main figure skater is leaving her. But they did not agree there with the federation, which coordinates any change of coaches. Hushed up. "Rumor, rumor, rumor, it's not about us, it's all the parents dismissed." And rumors don't just happen: why don't I hear them about someone else, why constantly about her? The last year especially.

Women's standings in Sochi

Not to let Russia win its first women's Olympic medal would be a sin. Do you think it was a scam? Well, what a lie. Technically Sotnikova was stronger than Kim Yong A. The Korean skates divinely, but emotionally Adeline performed better. It was the skating of the winner: when at the end of the program she was in tears, and everyone had goosebumps. This is the pride of the country, it does not matter how others roll back. After her performance, there was no person in the stands who would not say: "This is the new Olympic champion." Although Kim Yong Ah and two Americans still skated after her. Well, they pulled it up a little bit, can't it, or what?

Sotnikova

She, like Lipnitskaya, does not have a young man. She is generally a good girl, very decent. At some point, she did not believe that she could win. She jumped super-complex cascades, but said that she skated very badly. This is not Lipnitskaya, who walks around and says: "I am a star." Adelina won the Russian championship at the age of 12, and she acted like she took the last place. The rudest thing they can say about her is: “She is so good that I hate her. But damn, she's so good."

Nice people

Serezha Voronov was a discovery for me. In the world rankings, he now ranks second, but at the same time he remains the same cool Seryoga that I knew. Human and not a braggart. Alexander Zhulin. Somehow, while training in his group, I realized that he does not yell at the athletes at all. For me it was a culture shock. His restraint and upbringing are beyond the real.

I really like Alexey Mishin. He is already so many years old, and he can rock with the youth. Jokes. For example, you lost some championship, and he: “Why are you sad? Let's find you some guy now, hang out with him, a new life will open up. Not like some other coaches: “What, ***** [damn], lost? Are you going to play? Go to your room, you don't deserve it." There is no such thing in Mishin. He is very positive, very smart.

Lipnitskaya

Nothing is known about her father. Skaters often have divorced parents. All coaches love the poor, the unfortunate, with whom you can do whatever you want. They love that the child is completely given to you. And when a full-fledged family - the child has family holidays, and he already belongs to his parents. In general, I was never interested in Yulia's father. And my mother is raising Yulia. She takes her to the skating rink, watches her for 24 hours, goes to competitions, because, they say, Yulia can gain 3 kilograms over the weekend, get drunk.

They talk a lot about her. For example, that she took out the brain of the Federation with her demands: she allegedly went to Sochi in an armored car. Like, "I'm so screwed up." Someone said that she recently said to Averbukh: “What kind of program did you give me a crappy one?”. What? Who are you?

By the way, after all these stories, I can’t say that I was disappointed in figure skating. I forgave him. If relatives ask whether to give the child to figure skating or not, I will say yes. Despite everything. It tempers: when they throw your skates off the bench, when they discuss you in front of you in the locker room. Immunity is developed against people: you can stand up for yourself, you have strength, a sports figure. I will also give my children to figure skating.

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Price

Figure skating is expensive. Good skates are assembled separately - boots and blades. Naturally, not Russian production. On average, it costs 30-40 thousand rubles. Skates you change once a season at best. In adult athletes who perform triple and quadruple jumps, shoes break more often. In addition, costumes are also expensive. Each figure skater dress is sheathed with Swarovski stones - 6-7 thousand stones each. This is another 30-35 thousand rubles. At least there is enough dress for the whole season, and then it can be sold.

I am silent about the silicone that skaters need to keep their boots from chafing, sponges, blade sharpening, laces, hooks on boots that constantly fall off. It seems like a trifle, and then you look back - and 100 thousand are gone.

Roll-ups are now popular - individual lessons, tutoring. A good coach costs from 1.5 to 3 thousand rubles per hour. Therefore, you need to earn very well in order to send your child to figure skating. There are stories when the coach forces students to take individual lessons: “So that's it. On Saturday, individual, you come, Vasya, you, Masha, and you, Katya. If you don’t come, next week you will be without my attention.” Yes, this is blackmail. I didn’t have this, thank God: my coaches were all professionals, all of them are honored coaches of Russia. And it’s unlikely that my parents would take me to individual ones, I already have three hours of ice every day.

Sometimes, 200 grams in the black - and that's it, there are no jumps. And it happens that a person recovers by two kilograms - and at least he has something. Skaters eat everything. Some don't eat at all to keep the weight off. Someone eats once a day, because every morning there is a weigh-in: without breakfast, you go to training, you were weighed - it passed. You worked out and then you get drunk for lunch, because they won’t weigh more today, and that’s it, this is your only meal. You can’t eat in the evening, because in the morning again weighing. Naturally, girls who eat and do not gain weight are simply hated.

Parents

locker room

Sometimes athletes fight. “I skated the program today, and you, ***** [damn], prevented me.” And in you discs with music. Or: “What are you, blind? Why are you not inferior to me at the rink! Athletes who go to the world and European championships are already adults, they have achieved their goal, they broke into the elite that travels to big competitions. They are no longer up to this trash, which is not even selected for the Russian championship. I don’t understand why they are fighting - this is not the Olympic Games, not the World Cup, not even the Moscow Championship. They fight for the attention of the coach, for a place on the rink, for a place in the locker room - for everything, and this is some kind of madness.

I had a case. Winter, a lot of outerwear. I put my things down and went to get ballerinas, and my bag, apparently, ended up in someone else's territory. I come: she is lying on the floor, of course, she was opened before that, so that everything fell out. I was shocked. Therefore, skates carry everything with them. My friend was given a needle that went into her thumb - right under the nail. Naturally, she did not skate for several weeks.

Upbringing

In the figure, children are stretched in the same way as in gymnastics. It all depends on the choreographer: for example, I was never torn, pulled calmly, quietly, while I always had a good stretch. But 80 percent of kids vomit because they need to stretch. Instead of a stick that Chinese gymnastics coaches have, we have a plastic sheath for the blade. The trainer holds this case in his hands and slaps him on his knees, on his hands. And it is not perceived as something terrible. This is already normal.

Alcohol

I haven’t heard of any sport yet, wherever it was: “Oh, how we thumped.” In figure skating, they thump, but not all. And if they thump, then in such a way that the whole hotel is then carried.

One very talented girl lost her season because she went on a drinking binge. I lost the selection for the European Championship, I decided, apparently, that figured life was over. She just swelled - and she actively posted everything on social networks: how cute it is for her in an embrace with a bottle and a glass, various friends. But she got out. Now this is a cool Russian figure skater. For me, it's number one.

There are also those who thump at the training camp at 12. And why not, in fact? When everyone is drinking, why don't you drink too?

You can earn money only if you participate in commercial shows. Now there are a lot of them. If you are a world champion, you get an average of 10 thousand dollars for a show - you have to go to demonstration performances, wave to everyone and leave. They, of course, jump: whoever takes risks, the audience likes him, and he is called again. But there are no obligatory elements in the show - you can jump what you are best at: wake up the skater, he will put on shoes on his bare feet and still jump a triple sheepskin coat - and the audience will be: "Ahh, he is a god, how he jumped."

In figure skating, everyone sleeps with each other. As an actor, you have a very narrow circle, except for these people you don’t see anyone in life. Therefore, everyone met each other, recaptured suitors, wives, husbands from each other, give birth to children from each other. Like in a circus.

This same girl lived with her coach. Yes, they slept, met. Her then coach was generally a fan of sleeping with his wards. But he is beautiful: in great shape, like all skaters. He looks very good, always neat, combed, dressed to the nines. At the same time, he is very smart, very talented. There is nothing strange in the fact that his students fall in love with him and give themselves up.

Sex between partners

Often couples break up when love ends. How did Averbukh leave Anisina? He fell in love with Ira Lobacheva and began to ride with her, and Anisina went to France to look for a partner. Volosozhar met with her partner Morozov, then he finished, began to train her, put her in a pair with Trankov - now they have announced their engagement. Trankov himself skated with Mukhortova, and Mukhortova lived with a coach. And often they chased Maxim: “He doesn’t train well, he’s lazy, because of him Masha can’t win anything.” Max even said in an interview that they slandered him, that he did not want to work with them. And in the end, he left, for Mukhortova it was a surprise: "He went to some kind of Tanya Volosozhar." I don't know where Masha is now, but we know where Maxim is.

Maxim Trankov and Tatyana Volosozhar

There are a lot of gay people in figure skating, it's true. Almost all Americans are gay. Johnny Weir has been married twice - I don't know for sure. And he does not hide it. They say that Yuzuru Hanyu, the Olympic champion, is also gay. They also talk about Daisuke Takasahi. This is not advertised by them in any way, but it can be seen in the manner of skating. In figure skating, no one asks this question - they are your friends, they skate awesome, they are very flexible, they have a different emotion on the ice. Maxim Trankov is friends with Stéphane Lambiel. I think Swiss is gay. They are friends, perform together in the show. There is no such thing in figure skating: you are gay, then you are an outcast, get out of here.

I don't know about gays in Russian figure skating. But I don't think we have. Because we have a very homophobic society.

Stephane Lambiel and Johnny Weir

Lipnitskaya

Julia Lipnitskaya

Plushenko

Of the Russian skaters, he is the richest, because he is the most titled and travels to shows the most. By status, he is generally from another planet - this is evidenced at least by the fact that he was allowed to speak at the Olympics. He did not qualify for the Russian Championship, after that it was decided that the one who would perform better at the European Championship would go to Sochi. Voronov took second place, but for some reason Kovtun and Plushenko argued over a ticket to the Olympics. Here the world of figure skating did not understand the logic of the Federation a little - what does Kovtun have to do with it? Yes, he won the Russian championship - what does Plushenko have to do with it then? After all, the conditions of the trip to Sochi were announced. Kovtun failed the European Championship, drove instead of filling machine.

Evgeni Plushenko

Women coaches

There is a story about the relationship of two female trainers in a female figure. One had a husband, the other was his mistress and gave birth to a daughter. Either he lived in two families, or left his wife at that time. And the female brain remembers everything, even if it was in the last century. For a woman, this rivalry will last a lifetime - and not only in terms of the fight for Olympic medals. What happened next, I don't know. I only know that these two women have children from the same man.

Both of them were in Sochi. They are unable to intersect. It is unlikely that they avoid each other: avoiding is the lot of the weak. And there she and the other - those still young ladies who rebuff each other. I never heard anything bad about one of them: some dirty rumors, as if she had betrayed someone or yelled at her children. She is a strict coach - without this there will be no champions. Yes, they say, she brings her students to psychological exhaustion, but if there are good results, why blame her?

The other is the opposite. There were rumors that she agreed with the Federation, and one figure skater was kicked out of the team event in Sochi. She was told at the last moment that her services were not needed. Another rumor is that her main figure skater is leaving her. But they did not agree there with the federation, which coordinates any change of coaches. Hushed up. "Rumor, rumor, rumor, it's not about us, it's all the parents dismissed." And rumors don't just happen: why don't I hear them about someone else, why constantly about her? The last year especially.