August 17, 2014 | Summer
Valery Alfosov: "In London, we went" to the probe, "as the museum"
Gymnastics
Valery ALFOSOV. Photo Elena Mikhailova, FSGR
Interlocutor Helena Vaytsehovsky
While we were with the senior coach of the men's team walked away from the main body to the gym, he talked about how hard it is sometimes to find talented athletes, each of them - their weight in gold. While in Japan, the same national championship gathers several hundred masters of high class in China - more, in connection with which the country's domestic championship is always preceded by a lot of qualifiers regional scale. Recalled and American gymnastics with its countless sports clubs and the army of top-class experts.
In general, by the time I turned on the recorder, the first question formed itself.
- How do you find the strength to work, knowing that your sport becomes more popular, mass, and so - and more productive? It turns out in fact that we lag behind competitors already at the start. Putting together all the resources, try a last effort to oppose something gymnastic grandees and understand at the same time that the chances of success with each year it becomes less, right?
- Actually, I deliberately chose a career coach, really love her and get their work great satisfaction. You, of course, correct all told. To sport constantly delivers results, the country must work the whole system. It is not that we do not have it - we restore gymnastic schools, conduct coaching seminars, invite mentors with students to the main training base of the country, but to catch up with the same Japanese or Chinese, we definitely hard.
- Gymnastics has always been a field of activity of artisans single. What is happening in the coaching workshop? Work all the same people as before, or are new?
- I would say that if artisanal single which now remained, so it is in the children's schools. On the one hand, it's good when a section is a man who knows how to grow the athlete, his work begin to look closely and those who work there. Just before each coach was forced to work for the result - this is directly dependent on the amount of his salary. Now times have changed. Increased galaxy professionals who do not rush to that to bring the student up to the national team - earn money doing with pay groups.
In my day, if a boy not pull 8-10 times, he did not have a chance to get into a big gym. And in groups constantly there was a selection of the best. At the national championships each of the 15 republics brought home the team of 6-7 people. And the Fans from all over Ukraine, Belarus or Kazakhstan got sometimes just one athlete. The best, most proven, most reliable. And what can be paid to the selection of groups?
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- Do I understand correctly that for you this season in some way passing, despite the fact that in September in China will be held the next World Cup?
- Actually, yes. The main strategic goal in this tournament is to get into the top 24 and, respectively, to obtain the right to speak at the world championships next year, which will qualify for the Games in Rio de Janeiro. But passing - does not mean minor. It's just that each of the leaders of our team in this tournament their tasks. For example, Denis Ablyazin (five-time European champion. - Approx. "SE") to be "equalized" with rivals in the floor exercise. The most difficult to date the program has Japanese Kenzo Shirai. The base cost of the combination on the carpet - 7.4. Denis tried similar in complexity to the program at the Spring Championship of Russia in Penza, and it all turned out. At the European Championships, we risk not steel, limited base 7.2, but in China Ablyazin will again try a more complex version. Wow once begin to impose stiff competition? All his rivals we track, so you always know what to expect from them.
- That is, the appearance of the Dutchman Epke Zonderlanda who won in London exercises on the bar, at one time you were not surprised?
- I was surprised then another: few people even admit that when absolutely incredible complexity of its elements and ligaments Epke ever be able to perform a combination of clean. When he appeared at his first World Championships, the president of the International Federation Bruno Grandi expressed aloud even doubt that such exercises can be someone interesting: the complexity of the combination of the base the Dutchman was higher than the estimate, which he was able to obtain for the performance.
But a year before the Olympic Games in London Zonderland tight "sat" on the bar and more than anything else is not doing. In the morning, come to the gym and working out the first part of the program. In the evening the same way fiddling with the second part. In the morning the next day - cleaning out the third. Evening working out dismount. And thus brought to a combination of an ideal state, without sacrificing complexity. In London we went to in their spare time in the hall "in the probe," just as people go to the museum. It was a unique work of a unique, born to kick athlete.
- Heard many times that the crossbar - a special shell, and always wanted to ask: what is unique about turnista?
- Crossbar - shell specific. It has to constantly let go and catch. That is, coordination abilities athlete should initially be higher than that of those who advocate for other shells. Such specificity exists in each of the gymnastic species. Koltseviki example, at one time were forced to make eight power components in a combination. Accordingly, the arm and shoulder muscles they had developed to the extent that the then chairman of the Technical Committee even got a tacit reference to check for doping everyone who performs at the highest level. Tested for a year! Not caught any. And it was only in the fact that natural selection worked. If a person is on the nature of light, but the structure of the muscles allows them to quickly develop and inflated, it a direct route to the ring. Work with the "bottle-" - people who pumped muscles price superhuman work on the rings is pointless. Because these muscles without proper load instantly "blown away."
Or take the same Shirai. He makes four pirouette at the end of the program. But uniqueness is not the case. It is - in a very phenomenal abilities of the athlete clearly differentiate screw elements on the number of rotations. You must know that in such rotations in athletes is often a "twist" - incoordination. Jump four pirouette - lost the ability to perform three. We must pause to recover everything. Here people came to five turns, while clearly thinks: here - two there - three and a half there - four and a half. And all of his plays on the floor exercise is composed of pirouettes.
- And what is the talent of those who are out of reach on a horse?
- This projectile paramount anthropometric data. Proportion of length of arms, legs, pelvis height.
- That is, if you put a monkey on his horse with his hands to his knees, she already due to this will be the advantage?
- Of course. A very important role is played by the horse sense of rhythm. When a person is able to withstand rhythm it is less affected by the centrifugal force. Its not so much "drags" on the projectile.
- It turns out that the number of people who work equally well in all six species must continuously decrease?
- This number becomes smaller. Just as long as the gymnastics program contains the team competition, the team should be all-rounders. At least two or three. Otherwise, all the Rockets just do not "close". If it happens that the team tournament will be removed, along with it will die and all-around: drag all six rounds now incredibly hard.
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- In the women's Russian team in the past two years, came under a barrage of various injuries. Men's such an epidemic was over?
- Injuries in our sport happen at all. Most of them are not associated with any falls or not enough good technique, and arises from the constant congestion of the musculoskeletal system. Mark Emin Garibov (two-time European champion in the exercises on the horizontal bar. - Approx. "SE") it before the Games in London ached shoulder. He doterpel, worked Olympic cycle. And I realized that more can not stand. So we came to the decision to operate on his shoulders, and only then begin to prepare for the Games in Rio. Transactions have been made in Germany a few months ago, now restored Emin.
- Why do most athletes prefer to have surgery abroad rather than at home?
- There is not any one reason. Sometimes it happens that someone successfully operated, and second, if the injury happens suddenly, wants the same clinic. I can not even about their purely subjective feelings tell when I pick up a black-and-white shot of an MRI done in any of our clinics, you can not make out anything. And in the same German hospitals colored pictures. They are all clearly visible, all can be shown to the patient, explain where - anguish, where inflammation. Of course, once there is more confidence in the doctor. Maybe it's wrong, do not argue. But it turned out like this.
- Who, besides Denis Ablyazin, you could call the team leader now?
- Alexander Balandin - our koltsevika (three-time European champion. - Approx. "SE"). On horseback we have Mykola Kuksenkov - its a combination of one of the most difficult, with the complexity of the base 7.2. More difficult exercise makes only Englishman Max Whitlock - 7.4. That is, we are constantly trying to "equalize" with world leaders to at least keep up with them.
- And what happens on the bars?
- There we have David Bielawski. Which is quite capable to get in the World Cup finals. Still, the boards - a native Asian projectile.
- It is a question of quantity of work, or some special body?
- It's hard to say. In my opinion - is the question systematically. If we are historically more typical work "over" bars, the Asians will work under poles. And the foundations of this work lays the gymnasts still very childhood.
- I always thought that our coaches are not very willing to depart from those procedures that were adopted during the Soviet era. And it does not seek to adopt in this regard, the experience of others.
- In vain think so. Now the team is quite a lot of young coaches who are very receptive to new ideas. They study everything you can find on the internet: theory, videos. Know what is happening in America, in China, in Japan. For example, the Japanese in the floor exercise virtually removed from the combination of its athletes an element such as a double somersault - began to focus on the screws. And from my point of view, is the most advantageous combination in which there are all the gymnastic variety. I would, for example, wanted to see by Shirai triple somersault. Or, at worst, as an interesting combination for rotations, as does the carpet Ablyazin. Kohei Uchimura did a completely unique set of elements at the World Championships in Tokyo, a year before the 2012 Games! Then he, in particular, played in one of the diagonals of a double somersault with two screws. And now abandoned this element - went mostly to screw rotation.
But the fact is that all the "distortions" are good only when a person has the whole range of elements. And not only those that provide for the maximum number of points.
- For some reason I remember the Athens Olympics and the performance of Alexei Nemov on the crossbar. Externally, it has been extremely advantageous, but did not bring the athlete no technical advantages. What do you think Nemov could prepare those games more impressive combination?
- I think not. Still, it was already his third Olympics. For the team he squeezed himself to the last drop. And on a personal tournament is not strong enough.
- What developments do you expect from the 2016 Games?
- It is difficult to answer this question, but you can try: in Europe, for example, there was also gaining momentum very interesting team Holland. Brazilian team is dangerous - it is now clear that in Rio, this country would not be the last roles. Good Mexicans, Colombians. Weak teams are left - it's obvious now. Two years later, things will get complicated. But we are ready for it.
- What kind of "original medal" task at the September World Championships you put in front of his team?
- The main thing - to look decent. Medals and places until armistice.
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