October 19, 20178 yr 1 hour ago, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ said: @CupidsBow To me, Higuchi has a smidgeon of that thing Hanyu has in her skating and in how she expresses herself through her programs though I can't quite put my finger on what it is exactly. And I'm hoping very hard, almost as hard as I'm hoping for Hanyu to skate both his programs, or at least SEIMEI, clean at the Olys, that she'll make the Oly team and present her skates, epecially her FS, well in front of the world. I'll refrain from sharing my thoughts about Uno and his performance style + his skating (the ones I've never shared before) since you're obviously a fan and I don't want you to feel poorly about it. I mean I don't dislike the dude at all, and whatever he's good at he excels in and I can fully respect his determination to strive towards his goal of beating Hanyu. But of all the younger competitors in the top 6 men, I find myself actually rooting for Chen the most. I mean not in beating Hanyu because it'd be a contradicting wish, and there's absolutely nothing I want more than for Hanyu to eat everyone for breakfast in PC--the events are happening early enough for them to all look like Fruit Loops or bacon to him, or whatever he usually eats for breakfast--but I do hope that Chen places the highest out of all of the younger 3 men. This started gradually happening when I heard his SP music at US Classic and became cemented after I saw his showing of it at the JO gala sans his quads where he could actually truly *skate* and did complete justice to that awesome, *awesome* piece of music. Pity it probably won't be the same with the quads but I'm hoping he'll at least be able to keep some of those lovely details SL weaved into the choreography (which he executed beautifully) in. its cool, I can get why some might not be into his thing of staring into the middle distance. He was quite limited expression atm which hopefully he will work on in the next oly cycle seeing as how he wants to skate for a long time (and, you know, work on the jump technique). the only think i can't abide is zeroing in on his faults and totally ignoring his strengths which is unfortunately really common when it comes to shoma...esp coming from yuzuru fans which makes me really sad... While I am a Shoma fan I do find myself thinking this season I kinda hope other's kind of prevail over him. purely because his program choices are so dull i want to cry and I would like for him to have an intensive to try to bust out of the little comfort zone he's got himself in. I'm really on board with Boyang's heartfelt efforts to address his weaknesses so I root for him quite a bit. I see his effort and I enjoy it. obv i don't want anyone to beat Hanyu not anywhere that really matters anyway. I'm not that keen on Nathan but I'm warming up to him since there's a bit more in the way of TR and choreography going on in this season's programs and he's a lot more connected to the music and skating with some character which is nice to see but i'm still kinda meh because I found, once the wow factor of an assload of quads lost its shine, his programs last season were super disengaging. I'm hoping he manages to hold onto some balance when the quads all get added in to the fs but we'll see. Out of the squad my preference is probably Shoma-> Boyang-> Chen but this year, just based on programs, I'm probably Boyang_>Chen->Shoma. being real i'm going to be happy and sad whoever gets on to the olympic team for ladies. It would be wonderful for Wakaba if she made it but I'd be really happy if Mai made it too. And, of course, I want Satoko to be healthy and on form so she can earn her spot....
October 20, 20178 yr 1 hour ago, kaeryth said: Shoma already leaving for Canada. Gotta avoid his worst enemy... jetlag that hair though
October 20, 20178 yr Are we sure he is not going to Chicago first? He is going to be waaaay early, lol. Well, whatever it takes, eh Shoma? Do your best!
October 21, 20178 yr Congratulations to Sara Honda on winning a Novice B event at Novice Nationals 2017
October 22, 20178 yr On 21/10/2017 at 11:29 PM, turquoiseblue said: Congratulations to Sara Honda on winning a Novice B event at Novice Nationals 2017 Novice Nationals 2017 Results & Protocols
October 22, 20178 yr Novice Nationals 2017 Top 5 Results Novice A Ladies FS 1 Hana YOSHIDA 100.03 2 Rika TEJIMA 95.86 3 Kinayu YOKOI 92.61 4 Nonoka ISE 90.16 5 Mana KAWABE 89.02 Novice B Ladies FS 1 Sara HONDA 76.47 2 Momoka HATASAKI 72.75 3 Yui KUBOYAMA 70.17 4 Yura NAKAI 68.70 5 Rinako OYA 67.07 Novice A Men FS 1 Kao MIURA 108.39 2 Haru KAKIUCHI 88.18 3 Shunsuke NAKAMURA 87.79 4 Tensho AKAMA 78.82 5 Atsuya YAHAGI 73.42 Novice B Men FS 1 Ryoga MORIMOTO 79.97 2 Hikari SATO 62.89 3 Hiroto HONDA 61.23 4 Taiki SUEKUNI 60.59 5 Leon TANAKA 58.71 Hiroto Honda is from Sendai and his idol is Yuzu Novice Ice Dance FD 1 Mai KASHINO / Yuhi KASHINO 42.67 2 Nagomi OKADA / Masaya MORITA 37.32 3 Hinane WADA / Sei NOZAKI 35.27 4 Yui KUWAHARA / Seiya Shimokawa 33.27 5 Moeka YAMAJI / Yuto NAGATA 33.10 The Kashino siblings: The following skaters have been invited to compete in Junior Nationals which will be held on 24-26 November, 2017 Ladies Hana YOSHIDA Rika TEJIMA Kinayu YOKOI Nonoka ISE Men Kao MIURA Haru KAKIUCHI Shunsuke NAKAMURA Ice Dance Mai KASHINO / Yuhi KASHINO
October 23, 20178 yr Author Waka is so cute. Also in a pickle. That CoC event is going to be brutal. No matter how good she is, and I'd say she's very very good, she'd have to grab silver to have a good shot at the GPF and eh. Sigh.
October 23, 20178 yr At least she's becoming more consistent, and her programs are good, probably my favorites so far. She's doing her best. I'm really curious to see Satton. Her situation may be even more difficult.
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