Shipulin's first coach: Anton interferes with the favorites, so he was removed. Andrey Kryuchkov: “A high-class athlete is not a guinea pig. You have each other’s phone numbers.”

Anton Shipulin: “When the coach asked: “Have you read the news?”, I understood everything without words”

Russian biathlete Anton Shipulin, in an interview with Match TV, told how he survived the IOC’s decision not to let him into the Olympics, and also explained why he was not offended by his European colleagues.

After the sixth stage of the World Cup, no one had any doubts that the team was going to the Olympics in its entirety, but you said the phrase: “If they don’t let me in, then...” Did you still have doubts?

Well, seeing the situation that happened on December 5, before that, when honest, clean guys were suspended and their medals were taken away, I immediately told the coaches: “This is not the end.” In general, it was not easy for me to decide whether to go under neutral flag to the Olympic Games or not. When they asked on Match TV, I had already made up my mind - I just didn’t want to go out in public. But up to this point, I had been making a decision for a month. I tried to set myself up and mobilize. We prepared a good plan with the coaches before the Olympics, we had to be in good shape for the start of the competition. But then this decision happened. I'll even tell you how it was.

I was talking on Skype with my wife and son, started getting ready for training - and then there was a knock on the door. Andrey Kryuchkov opens: “Well, have you read the news?” I asked in surprise: “What news?” Although everything was clear from Andrei Sergeevich’s face. He had not yet finished his sentence, but I already understood: it looks like we are not going to the Olympics. All my mobilization seemed to disappear in a split second. I walked for another half a day, wadded. Well, you can't change fate. I thought a lot about my family, about the fact that they are my main victory. I desperately wanted to go home; I didn’t understand why I would still stay in Europe. But the coach held me back: “Wait, wait, the information may be inaccurate.” On the same day they wrote a letter to the IOC.

Then I called up my friends, and they offered me to take part in “Marchalonga”. Unwind. I approached the coach and told him about this idea. Although I had never run such distances before, or even the classics. But Andrei Kryuchkov is a subtle psychologist, he understood that for the next 5-6 days I needed some kind of goal in order to stay in Europe, to wait until the end.

And I retuned again, hope appeared. The guys were acquitted by the arbitration court; they understood that there was a chance. I began to concentrate and tune in. The weight began to decrease, and this is the first sign that the body is mobilizing.

- And were you ready to come even on the opening day of the Olympics?

Not “at least”, but right on opening day. I even talked to my wife and warned her that, most likely, I would be leaving tomorrow. I looked at all the flights and first understood what to take with me. I didn’t sleep for three nights because the decision was delayed. I constantly woke up and watched the news with hope. They would have felt more sorry for us if they had announced the decision right away. I really didn’t sleep for three nights, I hoped.

- Weren’t you surprised by the reaction of the biathlon family? Nobody followed the example of Simon Fourcade.

The public probably thinks that we are all bosom friends here, almost brothers.

- They say that all the time.

So these are empty words. We communicate well, we can joke around, have a party at the end of the season, as we did before, but in a difficult situation, I don’t think I would stand up for them either. And I don't blame them for that. I would fight for someone from my team to the last, I would gnaw my teeth to the end for my own. But they are not our own. Good guys, but not ours. Yes, maybe he was waiting for some messages.

- You have each other’s phone numbers.

Certainly. The only thing is that Daria Domracheva wrote to me that Bjoerndalen is very worried and asks me to say hello. That was nice. Because he is my idol, the person I rooted for. And indeed he has now become closest to us.

In this situation, I am not at all disappointed, not at all offended. I will communicate with the guys the same way I communicated. Let the same Peiffer speak out recently. But I understand that when you give various interviews, especially to print media, they take phrases out of context. Maybe in his heart he didn’t want to say it so rudely. Peiffer is a great guy who I talked to a lot. And I won’t change my opinion about him.

- Aren't you lying?

I definitely won’t bare my teeth, nor will I drive by and not say hello. I will remember who is who. I haven't done anything wrong. Throughout his career he was a clean and honest athlete. There wasn't even a single red flag.

- Is this a test pass?

Yes. Or when someone runs away from doping officers. This has never happened before. Therefore, I want to prove at the World Cup that it was in vain that I did not go to the Olympics. I will try to come in good shape and finish the season well.

- And wishes to the guys who are now in Korea.

The main thing is to abstract yourself. This is the first Olympics for all of them. I remember those emotions when there are too many of them and you need to cope with them. I tried to convey some instructions to Babikov, the guys have all sport life there will be many more races ahead. The main thing is to help. If I can give at least something, a piece of myself, and it will benefit them, that will be great. I will be happy for them no less than I would be happy for myself. They fight, they fight for us, for the country.

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Shipulin in Norway lost speed sharply at the finish of each race. What is it: fatigue, mistakes in preparation or a natural decline in the athlete?

Dmitry Guberniev, commentator at Match TV

— You have to be a person who doesn’t understand biathlon at all to criticize Anton Shipulin. Thank you that we have it at all. The man who performs for a long time at the highest level. This is a sport of the highest achievements! I am grateful for all the positive moments that Anton gives us. There are things that work out, and there are things that don't work out. Rivals are also not asleep, and Eberhard is one of the best skiers in the biathlon elite. Anton was preparing for the Olympics, but now he has an objective decline, which he warned about. Emotionally, he is subject to such fluctuations, but he tunes in and fights, leading the others. Of course, Shipulin is needed Russian sports and Russian biathlon.

“Have you eaten fish soup?” Only scoundrels do this to their athletes

The Ukrainian women could barely hold back their tears, Shipulin walked more gloomily than a cloud, and Doren-Habert grieved as she said goodbye. And only Dmitry goes to Tyumen on a positive note.

Alexander Tikhonov, four-time Olympic champion

- This is due to illiterate planning of training volumes of speed-strength work. This is the result of the illiterate work of his coaches and Anton himself. Johannes Boe, Martin Fourcade and Julian Eberhard do it as they want, although they run all season and almost never miss a start. They had a flight to Korea, a change in time zones, but they are recovering and do not lose their shape until the end of the season. I have been talking about the reasons for what is happening to Anton for a long time.

, Olympic champion

- There is no strength for the relay race. Seriously, I have no strength. I would even be happy to give up the relay race and let the guys run and twitch. But I feel that I won’t have such a chance.

Bronze again. Shipulin was not strong enough to set a season record

Russia claimed silver until the last lap of the race, but Shipulin could not resist the onslaught of Eberhard and finished third.

Maxim Tsvetkov, world champion

— Everyone supported Anton at the finish line. We understand that Eberhard is a very strong athlete. He has already shown this in Finland. It was difficult to do anything with him here. We understand everything, there are no hard feelings, it’s not even discussed. The team worked through all stages well. Yes, perhaps everyone could bring a little, add. Maybe these seconds would be enough. But what happened, happened. Everyone supported Anton and advised him not to dwell on this and continue to work.

Vladimir Putrov, former personal coach Anton Shipulina

— We need to conduct an analysis after the end of the season on April 7. Now I don’t want to draw conclusions, although I am concerned about what is happening. There are a lot of questions regarding the preparation of the team. I intend to go to the coaching council and ask them there. After I receive the answers, I will be happy to tell you a lot of interesting things.

Alexander Privalov, Honored Coach of the USSR, medalist Olympic Games

— People stopped training normally. This year literally the entire team is overloaded. I don’t know what they were doing, but they look like driven horses. I can assume that we went too far with intense speed-strength work, but during the preparatory period we did not perform normal volumes. To speak specifically, you need to look at their plans. At one time, I asked that cross-country be included in the program of the Russian championships. They did it, but almost none of the “collectors” ran. Why? Their knees hurt. And then cross-country was completely excluded. All training is based on roller skis. And we step on this rake from year to year. I explained this to Kravtsov at the coaching council, offered my help, but nothing went further than words. And this year they made it even worse. The team is in such a deep hole that it’s embarrassing to watch.

Leonid Guryev, Russian national team analyst, former coach Russian women's team:

— In the summer there was emasculation. We asked Kryuchkov why he gives two hard workouts a week on the second and fifth days. And this year he added a third hard workout. I don't understand why? At the Olympic Games the program is soft, there are no races for two days in a row. Kryuchkov says that they are preparing for the World Cup. Then, in the summer, Anton held the World Championships at the end of August, and the Russian Championships at the end of September. He is no longer a young athlete, and the program ends at the Olympics at the end of the month. So what was the point of these starts? These harsh trainings led to collapse. When we were there, we weighed each control workout, thought whether it was necessary, whether repeated work was needed. According to the traditional method, if you go to a height of 1300 meters in June, in August at 2000 thousand, and at the roll-in - at 3000 thousand. But for him everything goes in the opposite direction. In June they rode 2000 meters in Belmeken, in August in Sochi - 1300. Kryuchkov says that he needed to raise his hemoglobin, but this is not done that way. When the coaches reported, most of the questions were directed at Kryuchkov, and he could not answer them. I understand that he is a strong theorist, he studied many methods, including how Scandinavian athletes train, but he had no practical experience, and he was immediately given the best athlete.

Our opinion

Alexander Kruglov, “Championship” columnist

— Before the start of the season, Anton rightly expressed doubts about the coaching experiment and what he could lose explosive force. As a result, in search of the best before the Olympics, he lost what he had good, namely speed endurance and explosive power in the last lap. The first bell was back in December in France, when Alexander Loginov almost caught up with him. At the same time, Anton was in good shape. He lost on the last lap in his favorite Antholz. Against the backdrop of general fatigue, the problem became catastrophic. But the main problem is that Anton continues to trust his coach and prefers his comfort zone to competitive training. The complete degradation of Volkov as a racer this season also speaks to the error of the chosen path.

Anton Shipulin is a famous Russian biathlete, a brilliant athlete, the hope of Russia in biathlon. Shipulin is a man of character. Strong athlete, a true leader, fighter. The one whom the Russian fan admires is the one whom the people love.At competitions, Anton represents the Dynamo sports society and the Russian national team.

Date of Birth

Shipulin family

Shipulin's parents are Alla Abushaevna and Vladimir Shipulin. They are very close to sports, went in for skiing, and achieved serious achievements in this sport. Anton also has Sister Nastya. Anastasia Vladimirovna Kuzmina plays for the Slovakian national team; at the Olympics in Sochi she was the standard bearer of her country’s national team. Titled and very strong athlete.

Childhood and youth

It is not surprising that with early years Anton Shipulin began to show interest in sports. The boy's first coach was his father. Mom also influenced her son’s development in sports. Initially, the guy was engaged in regular skiing.

In addition to skiing, the boy liked martial arts. For some time Anton went to karate. He showed interest in boxing, but due to lack of time he never tried it.

His father taught Anton to play chess, and he did it thoroughly. The guy not only knew the logic of the game, how the pieces moved, but adhered to certain tactics.

The guy really liked the bike. The “Iron Horse” was a great passion for the future Olympic champion. Today Anton really likes to follow the Tour de France cycling races.

One day Shipulin saw his older sister’s rifle. And he wanted to try himself in biathlon. It’s more interesting here, because you not only need to run fast and for a long time, but also shoot clearly and accurately.

In 2002, Anton began serious studies. He was taken to the Sports and Youth Sports School of Khanty-Mansiysk. Shipulin ended up with coach Mikhail Novikov. This is a famous specialist; many titled Russian biathletes are his students.

Under his leadership there was participation in the European Youth Festival. The young athlete performed well at these competitions. Shipulin achieved two victories and Vladimir Putrov drew attention to him. This is a coach from the city of Yekaterinburg.

Many biathletes are eager to work with Vladimir. At the invitation of the coach, the young athlete moves to the capital of the Urals.

Anton Shipulin biathlete

In 2006 there was the Junior World Championship. Anton went to the tournament as part of the national team. The team did an excellent job in the relay race and won gold medals at the championship. A year later there was Youth Championship Europe. Here Shipulin won gold in the relay, silver in the sprint, and bronze in the pursuit.

Shipulin became widely known at the age of 21. In 2008, at the German World Championships, Anton was able to win gold in the relay, pursuit and sprint.

Anton Shipulin at the Olympics

There were two Olympics in the life of biathlete Shipulin - 2010 in Vancouver and 2014 in Sochi. In Canada, the coaches nominated Anton to participate in the relay race along with Ivan Tcherezov, Maxim Chudov and Evgeniy Ustyugov. Our guys were able to win bronze medals.

And in Sochi, Shipulin was able to take gold, performing in the relay race, together with partners Alexei Volkov, Evgeniy Ustyugov and Dmitry Malyshko.
After the Olympics in Sochi he was recognized best athlete Russia 2014.

Personal life of Anton Shipulin

Anton is married to Luiza Sabitova, an ordinary girl from Tyumen. They met on the Internet, in in social networks. There was a long correspondence. Then training camp in Tyumen, and after one of the training sessions, the couple finally met. The date went well, the young people liked each other. The couple legalized their relationship in the summer of 2015. In December, their son Dmitry was born.

Shipulin in life

Anton does not like alcohol and untied social events. He prefers to relax with family or close friends. He appreciates holidays in Thailand and Cuba and likes extreme entertainment.

Loves Lake Baikal. Rides an ATV. He loves to sit with a fishing rod on the shore of a lake or river. From music he prefers Leps and Krug. I like reading, especially books on psychology.

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Interesting Facts

At the age of 23, Shipulin opened a charitable foundation. He actively helps orphanages and personally comes to visit the children. He communicates, is interested in business, asks what is needed, plays various games.
Together with Shipulin, the foundation is helped by the actors of “Ural Dumplings” Dmitry Brekotkin, Andrey Rozhkov, Sergey Isaev.

Awards and achievements of Shipulin

Anton Shipulin will not go to the 2018 Olympics in Korea

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) did not allow Russian biathlete Anton Shipuli before participating in the 2018 Olympics. Provocations against our Olympians continue. Shipulin is a pure athlete; he was not on the lists of McLaren and Duchess. The reasons for not being allowed to the Olympics are unclear. Russian Olympic Committee sent a letter to the IOC asking for clarification of the reasons.

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On Saturday, Anton Shipulin was unable to lead the overall World Cup standings, but on the contrary, dropped from second place to third. However, the Russian continues to fight for the Bolshoi crystal globe, his gap from the leader is small - 37 points. Why did the “Shipulin breakthrough” take place precisely this season?

Elena VAITSEKHOVSKAYA

Shipulin's new personal mentor is perhaps the most mysterious figure of the current Russian biathlon. Andrei Kryuchkov came to this sport from cross-country skiing at the request of the current president of the RBU and head of the National Team Training Center, Alexander Kravtsov. This is all I knew about Kryuchkov when going for the interview.

- How did it happen that you started working with Anton Shipulin?

After the Olympic Games in Sochi, Anton wanted to try something new, change the training method itself. He came, of course, with this request not to me, but to Kravtsov. I presented him with my concept of training for the next four years and said that, first of all, I wanted to relax psychologically. That’s why he asks for permission to work outside the national team. Kravtsov recommended contacting me. Biathletes were often tested at our center, so Anton and I knew each other, although we never really communicated.

- And Shipulin believed you right away?

Of course not. The first thing he asked me was: “How can you even know what I need?” To this I replied that I had absolutely no intention of dictating what and how he should do in training. But since he wants to try to find something that suits him, I'm ready to explain some things. But initially there was no talk of any trust.

While working in big sport I realized one important thing that allows me to quickly find a common language with both coaches and athletes. I stopped thinking that I was smarter than them.

- So, you thought that way for some time?

Not really. My job is to calculate the risks. If a coach wants to improve some qualities in his athlete, I “translate” the work plan he has written into the language of biology and explain what the body will gain and what will lose with such work. It is the coach’s prerogative to choose from all that is offered the option that suits him. This is how the whole of Europe works now. I read quite a lot of all kinds of translated literature. And I understand, for example, that the results of the same Norwegians do not come from the fact that the coach correctly pointed his finger at the sky, but from the fact that a variety of specialists work very precisely with the athletes. There is no chaos in the selection of exercises that the same Norwegians post on video - it is clearly clear what is being done and why.

- It turns out that the future of sports is not practical trainers, but trainers-physiologists?

In a sense, yes. The main thing is to come to an agreement. Do not interfere with the coach, but help him.

At the same time, I am aware that no physiologist will ever be on the same level as a trainer. Because the first one talks about the work of a cell at the test tube level, and thousands of people pass through the trainer from year to year. And he himself, through trial and error, acquires enormous practical experience and clearly knows the direct relationship between work and the response to it. Moreover, with experience, he sees a shorter and shorter path to the goal. Any strong practitioner does not care at all if some textbook says otherwise. You won't knock him down with this.

A physiologist in this regard can only suggest some things. How, for example, without violating the key goal, compensate for the losses that the body suffers in the conditions of a particular work. Or calculate which work is most optimal for achieving a specific task.

At the time of the start of our work together, the same Shipulin went through a variety of coaching techniques and had extensive experience in his own performances. Moreover, he came to Kravtsov with a detailed plan for summer work - he wrote it himself as he saw it. That is, he acted as a coach, which is actually not surprising: after all, he has covered thousands of kilometers with his feet. And through his feelings he can talk about anything. When I saw this plan, I immediately knew what he wanted. And in turn he wrote his conclusions and recommendations.

The fact is that Anton is a very thinking athlete and is very sensitive to stress. He's not one of those people who, the more you load, the faster they run. It is important for him not only to understand what he is doing, but to constantly feel that it brings exactly the result that he wants to achieve. How, for example, to capture the inner sensation of speed? There is no speedometer in my head. How can an athlete walking alone on a ski track understand that he is going fast? Shipulin does not have partners like Martin Fourcade, Johannes or Tarjei Be in the national team. And there were no national team partners for a long time while we were preparing for the season. Therefore, we followed the same path that Justyna Kowalczyk once walked.

- Did you work with her too?

No. But we crossed paths quite often at training camps when I worked in skiing with Yuri Kaminsky’s sprint group. I talked a lot with Justina’s coach, Alexander Veretelny, and watched how they worked. I took work on descents, that is, in some way artificial conditions that allow you to create the feeling of fast movement, when you create your own speed, from them. In the same Östersund, we were brought to the starts of the first stage of the World Cup in exactly this way - under “dull and fast” snow.

I understood that if Shipulin ran in such snow with his usual “pressing” style, then nothing good would happen. Because among the opponents there are quite a lot of guys who are superior to Anton in leg strength. And the usual tempo-rhythmic structure of movements is not entirely suitable here. As a result, Anton became second in Östersund.

- What is “dull” snow?

Snow on which “dumb”, that is, limited slip, occurs. As a rule, Anton does not have problems with skis, but he is limited by the glide in his step. He was used to feeling the ski sliding under his foot. And if suddenly this feeling becomes “dull”, it causes internal discomfort. Even if the speed is not lost much. In sprint races this is especially important - there is no opponent’s back, there is no one to follow.

It also happens the other way around: athletes come from “stupid” snow onto ice - and cannot run. You also need to understand: why? Lack of cardiovascular and respiratory systems? Or the muscular system? No, you guys are in great condition. You are simply trying to transfer onto the ice the sensations that you developed while training on “slow” snow. That's why nothing works...

- How big changes did you have to make to Shipulin’s technique when you started working with him?

We only changed the way our hands work. Previously, Anton walked “elbow down”. Many people walk this way, but if you look at Martin Fourcade, his handiwork is completely different. He walks the way skiers walk: he creates a rigid system in the shoulder girdle, without “sagging” at the elbow. That is why the Frenchman’s skiing progress is much more powerful. But in order to walk like this, you need not only skill, but also certain muscles.

- Is it possible to say that Fourcade’s technique is correct, and the one that Shipulin used is not?

After all, we structure any movement so that it is combined with a person’s physique, the ratio of his bone levers, and the capabilities of the body. This is why I always say: there is no good or bad technique. You can teach a first-class student to run in exact accordance with what is described in textbooks, but he will remain a first-class student for the rest of his life.

First of all, we need to decide: what do we need? Classically beautiful move, or gold medals? Another issue is implementation. You can put ski pole a little further, thereby lengthening the lever. But if the muscles are not strong enough, such a design will still not work. So when Shipulin tells me that he cannot change the biomechanics of his own running, I answer: you cannot change it just because you do not yet have systems capable of providing the desired biomechanics. To do this, first of all, you need a certain muscular apparatus.

Another question is that there are certain canons of biomechanics. If we change the way our hands work, then the way our legs work will change. And this must also be taken into account.

In general, I am not a supporter of ruining everything and adjusting the equipment to some kind of personal understanding of how to move along the ski track. There is no single recipe. You can go down the track completely differently than Fourcade does, and still win.

- But there are certain trends?

Undoubtedly. Nowadays more impulsive repulsion is appearing - both in biathlon and in skiing. That's right - Martin Fourcade, Tarjei Be, Emil Hegle Svendsen are moving with speed and strength. They have a short push-off and a long glide, allowing them to rest: they tensed up and rolled.

- Can you explain what happened to Shipulin in Oberhof, where he failed the sprint race?

The fact is that Anton’s running technique is the “fluttering leaf” technique. He extends his arms with sufficient amplitude, stretches out, rises on his toes and only then pushes. The main pushing force comes from the edge of the ski, and not from its surface. When an athlete “sits” on a ski, like Dima Malyshko, for example, pushing on the icy surface becomes somewhat easier. And when pushing off the edge, the skis begin to move apart. That is, in the sprint Anton simply failed to “collect” his legs. In fact, he himself later confirmed this: he said that he felt good, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not push properly.

Just after that race, Shipulin decided that he needed to learn how to push on the ice too. The first thing I did was ask him what muscles hurt him. It turned out that the greatest discomfort is felt in the deltoid and oblique abdominal muscles. Why? Yes, because from the inability to hold himself on the ice, Anton began to try to compensate for this with his hands, using his core muscles and shoulder girdle, who for such a case must be very well prepared both in the strength and aerobic components.

- How is Fourcade?

Yes. After all, it also goes with an edge, and not with a surface. But the right move You can’t teach it right away. It is necessary, firstly, to be able to “press” the ski into the ice, that is, to be able to train on such a surface, and secondly, to prepare the muscles so that, if necessary, they are able to take on part of the load.

I always look at these things first. When they tell me that an athlete did not show results because he is not ready, I immediately have a question: not ready in what? If a person spent six months at the training camp, he, of course, may not be physically ready, but one should not forget about realizing the existing motor potential through the appropriate biomechanics of movement. It is in the realization of motor potential that very often lies the unsuccessful performance of an athlete in competitions under certain external conditions.

“I’m listening to you and involuntarily remembering a comment I accidentally heard at the stage in Ruhpolding Olympic champion Alexandra Tikhonova: “If Shipulin strengthens his shoulder girdle, he will be able to increase his own running speed by an order of magnitude.”

Nothing surprising. Tikhonov has enormous sports experience. Therefore, a quick glance is enough for him to understand: such a tempo-rhythm structure of running, like Anton’s, is very much tied to the work of the shoulder girdle. As soon as Shipulin began to try to create a more rigid lever in his hands when moving, he himself understood exactly where and what he needed to add.

- How long do you feel it will take to provide Anton with the necessary muscular system?

It is clear that this cannot be done during the season - only in the preparatory period. As muscles change, the biomechanics of the movements will change, and the World Cup is not the best place to experiment. Again, practicing any new skills is most effective when the central nervous system the athlete is in fresh condition. If this system is tired, it will unwittingly distort the very idea of what I want as a coach.

- But what about the widespread opinion that a high-class athlete cannot change his technique?

If you stand over a person’s soul and tell him how to move, you really can’t change it. Because in this case, the athlete will place his arm or leg correctly only as long as he hears the coach’s prompts. After all, all the sensations have already been developed over the years. Moreover, as soon as a person begins to move differently than he is used to, and the sensations change, a changed signal goes to the brain. That is, with the head the athlete perceives the correct movement as incorrect. And automatically returns to the model that is more comfortable.

This means that we need to rack our brains: how to create conditions in which a person would begin to perceive the necessary skills correctly. It's complicated. It is much simpler, of course, to say that it is not possible to retrain an athlete.

In principle, we have already started this kind of work with Anton. When we came to the national championship in Tchaikovsky, they probably looked at us as if we were not quite normal - just like in Oberhof, where we did special exercises before the race. For ordinary people, I admit, some of our exercises really look funny, according to the principle “just something to occupy the time with.” In fact, all these exercises were aimed at maintaining certain functions. In other words, we tone the muscles of the core so that they work correctly both in two hours and in three, when Shipulin arrives for the final shooting.

The central nervous system needs to be constantly reminded of what we want from it. Ideally, muscles should work exactly in the same mode in which they work during the race. At the same time, you must be able to switch to different sliding conditions, to different track profiles. Otherwise you will be vulnerable.

- Who is more functional to work with - an athlete or a coach?

It’s easier to work with a coach who already has a group of athletes whom he knows well - what suits them, what volumes of load they perform, what exercises they do. Something like how I worked with Yuri Kaminsky. He is a very thoughtful coach, constantly trying to understand what he is doing and why.

For example, I have never been a supporter of spending time working with an athlete on general physical training. That is, to develop muscles that do not bear the main load for a skier in terms of skating. But they only draw on the body’s resources. We must clearly understand: bodybuilders do not ski. This is called morpho-functional specialization.

At my university there was a teacher who jokingly liked to say that all athletes are abnormal creatures. Because they have developed only those muscles and functions that determine the result in their chosen sport. Cannot be given to an athlete strength training like swimming, and then make him ski. Because it breaks all the laws of biology. If I choose a specific exercise, I must clearly understand what kind of adaptation processes I will trigger in the body.

- I often come to the conclusion that very few coaches start their work from the ultimate goal. The overwhelming majority simply load the athlete in accordance with the usual methods, without really understanding what all this will lead to.

Agree. When I started working with athletes, the most difficult thing was to explain to the coach - in his language - my biological idea. After all, a coach, as a rule, talks about training from the perspective of a particular exercise. Moreover, even when a person clearly understands what the final result should be, he sees it from the position of a certain linear connection - the dependence between certain exercises and the result. A to the human body it's all completely purple. It is not made for exercise. They were forced on him. And what our body perceives is not a specific barbell with a bar and 20-kilogram plates, not jumping or skiing. And some kind of violent influence on oneself from the outside.

We just need to understand: when we want to develop certain functions, we can either help the body in this or hinder it. For this, in fact, testing is needed: to understand that the athlete’s body is not just developing, but developing exactly the way we want it.

I can take a photograph of the same Martin Fourcade at a certain segment of the distance, calculate the tempo-rhythm structure of his running, decompose it all into components and only then puzzle over exactly how to develop systems capable of ensuring the implementation of the assigned tasks. But if, for example, you decrease your step length but increase your frequency, this will immediately change the requirements for the cardiovascular system. The main problem will not be the increase in the size of the heart, but its ability to pump out blood at a high frequency corresponding to the pace of running steps. In this case, the coach will need to redistribute the emphasis in training process within the preparatory period, ensuring the development of this particular aspect of cardiac restructuring. Accordingly, the resource of time is released and the resource of the athlete’s body is saved.

If we want to precisely program an athlete so that he is able to run a distance not in 4 minutes, but in 3.40, it is absolutely not enough to load all systems by another 10 percent. A person will not run faster until you understand that these 20 seconds, relatively speaking, lie not in an insufficiently developed muscular system, but in the work of the cardiovascular system.

On the other hand, there is no need to develop the power of a particular system to one hundred percent if in competitions it works at 60. Many people sincerely believe that if everything is developed to the maximum, then the athlete will run to the maximum. For example, a person did 150 hours of step simulation in his pre-season training. This means that if he makes 160 or 170, he will be happy. But this is not so.

Plus - the specificity of the sport. The more variable conditions, the more difficult it is to calculate everything. For example, when I analyze the track in Falun, where the championship will be held ski world, then I take everything into account: what kind of snow there was five years ago, what climbs on the slope, what category they are, what body capabilities are needed in order to cope with such a slope. What is needed, for example, to run uphill without falling behind your rivals, but at the same time not reach the maximum oxygen consumption. Because if you reach it on a climb of category “A”, then on the next one – category “B” - you will simply die right on the ski track.

Not to mention the fact that with age a person experiences regression, which also needs to be taken into account.

- What about Bjoerndalen? Is this an ingenious design created by nature, or the ingenious brains of a coach?

There is no doubt that Ole Einar is a gifted athlete. This talent, it seems to me, is manifested primarily in the fact that, from a genetic point of view, all the systems of his body are predisposed precisely to doing the work that he does. It is not so easy to force the central nervous system to tolerate strictly defined things, and not just cold and pain. Strictly speaking, talented athletes are people who, firstly, have extreme motivation, and secondly, whose central nervous system allows them to withstand extreme loads. Now Bjoerndalen runs with crooked poles, and all of us in our center are scratching our heads about this, analyzing the biomechanics of movements in great detail.

- Is there really a rational grain in this?

Yes. There are certain nuances there. Scientifically speaking, the angle of maximum force and the vector of force application coincide. But this does not mean at all that all skiers and biathletes should immediately switch to crooked poles.

- The recent story with the disqualification of Russian walkers made me think once again about why people even begin to resort to the help of prohibited pharmacology. Do they understand that otherwise they simply cannot cope with the volume of workload, or does this happen when the coach has exhausted his experience and cannot come up with anything else?

As soon as a person goes through physical activity, his hormonal system begins to deplete. And this leads to a decrease in immunity. Therefore, doping in most cases is not used to develop something. And to simply support the hormonal system. The whole idea is often just that.

In my opinion, the use of prohibited drugs in sports can pursue two goals: to correct the methodological errors of the coach, when a particular load in volume and intensity or in its combination with other loads contradicts the biological laws of development of the body. That is, these patterns can be circumvented. Deceive the body.

The second goal may be for the body to switch to new level adaptation through even more high loads to which he is in force various reasons not ready. But the question is different: is there an alternative to stimulants?

- Do you think it exists?

Certainly. I’m not even talking about prohibited pharmacology now: you can dilute the loads so that the body does not require any pharmacology at all - except for vitamins and amino acids. In this regard, I take the position shared by many of my Western colleagues.

- Explain.

They believe that pharmacology is not the only path to records. But not because you can be caught and disqualified - this is not a question for scientists at all. But because the muscle must “digest” the load on its own. Only in this case can the work give maximum effect. Pharmacology facilitates the recovery process. And it turns out that you have completed the amount of work, but there will no longer be a full effect from it.

- From your point of view, is gold worth it? olympic medal the sacrifices that the athlete pays for it?

Complex issue. Not long ago I came across some interesting statistics in some European publication. The athletes were asked one single question: if they tell you that after an Olympic victory you will remain disabled for life, will you go for it? 27 percent of respondents answered in the affirmative. That is, from their point of view, the Olympic victory is worth it.

I thought deeply about what I read. In my opinion, life does not end with sports. And who, having lost your health, will you see yourself in this future life? Can you live a normal life if you pay this price now? And how ready will you be for another life? The worst thing happens when a person leaves the sport without taking off his previous mask. Moreover, this does not always happen because of a reluctance to remove it. Some end their careers so internally crippled that they simply cannot do it - switch, rebuild. I've seen a lot of people like this. Which, relatively speaking, woke up for many years and worked like damned people in order to become one step closer to the goal. But they reached the top and really don’t understand what to do now.

- Are there any sports that you would especially like to work with?

Maybe a giant slalom. In fact, I use a lot of the most different types sports. I realized long ago, for example, that in artistic gymnastics trainers have gone much further than their colleagues in understanding how movement is built.

- Not surprising. Any wrong move in this sport can be a matter of life and death.

Maybe. And one of the ski coaches, for example, once told me that he had come to understand the technique ski run in the ascent, watching how the spider moves along the vertical wall, which actually places the shins of the legs on the surface. It sounds funny, but if you look closely, this is how many Norwegians rise to the occasion.

- Are you and Shipulin also working on shooting?

No, this is the only area that I don’t go into at all. Although Anton constantly teases me, he says that he will teach me how to work with a “pipe” and a tablet. I really love learning, which is why I like working with coaches, but there is one caveat. Before getting involved in shooting training, I myself need to understand: what the quality of shooting generally depends on. Understand the nature of tremor, for example. What is this? Where does it come from? What is short pulse work? For what reasons and at what point does the athlete begin to become unbalanced and miss the fifth shot? This is not shooting, but pure physiology.

Let me give you this example: one athlete stops working before reaching the line earlier, another later. Who has the advantage? The one who quit working earlier? Is not a fact. Because the excitability of a more loaded muscle is lower. Accordingly, the tremor will be lower, but only in the first seconds. This means that the rate of fire must also be appropriate.

Before changing a person’s usual position in prone or standing shooting, one must thoroughly understand what muscular mechanisms provide all this. Don't just advise lowering your shoulder or raising your elbow. In other words, it takes time to figure it all out. Because a high-class athlete is not a guinea pig.

- By the way, how do you feel about the concept of “peak form”?

No one, as they say, has touched it, but it certainly exists. As Anton likes to say, he has two precise indicators. The first is when you hit a muscle and it “rings,” and the second is when you become able to sit in a bathhouse for a long time.

- When do you meet at the next stage of work?

The other day I’m flying to see him in Yekaterinburg - Anton is being released from the team’s location to go home for a few days. Then we are planning a joint training camp in the Czech Republic, and in the second half of February we will begin to purposefully prepare for the World Championships in Kontiolahti.

Why do I now want to be with Anton whenever possible? Because at the current stage, it is important to convey to the athlete as correctly as possible the very idea of the work that he does in training, and indicate the criteria that should be guided by his feelings. He will do the rest himself.

January 25, 2015 (19:30, Sunday)
sport-express.ru

INTERLOCUTORS OF Elena VAITSEKHOVSKAYA

The new personal trainer of Anton Shipulin is one of the most mysterious figures in Russian biathlon. He came to this sport from cross-country skiing, at the request of the current president SBR and the head of the National Teams Training Center, Alexander Kravtsov. This is all I knew about my interlocutor when going to an interview with him in Moscow.

How did it happen that you started working with Anton Shipulin?

After the Olympic Games in Sochi, Anton wanted to try something new, change the training method itself. He came, of course, with this request not to me, but to Kravtsov. I presented him with my concept of training for the next four years and said that, first of all, I wanted to relax psychologically. That's why he asks permission to work outside national team. Kravtsov recommended contacting me. Biathletes were often tested at our center, so Anton and I knew each other, although we never really communicated.

And Shipulin believed you right away?

During my time working in big-time sports, I realized one important thing that allows me to quickly find a common language with both coaches and athletes. I stopped thinking that I was smarter than them.

So you thought that way for a while?

Not really. My job is to calculate the risks. If a coach wants to improve some qualities in his athlete, I “translate” the work plan he has written into the language of biology and explain what the body will gain and what will lose with such work. It is the coach’s prerogative to choose from all that is offered the option that suits him. This is how the whole of Europe works now. I read quite a lot of all kinds of translated literature. And I understand, for example, that results the same Norwegians do not come from the fact that the coach correctly pointed his finger in the sky, but from the fact that a variety of specialists work very precisely with the athletes. There is no chaos in the selection of exercises that the same Norwegians post on video - it is clearly clear what is being done and why.

It turns out that the future of sports is not practical trainers, but trainers-physiologists?

In a sense, yes. The main thing is to come to an agreement. Do not interfere with the coach, but help him.

The fact is that Anton is a very thinking athlete and is very sensitive to stress. He's not one of those people who, the more you load, the faster they run. It is important for him not only to understand what he is doing, but to constantly feel that it brings exactly that result what you want to achieve. How, for example, to capture the inner sensation of speed? There is no speedometer in my head. How can an athlete walking alone on a ski track understand that he is going fast? Shipulin does not have partners like Martin Fourcade, Johannes or Tarjei Be in the national team. Yes, and partners national team I was gone for a long time while we were preparing for season. Therefore, we followed the same path that Justyna Kowalczyk once walked.

Did you work with her too?

No. But we crossed paths quite often at training camps when I worked in skiing with Yuri Kaminsky’s sprint group. I talked a lot with Justina’s coach, Alexander Veretelny, and watched how they worked. I took work on descents, that is, in some way artificial conditions that allow you to create the feeling of fast movement, when you create your own speed, from them. In the same Östersund we were getting ready for the start of the first stage World Cup exactly in this way - under the “dumb and fast” snow.

What is "dull" snow?

Snow on which “dumb”, that is, limited slip, occurs. As a rule, Anton does not have problems with skis, but he is limited by the glide in his step. He was used to feeling the ski sliding under his foot. And if suddenly this feeling becomes “dull”, it causes internal discomfort. Even if the speed is not lost much. In sprint racing this is especially important - there is no opponent’s back, there is no one to follow.

It also happens the other way around: athletes come from “stupid” snow onto ice - and cannot run. You also need to understand: why? Are you lacking the capacity of your cardiovascular and respiratory systems? Or the muscular system? No, you guys are in great condition. You are simply trying to transfer onto the ice the sensations that you developed while training on “slow” snow. That's why nothing works...

How many changes did you have to make to Shipulin’s technique when you started working with him?

Is it possible to say that Fourcade’s technique is correct, but Shipulin’s technique is not?

First of all, we need to decide: what do we need? Classically beautiful move, or gold medals? Another issue is implementation. You can place the ski pole a little further, thereby lengthening the lever. But if the muscles are not strong enough, such a design will still not work. So when Shipulin tells me that he cannot change the biomechanics of his own running, I answer: you cannot change it just because you do not yet have systems capable of providing the desired biomechanics. To do this, first of all, you need a certain muscular apparatus.

Another question is that there are certain canons of biomechanics. If we change the way our hands work, then the way our legs work will change. And this must also be taken into account.

But are there certain trends?

Undoubtedly. Nowadays more impulsive repulsion is appearing - both in biathlon and in skiing. That's right - Martin Fourcade, Tarjei Boe, Emil Hegle Svendsen go with speed and strength. They have a short push-off and a long glide, allowing them to rest: they tensed up and rolled.

Can you explain what happened to Shipulin in Oberhof, where he failed the sprint race?

Just after that race, Shipulin decided that he needed to learn how to push on the ice too. The first thing I did was ask him what muscles hurt him. It turned out that the greatest discomfort is felt in the deltoid and oblique abdominal muscles. Why? Yes, because from the inability to hold himself on the ice, Anton began to try to compensate for this with his hands, using the muscles of the core and shoulder girdle, which for such a case should be very well prepared in both the strength and aerobic components.

How about Fourcade?

Yes. After all, it also goes with an edge, and not with a surface. But you can’t teach the correct move from a pounce. It is necessary, firstly, to be able to “press” the ski into the ice, that is, to be able to train on such a surface, and secondly, to prepare the muscles so that, if necessary, they are able to take on part of the load.

I’m listening to you and involuntarily recalling a comment I accidentally heard at the stage in Ruhpolding from four-time Olympic champion Alexander Tikhonov: “If Shipulin strengthens his shoulder girdle, he will be able to increase his own running speed by an order of magnitude.”

How long do you feel it will take to provide Anton with the necessary muscular system?

It is clear that along the way season This cannot be done anymore - only in the preparatory period. As muscles change, the biomechanics of movements will change, and the stages World Cup- not the best place to experiment. Again, practicing any new skill is most effective when the athlete's central nervous system is fresh. If this system is tired, it will unwittingly distort the very idea of what I want as a coach.

But what about the widespread opinion that a high-class athlete’s technique cannot be changed?

In principle, we have already started this kind of work with Anton. When we arrived at championship countries in Tchaikovsky, they probably looked at us as if we were not quite normal - just like in Oberhof, where we did special exercise work before the race. For ordinary people, I admit, some of our exercises really look funny, according to the principle “just something to occupy the time with.” In fact, all these exercises were aimed at maintaining certain functions. In other words, we tone the muscles of the core so that they work correctly both in two hours and in three, when Shipulin arrives for the final shooting.

Who is more functional to work with - an athlete or a coach?

For example, I have never been a supporter of spending time on general physical training with an athlete. That is, to develop muscles that do not bear the main load for a skier in terms of skating. But they only draw on the body’s resources. We must clearly understand: bodybuilders do not ski. This is called morpho-functional specialization.

At my university there was a teacher who jokingly liked to say that all athletes are abnormal creatures. Because they have developed only those muscles and functions that determine the result in their chosen sport. You cannot give an athlete strength training, like in swimming, and then force him to ski. Because it breaks all the laws of biology. If I choose a specific exercise, I must clearly understand what kind of adaptation processes I will trigger in the body.

I often come to the conclusion that very few coaches start their work from the ultimate goal. The overwhelming majority simply load the athlete in accordance with the usual methods, without really understanding what all this will lead to.

Agree. When I started working with athletes, the most difficult thing was to explain to the coach - in his language - my biological idea. After all, a coach, as a rule, talks about training from the perspective of a particular exercise. Moreover, even when a person clearly understands what the final result should be, he sees it from the position of a certain linear connection - the dependence between certain exercises and the result. But for the human body, all this is completely violet. It is not made for exercise. They were forced on him. And what our body perceives is not a specific barbell with a bar and 20-kilogram plates, not jumping or skiing. And some kind of violent influence on oneself from the outside.

I can take a photograph of the same Martin Fourcade at a certain segment of the distance, calculate the tempo-rhythm structure of his running, decompose it all into components and only then puzzle over exactly how to develop systems capable of ensuring the implementation of the assigned tasks. But if, for example, you decrease your step length but increase your frequency, this will immediately change the requirements for the cardiovascular system. The main problem will not be the increase in the size of the heart, but its ability to pump out blood at a high frequency corresponding to the pace of running steps. In this case, the coach will be required to redistribute the emphasis in the training process during the preparatory period, ensuring the development of this particular aspect of cardiac restructuring. Accordingly, the resource of time is released and the resource of the athlete’s body is saved.

Plus - the specificity of the sport. The more variable conditions, the more difficult it is to calculate everything. For example, when I analyze the track in Falun, which will host championship peace when it comes to skiing, I take everything into account: what kind of snow there was five years ago, what climbs on the slope, what category they are, what body capabilities are needed in order to cope with such a slope. What is needed, for example, to run uphill without falling behind your rivals, but at the same time not reach the maximum oxygen consumption. Because if you reach it on a climb of category “A”, then on the next one – category “B” - you will simply die right on the ski track.

Not to mention the fact that with age a person experiences regression, which also needs to be taken into account.

What about Bjoerndalen? Is this an ingenious design created by nature, or the ingenious brains of a coach?

Is there really any rational grain in this?

The recent story with the disqualification of Russian walkers made me think once again about why people even begin to resort to the help of prohibited pharmacology. Do they understand that otherwise they simply cannot cope with the volume of workload, or does this happen when the coach has exhausted his experience and cannot come up with anything else?

As soon as a person goes overboard with physical activity, his hormonal system begins to deplete. And this leads to a decrease in immunity. Therefore, doping in most cases is not used to develop something. And to simply support the hormonal system. The whole idea is often just that.

The second goal may be for the body to move to a new level of adaptation through even higher loads, for which it is not ready for various reasons. But the question is different: is there an alternative to stimulants?

Do you think it exists?

Explain.

From your point of view, is an Olympic gold medal worth the sacrifices an athlete pays for it?

Are there any sports you would particularly like to work with?

Maybe a giant slalom. In fact, I use a lot of different sports in my work. I realized a long time ago, for example, that in artistic gymnastics coaches have gone much further than their colleagues in understanding how movement is built.

Not surprising. Any wrong move in this sport can be a matter of life and death.

Maybe. And one of the ski trainers, for example, once told me that he came to understand the technique of skiing uphill by watching how a spider moves along a vertical wall, which actually places the shins of the legs on the surface. It sounds funny, but if you look closely, this is how many Norwegians rise to the occasion.

Are you and Shipulin also working on shooting?

By the way, how do you feel about the concept of “peak form”?

When do you meet at the next stage of work?

Kryuchkov is Kashpirovsky in biathlon.
If Anton believes in this, then the flag is in hand.
But don’t be offended later.))

No need to convince me, let me remain in my wrongness :)) The main thing is that Kryuchkov convinces Anton that now he knows how to push off on the ice. Before that sprint, I couldn’t do it, but now I can push off like no one else in the world, and that’s the end!

VM, Here’s what Anton himself said after the MS about the sprint: “Yesterday, on the contrary, there was ice and I didn’t have time to collect my legs. My push was slipping, and, looking from the side, the coach made adjustments. I didn’t have time to adapt to running on ice and quickly sliding.

What did the coach tell you?
- Before the start, he came up to me and said that today was my course and I should run well. And so it happened. I’m glad that we found the reason for yesterday’s loss, and now we will work to prevent this from happening again.” There was another interview, which, unfortunately, is not open to me, in which Anton talked in more detail about the sprint, there were such words that it seemed to him that he was running very powerfully and quickly, but in fact all his strength went into nowhere, and if it weren’t for Kryuchkov, he would never have understood why he ran so poorly. I remember this interview because no athlete had ever talked about his mistakes in such detail before; everyone got off with general phrases: “We’ll analyze, we’ll watch with coaches, etc.” There were also Anton’s interviews in December, in which I remember several moments (I don’t know why they don’t open for me, it gives an error, otherwise I would have quoted him) - 1. Anton said that now he analyzes, compares, and studies the techniques of others a lot athletes and is working on his technique, which was not the case before, and when earlier they tried to show him some pictures (he called it that himself), he tried to get away from it as quickly as possible, but now he understands the importance of this. 2. Anton said that now he has finally relaxed and enjoys every race, but before he went to the race as if it was hard work.
I really hope that this experiment by Anton (and Anton himself said before the start of the season that this is an experiment and only time will tell how it will end) will influence both athletes and coaches.

Why like no one? Because this guy, who is mistakenly called the chief analyst, has neither analytical nor scientific (academic) thinking, but synthetic thinking. This is another level.

He is not a narrow specialist (a virtuoso performer) or an academician (like a composer), he is an orchestra conductor, you understand? :))

A strong interview, supported by the results of the mentee. I wish there was such a physiologist in women's coaching staff about 4 years ago, look, Pichler would have succeeded))

VM, why “like no one”? If I understand correctly, in the West they have been using the services of physiologists for a long time, moreover, some of them (Isabel Knaute) have long since made their way to our skiers through the bastions built by our honored professionals (Vyalbe).
Yes, and we have long had our own trainers who use advanced techniques, but for some reason we don’t like them, and, unfortunately, we get rid of them at the first opportunity. website

Who told you that I doubt Kryuchkov’s competence? It's clear that this guy really knows his way around science like no one else. I just don’t believe in his explanation of the reason for Anton’s failure in that sprint in Oberhof. I mean, Kryuchkov certainly knows the true reason for the failure, but he will not tell the general public anything about it and will do the right thing.

And regarding your assumption, to whom Anton owes his breakthrough, first of all to his parents, who awarded him a unique cardiovascular system. How many times does his heart beat per minute in a calm state, do you remember? :))

However, our conclusions, like those of all other “analysts”, are not important in this case. The main thing is that Anton himself is confident that now, after that sprint in Oberhov on an icy track, he knows how to push off on the ice. And God forbid that if the track becomes icy at the remaining stages of the World Cup or World Cup, he would have doubts about this before the race.

Dima "No. 1951. About the bear, that's for sure. The reason for Anton’s poor shooting, and perhaps only him alone, is his disregard for this element. Will explain. The artist Kanaeva did not leave the gym honing an element with repeated repetitions; a basketball player, without throwing around the hoop for a week, will miss the game. Why is there an athlete, the same younger soldier is not in vain taking the young soldier course. If you didn’t meet the time limit of the lights out command, a sergeant will stand over you by the bed and train you when everyone is already asleep, the same repetitions of getting up and clearing out, and this means undressing, getting dressed and folding your clothes, and so on until you “lose your pulse,” I know firsthand. Anton doesn’t need to be taught he knows all the elements of shooting by heart, but with repetitions there is a big question. In biathlon, these repetitions with shortness of breath with a pulse approaching close to competition. To lose breath - it’s enough to run the penalty loop and shoot. I can’t imagine that Antosha would run before shooting. there is no coach like the hockey Tarasov to run. skis and the edge of the skis and I doubt that Anton will be retrained. It’s like the same steppe Mongol who spent his whole life on a horse and that’s why his legs are crooked and he tries to straighten them. A technical solution is also possible. To avoid being pushed off by the edge, give him skis made to order, tapered to special order. The boot is placed on a slightly conical surface and does not need to be retrained. There's one thing - the manufacturer of these skis will ruin you - these are not crooked sticks. Maybe it's really time to take up skiing, skates have already undergone changes.

Not coach Kryuchkov, he is a consultant and replaces the psychologist. “This is how the whole of Europe works now. I read quite a lot of all kinds of translated literature. And I understand, for example, that the results of the same Norwegians do not come from the fact that the coach correctly pointed his finger at the sky, but from the fact that a variety of specialists work very precisely with the athletes. There is no chaos in the selection of exercises that the same Norwegians post on video - it is clearly clear what is being done and why.” Here he is one of the “various specialists” who must work with the athlete.
... “It is important for him (Shipulin) not only to understand what he is doing, but to constantly feel that it brings exactly the result that he wants to achieve.” This is not important for all athletes and therefore there is no need to suggest that Kryuchkov take this or that athlete under his wing - nothing will come of it. Most people have plenty of such a coach, whom Kryuchkov describes as follows: “thousands of people go through a coach from year to year. And he himself, through trial and error, acquires enormous practical experience and clearly knows the direct relationship between work and the response to it. Moreover, with experience, he sees a shorter and shorter path to the goal. Any strong practitioner does not care at all if some textbook says otherwise. You won’t knock him down with this.” I wanted to recommend that Kryuchkov write a book for trainers or conduct seminars with them, but according to him, this is useless - “You won’t knock him down with this.”

Many of our trainers have a direct relationship in their heads between taking illegal drugs and the result. Native WADA began to catch violators. Maybe now this connection in their heads will be destroyed and they will look for other methods.

VM, Advard, of course, it is impossible to learn to rationally change driving technique in a day, depending on the state of the track, but the condition of the track in Oberhof could well have changed in a day: due to weather conditions (in my opinion, there was a lot of snow before the MS, but I don’t remember exactly), or due to the intervention of service personnel.
But the main thing is not this, but the fact that Shipulin himself believes that he owes his breakthrough to Kryuchkov, no matter what you “analysts” say.
Advard, it would be better if you didn’t demonstrate your ignorance: “At least you can teach a bear to shoot in a year or a year and a half.”:))

Beauty, everything is clear and accessible. Even for me, the sofa girl.
If only there were more such gifted coaches.
Thank you!

I read and laugh. Something like: “let’s argue until we’re hoarse, until we get into a fight, about the taste of oysters with those who have eaten them.” Of course, Kryuchkov taught Shipulin overnight to change in his technique what he had been practicing over thousands of kilometers of ski racing for many years. But that’s not even the most interesting thing. How often do we all try to tell what this or that person is thinking at one time or another and why he acts this way and not otherwise. We know exactly why, we are convinced that he is right or wrong. And the only important thing is that the athlete has grown to understand his own body and learned to hear it. The athlete learned to communicate with his own body. And Kryukov is simply trying to teach this to the athlete, explaining to him what he has not yet understood in this very communication. Those athletes who have not reached this point may accidentally show results, but will never be able to win a tournament or stage race. M. M. Zhvanetsky (he is not a skier and is unlikely to ever master Gunde Swan’s “skating move”) once said: “the body exists completely separately: it is capricious, scandalous and fails precisely when you count on it most.” I wonder, not being an athlete, how did he know about this? From Kryukov, probably.

I also don’t have delusions of grandeur:)) I confess to you that the thought that I can learn to “push correctly on the ice” in one night, even in the direct presence of a super cool coach of all times and peoples, would not even occur to me:))

Okay, jokes are jokes, eh main question it remained open. Can Anton now push on the ice or if the track is icy, for example in Nove Mesto or at another stage of the World Cup and World Cup, will he again have problems pushing off?

vicc It is clear that Kryuchkov is not a coach, as is it clear that it is stupid to reject science, but where is it? There Prokhor claimed that it turns out that there was no sports technique in Soviet times and cabbage soup *** bast shoes. And now it’s not anything but a center for training higher achievements. Perhaps I’m the only one who thinks that there is a center as such, but what about achievements? No, of course, there is something, as Arkady Raikin said, but still... I am deeply convinced that the best result will be then, this applies not only to sports when everyone interested will blow the same trumpet - nothing more than a phenomenon of resonance. What kind of resonance can we talk about when Glazyrina is put on the fourth stage, not her stage, but TS, or who is cooler, more important, says: we must suffer for “community” and we each suffer individually. By the way, it is possible that they are putting it on the stage for the purpose of forming a relay team. The same Glazyrina will remember this stage if it arises that the first one wants to run. And there is already another planned, I won’t say which one. This is the phenomenon of resonance in action.

I don't have delusions of grandeur. I’m one of those who are trying to master it.)) That’s why I’m happy to listen to advice from those who understand this better than me and see my mistakes from the outside. This really helps! The other day, one of these former pros simply showed me one subtlety. I never thought about it. And I felt the difference! All this means is that you cannot neglect the little things. Sometimes they help a lot.))

I tried it, at an amateur level, of course, that’s why I’m arguing from my bell tower and repeating: I don’t believe it :))

And you are nothing less than an Honored Master of Sports in ski racing, Yes?:))

P.S. You don’t have to answer. It's a joke. I just really don’t like it when someone starts moving from discussing the TOPIC to discussing the participants in the discussion.

VM, have you even tried skiing yourself? skating? You just ask questions that are absolutely understandable to those who are at least a little trying to master this move.
Alexander definitely put everything in order.)) That’s how it is.

Natalie Peter,
“He (Shipulin) came to Kravtsov with a detailed plan for summer work - he wrote it himself as he saw it. That is, HE ACTED IN THE ROLE OF A COACH, which is actually not surprising: after all, he has covered thousands of kilometers with his feet... When I saw this plan, I immediately understood what he wanted. And in turn he wrote his conclusions and recommendations...
MY TASK IS TO CALCULATE RISKS. If a coach wants to improve some qualities in his athlete, I “translate” the work plan he has written into the language of biology and explain what the body will gain and what will lose with such work. It is the COACH’S PREROGATIVE TO CHOOSE from all that is offered the option that suits him.”
So: in the role of a coach of himself - Shipulin, Kryuchkov - “calculates the risks” from the point of view of science (biology) and gives recommendations, chooses what to accept - Anton. Those. a kind of “scientific group at TS” (represented by Anton)!)

Natalie Peter,

I read it, but still didn’t understand the reason for Anton’s failure in the sprint in Oberhof. It turns out that his inability to push on the ice?

Here are Kryuchkov’s words: “Just after that race, Shipulin decided that he needed to learn how to push on the ice too.”

Well, what do you think? Anton learned to push on the ice in ONE NIGHT after the sprint before the mass start in Oberhof?

In my opinion, this is all from the realm of fantasy or a deliberate “artistic whistling”, and the true reason for the failure of the sprint, which the general public does not need to know about, is completely different.

VM, you yourself read the article about this. As in any job it is important right direction, hint, practice, Kryuchkov probably knows how to do this. Again, why can foreigners fail a race, for example Dalen, and then, after talking with a psychologist, win the next one, but Anton cannot?

And I don’t care whether they “whistle” or not, the result is there - this is the main proof.

Natalie Peter,

Regarding the correction, Anton’s failure in the sprint and the extravaganza in the mass start, I still don’t understand, did he teach Shipulin to run on ice in one night? I mean, before the sprint in Oberhof, Anton did not know how to run on such a track, because he did not have developed the right muscles, and after the sprint, i.e. maybe now?

I do not believe:))
They all whistle! And before he knew how to run on the ice on the edge and now he can! And Anton’s abdominal muscles hurt because he almost tore it in that very victorious relay race!

HOORAY! Brains have appeared in our TS! If only it takes root!

Vladimir, probably, Kryovov is not a trainer, but a specialist physiologist, and he will have to work in conjunction with trainers, and each of them has a mustache himself...

Alexander LS, I don’t agree with you. It is Kryuchkov who describes the loads for the athlete depending on the goal, and he also adjusts these loads. Kryuchkov and Shipulin trained all summer away from the national team according to their own plan. If an athlete is experienced, then why does he need a practical Kasperovich? Just interfere with the process? The coach can only give advice, again with Kryuchkov’s approval, because Kryuchkov is responsible for the result. Let me give you an example: after a failed sprint, it was Kryuchkov who made the correction to Shipulin, and you saw what Anton was like in MS! Again, as for shooting, there was information that even Anton’s stock was changed, and a lot different advice Akhatova gave. Therefore, Kryuchkov can take several athletes under his wing, but experienced ones, of course, this is how he worked with sprint skiers.

May they forgive me, a sinner: I can’t shake the feeling that the article is a warm-up for a specialist. The combination of Shipulin and Kryuchkov is also good. Why not one of the girls, we know how bad their situation is? Or are there none? And so ready Shipulin The strangest thing is that our respected biathlon president A. M. Kravtsov is, among other things, the head of a scientific training center and having such a trump card up his sleeve, shouldn’t he use it for the benefit of more than one Shipulin? If he thinks that the coach needs specialist physiologists of Kryuchkov’s level, then give them to him using the knowledge and experience of the same Kryuchkov. In the interview he says seemingly obvious things about an individual approach to each or every biathlete and about the breakdown of the components of biomechanics and about the loads each have their own. A kind of live experiment is being conducted with Anton. Just don’t need Anton to sing praises ahead of time. This won't do him any good. Let everything go as usual We will count the chickens in the spring and God forbid Antoshechkin should make a mistake, I’m not talking about the BHG, that’s how it turns out, but about the World Championship medals. Any specialist working in tandem with Anton will also be targeted.

Hey, Zagursky...

Andrey A: “not the “old Soviet school”? All principles are built and developed on the Soviet school. You need to read the literature.

After reading this, I am inclined to agree with zakol: you should not dream that he will lead any of the national teams, he is a good specialist, but he is NOT a COACH! He is more of a “scientific consultant”: he helps a coach or athlete involved in sports. individual plan(and not everyone is able to draw up such a plan) understand the physiological essence of certain exercises. He can help correct training plan in the right direction, but he will not draw up the plan itself. This requires practical COACHING experience, but his strong point is rather scientific work.
“At the same time, I am aware that no physiologist will ever be on the same level as a coach. Because the first one talks about the work of a cell at the test tube level, and thousands of people pass through the trainer from year to year. And he himself, through trial and error, acquires enormous practical experience and clearly knows the direct relationship between work and the response to it. Moreover, with experience he sees a shorter and shorter path to the goal... A physiologist in this regard can only suggest some things.”

Only if the athlete himself wants to achieve something will it be of any use. I think many are happy with a bird in their hand.

Collaborative pedagogy in action.

Judging by the interview, he is a serious, thoughtful coach! He came from ski racing, has his own methodology, understands the intricacies of physiology. I regret that I didn’t talk to him enough summer biathlon in Tchaikovsky, they stood nearby on the highway, at the exit from the climb, where he kept track of Anton’s progress and, accordingly, the others. I wish you good understanding with Anton and successful work. website

I am delighted! This is a detailed, scientifically based and very convincing confirmation of my idea, which I already expressed in a blog about Loginov, that our training school works the old fashioned way, is lazy to study, study and create modern training methods, and instead feeds athletes with medications, hence all the doping scandals.

But it seems that the ice has broken. One appeared, others will appear. Smart ideas are contagious.

Yuryevna, I agree with you about Vancouver. I looked at Be-senior, who was also brought to that Olympics: only IG ran and purposefully prepared for the relay, which he showed, he became very good. And Anton was thrown into all the races, but at his stage in the relay he shot at 0 and left the stand first (perhaps in a different scenario of use in previous races he would have passed first, and there would have been gold), but he passed out on the track. Thanks to the coaches, they got the best out of the young guy, and some still reproach him for that relay race.

Everything is logical and understandable. A competent, thinking physiologist is a competent, thinking coach - a competent, thinking athlete. The future of sports lies in this kind of connection. It is quite acceptable to combine a physiologist and a trainer in one person if we're talking about about one or two athletes, which is what we see in the tandem of Kryuchkov and Shipulin. The only sad thing is that we are only now beginning to understand this, and, at the same time, apologists for “ploughing” and “sensing” are trying to trample the shoots of the future. And in the women’s team, to help Korolkevich, a physiologist like Kryuchkov is very necessary, although it seems that Korolkevich already builds his methods on the same principles as Kryuchkov, which is why his smart, thoughtful athletes made the fastest and greatest progress: Vilukhina, Podchufarova, Virolainen, Glazyrina - and not lovers of photo shoots, like Shesterikova. But for athletes with “extra” muscles, developed under the guidance of “ the best coach peace,” it’s not easy, even if they sincerely try to improve the situation.
It’s nice that the SBR is headed, it seems, by an intelligent person who managed to understand not only Shipulin, but also Korolkevich, and managed to stop the persecution of the latter by apologists for “plowing” and “sensing.”

Kryuchkov is from that extremely RARE cohort of people who absolutely love not only doing what they love, but also constantly studying (and enjoying the learning process) everything related to this business. There are very few such people, because this requires not so much intelligence! how much wisdom. May God grant health and strength to Kryuchkov and specialists like him!

Victor N., only crutches will help Yana...

I read it with great interest. The results of Kryuchkov’s work with Kaminsky are evident. Our sprinters ran, and how! The result of Legkov’s work with a high-class physiotherapist was victory at the Olympic Games. Therefore, such an analysis should be carried out at least on the leading athletes. This is not the “mysterious” scientific group of Zagursky, which was excitedly discussed before the Olympic Games. Now they don’t mention it at all, because there’s probably nothing to talk about. Respect to Shipulin. He, indeed, has subordinated his entire life today to the main goal - achieving the highest results in sports. How I remember Vancouver, where he was thrown into the race unprepared and how he almost died at the finish line! The would-be coaches at that moment could easily have deprived us of the opportunity to enjoy Shipulin’s today’s successes.

Yeah, that's interesting.

I hope that such a specialist as Andrei Kryuchkov is not the only one we have. Although I don’t think there are many of them.

And so I look at the structure of our team (it makes no difference - men's or women's) - there is a head coach, there is just a coach, there is a shooting coach, there is Zagursky with his complex scientific group, a doctor, a massage therapist, a biochemist and twelve athletes in each team (I mean preseason). And so on from year to year. And I always had the feeling that all this was already yesterday’s past century.

Not so long ago, Pichler was criticized for not having an individual approach to each athlete. They changed him to Korolkevich - what changed? What kind of individual approach can we talk about when you have twelve people in a group? So maybe someone is extra or someone is missing?

Victor N., How do we know that things didn’t work out with Volkov?

Firstly, Volkov, as you know, trained with a broken arm. Accordingly, not everything could be done.

And, secondly, he lost the finishing segment to Eder and Beatrix. So we still need to understand whether there is progress here too. Maybe a year ago he would have completely lost it to them without any options. After all, the same Beatrix ran on equal terms with Shipulin and Fourcade until the very finish a couple of stages ago.

In general, as Volkov gets in shape, he will have to take a look and see if there is progress there too.

Mad bear
Yes, I understand that all this is not about Yana. As they say, feed is not for the horse. And for Yana herself, all these methods are already rather “up to the lamp, Uncle Sidor.” It would be more interesting to know why things didn’t work out with Volkov? With Shipulin, everything is clear - the material is fertile, there is a strong motivation of the athlete himself and he is not physically offended by nature.
And there's still one more question. Is it all according to Zhvanetsky now - forget everything you were taught and, in general, you need to start at the conservatory? Or should such specialists be connected from some certain stage? Like to help Korolkevich when he says that in the national team he only brings him to condition, and does not teach the basics.

Victor H., Yana can also probably be taught to run a little faster. But athletes don’t come off an assembly line. Accordingly, some people have better abilities to move quickly on skis, while others have worse abilities.

Accordingly, no matter how you train Yan, it’s unlikely that Domracheva and Kaisa will be torn apart on the ski track. But Virolainen, Glazyrina, Podchufarova, and Kaishev would like to see...

Very much reminiscent of the work of Reto Burgermeister's group in skiing and, accordingly, close to modern interpretations of Europeans, and not the “old Soviet school”.

It’s a dubious idea to draw any conclusions by watching computer people without nerves. And not only because muscles (including the heart muscle) are driven by nerves, but because any movement of the subject is based on a goal. This is what distinguishes ordinary biomechanics from psychobiomechanics, to which our “scientific groups” are on all fours before Beijing...

Competent view, pleased!
It’s time to think about developing computer models of gait taking into account anthropometric data, individual characteristics of the muscle corset and snow cover. Then it would be possible to help more athletes, domestic ones, of course.
Awww, science group...

Excellent view! Good luck! Kryuchkov is a real thinking professional... I'm glad that he started working with Anton!
It’s a pity... that there won’t be enough for everyone... but I think there are still specialists like Kryuchkov... we need to look for them and involve them in working in the national team!

This man has broken it all down “to the bones”!
For a thinking athlete (and not a running-and-shooting machine), working with such a coach is not only useful, but probably very interesting. And most importantly, receive satisfaction from the results and strive to improve them.
Such trainers must be protected and all conditions for work must be created.
Thank you, Andrey Kryuchkov, for an interesting interview.

I avidly read the article! How smart and competent everything is... I wish there were more coaches like this! We urgently need to figure out the shooting and help Anton! Thanks for the work you've done!

Marina Alekseevna, and Dimka should be pulled out of the hole! ((Eh, it’s a pity that there’s only one such Kryuchkov..

Is it difficult to teach Yan to run faster or is this technique only for people like Shipulin?