Team Japan

[Paskud]

8 minutes ago, SitTwizzle said:

Why? I don't know who she is and the automatic translation seems messy. She's 12, isn't she?

 

On 3/28/2021 at 3:39 PM, Paskud said:

Mao landed 4t🥴💀

https://www.jsfresults.com/local/2020-2021/fs/26/173/data0605.pdf

Someone tell Hamada to stop this...

and in ponytail, dear lord....

 

 

[EternalSpin]

Interview with Wakaba

 

 

[luvsk8]

17 hours ago, Paskud said:

I wish there was less attention around her.

 

 

She is really talented but I'm afraid that she cannot survive puberty

[yuzuangel]

7 hours ago, EternalSpin said:

Interview with Wakaba

 

 

Wakaba really wants to make that Olympic team, but I'm afraid it's gonna be a mess at least land your other triples if you're gonna add in one (or two) 3As.

[Melodie]

 

 

Mai aims for the final flight at the Olys! Go! little warrior 

[Paskud]

44 minutes ago, Melodie said:

 

 

Mai aims for the final flight at the Olys! Go! little warrior 

Quote

✨ Undergraduate, grade, name
Faculty of Business Administration Department of Business Administration 4th year
Mai Mihara, captain of the figure skating club

✨ Category, class
Single Sr., 7th grade

✨ Hobbies
A collection of earrings and socks!

✨ Special skill
Kendama, remembering a person's birthday

✨ Favorite color
Pastel pink, white [😌]

✨ My boom
To nail

✨ Inscription on the right
Fortune comes to the laughing gate

✨ Goal
Level up with something every day
Glide free in the final group at the Beijing Olympics

✨ What I was happy about recently
New SP was created 😳

Because there are still many things that are missing
I am grateful to be able to skate and will do my best for the new season ☺️

 

[Paskud]

interview with Rika

https://4years.asahi.com/article/14328377

[SitTwizzle]

6 hours ago, Paskud said:

interview with Rika

https://4years.asahi.com/article/14328377

It's Rika Hongo!

I didn't even know she was from Sendai (and she used to train in Canada).

[Melodie]

https://figureskate-soi.com/skaters.html

 

SOI has some new skaters: Yuhana, Mako, Rin and Miyake are in.

[Umebachi]

This is mind-blowing!  Machida-kun is truly taking figure skating to new level of artistry.  This is an introductory documentary by TV Tokyo (one of the more progressive stations - so glad its not Fuji or TV Asahi), in which Machida introduces his new "Inheritance Project".  Machida explains that through the long history of Figure Skating, there have been many memorable and artistically superb programs which become forgotten and no longer performed when the skater retires.  Machida wants to create a new movement in which these masterpieces are not forgotten or lost, but are handed over and further developed and refined by the next generation of skaters - just as in classical ballet, where choreographic masterpieces are inherited and cherished and performed continuously, like Swan Lake by Marius Petipas.   

 

In this first piece, Machida wants to have his program "Je te veux" to be performed by Keiji Tanaka.  He chose Keiji because this piece of music evokes the image of a Parisien man in his 30s or 40s - worldly and confident.  Keiji's physique and mature expressions seemed to fit the piece very well.  The video shows them practicing together.  Keiji looks fabulous in his trench coat and fedora hat and cigar (not actually smoking it).  Keiji has been practicing ballet movements in preparation for this event.  Looking forward to this program to be shown on TV Tokyo!  

 

ETA: This will be shown as part of Prince Ice World show on May 1 - 5, 2021.  

 

BTW, Machida-kun has furthermore published a paper proposing these memorable programs to be managed like an intellectual property (legally copyright eligible).  He would like to develop an inventory of such memorable masterpieces that could become part of the legacy and rich history of figure skating as artistic sports.    It seems in Japan we are growing a bevvy of intellectual skaters!  (Well, at least two - Machida the artistic philosopher, and Hanyu - the hardcore scientific researcher). 

 

 

 

[Paskud]

interview with my little sparkle, Ayumi-chan

https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASP4P5W7NP4NUTQP018.html

Kingdom to anybody who has subscription and can tell me if there is anything interesting, because I don't think there was ever any actual interview with her.

Outside of paywall only small part of the article is available. She has a dog called Axel-kun.

EDIT:

 

[Paskud]

Team Japan

ladies	men
Rika Kihira	Yuzuru Hanyu
Kaori Sakamoto	Shoma Uno
Satoko Miyahara	Yuma Kagiyama

 

Team A

Rino Matsuike	Keiji Tanaka
Mai Mihara	Shun Sato
Mana Kawabe	Kazuki Tomono
Wakaba Higuchi	Kao Miura
Yuhana Yokoi	Koshiro Shimada
Hana Yoshida	Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda
Mao Shimada	Sena Miyake

 

Team B

Yuna Shiraiwa	Sota Yamamoto
Rin Nitaya	Sumitada Moriguchi
Tomoe Kawabata	Yuto Kishina
Rion Sumiyoshi	Kosho Oshima
Ayumi Shibayama	Shunsuke Nakamura
Ami Nakai	Tatsuya Tsuboi
Natsu Suzuki	Keisuke Kadowaki
Mone Chiba

https://skatingjapan.or.jp/common/img/info/2021FS210422.pdf

[Paskud]

Fun fact: Kazuki and Keiji don't have their clubs listed.

[Paskud]

interview with Rika-sama

https://global.canon/ja/event/skating/interview/2020_2021/kihira.html

[SitTwizzle]

9 hours ago, Umebachi said:

This is mind-blowing!  Machida-kun is truly taking figure skating to new level of artistry.  This is an introductory documentary by TV Tokyo (one of the more progressive stations - so glad its not Fuji or TV Asahi), in which Machida introduces his new "Inheritance Project".  Machida explains that through the long history of Figure Skating, there have been many memorable and artistically superb programs which become forgotten and no longer performed when the skater retires.  Machida wants to create a new movement in which these masterpieces are not forgotten or lost, but are handed over and further developed and refined by the next generation of skaters - just as in classical ballet, where choreographic masterpieces are inherited and cherished and performed continuously, like Swan Lake by Marius Petipas.   

 

In this first piece, Machida wants to have his program "Je te veux" to be performed by Keiji Tanaka.  He chose Keiji because this piece of music evokes the image of a Parisien man in his 30s or 40s - worldly and confident.  Keiji's physique and mature expressions seemed to fit the piece very well.  The video shows them practicing together.  Keiji looks fabulous in his trench coat and fedora hat and cigar (not actually smoking it).  Keiji has been practicing ballet movements in preparation for this event.  Looking forward to this program to be shown on TV Tokyo!  

 

ETA: This will be shown as part of Prince Ice World show on May 1 - 5, 2021.  

 

BTW, Machida-kun has furthermore published a paper proposing these memorable programs to be managed like an intellectual property (legally copyright eligible).  He would like to develop an inventory of such memorable masterpieces that could become part of the legacy and rich history of figure skating as artistic sports.    It seems in Japan we are growing a bevvy of intellectual skaters!  (Well, at least two - Machida the artistic philosopher, and Hanyu - the hardcore scientific researcher). 

 

 

 

I love so much this program of his. To begin with I love the music (though the lyrics themselves are quite blunt), and his skating... I would be curious to see what Keiji Tanaka makes of it, and yes, it would be like in ballet. After all, at the times of Petipa he quotes, technique was not what it is now. Because in my opinion it's Yuzuru Hanyu who brought figure skating to the level of an art, thanks both to his vision and his mastering skating technique to the point of being able to "do what he wants" on skates. I feel that before him there could be artistry in skating, or artists skating, but not a full art form.

And I think the very idea of a program library very good too, because this is where figure skating is going, at least I hope so.