Read here my small interviews with young but talented skaters from Poland, USA, Finland and Italy.

I’m sure there are a lot of people, missing Kristoffer and his programs in figure skating world. I’ve got a lot of mails with questions how he is doing and what he is doing at the moment. So read here my interview with him, based on your questions.

 Jessica Wilhelmsson is figure skating coach from Sweden, working in Turkey. One of the Jessica’s skaters is Kutay Eryoldas, Turkish National Champion. Interview with him was published here in 2009. Now you have the possibility to get acquainted with his coach and read about some facts of her life and find the answer on question why she moved from Sweden to Turkey.

World Figure Skating Championships will take place in Moscow( 24th April-1st May).

Swedish team will consist of:
1)Adrian Schultheiss
2)Alexander Majorov
3)Joshi Helgesson
4)Viktoria Helgesson

"Before nationals I hadn't done very good at the competitions and I knew I had to win if I wanted to go to Europeans. Fortunately I started to skate better and better a couple of weeks before nationals so I felt pretty confident. I started well with a good short program and ended up in first place after the short. Before the long I was pretty little nervous, but still managed to have a good spirit. Unfortunately I didn't start out well, making mistakes on the first jumps. But then I got into the program and skated the second half of the program very well and took the swedish title again! :) I also got a spot in the team for Europeans.  After nationals I didn't skate very well, but I slowly started to skate better and better. Unfortunately I didn't reach the same level of consistency as before nationals, the triple axel was giving me some trouble...But the last practice before we left it felt pretty good and I skated well. So, going into the short I felt pretty good, and the cold arena was ok for me, I just put on an extra pair of pants :) Short went ok, but I could have skated better. Had deductions on both the triple axel and the combination...The rest went well though, and I ended up in 8th place after the short. This year the men skated last on Saturday evening, and unfortunately the sold out arena wasn't full when we skated. The atmosphere was still very good though! I started my skate good with a triple lutz triple toe combination, but I twofooted the first triple axel and fell on the second...Going on I missed the combination spin...Then it became a little brighter when I did the second triple lutz, but more mistakes followed and I got a really low technical score, dropping all the way to 14th place overall. I'm not happy about that result! I will do my best at Nordics now! "

Read here about Kristoffer's summer, his first competition Finlandia Trophy and plans for the season.

V: Firstly, tell me how you started to skate.
Ossi: I started skating when I was about 5 years old, but I was a single skater. I became ice dancer just 2 or 3 years ago.

“ 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:

Don't forget to check album Kristoffer Berntsson-2, there you will find some new winter photos of Kristoffer.