Mao Asada

gotoschool · Dec 14, 2018

Here are some recent videos about Mao. Thanks to rosewood for posting. Really wish we could see the performances, but Mao appears to be in great condition:

Here is a documentary from MTT Kanagawa stop with some short clips of Mao's performances.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/k7Kir5A2p2JedLsij1C

Here is a video of Mao playing catch with Ichiro who she had first met 12 years earlier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TlUgM3zDl4

There is also a video of Mao visiting para athletes who are hockey players. Mao has been playing a lot of hockey lately. Here are the links but they are geo blocked in my area: https://www.nhk.or.jp/docudocu/program/92409/2409375/index.html
http://www4.nhk.or.jp/P4996/

Here are a couple of recent photos of Mao I really liked, but they are very small. Thanks again to rosewood for posting these as avatars:

https://postimg.cc/DSVkzSCq

https://i.postimg.cc/JhC2GCrc/45963-2.jpg

largeman · Dec 14, 2018

gotoschool said:
Here are some recent videos about Mao. Thanks to rosewood for posting. Really wish we could see the performances, but Mao appears to be in great condition:

Here is a documentary from MTT Kanagawa stop with some short clips of Mao's performances.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/k7Kir5A2p2JedLsij1C

Thank you for sharing. What a feast!
Everyone, please look out for the madame butterfly bit at 14:29. It is quite stunning. :love:

yume · Jan 6, 2019

Mao practices her 3A https://mobile.twitter.com/figureskatingm1/status/1081882686996733959
I assume she wants to land it in her shows.

gotoschool · Jan 6, 2019

yume said:
Mao practices her 3A https://mobile.twitter.com/figureskatingm1/status/1081882686996733959
I assume she wants to land it in her shows.

Thanks a lot for the video. The first attempt especially was really nice. Thanks to rosewood for posting this video of Mao's recent shows around Japan.
Mao's marvelous performance to Bach's Cello Suite is shown almost in its entirety beginning at 17:34. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6zu5t9

Thanks again to rosewood for posting Mao's tour schedule for the upcoming year which looks like she will be skating as much or more than she ever has before.
Tour Schedule of MTT 2019
1 Feb 16-17, Miyagi, Bellsunpia Miyagi Izumi, Taiwa-cho
2 Feb 23-24, Kumamoto, Aqua Dome Kumamoto, Kumamoto
3 March 16-17, Gunma, ALSOK Gunma Ice Arena, Maebashi
4 March 23-26, Ehime, Iyotetsu Sports Center, Matsuyama
5 April 20-21, Kagawa, Tresta Shirayama Ice Arena, Miki-cho
6 May 3-5, Iwate, Michinoku Coca-Cola Bottling Rink (Morioka City Ice Rink), Morioka
7 May 11-12, Aomori, Technol Ice Park Hachinohe, Hachinohe
8 May 25-26, Tokyo, Edogawa Sports Land, Edogawa-ku
*9 June 7-9, Okinawa, Sports World Southern Hill, Haebaru-cho (*dates changed)
10 June 22-23, Niigata, Niigata Asahi Alex Ice Arena, Niigata
11 July 13-14, Shiga, Shiga Prefectural Ice Arena, Otsu
12 Aug 10-11, Hokkaido, Hakucho Ouji Ice Arena, Tomakomai
13 Aug 31-Sept 1, Okayama, Healthpia Kurashiki, Kurashiki
14 Sept 14-15, Tochigi, Nikko Kirifuri Ice Arena, Nikko
15 Sept 28-29, Hyogo, Amagasaki Sports Forest Ice Skating Rink, Amagasaki
16 Oct 19-20, Aomori, Mori Unyu Arena (Aomori Prefectural Skating Rink), Aomori
17 Nov 2-3, Kyoto, Kyoto Aquarena, Ukyo-ku
18 Nov 9-10, Hokkaido, Douhoku Arcs Taisetsu Arena, Asahikawa
*19 Nov 16-19, Fukui, New Sunpia Tsuruga, Tsuruga (*dates changed)
20 Dec 14-15, Aichi, Ai-Chi Commemorative Park (Morikoro Park Ice Skating Rink), Nagakute
http://maotour.jp/

Map http://maotour.jp/img/img_map2019_pc1217.png

yume · Jan 12, 2019

I've just rewatched her 2004 JGPF free program in Helsinki, where she made history.
https://youtu.be/SGTM6pVq8Nc
She was a little bomb. It was uncommon to see a junior (or simply a lady) land 3A and 3F-3T (in 2nd part) in the same program. That layback was beautiful.

rachno2 · Jan 12, 2019

yume said:
I've just rewatched her 2004 JGPF free program in Helsinki, where she made history.
https://youtu.be/SGTM6pVq8Nc
She was a little bomb. It was uncommon to see a junior (or simply a lady) land 3A and 3F-3T (in 2nd part) in the same program. That layback was beautiful.

“She has it. Already. She’s got it” :love:

This has inspired me to rewatch Mao’s career (again)

yume · Jan 13, 2019

rachno2 said:
This has inspired me to rewatch Mao’s career (again)

A good thing that there are many videos of her when she was a novice and junior.

cohkaix · Jan 14, 2019

The latest version of Madame Butterfly (from Mao Thanks Tour, at Shimane stop, skated with Ernie Martinez)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Dv7xjATRM

yume · Jan 14, 2019

Since she will have her thanks tour until the end of 2019, i guess that she won't be at THE ICE this year either.

cohkaix · Jan 14, 2019

yume said:
Since she will have her thanks tour until the end of 2019, i guess that she won't be at THE ICE this year either.

No she won't. Mao made it clearly that she had bidded farewell to THE ICE in 2017. Besides it's a good idea to have the show pass on to the next generation. According to the updated schedule of MTT, she'll be touring at Niigata or Shiga during that time. Also note that the last stop of MTT will be at Aichi, Mao's hometown. So it's obviously that MTT will probably run for the whole year until then.

gotoschool · Jan 24, 2019

Here is an old montage with fantastic and rare footage of Mao posted in 2007. The song playing in the background is very moving, but I had no idea about the meaning until I listened closely after watching the video. So, I guess I will have to watch the footage on mute because I don't think of Mao this way at all. The person posting it probably didn't realize the meaning of the song either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAfL3Vix98E

chopinskate · Jan 25, 2019

https://www.instagram.com/p/BtDrvTeAIP0/?hl=en

:luv17:

gotoschool · Jan 26, 2019

Here is a performance medley of Mao's Rach Ii routine with Mao coming in during the last 1 minute and a half.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqWBQ7h9C2c

lady_bee · Jan 31, 2019

Here is Mao's ”Magical Exhibition" for Merry Poppins Returns, released today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=SsCsSzxOrKE

Ballade88 · Feb 21, 2019

Yesterday was the five year anniversary of Mao's Sochi free skate! It is time to rewatch this iconic performance again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMKbj9gBTME

gotoschool · Mar 3, 2019

Here is a compilation of Mao's exhibition performances and some of her best competition performances in beautiful clarity at 1080 60 fps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gILegsLr3yQ

yume · Mar 17, 2019

New 5 jumps combo for fun 3lo-2lo-2lo-2lo(tano)-2lo(tano) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvEZROUgdr-/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=io3t7uadj523

cohkaix · Mar 17, 2019

yume said:
New 5 jumps combo for fun 3lo-2lo-2lo-2lo(tano)-2lo(tano) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvEZROUgdr-/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=io3t7uadj523

It's nothing new and Mao has been jumping this combo in her own tour for a while...

yume · Mar 17, 2019

cohkaix said:
It's nothing new and Mao has been jumping this combo in her own tour for a while...

And i posted those videos here.....
By new i meant that it's fresh. Something that she did lately, since she posted it yesterday in her IG.

gotoschool · Apr 8, 2019

Here are a couple of very high quality videos of Mao and friends skating recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOkilDY6lmA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwPwYFU778M

Here is another beautiful high quality video recently posted of Mao skating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvgsiPY5TWc

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