“Malinin’s lack of sliding is too strong an expression, he is in the top 3 best singles skaters” – Zheleznyakov

Choreographer Alexey Zheleznyakov told that the statement regarding the American figure skater’s “lack of gliding” Ilya Malinin unfair to the athlete.

Earlier, skating coach Nikita Pchelyakov said in an interview with that Malinin lacks this element of skating. Pchelyakov works in the groups of Alexey Mishin and Valentina Chebotareva.

— The absence of slippage is too strong an expression in relation to Malinin. Absent means that it doesn’t exist at all, amateur level. It seems to me that next time we will have to choose a different, less strong expression, because in this case it is not very correct.

I am impressed with Malinin as a figure skater. For a moment, this guy is one of the top three singles players in the world. Of course, ice dancers glide better, but they also have different tasks. Maybe Malinin needs to work somewhere, for example on his ribs, but I will say that there are no ideal skaters, there is always something to achieve. Ilya, by the way, says so himself,” Zheleznyakov told .

Malinin, 19, is the current world champion, winner of the finals and stages of the Grand Prix. He represents the United States and is the first skater in the world to cleanly execute a quadruple axel at international tournaments.

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