“ Honestly, NHK was just really bad competition for me, nothing to say more. But after NHK I went to Romania and I skated much better, it felt good. At Nationals I skated even better than in Romania, especially free program. I did almost everything great, there were just little mistakes. It was a nice competitions and I wanted to keep working like that. And then I came here and wanted to improve everything even more. Short program was ok in Tallinn, I did double instead of triple flip, but the rest was very good. I felt confident before free program. But I made the mistake on combination and then I fell on the triple axel, after that I was hard to get back on the track. It was just bad skating. I’m very disappointed. Trainings went really good here, but this is sport! I wanted to do something special, and maybe I was too concentrated on doing something amazing, which bothered me to skate well technically. Overall, I can say that it was very interesting competition, many sportsmen skated really great, and of course it was exciting to watch Plushenko’s and Lambiel’s programs. Plushenko showed once again that he is great skater. It’s hard to say something concerning my future plans, because I don’t go to Olympics. So I can’t say anything yet about my plans for the rest of the season, we will see and I will keep you updated”

First competition of new season has just ended. Read here Kristoffer’s impressions about it and plans for this season:

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Read my new interview with talented musician, who took part in Eurovision Song Contest 2008 and won it with Eugeni Plushenko and Russian pop singer Dima Bilan.

V: Please tell some words about yourself.
Z: My name is Zerjon Abebe. I’m from Ethiopia originally, but I’ve been living in Sweden a long time now. I came to Sweden, when I was 6-7 years old, so I call myself Swede. I grew up in Stockholm, but I moved to Gothenburg some years ago. I studied computer engineering and dancing. I’m in the dancing group, which called “Twisted Feet”. We are champions in street dance in Sweden. We dance all kinds of dance.

V: Tell me about your exhibition performance on Justin Timberlake’s music. How the idea was created?

K: My choreographer Zerjon Abebe did this performance. We just listened to different love music, and these songs are popular and the style suits me, so we decided to choose “My love” and “Lovestoned”. It was fun to try. And you know, during this performance I’m killing mosquito, this thing was also idea of my choreographer, we thought that it would be more fun, if we do it with mosquito. I will skate it in WCH exhibition gala.

Russian coach, who held several seminars in Sweden and practiced some Swedish skaters answers questions, which I received from visitors of my site.