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Post by ninadel on Aug 29, 2008 14:40:02 GMT 1
Now I wonder what his costume is going to be! I can see something like this working for a tango: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVIeyhHFN-w... but something more formal would be good as well.
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Post by deedeelocks on Sept 6, 2008 22:40:11 GMT 1
I was babysitting today and randomly watching the "eurovision dance contest" and the Finnish couple actually danced a (wonderful) tango and they said the Tango is actually very popular in Finland
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Post by murzik29 on Sept 7, 2008 23:04:53 GMT 1
they said the Tango is actually very popular in Finland That's why all choose Tango this season ;D ;D
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Post by deedeelocks on Sept 11, 2008 22:21:10 GMT 1
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Post by Eva on Sept 12, 2008 8:40:08 GMT 1
I just say.....let the new season begin.....Olé !! Thanks Daph!!Is there anybody,who could translate the article or just write a few lines what it's about ?!
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Post by deedeelocks on Sept 12, 2008 9:28:40 GMT 1
Figure skater Verner composed a tango, the music he picked himself and fast.
The bet on a tango should help Tomas Verner to hold on to the top at europeans and fight for the prizes at worlds. The music he even picked himself and in a record short time.
"It's cut into 4 different segments. Normally picking the music takes months, but this time I managed in 4 hours, so it was a record! It spoke to me and therefor it happened so fast." said Tomas in the latest interview with journalists in Prague.
With making the new long program he and his trainers started already at the end of may. "now we are making the costumes so that everything looks good and then I will try them on to refine things" says Tomas. He wants to be prepared for the first GP at maximum, which waits for him in November in Beijing. "So that it won't be like last year, when I promised and said a lot of things and it was a catastrophe."
Verner started to train the salchow Next season the Czech representant would like to demonstrate a more difficult program than he did so far, and that's why he started to train a second quad: the salchow. "I would like to scare also my rivals, at minimum in training I would like to show off more quads" said verner. Up till now he only jumped the quad toe. He doesn't plan the salchow in his programs yet though. "in the beginning of course not, but we will see as the season progresses" said Verner, whom will keep his SP of last season.
The club of Ceske Budejovice hopes, that in the next few months they will manifest a special training program, which should be finished in the summer. They started working with exhibition series and figure skating school icedome, and traveled around europe with them.
Verner: it was like regular training. " For me it was just the classical training. We have more ice available and enough to accomodate everybody. Around us is a group of people whom are watching, how we are training." said Verner. together with Italian skater Carolina Kostner, they are the main faces of the whole project. More work there was only for trainer Koprivova, who had to train more figure skaters. "for her it was very challenging, she would be on the ice from morning till evening" he told.
Now Verner is in Prague working on his schoolwork and next week he will leave for Oberstdorf, where more training waits for him and from the 25th of september his first competition. After that he will have another competition in Austria, and then he will go on to the Grand Prix, on which he will not only compete in China but also in RUssia. "I don't have a problem with my schedule, just I would have liked to compete in Japan, because they like me there and I didn't skate a bad competition there yet. But I cannot do anything about that, I will go to China and to Russia" he said.
About his private life he doesn't wanna talk: "Mainly I am an athlete, so I'll have fun about sports and not my relationships" he said understandably
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Post by deedeelocks on Sept 12, 2008 10:05:24 GMT 1
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Post by deedeelocks on Sept 13, 2008 9:26:45 GMT 1
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Post by deedeelocks on Sept 13, 2008 10:31:57 GMT 1
Plushenko is challenging
Figure skater Tomas Verner wants to show off more quads nex season.
PRAGUE: he erased the big fiasco of the 15th place at worlds and started to train the quad salchow. Eventhough he couldn't really deliver at the competitions this year, he still has big plans when it comes to the big elements. He plans to jump the quad also in the SP and he changed his LP to a Tango.
He doesn't care that phenomonal Russian plushenko will return to competitive ice. He holds on to a well established line. `it doesn´t matter to me who is skating against me, I fight only with my myself` says the 22year old, whom was outside in the Czech republic in Oberstdorf and Sweden this summer. To Prague he goes only because of his studies.
Q: Did you feel a bigger drive in training because of the placement at worlds last season? A: what happened at worlds?
Q: the European Champion finished 15th, it was a disaster. I guess you left it behind you already, given your reaction, I suppose he forgot. Is that right? A: that really is gone and I am preparing for next season now. I throw everything in there what is in my power, and I will keep on doing that and show it. Then after everything will depend on how much the others invested in it.
Q: Are you prepared that a lot of people will ask you about worlds anyway? A: Yes, I suppose in my entire life people will remind me of this. It will follow me around. I don't know, but on the other hand I would like to build on this. It just happened, sometimes it goes well, sometimes not. I give everything for my sport and my conscience is clean. I know that at that championships I managed only half of the competition. I couldn't manage after the first half.
Q: did it calm you down to leave this big fall behind you? A: A bad result at worlds means you wasted an awful lot of time. You evaluate the season according to it and after winning europeans I already drew close to the end. I didn't lose a year, but I fell down. 2years ago I was 13th, then 4th and now 15th, that's a huge setback for me.
Q: Did you prepare yourself any differently also on the psychological side? A: No, it's a closed chapter, the end. So far I never failed on the psychological part, so I won't change anything. I myself know, where the problems were. I will manage this myself. I must know that I can skate well whenever. It's better for me than some psychologist. I had some offers, but I rather look back at someone with whom I can make just talk.
Q: did you raise your limits in your preperations? A: I worked a lot on my physical condition and also on the ice I spent more time. At the very first I went to Canada to do my choreography and then I went to Europe for training. From june I am going at full blast.
Q: How many quads are you planning in your programs? A: I practiced the quad salchow a lot, but I still have to refine it. It's going well now though, I notice because last year I even had troubles with the triple salchow. If I will put it in my programs I do not know yet. Rather not, but in training before my rivals I might actually do it, so that I can show off, that I can do a little more now.
Q: how will your performances differ this year from last year? A: As music for the long program I choose a Tango. It consists of 4 different segments that follow eachother up. Together it adds up to some kind of story. I was in love with the music the first time I heard it. The short program I didn't change after some discussion with my trainers. In the past I'd always change just one program, last year I changed both and it turned out it didn't work at all.
Q: SP is to the music gypsy swing, so that doesn't change at all? A: SP I wanted to change as well, but with my trainers we agreed that we can do more with this SP. We changed the jumps a little in the first combination. I would like to jump the quad this year in the SP. That indicates you belong to the best figure skater. I have to be certain of the quad though, I will try in the first few competitions.
Q: In the grand prix series, we will see you in Russia. Do you think you will meet Plushenko there? What's the deal with him returning to competition? A: Around him there is always something going, and right now he doesn't even know wether he will return or not. At the grand prixs I won't see him, because there only start those whom were in the top 24 at worlds.
Q: what if Plushenko will return, will he dominate the ice again? A: I don't believe that. When he left, they only started out with the new point system, and not everyone was really used to it yet. Now everyone is and the happy ones are whom brought it to a happy end, he won't have it easily. Also I do not take satisfaction with the fact that when he returns everything will be about one place lower.
Q: Is your motivation to beat him? A: of course. When I heard that I was going to the GP in Russia, I thought to myself that maybe he will go there to watch. I may however meet him in a different wat. Plushenko is very challenging and to beat him in a direct honest fight would be like a small olympics for me.
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Post by Lilla on Sept 14, 2008 16:38:33 GMT 1
Thanks fot the translation Daph! I can only confirm everything about the Tango!!!Cant wait to see it!!!
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Post by peta on Sept 15, 2008 19:08:03 GMT 1
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Post by deedeelocks on Sept 15, 2008 20:07:58 GMT 1
omg, Tommy! you speak so fast!! from what I understand he doesn't say anything important or what we don't know yet though. Just he says that he worked hard this summer and his first competition will be in Oberstdorf, there we will see how this training paid off. Then he wants a certain amount of points (but I cannot catch the number LOL! 160?) and of course he is going for the big prizes in the big events... oh and the skating part...he is defenitely NOT skating to Bond I mean I even hear "winter"... I think anyone, especially a male skater would be insane to skate to that LOL! the last 3 seconds I think are part of the LP but that's all thanks for posting Peta
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Post by peta on Sept 16, 2008 10:57:11 GMT 1
Then he wants a certain amount of points (but I cannot catch the number LOL! 160?) and of course he is going for the big prizes in the big events... oh and the skating part...he is defenitely NOT skating to Bond I mean I even hear "winter"... I think anyone, especially a male skater would be insane to skate to that LOL! the last 3 seconds I think are part of the LP but that's all yeah, he told he aimed to getting 160, as it's the points with which you win big competitions on TV they showed a bit different version of him skating with different music... so i guess that was more of his LP then...
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Post by deedeelocks on Sept 16, 2008 12:26:50 GMT 1
oh damn why didn't they put THAT on internet?
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Post by deedeelocks on Sept 16, 2008 13:31:43 GMT 1
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