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Published: Dec. 10, 2012 Updated: Dec. 11, 2012 11:17 a.m.

Smith column: Former two-time Olympics gold medalist ice dancer Oksana Grishuk teaches a new generation of skaters in Anaheim.

ANAHEIM – Leaning over the boards near center ice inside a chilly KHS Arena, Oksana Grishuk forcefully claps out the tempo and sternly shouts, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, inside, out, inside, out," directing five young skaters through a challenging drill.

"Go deeper into the corner," she tells one student.
Article Tab: Oksana Grishuk, a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist in Ice Dancing, coaches aspiring olympians.
Oksana Grishuk, a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist in Ice Dancing, coaches aspiring olympians.
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"Hold your hip and extend," she says to another, gracefully raising her slender right arm toward the roof and letting her wrist fall limp in an elegant layback.

The pose, she notices, isn't perfect. So Grishuk, the 1994 and 1998 Olympic gold medalist ice dancer for Russia, dashes onto the ice where her students sprint to gather around her and listen.

With her blond hair knotted in a loose bun and her delicate 5-foot-5 figure bundled beneath a sweater, down vest, scarf and loose beige pants, Grishuk, 41, details what she wants to see: sharp edges, tight spins, smooth passes, balance, confidence and passion.

Then she demonstrates a move, gliding across the ice with fast, intricate footwork as if she were a fountain pen writing cursive on fine stationery.

Her students, frozen in awe, stand for a moment before she claps again, prompting them to do their best to follow her in her figure-eight path around the hockey rink.

"It's not every day that you can learn from an Olympic champion," said Yasmine Yu, 13, an intermediate skater from Anaheim Hills. "If I want to make the Olympics in 2018, I need to learn from the best."

Grishuk hopes to guide them to where she has been, though they will never experience the struggles from which she came.

TOUGH START

The Ukranian-born Grishuk began skating at age 4. Her father had left the family before her first birthday. Her mother, an economic engineer, worked two jobs.

Grishuk and her mother moved from Odessa to Moscow in 1980 in search of elite skating training. But every sports club they visited turned the raw Grishuk away at tryouts – except one, whose rink didn't have ice and whose coach wanted to take a chance on a dedicated young skater.

"She saw something in my eyes," Grishuk recalled. "I trained and worked so hard. I tried to run faster, jump higher and never took shortcuts."

On the outskirts of Moscow, Grishuk and her mother shared a tiny two-bedroom apartment with another family. The government paid for her training. Their TV with three channels was one of the few amenities.

Because they didn't have a car, Grishuk made a two-hour trip by bus, subway and foot to three-hour skating practices in the mornings and evenings, with school in between.

She was 10, traveling through the big city alone, clutching rails in standing-room-only buses and subway cars. She met her mother every night at the subway station so they could walk home together.

"I was always tired," Grishuk remembered. "I could fall asleep leaning on the sink trying to wash my face or at the table while mom tried to feed me breakfast."

She discovered ice dancing at age 11 and trained under Natalia Linichuk. She partnered with Alexandr Chichkov for the World Junior Championships, where they won silver in 1987 and gold in 1988 before injuries forced Chichkov to retire.

Joining coach Natalia Dubova, Grishuk partnered with Yevgeny Platov and made their World Championship debut in 1990, placing fifth. By 1993, they were European and World silver medalists.

They won gold in 1994 at the Olympics and World Championships, captivating crowds and judges with their speed, power, technical mastery and storytelling.

Skating became their way out of communist Russia, allowing them to move to Newark, Del., to train with Linichuk.

"When I came to Delaware from Russia, I thought Walmart was the best store in the world," Grishuk said. "It was not easy (growing up in Russia), but we didn't know any better so we didn't see any difference."

The pair split from Linichuk in 1996 to train with Tatiana Tarasova in Marlborough, Mass., and become the first ice dancers to repeat at Olympic gold medalists at Nagano.

'UNBEATABLE' TIMES

During her era, Grishuk and Platov dominated the ice-dancing circuit for Russia, winning 22 consecutive competitions from 1994-98.

They won countless Grand Prix events, four World Championships, three European titles and two Olympics. She considered another Olympic run but retired knowing Platov's knees couldn't hold up for another four-year cycle.

"I felt thankful and blessed that he agreed (to compete through 1998) and that I was able to do the most passionate thing in my life," she said. "We were considered an 'unbeatable' team."

Grishuk so clearly remembers her skating days – her breathless panting after an all-consuming dance, the audience standing and cheering, and the sights of spectators crying from the emotion and throwing bouquets and gifts onto the ice.

Grishuk was once skating's most controversial star, a platinum-bottle-blonde bombshell known as much for her artistic daring, maverick appearance and provocative style as her off-the-ice romantic interludes, competitive, gossip-riddled rivalries, and need to distinguish herself from the other, more-notorious Oksana (Baiul).

NEW CAREER

Age has melted and softened some of her prima donna personality edges, as has being a single mother to 10-year-old daughter, Skyler Marie Grace Grishuk.

They live in Aliso Viejo. Skyler wants to be a tennis player, having stepped from the shadow of her famous skating mother.

Grishuk has rekindled her competitive fire by coaching ice dancing five days a week, six hours a day, at this multipurpose rink in an industrial park on one side of the railroad tracks, a half-mile from Angel Stadium.

Her first student was American figure skater Angela Nikodinov, who coaxed Grishuk back to the ice as her full-time coach in 2003.

Since then, Grishuk has worked to develop younger ice dancers, guiding a pair to sectional and national competitions this year. She has 15 students currently under her direction.

"When I teach, it's different (than competing as a skater)," she said. "It's a hard sport, having to go into detail, demonstrate over and over, break it down into different pieces so they can understand the depth of the technique.

"It brings me satisfaction to see the result, that I got through to a student and somebody would say, 'It looks so beautiful and so magnificent like you.'"

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