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A promising pair
It appears that Russian pair skating is returning to it's former glory with many talented and new pairs. One pair to watch out for are Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov. The team from St. Petersburg competes in their final junior year this season.
Stolbova and Klimov took the bronze medal at Junior Worlds in 2010 in their first season as a team, and want to challenge for the gold this time in Korea. They are determined young athletes with a good sense of humor and have progressed significantly this season.
Both started out early in skating. Stolbova chose her destiny herself as a tiny three-year-old.
"I watched someone skating," she said. "I don't remember who it was, but I wanted to do it. There was no opportunity, but I bugged everyone until [I was] six-years-old and I started to skate."
"I got skates and was sent to public skating sessions," Stolbova recalled. And she liked it right away.
"I was given a condition," she explained. "I could skate as long as I didn't fall. So I skated three hours! I did step by step and I didn't fall. And so my athletic life started."
Klimov, on the other hand, didn't really have a choice.
"Well, my mother is a figure skating coach and so she took me to skating. I didn't really choose," he said with a smile.
His mother is still coaching children in the Figure Skating Academy in St. Petersburg where the couple trains as well.
They switched to pairs as teenagers. Again, Stolbova picked the discipline herself.
"I just wanted to try it," she said. "I won't say that I didn't like singles, but I wanted to do something different and so I decided to leave (singles) when I was 14. Until now, I really like pairs and I have no regrets."
Klimov was 16 when he switched to pairs on the suggestion of his coach.
"I didn't want it at the beginning, but with time I made my peace with it," he revealed.
Before Stolbova and Klimov teamed up in 2009, Stolbova skated with Artur Minchuk for two years and Klimov had two other partners. They were paired by their current coach, Liudmila Velikova.
"Ksiusha (Ksenia) didn't suit at all the boy she was skating with," Velikova explained. "They are both explosive personalities. It was impossible. Then we suddenly remembered Fedia (Fedor). We said, 'let's have a try, maybe it will work'. We didn't expect that they would gel so quickly, but they suited each other right away. They skated together and it was obvious that they are a pair."
The couple qualified for the 2009-10 Junior Grand Prix Final right away, however, they were handicapped by injury and were not in top shape. They skated poorly in the long program at the Junior Final to finish seventh. When Junior Worlds came around, they were healthy again and skated much better.
For this season, the team chose two new programs - the Spanish themed Asturias by Isaac Albeniz for the short program, and a playful, funny program to La Strada for the free skating.
"We took a long time to choose the music," Stolbova admitted. "For the short program I immediately suggested Asturias because I knew it and I wanted it. For the long program we had a lot of doubts, and we were looking at a lot of music. For example, classical music and modern music, before we finally took La Strada. We were skeptical at the beginning, though, and we were afraid that it might not work, but it did."
Klimov agreed.
"The short we picked indeed very quickly," he said. "The Spanish music really suited us. This music for the free skating was one of the first suggestions, but somehow I didn't really like it." However he was finally convinced that La Strada would be a good choice.
There are some unique moves in this program. For example, they do a double Axel right at the end - not side by side - but jumping in opposite directions.
"Last year we had that in a show number and we thought why not do it in the program," Klimov explained. "It works, it is unusual, nobody else does it, plus as the next to last element. But we can do that, so why shouldn't we? You have to surprise with something."
Stolbova has a bubbly personality and is quick to answer each question, while Klimov is calm and always takes his time.
"Their characters suit each other very well," coach Liudmila Velikova said. "He (Klimov) is different. He is a very smart, well-heeled boy, while she (Stolbova) might explode every moment. She is running around, doing something, is busy and he is always calming her down. He always says what they need to do. He doesn't let anyone too close to him and he makes everyone to respect his opinion. It is a very strong psychological combination. He can work a lot. She is less hard working, more short-term and with more efficiency. He is like a bear, slowly crawling out of his hiding place and then he takes off."
Although Stolbova's and Klimov's personalities are totally different, they are a very good match on the ice. Velikova also praises their ability to work independently.
"You give them a plan and they work on it themselves," said the experienced coach. "She (Stolbova) mostly created the footwork herself. If you don't give her anything to do, she'll protest. She always needs to create something. But Fedia is the opposite. He needs his order and he wants to work a lot. She leaves and he still practices jumps or polishes something else."
The strong points of the Russians are their beautiful throw triple flip and throw triple Salchow, as well as the solid side by side jumps triple toe and double Axel. The throw Salchow is so big that a quad seems possible.
"I have thought of that as well," Klimov agreed, referring to the throw Salchow, "but I haven't talked about it yet with my partner and our coach."
Velikova only sees one weakness in her team right now, and that is the twist. So far, Stolbova and Klimov don't include a triple twist into their routines. The twist is a painful move for the couple, but they are determined to learn a triple when they move up to seniors next season.
Off the ice, Stolbova likes to watch tennis and is rooting for the Russian female players, especially for Maria Sharapova. She loves ice hockey and in skating she sees Ekaterina Gordeeva as her idol. The 19-year-old enjoys shopping, going to the movies, going out with her friends, and eating sushi in her spare time.
Klimov says that he doesn't have any idols.
"I'm interested in modern figure skating and there are a couple of skaters that I like and whose level I'd like to reach," he noted, naming Germany's two-time World Champions Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy. To relax, he likes soccer. Usually the two don't spend their spare time together.
Both skaters are studying at the Lesgaft Academy in St. Petersburg, an institution for athletes.
"I want to earn a second degree after Lesgaft, in psychology, because I really like this topic," Stolbova said when asked what she would like to do after her competitive career. "Or I would like to do something with design as I like that as well. I would like to do something creative."
"I didn't think about that yet," Klimov answered, laughing. "I'll skate as long as I can and maybe I'll skate after that." He believes that his life forever will be connected to figure skating. "If you do something for 17 years, you don't get away from it," he pointed out.
Stolbova and Klimov competed both in juniors and seniors this season. They took the silver medal at the Junior Final and finished fifth in their debut at the international senior level at Skate America. At Russian Nationals (senior level) they skated well to come in sixth in what was a strong field, and in early February, they defended their national junior title successfully with strong performances.
The team names Junior Worlds as their main goal of the season.
"We really want to win Junior Worlds," Stolbova admitted. However, she realizes that competition is tough with defending champions Wenjing Sui and Cong Han of China and defending silver medalists Narumi Takahashi and Mervin Tran of Japan returning to the event as well.
However, the Russian duo beat Sui and Han at the Junior Grand Prix in Austria, as well as Takahashi and Tran at the Junior Grand Prix in England earlier this season.
Nevertheless, the ambitious Stolbova thinks further than Junior Worlds. When asked where she sees herself in five years, she answers again, quickly and with a smile, "Well, I'd like to sit at home with the gold medal from Sotchi so I can look at it."
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Fresh start for Stolbova and Klimov
September 11, 2013 - by Tatjana Flade, Goldenskate
Photography © Tatjana FladeRussian pair skaters Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov are in for a fresh start this season. The 2011 World Junior silver medalists changed coaches and moved from their native St. Petersburg to Moscow last spring. They are now preparing for the season with the goal in mind to capture a spot on the team for the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi – a difficult task due to the depth of pair skating in Russia.
Stolbova and Klimov went from long-time coach Liudmila Velikova to Nina Mozer’s school right at the end of the season. The team felt that they were not progressing under their old coach, and they actually entertained the idea of switching in 2012. Klimov is also good friends with Maxim Trankov.
“Tatiana (Volosozhar) and Maxim (Trankov) told me that they (Stolbova and Klimov) would like to switch to me,” explained Mozer, “but I realized at that time that emotions played a big role and I declined. I wasn’t really ready for that myself. This time it was different. First of all Tatiana and Maxim need another strong pair to train with in the Olympic year, and they asked for a sparring partner for a long time.”
The first months under the new coaches have passed for Stolbova and Klimov.
“We are in high spirits. Right now we are mostly working on the elements and skate parts of our program,” Klimov, 22, shared. “The main job now is to do the new elements, to maintain the old ones, and to skate the programs. We are in a good mood, because everything is going better day by day and we see the progress.”
One important thing for them to tackle is the triple twist – an element they have been struggling with for a long time.
“Obviously this is the most difficult question, because we are still relearning it,” said Klimov. “We are getting a new technique, (coach) Vlad (Vladislav) Zhovnirski is helping us, and I think the technique has improved. We are doing a double now and soon will move on to the triple. We started from scratch, with some exercises, and with the throw without revolutions.”
Klimov was sidelined with a twisted foot earlier this summer, however, he resumed on-ice training in July and jumping in August.
Stolbova and Klimov are both very satisfied with their new coaching situation. Their choreographer now is Alla Kapranova.
“We are working with Nina Mozer, Vlad Zhovnirski, of course Stanislav Morozov and Maxim (Trankov). Everybody is helping. If someone sees something (in practice), he comes over, corrects us and gives us advice,” 21-year-old Stolbova pointed out.
Klimov revealed that Trankov help them to put together the step sequence for the short program.
“We have worked with more experts in a short period of time already than in our whole lives so far. We already received an enormous amount of experience and more is to come,” he went on, referring to their summer training.
The new short program is a medley of Spanish music.
“I think we grew up and the program is more grown up,” Stolbova commented. “We’ve had a similar program in the past with Spanish music and Flamenco,” her partner added. “It is familiar to us, but just more grown up especially concerning the relationship within the couple.”
The 2012 European bronze medalists don’t have a new long program yet and decided to keep last season’s Addams Family at least for their first competitions.
“We want to change the program, but we don’t know yet what we will do,” Stolbova noted.
“For the first competitions, we’ll keep this one because we have to skate clean and well,” Klimov added. ”We can’t skate an unpolished program. Maybe we will have a new one for the second Grand Prix.”
Stolbova and Klimov have been assigned to the Grand Prix events Skate America and Cup of Russia. They are planning to kick off their season at the national competition Federation Cup in Sochi in October.SPOILER (clicca per visualizzare)Inizio per Stolbova e Klimov
Russo coppia pattinatori Ksenia Stolbova e Fedor Klimov sono dentro per un nuovo inizio in questa stagione . Mondo 2011 medaglia d'argento Junior cambiato allenatori e spostati dalla loro nativa San Pietroburgo a Mosca la scorsa primavera . Ora stanno preparando per la stagione con l'obiettivo in mente di catturare un posto in squadra per i Giochi Olimpici Invernali di Sochi - un compito difficile a causa della profondità di pattinaggio coppia in Russia .
Stolbova e Klimov è passato da lungo tempo allenatore Liudmila Velikova a scuola diritto di Nina Mozer , alla fine della stagione. Il team ritiene che essi non stavano procedendo sotto il loro vecchio allenatore , e che in realtà intrattenuto l'idea di passare nel 2012. Klimov è anche buoni amici con Maxim Trankov .
" Tatiana ( Volosozhar ) e Maxim ( Trankov ) mi ha detto che ( Stolbova e Klimov ) vorrebbero passare a me ", ha spiegato Mozer , " ma mi sono reso conto in quel momento che le emozioni hanno giocato un ruolo importante e ho rifiutato . Non ero pronto per questo me stesso . Questa volta è stato diverso . Prima di tutto Tatiana e Maxim bisogno di un altro paio forte di allenarsi con l'anno olimpico , e hanno chiesto uno sparring partner per lungo tempo " .
I primi mesi nell'ambito dei nuovi allenatori sono passati per Stolbova e Klimov .
"Siamo di buon umore . In questo momento stiamo lavorando soprattutto sugli elementi e le parti da skate del nostro programma , " Klimov , 22 , condiviso . " Il compito principale è ora quello di fare i nuovi elementi , per mantenere quelli vecchi , e di pattinare programmi. Siamo di buon umore , perché tutto sta andando meglio di giorno in giorno e vediamo il progresso . "
Una cosa importante per loro di affrontare è la torsione triplo - un elemento che è stato alle prese con un lungo periodo di tempo .
"Ovviamente questa è la domanda più difficile , perché siamo ancora riapprendimento ", ha detto Klimov . "Stiamo ricevendo una nuova tecnica , ( allenatore ) Vlad ( Vladislav ) Zhovnirski ci sta aiutando, e penso che la tecnica è migliorata . Stiamo facendo una doppia ora e presto passeremo al triplo . Siamo partiti da zero , con alcuni esercizi , e con il tiro senza rivoluzioni . "
Klimov è stato messo da parte con un piede torto all'inizio di questa estate , però , ha ripreso la formazione sul ghiaccio in luglio e salto in agosto.
Stolbova e Klimov sono entrambi molto soddisfatti della loro nuova situazione di coaching . La loro coreografo è ora Alla Kapranova .
"Stiamo lavorando con Nina Mozer , Vlad Zhovnirski , naturalmente Stanislav Morozov e Maxim ( Trankov ) . Ognuno sta aiutando . Se qualcuno vede qualcosa ( in pratica ) , lui si avvicina , ci corregge e ci dà consigli , " 21 -year -old Stolbova sottolineato .
Klimov ha rivelato che Trankov aiutarli a mettere insieme la sequenza passo per il programma corto .
"Abbiamo lavorato con i più esperti in un breve periodo di tempo già che in tutta la nostra vita finora. Abbiamo già ricevuto una quantità enorme di esperienza e di più è quello di venire ", ha continuato , riferendosi al loro allenamenti estivi .
Il nuovo programma corto è un medley di musica spagnola .
"Penso che siamo cresciuti e il programma è più cresciuto, " Stolbova commentato. " Abbiamo avuto un programma simile in passato con la musica spagnola e flamenco ", il suo compagno ha aggiunto . "E ci è familiare , ma solo più cresciuto soprattutto per quanto riguarda il rapporto all'interno della coppia . "
Il 2012 medaglia di bronzo europei non hanno un nuovo programma a lungo ancora ed hanno deciso di mantenere la scorsa stagione Famiglia Addams , almeno per le prime gare .
"Vogliamo cambiare il programma , ma non sappiamo ancora cosa faremo , " Stolbova osservato.
"Per i primi concorsi , terremo questo perché dobbiamo pattinare pulito e bene", Klimov aggiunto. "Non possiamo pattinare un programma non lucidato. Forse avremo uno nuovo per il secondo Gran Premio " .
Stolbova e Klimov sono stati assegnati il Gran Premio di eventi Skate America e Coppa di Russia . Stanno progettando di dare il via la stagione al concorso nazionale Federation Cup a Sochi nel mese di ottobre .. -
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