Episode Notes

My guest today is Christopher Trevisan. Chris is the Director of the Skating School of Switzerland, where he works alongside head coach Stéphane Lambiel and his students, aka Team Champéry.  In 2019, the Skating School of Switzerland became one of the ISU’s pilot Centers of Excellence. Chris also is the manager and agent for Stéphane and Deniss Vasiljevs. I’m a huge admirer of Team Champéry’s approach to skating (if you didn’t already know that about me, this conversation will definitely out me as a fan)! I hope you will enjoy Chris’ unique perspective and some really intriguing ideas about how the competition rules could reward creativity and the strengths of a wider range of skaters. 

Episode Transcript

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Resources: Programs we talked about: Stéphane Lambiel Free Skate at the 2004 World Championships in Dortmund Deniss Vasiljev’s Free Skate at the 2022 European Championships Deniss Vasiljev’s Free Skate at the 2022 MK John Wilson Trophy in Sheffield ISU Communication 2550: Calculation of world standings ELO system for chess rankings Microsoft ranking system TrueSkill. Details are on the Microsoft Research page here and on Wikipedia. ISU Center of Excellence More on Champéry’s role as an ISU Center of Excellence and their approach to coaching in Anna’s interviews with:

• Stéphane Lambiel (October 2022) interview for Anything GOEs
• Angelo Dolfini (December 2022) interview for Absolute Skating 

2022 Champéry Christmas Show with Learn to Skate students (and Stéphane and Deniss) Anna’s Interview with Deanna Stellato-Dudek/Maxime Deschamps, Absolute Skating FOFS Episode 4 w/ Jeroen Prins Transcript The history of art in the Olympics Hiphop, aka Breaking, in the Olympics Stéphane interview in Absolute Skating, discussing the idea of breakdance battles on ice “This Bitter Earth”, Stéphane show program 2022 with choreographic fall (watch two to see the difference in the improvisation!) Golden Skate Awards, December 2022 Music on Ice, January 2023 Deniss Vasiljevs show program (Superman medley) from 2012 Queen Medley w/ Gjon’s Tears, Art on Ice 2023 “It’s A Sin” Europeans Gala 2022 “Dos Oroquitos” Music on Ice 2023 Deniss Vasiljevs fan meeting from Europeans (with the conversation about what animal Chris is)

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