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Rion Sumiyoshi new SP White Flowers Take Their Bath by Mari Samuelsen

Mone Chiba new SP Shindler's List (I expect her to recycle her Butterfly Lovers Concerto FP.) Nozomu Yoshioka new FP Pirates of the Caribbean

Ok, it's not new. Apparently he is recycling POTO.🤣🤣🤣🤣 With ina bauer during chsq.

And confirmed I guess it's FP. Kinayu Yokoi new FP Phantom of the Opera She's going to seniors next season.

apparently Sota Yamamoto recycled SP Yesterday, choreo by Machiko Yamada and Mihoko Higuchi new FP Piano Concerto no 2 by Sergei Rakhmaninov, choreo by Akiko Suzuki Sena Miyake recycled FP Swan Lake, choreo by Kenji Miyamoto Tatsuya Tsuboi recycled SP The Tree of Life, choreo by Kohei Yoshino Kao Miura new SP by Kenji Miyamoto Shun Sato new SP by Yuka Sato new FP by Kenji Miyamoto

Caorie new SP Rock With You / Feedback by Janet Jackson new FP Elastic Heart by Sia https://www.kobe-np.co.jp/news/sports/202206/0015424575.shtml

Will we have full events uploads?

Chaeyeon Kim new SP Everybody Knows by Sigrid

Rino Matsuike recycled FP Moonlight, choreo by Machiko Yamada and Mihoko Higuchi new SP is supposed to be mature

Kao Miura new FP choreo by Kohei Yoshino

Sena Miyake new SP Liebesträume by Franz Liszt

Natsu Suzuki recycled SP Meditation in Thais, choreo by Eiji Iwamoto it seems

interesting

Second half of June! Fingers crossed for my girls at JGP test skates!

Rion Sumiyoshi new FP Enchantress by Thomas Bergersen, choreo by Shae-Lynn

Aqua Cup 2-3 July among skaters: Ami Nakai, Yo Takagi, Akari Matsubara, Chikako Saigusa, Maria Egawa, Yuna Aoki https://www.jsfresults.com/local/2022-2023/fs/12/393/index.htm P.S. Kinayu switched to Yamada?

He is from speed skating so I don't think he cares.

I totally feel like I'm missing something important, so you are free to correct me. But while I agree it's annoying af, for now I find the reaction to the change of PCS unnecessarily dramatic. First of all, come on, of course IN still exists. Expressionn and timing (and unison) is everything that IN was about. It just got a new name. 90% of judges did, do and still will understand PCS as artistry. Meanwhile for the rest who still use a half of their braincell, the 3 PCS can be summarised as: CO - how well program is constructed PRE - how well program is performed/expressed SS - how well program is skated/executed And what is exactly written in the chart is just an explanation. Considering that what they wanted is PCS to less overlap between each other, they mostly succeded. Mostly, because variety of steps, turns, movements and directions (so difficulty of the program) should be in CO according to the logic above, but oh well. About TR, at first glance it may seem that they aren't important anymore. But in reality steps before element are still a + goe bullet or a level feature, long preparation is still a - goe bullet, variety of steps and turns is still there and connection between elements is still there. So it's not like skaters can just take out all transitions and expect that it won't affect their scores. I think after removal of mandatory steps before solo jump in SP the situation is clear already. These who had empty programs will still have empty programs and these who tried will still try. It's a bit like with varied air position 4 years ago. Everybody wondered if now rippons/tanos are part of good position bullet. And the thruth is that we still don't know but in fact that change worked very well. It stopped the helicopter tano trend Medo have started and at the same time still a lot of ladies do jumps with tano/rippon and judges still tend to score them higher. We will see how new PCS will work, but I find current pesimistic predictions about TR premature. What I would fear right now, is one of shameless coaches, like Raf or Tom Z, going "well, there is no TR anymore" in one of interviews, because that could make situation spiral out of control.

Fun fact: at ISU novice A competitions stsq is required in both SP and FP. Novice have more difficult FPs than juniors now.

#important

Mao is 13 and she will not. (I'm sensing Yuna Aoki type of story for her anyway.) Ayumi, Ami, Sakurako, Ikura and Yo will be age eligible in Olympic season. Also Akatieva, Zhilina and Jia Shin. But it's not Olympics that are the problem, but pre-Olympic worlds.

Awesome, so here goes prediction: Japanese senior ladies field is a bubble that will burst somewhere during next quad. In 3 years they will be in real danger of not achieving 3 spots to Olympics. And very well. Meanwhile in juniors we will see even more quads and even more injuries. But yay, seniors saved. Btw, this spreading raising age over 3 seasons is useless. Right now 14 years old skaters can't go to seniors because the line is on 15. Next year they will be 15, but the line will bo on 16. Next year the same. So after 22/23 season, next wave of new seniors will be in Olympic season anyway. Which makes the incredibly important pre-Olympic worlds a bottleneck. Awesome.

Yelim Kim both new programs choreo by D. Wilson

Rinka Watanabe new FP JIN OST by Yu Takami

Rion Sumiyoshi new program choreo by Shae-Lynn apparently