Crossovers on ice

I learned from my 1st ice event, is that ice unlike inline's demands a very strong legs and very high level of power.
Since the event I been busting my ass at the gym, everyday working on power training and making my legs ready for the next event, I can already feel a big difference and it's in only 2 weeks, I skate 7-10 lap's on 35sec for lap with no big problem, sometimes it feels better and sometimes less, but I know I'm improving and I can feel it.

Right now, since I'm working a lot on power and around 2-3 hours on the ice, I didn't make too much video's lately, I did make one today.
At morning warm up on the 330m ice track.

Russia cup - day 2 & 3

At day 2 of Russia cup,I joined a 2nd 500m race and a 5,000m race as well.
The 500m race, I got a weak
opponent, and I won the 1 on 1, but the result was slower than yesterday in 0.5, which was bad.

500m race

500m race

On the tech side, I feel much better since this event photos, helped me to see that I had done a long way and improved my tech. At the 5k, I started slowly, and after 3 laps everything went ok, but my leg started hurting, and speed lowered.
I started to skate on 38-39 sec for 1 lap, which is 2-3 sec away from what I needed, This pain in the Quad didn't leave me, and I skated slowly to finish with 8 min for 5km.
I don't like my results in this Cup, I think that they are very low, but for someone skating 1 month and with no pro backgroup, I'm doing ok.
Now I'm starting to work on power training since I have to increase my power skating.

 Next event will be in 1 month I think, and I'm going to work to be better stronger and faster.

1st event on ice - 1st day

WOW !
1st day is now over, Started with 500m and a bit of failing on that heat.
I skated a bit in the morning, before the race and it felt good.

Good morning Coach :)

After watching the ladies 500m, I went home for a 2 hours rest, in that time I watched maybe 100 YouTube video's about 500m skating and  I tried to analyze them before my 1st time on that event.
When my time came, I was nervus as hell ! The only thing I can say I do good on ice, is the starting line jump, I got strong strokes and I can go quite fast on a good start, for some reason (I guess why) that didn't happen in the 500m heat, and I had a bad start followed by a bad skating :(
Finished with 00:00:43.7 sec.

After resting and getting ready (More mentaly) the 1500m came, and OMG I was the 1st couple to skate ! but this time, it worked.

Coach had a long talk with me, how to relax my self.

Coach briefing

After a good start, I opened a gap which took me to victory in my 1 on 1, and in the total score somewhere near the end of the list, but not in the end ! :)
Finished with 00:02:12 , 41km/h avg.speed.

And in the end, 1 good photo :)
Tomorrow, I got 2nd shoot at 500m and I'll race for 5,000m as well.

New clip on ice

It's up and ready, last 2 min are from the last days of training.

History is about to be made

The city is full with sportman, you can see them running on the streets...
When I walk I see a lot of different type of T-shirts with speedskating logo's on them....Each one and his city...

The rink is full with skater, no place to sit 

The media are the at ic rink, taking photo's and video of the national team skating practice...The reason for that is that in 2 days, 14/10-17/10, Russia cup will take part at Kolomna ice rink.

Team training

And for the 1st time in history, there will be an Israeli skater on the line as well.
This will be my 1st competion, I only been skating for 1 month today on the ice, I got nice results on training but still not on the level of a good skater, so for now I am surely the underdog for this competion, not to forget it's my 1st ever event on ice, so I guess I will be a bit excited.

Watch out, Israeli skater on ice :)

Getting ready

BUT, being the underdog still got his suprise element, and that is what I'm hoping for :)

Since I got no idea what distance is 100% good for me, I will take part in almost all of them.
I will start with 500m and later on the same day, 1500m as well.

Underdog or not, I'm ready !

And day after (Sat) I will take the 5,000m event too.

My goals are to avoid being last and learning how to act in such event.
I come from inline world, where the pack and the draft has very big power on how you skate, I'm not used to 1-on-1 style like in Long track.

 a good friend once told me : "Competion is the best practice" , I agree.
Good luck to everyone :)

What is up lately...

For now life in Russia, as well life on ice has been good, my ice skating is being improved from day to day and I feel much better on the ice.
I been working on editing a new clip but I need to shoot more video's so it will be delayed for now....

I had a fuse burned in my fuse box at home...but this fuse box is unlike anything I saw before...something very very old....I had to wait a few hours for someone to come and help me fix that...


How old can this be ? :)

The fall is here like a good timing clock, on the 1/9 the temp went down and since than I feel a real fall with leaf falling from the trees non stop and covering the streets and side walks and as well the cold weather with non stop rain for the past 2 weeks.

Winter on the streets

My inline rink is wet 99% of the time, it has been almost 40 days without wheels on my legs, I kind of miss the inline's , just for a short skating , hoping I didn't forget how to skate :)

Ice arena in the rain

My inline rink....wet wet wet

I told so many people in so many times about how bad the Russian roads are for skating....But today I woke up to a new asfalt showed up on my street ! Maybe someone want's to prove me wrong :)
But I go a pic of before and after for that.

The road before fixing, with  many holes

The new road :)

Until next update...which I hope will be with the new video clip, Have a good week.

2nd promo part

As the days go by, I'm filming more and more for my next clip.... Here are 20 sec of skating behind me.

Getting close to 6 months

It's almost here, I'll be celebrating half a year as a pro skater.
The summer season is over, nice results with the St.Petersburg inline marathon (Finished 5th) and Kolomna inline championship (Finished 4th on 10k) now it's the winter season time on ice.
I will summy my 1st month on ice, and 5 months on inline in this clip I started to make and will be ready in 1-2 weeks I hope.

This is the song choosen + a little promo :