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Post by Anna on Jan 15, 2013 18:54:20 GMT 1
LOL at the hair ;D maybe trying Paint it black - wild look? ;D Anyways I like the way he answers when he is asked about missing competitions or coming back.. sounds very mature. And happy Kiira is so adorable..
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Post by reut on Jan 15, 2013 18:58:08 GMT 1
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Post by elanor on Jan 15, 2013 23:41:01 GMT 1
Thank you a lot. I was happy to hear Stephane talking how much he loves skating. I hope skating never leaves him and let him go. I was somewhat worried that he would give up on it with all the health problems it must be not easy to train (and he has high standards for himelf) and now he has other job and interests. I think he is genius in what he creates on the ice. And I'm addicted to his skating. I wait for every new program with impatience. But two years is a very long time to wait ;D (like the violin concert).
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Post by reut on Jan 16, 2013 15:57:50 GMT 1
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Post by mejokuste on Jan 16, 2013 23:12:39 GMT 1
Thank you, elanor and reut ! Translation of the article about teaching kids in Lausanne: Stephane Lambiel, the artist who became a coach Retired from competition since 2010, the double world champion since a short time helps young skaters from Lausanne to learn the artistic elements of their sport with more ease. We know Stephane Lambiel the skater, but meanwhile we can add "coaching" to his competences. Like many other former athlets, he has decided to transmit his knowledge to the kids. "I am a consultant" the vice olympic champion from Torino states more precisely. "Christiane Miles (international judge and committee member of the (skating-) club of Lausanne) asked me to do this to motivate the youngsters. I agreed to her proposal because I approved her motivation". Being an artist, Stephane Lambiel possesses these qualities, but has also certain deficits. Which isn't an advantage in the moment he wants to transmit his knowledge. "I am aware of how difficult it is to give the correct explanations to the children. They have to create automatisms, but sometimes it is needed to explain to them every detail. I have to find instruments to adapt to each student, find the best way for everyone. But I had the chance to work with many children during summer and we share the same passion. It's wonderful to see how they detect new elements. By the way: here in the club we have a young boy with big potential and he wants to go forward". By working with the kids Stephane got to remember all the thousands of hours spent with his coach Mr. Grütter. "Now I realize to what extend Mr. Grütter and my choreographer Salomé Brunner have been patient with me. They listened to me, advised me and tought me the basics of esthetic. Mr. Grütter's strength is how he manages to push you forward without you realizing it. He knows about pedagogics for children, he does it without you noticeing it. That is his genious which he cultivates with all his wisdom. Before I did not have the necessary distance. But now as I find myself in his situation and am interested in transmitting the message, I am aware of the big experience he has". When Stephane gave his first lesson, he found his students being at the same time intimidated and impressed: "It was new for them. To have such a young teacher was quite a change. In the beginning I almost could not hear the low voices of the small girls. I had to be patient for a few lessons until they felt confident and opened up themselves". Besides the many hours spent at the rink in Malley (Lausanne), Stephane Lambiel regularely travels around the world to give his advices for choreography. From Italy (with Carolina Kostner) to Japan (with Miki Ando and Daisuke Takahashi), passing by in Russia alongside Evgeni Plushenko's coach, Alexei Mishin. "I come to him for that the students can squeeze me out!", Stephane says laughing. (Litterally translated: milk me) . P.S.: I guess I know now why Stephane said in an interview lately that he reads a book about child psychology
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Post by Anna on Jan 17, 2013 1:00:32 GMT 1
Translation of the article "The unchanging grace of the Little Prince" ( Paolo Galli, www.gdp.ch/articolo.php?id=4456 )Stéphane Lambiel has never been one of many, certainly not a common sportsman. He has been, above all, a true champion, able to climb two times on the top of the world and almost to touch the olympic gold. He marked an era of figure skating: the other side of the medal, hot and latin, compared to the statuary coldness of Evgeni Plushenko. Two champions, but so different to make this duality unique, always strong. The sensibility of Stéphane didn't let us look at his evolutions on the ice from a distance. We were caught, forced to cheer, and to feel pure emotions. He was never like the others, indeed. We met him face to face yesterday, as soon as he arrived in Bellinzona to practice his performances for the two evenings of "Music on Ice." He arrives with his usual simpleness, elegance and ... grace. The same grace that he expressed and continues to express even on the ice. What does "grace" mean, for you?The idea of grace is subjective. I think that everyone has his personal idea of grace, of beauty. Everyone has his taste, his interests. For example: someone loves figure skating, someone hates it. It's a matter of taste. But grace, is something that you have inside and you can offer to others, share with the world, showing outside what you have deep inside. And you can do it in many different ways. For example speaking, or singing, dancing, skating. They are different ways but they can lead to the same place. I was speaking before with some friends about a rough-art museum in Lausanne, where people with mental problems create real art. There, you can see that you are in front of an esthetics, artistic research. We all have inside us something to tell, to communicate, in different ways. The expression of grace is something instinctive, something that, when you face it, enters in you. Something that forces you to think. How did you find the balance between sensibility and strength?Maybe I already had it in my blood. My blood is latin; my origins are from South: my mother is portuguese, my father swiss. I have to say that we are not a family of very quiet people, in our home the atmosphere has always been explosive (he laughs, ndr). I tell it because I want to say that in my home I always found the ideal background to express myself, to take out what I have inside, to tell what I think. It's the same on the ice, there you have the possibility to express what you have inside, to let your feelings explode, to tell what you want, and to do it with your body. This way, you can let people understand who you are. The endless question: figure skating is more sport or art?In its name there is the concept of art, but then you have the technical aspects, and you enter in a world more... solid, where you have to do technical elements. To be able to do them, you need to repeat actions many times. If a child wants to become a good skater, if not a champion, must repeat for hours the same movement, to understand it and make it automatical. It's a completely cartesian work. Then you have the artistic aspects, it's true, but it's another thing, another work, a matter of inspiration. You have to be curious, to look for inspiration in other disciplines, to look for new ideas, something inspiring. I think that for this double face, figure skating is one of the most complete sports. You have to associate two opposite worlds, the artistic world and the technical world. It's so difficult to combine these two worlds in a performance! You are dragged by your emotions, but you have to focus on a very strong technique. At the moment I'm working with other skaters to create their choreographies, and I realize how their technical coaches push them to focus on the technical elements. But if you focus on them too much, then you can not express emotions. To find the balance between these two worlds, I say again, it's very difficult. We return to the idea of instinct, you see? With technical repetitions you can build those automatisms - so that you can let your instinct express himself. Everyone has his balance. How much was it difficult to protect your simpleness in a world where appearance is so important and vanity can hide personality?As I said, my mother is portuguese, she comes from a little town where there's nothing, a lonely place, while my father is from Isérables, another small town. They are very simple persons. They never saw me as a champion, but just as their son. They taught me the real value of things. Now, everywhere I go, I have the lucky to have some privileges, to be known, but I still am the boy I was, the son of my mother and father, a child grown in a small town, in the same school as my peers, always with them. I will never forget it, it's inside me. The achievements that I got didn't change me, the person that I really am. My friends are always the same. It's very important to preserve strong relationships, with people that you can trust. It's the same in sport. In my entourage I've always had strong relations, this is one of the reasons why I was strong: because I could trust my entourage. My team was born when I was ten years old, but I'm still in contact with them, even now they are part of my life. How much are your past achievements important? And what will you be in the future: a skater, a singer, a coach?Today I have so many things to do that I don't think so much about the past, I do what I have to do without looking behind. But who knows, maybe in 30 or 40 years I will look to the old pictures, to the medals, and I will miss them. Today I'm still too close to my past to miss it. About my future, I think I have many doors open and I don't set limits. I could stay in the artistic world, but I'm interested in many things. First, I will be in “Rock Circus”, around german Switzerland: I take the role that was of Christa Rigozzi. I even had the opportunity to sing, to record a real song (“Live Your Fantasy”: you can find the video on his official site, ndr)... I have many possibilities. I like to try and to accept new challenges. But there is work behind, it's not just to use my popularity; I want to build something. Then I'm interested in coaching. Yeah, I have many possibilities. But whatever I'll do, for sure, I will do it with 100% of myself; all that I do, I do it one hundred percent, always.
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Post by reut on Jan 17, 2013 10:12:07 GMT 1
Thank you very much for all the translations!! Just for you not to miss, there is also the last part of the translation of the Russian interview from "Swiss health" in the previous thread: absoluteskating.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=Stphane&thread=4781&page=5#217926Thanks to lavrujjka for it. Isn't it amazing that they write about Stephane in so many languages and that we have fans who can translate for us from so many languages so that we all be able to understand?
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Post by reut on Jan 17, 2013 10:19:19 GMT 1
"But I had the chance to work with many children during summer and we share the same passion. It's wonderful to see how they detect new elements. By the way: here in the club we have a young boy with big potential and he wants to go forward" This boy's name is Noah Bodenstein, he is Peter Gruetter's pupil. Mister Gruetter praised him a lot and said that Noah reminds him "little Stephane". Hopefully we will hear more about this boy in a few years. There will be a bit more about Noah in my interview with mister Gruetter which will be published on AS soon (probably after Europeans). Noah and mister Gruetter:
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Post by mejokuste on Jan 17, 2013 10:37:39 GMT 1
Thank you anna for translation . Reut, I was just about asking you - very shy - for the interview you had in Vernet. Online-translation from russian is not such a joy to read. Now you mention it yourself . I am looking forward to reading it .
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Post by reut on Jan 17, 2013 10:42:58 GMT 1
Reut, I was just about asking you - very shy - for the interview you had in Vernet. Online-translater from russian is not such a joy to read. Now you mention it yourself . I am looking forward to reading it . Actually it was the interview we had in Oberstdorf, earlier this season. In Vernet I was because of Vanessa Gusmeroli (whose interview is not ready yet, sorry, too many interviews I need to work on). But, while being there, I also made few photos of mister Gruetter for his interview. But everything will be published eventually, I promise. Including my interview with Salomé.
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Post by mejokuste on Jan 17, 2013 10:50:42 GMT 1
Great!
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Post by Anna on Jan 17, 2013 11:09:46 GMT 1
Isn't it amazing that they write about Stephane in so many languages and that we have fans who can translate for us from so many languages so that we all be able to understand? I was thinking the same it's great to have so many people sharing from different countries.. Good luck to Noah! And also to all the other little skaters I'm looking forward to read the interviews
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Post by pia on Jan 17, 2013 14:30:25 GMT 1
Thanks a lot for all great translations & other infos!
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