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The coach of Olympic champion in Turin in 2006 gave an interview before the games that gives some indication of the state of the form of Plushenko and how to deal with the Olympics, given his experience.
Friday 7 February 2014 7 minutes reading time
And 'common thought during the Olympics for which you should not even think you are going to compete in a big event, working as a normal workout. From his perspective, this is possible?
Alexei Mishin: Of course not. It 's like trying to convince an astronaut going to Mars, which is just go and take a walk in the countryside on a small helicopter.
Yet from his colleagues often hear the phrase: "Flap like a workout"
Alexei Mishin: Well say leave him.
So prepares its athletes with the competition?
Alexei Mishin: No comment, it's a secret.
What methods are there to distract from the performance athlete who is going to perform? He has some technique in particular with its athletes?
Alexei Mishin: Looking totally the person does not help in these situations, but it is certainly possible. Sometimes I had to do it. How? This is my secret, however, are not conducive to having long conversations with athletes.
She prepared Evgeni Plushenko for four different Olympic Games. In which of them the role of coach has been stronger?
Alexei Mishin: The word "strong" is not quite accurate. I would say more different. If the first two Olympics I had a particular role of "teacher" in Vancouver, my task was to accompany and protect it from errors in the preparation of the event.
He never thought that his presence as a coach against his pupils was too urgent?
Alexei Mishin: I think it is more a question of internal clock, to behave in such a way as to avoid these situations. And this applies not only in sports.
When Lillehammer won his pupil Alexei Urmanov, she asked not to come to training with a camera, not to scare of a possible victory. Is there any sign of this type at this time?
Alexei Mishin: Yes
About Plushenko, has developed some special training technique?
Alexei Mishin: Obviously it. The main concern here are the workouts in Sochi. All planned in detail, as well as rest days. However, when one day we did not come to the track to train, some journalists immediately saw it as a negative signal.
Think that the previous experience of the Olympics help the athlete?
Alexei Mishin: The athlete has no choice. If you have experience it has, there is little to go around. In some situations it may help, while others interfere in performance.
Let's talk about you, he's going to patent his training methods?
Alexei Mishin: I'd like of course, but above all to make sure that my methods are common in the world, from New Zealand to North America. And I speak as if I were Mikhail Kalashnikov, who invented his famous weapon, but he never patented. And then that most of the training methods, I would speak of concepts. That began to take shape already when I was sitting at home with my father to think. These concepts that have allowed me to improve as athletes Alexei Urmanov, Oleg Tautarov and Ruslana Novoseltseva. A famous chess player, can not remember his name, written a book called "My method" (Editor's note refers to the Soviet Grandmaster Joseph Dorfman and his book "My method in chess"). I think that soon I'll write a book. Returning to the question, my favorite anecdote dates back to a time when an American came to a seminar in Germany, in the gym and asked me, "Oh, she also works with the system Mishin?". Only now I was able to patent one of the developments that I made with the engineer Shapiro (editor's note, Mishin's Magic Vest, to control the position of the body and arms), despite being aware of the many devices produced illegally.
For an athlete his last race is always special. How do you feel as a coach, knowing that the career of his most brilliant student in Sochi will end up here? He's going to continue to train at the same level now?
Alexei Mishin: Games in Sochi in a sense will pull a line on my 20 years of working with Plushenko. All the training and life spent together, we are connected by many things, from skating and choreography, to build houses and cars that we like. In any case, Evgeni has not yet said that they intended to quit for good, not categorically exclude a return. In any case, I still feel strong enough to continue to coach.
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