lovplush wrote:... I know that Plushy is too larger than life for them, but still.....
lovplush wrote:... I know that Plushy is too larger than life for them, but still.....
http://racingskater.tumblr.com/post/331 ... u-got-into
30 Days of Figure Skating, Day 1: How you got into figure skating
Evgeni Plushenko 2010 Olympics FS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtY1CuAbLgs
Evgeni Plushenko.
It was a Friday night, and I had just got home from work, exhausted; I collapsed on the couch, and with my younger sister, we decided to see what was on from the Olympics.
All week I had been reading in the paper about an ice dance couple doing an Aboriginal dance that offended a few of our elders. And about an American guy that got threats from PETA about his costume.
And about a Russian guy who was obsessed with this jump called a quad.
And what did we find when we switched to Channel 9? The last group of the men’s long program.
We flinched through Chan and Takahashi. We adored Lambiel. We loved Weir. We shuddered and squealed “EWW!” all through Lysacek.
And then Plushenko skated. It was magic. He literally reached through that TV screen, and grabbed me. Even had I not wanted to watch, I would have been powerless to look away.
I didn’t know anything about figure skating. Nothing at all. But I knew I was seeing magic. I knew I was seeing one of the greatest skaters ever. I knew I was watching someone truly special.
From that moment, I fell in love.
I went straight to my computer. To Youtube. To the internet. I was determined to know everything. And the more I knew, the more I fell in love.
Then, as I searched desperately for a way to exericse, I began to wonder if I could skate, too.
In October of 2010 I hooked up with my wonderful coach. And I’ve never looked back!
http://racingskater.tumblr.com/post/333 ... zey-evgeni
phrazey
Evgeni Plushenko - Rondo Capriccioso, The Swan, Danse Macabre by Saint-Saens
Japan Open 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcl8aQEpOeY
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ironcountess
LET ME TAKE THIS AS A MOMENT OF OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLAIN WHY I LOVE THIS MAN.
The choreography in this programme is representative of a swan, and throughout you see him expressing both the joy, and eventual torture of the swan. Through a dance, he flaps his arms in the way a swan would its wings, gracefully, yet showing pain. Time and time again he’s shown us that in this area, he can master so many different artistic styles, and this here is no exception.
Also, despite the small mistakes and his fall, he never once loses his presence or composure. Other skaters may fall apart when faced with this, but he picks himself up and carries on like nothing happened. He has this sort of iron will, which not only makes him interesting to watch, but also makes it to where you cannot take your eyes off of him.
It’s still pretty early in the season, and of course there is room for improvement. But I am really enjoying this programme, and cannot wait to see how he transforms this programme with the potential I know he has.
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whitebamboo
Yes, this. He is graceful and elegant, yet he is also capable of going far beyond grace and elegance, to express pain, torment, struggle with scope and grandeur and might. That is something I always found so wonderful about him.
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racingskater
I have no words to describe this. I could feel my heart soaring as I watched him skate. Every time I watch Evgeni skate it reaffirms why I love this sport so much. He is beautiful beyond beauty, with an unearthly elegance and incredible commitment that can never be denied.
Let those pretenders to his throne keep on pretending. Let them tell themselves that they are good enough. But the stark reality is this:
At thirty years of age, Plushenko has attained control of a new scoring system that wasn’t even thought of when he began as a Senior. He has developed and implemented NEW elements into his programs - the broken-leg spin, the Y-spiral - and a Y-spiral at THIRTY YEARS OLD, I remind you - while retaining and IMPROVING the old ones. He has continued to develop artistically and emotionally. He has even included large amounts of transitions in his program, which no doubt will continue to fail to please the critics, but to my eye looks far more flowing and wonderful than Chan’s “everything including the kitchen sink” programs.
There are pretenders to his throne. Let them fall at his feet and do their penance. For there is only one King, and he is not yet ready to hand over his crown.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/evgeniplushenko/
Karen Davies
A Fan's report, they thought the same as I did when I first saw him
Cyndy Collins
Me too, Karen. I wasn't a fan of figure skating and had always thought it was kind of boring. I only watched it because my sister had always been a fan of the sport. Then I saw Plushenko skate...and my whole world changed.
Kudryavka wrote:Джонни Вейр: "Вернуться, как Плющенко, я не могу"
(Returning like Plushenko, I can not)
...
А мне в Сочи будет почти 30. Это очень тяжело, особенно если ты не дерешься, как зверь, как это делает Плющенко....
http://winter.sport-express.ru/figuresk ... ews/25370/
cekoni wrote:Kudryavka wrote:Джонни Вейр: "Вернуться, как Плющенко, я не могу"
(Returning like Plushenko, I can not)
...
А мне в Сочи будет почти 30. Это очень тяжело, особенно если ты не дерешься, как зверь, как это делает Плющенко....
http://winter.sport-express.ru/figuresk ... ews/25370/
more and more often, when Johnny "justifying" himself, he used somewhat insulting comparisons of Plushy with beasts .... and I do not like it at all
whitebamboo wrote:cekoni wrote:... А мне в Сочи будет почти 30. Это очень тяжело, особенно если ты не дерешься, как зверь, как это делает Плющенко....
http://winter.sport-express.ru/figuresk ... ews/25370/
I guess, I don't think that Johnny (of all people) wanted to insult Evgeni, perhaps it's just that he generally seems to tend to use words in a kind of colloquial and "loose" way? It's just my personal interpretation, but I'm guessing that "fight like a dog" isn't actually negative in his own mind when he was saying it...But in other languages it could sound quite different.
(Sorry, I just assumed that's what you were talking about? I haven't looked at the Russian article via Google yet, but I think I saw part of it in English on Tumblr....)
http://winter.sport-express.ru/figuresk ... ews/22365/
06.06.2012
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- А я никогда не был столь уж заряженным на борьбу. Я не такой боец, как Плющенко, который дерется, как пес, за победу в каждом соревновании. Может быть, это потому, что он русский, а я американец, и нам не приходится, как вам, страдать и бороться за все на свете....
cekoni wrote:Kudryavka wrote:Джонни Вейр: "Вернуться, как Плющенко, я не могу"
(Returning like Plushenko, I can not)
...
А мне в Сочи будет почти 30. Это очень тяжело, особенно если ты не дерешься, как зверь, как это делает Плющенко....
http://winter.sport-express.ru/figuresk ... ews/25370/
more and more often, when Johnny "justifying" himself, he used somewhat insulting comparisons of Plushy with beasts .... and I do not like it at all
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