"He is not only a talented mentor, but also a very decent, kind and smart person. In work and life he leaves an impression of a 25-year-old. He does everything I do - jogging, jumping, playing tennis. It's even quite unclear which one of us gets tired first." ....
Evgeny Plushenko
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_MishinAlexei Nikolaevich Mishin (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Ми́шин, born March 8, 1941) is a Russian former figure skater and a current coach.
Among Mishin's current and former students are Olympic champions Alexei Urmanov, Alexei Yagudin and Evgeni Plushenko. Mishin has also runs summer seminars. Among the skaters who have attended those are Gheorghe Chiper and Stéphane Lambiel.
BiographyMishin spent his childhood in Tbilisi and afterwards moved to Leningrad with his family. He was always interested in mechanics, but at the age of 15 started skating. He was first coached by Nina Lepninskaya, a pupil of Nikolai Panin. Mishin's parents encouraged him to skate.
Mishin competed in singles within the Soviet Union and in 1966 he started competing internationally in pairs with Tamara Moskvina. Together they won the 1969 Soviet Figure Skating Championships defeating both the two-time Olympic Gold medalists Ludmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov, and the future champions Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov. They went on to place second at the 1969 World Figure Skating Championships. They won the silver medal (1968) and the Bronze medal (1969) at the European Championships. They later decided to retire to concentrate on a coaching career. Mishin was 28 at the time.
He comments:
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Me and Tamara Moskvina were famous in the USSR: people recognized us in the shops, we could buy a car... But from the very start I looked forward to train other people and never regretted becoming a coach.
Mishin graduated from university with a degree in mechanics and started his dissertation on the mechanical base of figure skating technique. He started with coaching the junior ladies to success at national and international competitions, but later switched to men singles. Soon he became a well-known coach, due to his training methods that made the skaters learn jumps very quickly. In addition, he has authored several books on the biomechanics of figure skating and jumps which have been published in Russia, Germany, China, Japan and several other countries.
Mishin is married to Tatiana Mishina (née Oleneva), a former figure skater, and they coach together and separately. They have two sons.
He prefers to work with men's single skaters:
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Coaching women is dangerous — there's always probability that the story of Pygmalion will recur periodically. My wife was a mere pupil at first. See, what has eventually happened?
Mishin is a professor at the Lesgeft School of Sports Science and Physical Education and give seminars all over the world.
Orders and rewards * Order of Friendship of Peoples (1994)
* Meritorious Worker of Physical Education of Russian Federation (2002)
* Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR
* Honoured Coach of Sports of the USSR
* Honoured Coach of Sports of Russian Federation
* Commendation of the President of Russia (2002)
* Honorary title "Best in Saint Petersburg's Sports" (2006)
Publications * Mishin, Alexei (1976) (in Russian). Figure scating jumps. Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. pp. 104.
* Mishin, Alexei (1979) (in Russian). School in figure scating. Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. pp. 175.
* Mishin, Alexei (1981) (in Russian). Biomechanics of figure scaters' moves. Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. pp. 144.
* Mishin, Alexei, ed (1985) (in Russian). Figure scating: A study manual for sports colleges. Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. pp. 271.
External links * Official website of Alexey Mishin:
http://www.mishincoachofchampions.com/* site with many nice infos:
http://northern-stars.htmlplanet.com/profi...in_profile.htmlTamara Moskvina & Alexey Mishin...1968
1968 Olymipics Grenoble
1969
Plushy, Mishin, Alexey Urmanov - 1996/1997
... with their three Olympic Champions!
Plushy, Urmanov, Alexey Yagudin...
