Olympic team figure skating champion Fedor Klimov in an interview with , he confided having heard the couples of the group Tamara Moskvina working on ultra-so elements.
Klimov announced his retirement in 2018 and started coaching.
– We see that there has been a serious breakthrough in men’s skating. Ilya Malinin did a quadruple axel. Among women, ultra-si has long been the norm. For couples, we seem to be witnessing a technical stagnation. How to promote the technical development of pair skating?
– I spoke about it when I was still on the technical committee: about a year and a half ago. I think we need a development push so that we also have elements of ultra-si. However, we have entered a vicious cycle, as we have reduced the cost of these items. In fact, it was also done to make skaters take less risk. At some point, due to the many injuries while performing the elements, it was decided that it was dangerous and that it was not necessary to push the athletes to perform them.
– It’s artificial containment, it turns out.
“Essentially, yes. I argued that now is the time to change our sport – we don’t need much at least but to increase the cost of items so athletes see the value in studying something more complex. Nevertheless, it turns out that it remains a risk. And we have to at least get to the point where skaters can perform ultra-c without taking so many risks.
They said to me, “When they do that, we will increase the cost.” In other words, such a precedent must first occur. They will be able to increase the price of ultra-si in pair skating when a duo appears that performs complex elements, but it doesn’t look scary and traumatic at the same time. It turns out a dead end. Nobody teaches because it’s cheap. It makes no sense if you get fewer points with an error than with a triple.
However, I heard from the press that Tamara Nikolaevna’s group was working on quadruple elements. They’re going that way and it’s very cool, in my opinion. I hope this will give impetus to further development.
Source : MatchTV
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