#tatjana flade

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"Tea or Coffee" with Team Champéry

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tanjaflade: Ice Dance Highlights Europeans 2019 in Minsk. 😊 #eurofigure #figureskating #Eiskunstlauf #figureskate #фигурноекатание

(29.01.2019)

[denissvasiljevs1999]

Posted by Tatjana Flade

[myjunkisyuzuruhanyu]

What??? So does this mean all the new rule changes are not in place anymore?

(Tweet by Tatjana Flade, the screenshot is from Tatjana's link to the ISU document)

[anewbeginningagain]

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir announced their come-back, and on top of that in your training group. What did you think when you heard about it? Guillaume: I knew it since a while. I believe it was even Scott who told me that if they come back, they wanted to train with Marie-France (Dubreuil) and Patrice. So I wasn’t surprised. Marie-France had informed us a little earlier before they announced it. But that wasn’t a big deal. We are more focused on our career, and they are our competitors 1/2

2/2 like everyone else. Yes, they are Olympic gold medalists and we feel much respect for them, but we’ve never paid much attention to the competition, and instead have stayed focused on our work. Tatjana Flade for German Pirouette magazine/No. 4, April 2016

Thank you :) Well it was the coaches who broke the news, Scott just shared the intent (I do wonder when and why). Anyway, look who went from not caring to admitting it fucked with their brains after two years and a crushing defeat... 

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'Herz im Fadenkreuz" von Tatjana Flade http://ift.tt/2uVj9Kp

[antiqua-melia]

Alina’s Interview with Tatjana Flade

Quick points based on article photos posted by paradox_FS on IG.

She struggled with her growth spurt after the Olympics and considered quitting competitive skating. She had a loss of coordination which she and her team are still overcoming.

Because of this, Alina needs to practice for 30-40 minutes before she can jump normally. According to her coach Eteri, her new body doesn’t have the muscle memory yet.

Alina reads what fans and media post about her. She cried after the Russian test skates when people posted negatively about her performance. Eteri felt that the criticism wasn’t justified.

Eteri said that it’s hard to be an Olympic champion because of the expectations, which Alina understands. There is huge pressure coming not only from her coaching team, but the fans as well.

The Russian Federation wanted her coaches to give her an easy program so Alina can jump easily but her coaches didn’t agree.

Apparently Alina didn’t do the triple lutz-triple toe for the past two years, so now that they have her skating it, she’s having a hard time, considering her growth spurt. 

Alina was really the one who wanted to skate to Carmen. Her coach acknowledges that this choice will be criticized, so she worked with her for two weeks to get the character out of her. The first thing Alina did when she found out she was going to do Carmen was to watch Katarina Witt (who did it the best, according to her).

“She is still Alina, a friendly, open-minded girl that has dreams like other teenagers. I like her very much. She is very talented, she is very beautiful, and she has something special. In addition to that, she works hard and understands that it is sometimes difficult. Even though she has fulfilled the biggest dream an athlete can have, she finds the motivation to go on.” -- Eteri (Alina won’t share what her motivation is though.)

She just wants to be with her family, but her mom and sister moved to a new city and her dad started working in Kazakhstan. :(

Her pets are her friends. :D

[contagiousrhythminmybrain]

Svinin/Zhuk team interviews coming soon (from Tatjana Flade’s instagram)

[gogogogolev]

Some shots from the international coverage of 2018/19 GPF.

Credits:

1. Sports Navi Figure 2. Tatjana Flade / FFKK  3. 小海途　良幹 / Sponichi Tokyo Photo 4. Kinoshita Group Sports 5. Y. Wada / Japan Sports 6. 小海途　良幹 / Sponichi Tokyo Photo 7. Y. Wada / Japan Sports

Just a little note: In link 2 above the Cyrillic transliteration of Stephen’s name is Стивен Гоголев, which is a bit different from the Степан Гоголев we had before. Which transliteration does Stephen prefer? We’re not sure. So we’re keeping both until we find out some day.

[peacocksonice]

Interview with Tatjana Flade

[fyshomauno]

Tatjana Flade on Instagram:

That was it, the last competition of the season is over, the last medals have been awarded. Congratulations! 😊

[teamchampery]

Interview with Deniss (and Stéphane) by Tatjana Flade for IFS Magazine. Get to know more about Deniss' memories of Bratislava, his idea behind the new free program to "Lotus Feet" by Steve Vai and, of course, his passion for cooking and baking.

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tanjaflade: Vor der WM stellen wir ein paar interessante LäuferInnen und Paare auf der ISU Webseite vor, die ich extra dafür interviewt habe. Bisher waren das Loena Hendrickx, Daniel Grassl, Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue und Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron. Aber es kommen noch mehr! Wer? 😉⛸⛸ Before Worlds we present a few interesting skaters and couples on the ISU website, which I interviewed especially for this purpose. So far these were Loena Hendrickx, Daniel Grassl, Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue and Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron. But there are more to come! Who? 😉⛸⛸ Перед ЧМ мы представляем на сайте ISU несколько интересных фигуристов и пар, у которых я брала интервью. Пока это Лоена Хендрикс, Даниэль Грассл, Мэдисон Хаббелл/Захари Донохью и Габриэлла Пападакис/Гийом Сизерон. Но впереди еще больше! Кто? 😉⛸⛸ #eiskunstlauf #figureskating #фигурноекатание #worldfigure @isufigureskating

(16.03.2022)

[denissvasiljevs1999]

Posted by Tatjana Flade

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Interview with Yuzuru Hanyu

This (x) was my original post, here is the translation!

Yuzuru Hanyu was interviewed by Tatjana Flade for the German magazine pirouette in the issue May/June 2017 No.5 (Yuzuru Hanyu = YH)

Question: How do you review your season? There were a lot of highlights, but also some disappointments.

YH: When I think about the 4Lo (Rittberger), It was very suscessful. I tried it (4Lo) for the first time in competition and I think I landed it seven times in the LP and only popped it once at Skate Canada. I am pleased with the Loop, but the (quad) Salchow was a problem this season. After the two month break due to the injury at the beginning of  I feared the quad Toeloop. But in the end I did two 4Ts in the LP and I gained a lot of selfconfidence. At Worlds I could accomplish everything I wanted in my LP and this was a complete success.

Q: What is the most important experience that you will take to the next olympic season?

YH: I don’t plan to change my jump content for the next season. I tried different jumps this season and now I have the selfconfidence that I can execute them well and that I can get a lot of points for the execution. My experience was what I was expecting from this season and this is what i got in the end.

Q: How do you deal with disappointments such as the SP from the WTT, where you placed only 7th after two mistakes?

YH: I talk about it with different people, but in the end I mostly think about it myself. After the SP I could barely sleep, I woke up a lot of times at 4 or 5 o’clock in the morning. I had to think about how I looked on the ice and what the audience in the television must have seen there. Then I thought about putting 5 quads in my LP. At Worlds I was 10 points behind (the leader) after the SP and here 20 points. When you skate the feeling is important and I am the olnly one who knows that feeling and in t he end I need to make the decisions on my own. I decided right before the LP that I really want to go for 5 quads. Not because I failed at the SP but because I wanted to do it.

Q: What did you gain from the World Team Trophy?

YH: After Worlds I prepared myself well and trained hard for this team competition. I felt good in the training and I had a lot of selfconfidence before the SP. But I think it was too much pressure  and I expected too much from myself. I thought I can deal with the pressure but I could not show a good performance in the SP. I need to take some time and analyze what the problem with the SP is because I slowly get a negative impression of the SP in general. Before the LP the expectation was high, that I could repeat what I have done at the World Championships. I tried the 4T-1Lo-3S for the first time, it was not perfect but I am satisfied with it. I showed 3 quads in the second half of the program for the first time and maybe I am the first skater to ever do this. This is positive especially in regard at the upcoming Olympic season. I had energy left for this, but I still need to work  on becoming stronger ,physically and mentally. To be honest overall I had a lot of fun at this competition and it was the first time in along while that I was able to enjoy a competition. 

Q: What kind of programs do you want to show in the Olympic Season?

YH: I haven’t decided yet about the music for the next season. In this season I wanted to challenge myself and in this sense the season was very successful for me. The experiences that I gained this season will hopefully have a positive effect on the next season. The good thing about that is that I can show two different skating styles in the SP and in the LP. This is something I want to repeat in the next season. I am not yure yet if I will have 5 quads in my program from the beginning of the season but this would be a possible challenge. I want to have different options for difficult combinations. Yes, maybe I need to jump a lot of different types of quads, but I don’t want to change a lot in the composition of the programs. I think about the grades of execution (GOEs) for the elements, but I especially want to succeed in expressing in my programs what I want to express. Especially because of the (technical)challenges I set for myself this season, I think that I can improve my programs even more. 

Q: What do you think about the rising level of the other skaters? In the past you said that you wanted to retire after 2018, what do you think about this now? 

YH: Just because the competition is now on such a high level, training is  a lot of fun and the motivation increased. Without a comment on retirement, I can say that I am very happy to skate now.

Q: When you step on the ice the arena turns upside down, you see an ocean of Japanese flags, you hear the cheer from the fans. What do you feel in this moment?

YH: Happiness (laughter). People from all around the world not only look at me, they watch all the skaters and I am happy that I can be one of these skaters. I am happy if somebody saw me and then becomes a figure skating fan and when new fans join. It makes me happy when children start skating, after they watched us. Even a few adults start figure skating.  

Q: Thank you for the interview and good luck for next season!

Big thank you @seobiiiiieluv​ for correcting my translation!

[peacocksonice]

New interview with Tatjana Flade...this was my favorite part:

"There really were a lot of flies and all kinds of animals on the ice. When I went to the first training, I told my choreographer about it. I was looked at as not quite adequate. But then all the guys, not only me, said that there were a lot of insects on the ice - flies, wasps... I even saw living creatures! Feeling as if you are in the apiary. Apparently, this is a feature of the mountainous terrain. The first time I ran into one like it.”