Throwback: Skate America 2016 after the men's victory ceremony. Shoma being called by so many fans that he didn't know where to turn, so he decides to go around again, to many happy cheers.
Arriba, weren't you there?
https://twitter.com/ways_her/status/1011280262196416512?s=19
Awww, now I have to relive my happiest experience – the first time I ever met Shomita! (Note: You’ve heard all this already – so feel free to skip, but it makes me happy just to think about it!). It was the first time he went to a competition early, in order to cope with his jet lag better. He came to Chicago about 5 days early for Sk Amer 2016. I was the only one at the local rink watching him practice, and I was just about paralyzed, I was so excited! It was the first time I had ever seen him up that close! He was practicing his spins so close to me I could have practically reached out and touched him. After he finished, I summoned up all my courage and asked if I could please take his picture. That was in the days when Itsuki did his best to stay out of the photos! So, he turned in such a way that he was not visible, but that’s him next to Sho.
https://twitter.com/Arriba627FS/status/788823648261906432 After the photo, I shook his hand and wished him “Good luck” and he said (the cutest ever!!!!) “Thank you”.
What I love about that video clip that you posted
Latremu, you can see how super happy he is after winning the gold medal. Those were REAL Sho smiles – not just “Oh I’d better smile now for the camera” smiles. I was so lucky that the first section he came to was the section where I was sitting. He was smiling the entire time and signing autographs, having his picture taken, etc.
https://twitter.com/Arriba627FS/status/790401953692090368 He didn’t seem to mind one bit that everyone was speaking to him in English, and I’m sure he had no clue what was going on. He could tell he was surrounded by friendly fans who appreciated and loved him. :luv17: It was probably at this particular point that I realized how much I loved his nose!!!!!
https://twitter.com/Arriba627FS/status/790401804760743936 Ah yes, the noodley tango hair, the nose, and the (ever-present) chewed up lips!!!!! After that, he started skating around, and several people asked him to pose with his medal. You can see him holding that bag with the polka dots that was in the video clip. So many people were yelling “Shoma kun! Shoma kun!” trying to get him to skate over by them, but time was running out because they (probably) had to go to their post-event press conference.
https://twitter.com/Arriba627FS/status/790401655254683650
At that point, Adam left the ice, but Jason and Shoma continued to sign autographs, talk with people (there were LOTS of Japanese fans there), and interact with the audience. Finally, Kori Ade (Jason’s coach at the time) got on the intercom and started calling Shoma and Jason. Sho left the ice, but they still couldn’t pry Jason away from his fans. Over the intercom, Kori finally yelled “Jason Brown, this is your coach! You are grounded!” (grounded=punished, for those who don’t use that expression) Everyone laughed
(including Shoma
https://twitter.com/tigerlily4lo/status/790314787032805376 and the entire remaining audience!) and finally Jason left the ice.
And the icing on the cake, the following day he did “See You Again” at the gala and did that amazing cantilever that we all freaked out over (including you,
Dr. Hronop)!
https://youtu.be/btYi6Mm2aRQ?t=236 Thank you for letting me share these memories. Wow, happy days! And best of all – he is for real. He is so cute (oops sorry! :shame: I forget it's supposed to be kakkoii instead of kawaii) and so kind!
Even though he shows passions in his programs he is very calm and collected and if I had to guess who would be the first to fist pump on ice it wouldn't be Shoma. And the best thing is that it didn't look akward at all it looked like he's spending his weekends clubbing away. Major improvement in TAT (Nolangoh, I'm with you in the Tarasova boat! 
). Smooth and catches the atmosphere. Extra points on the Shospin/zipspin 
And of course he sticks his tongue out because he doesn't take himself too seriously which is probably a part of his success. Looking forward to seeing these programs develop even more. Yay Shoma! 
you are so lucky! He is always so kind to his fans, isn't he? I really want to start going to fs competitions here in Europe in the future and see Sho. I heard his skating is even more beautiful live
, hurry up! Yes, he is awesome live. He is tiny but skates so big. You would love it! As far as being lucky -- well, this country is enormous. How can it be that he trains 20 minutes from my house?! 
I am blessed! 
)!
Thank you very much! It's still the 26th here but is very close to the 27th. I'm trying to figure out what to do for a wild (?) celebration. I'm thinking about going to Benihana of Tokyo for some of that (fake) Japanese food I love! I keep hoping that as the best b'day present ever the GP assignments will be announced tomorrow! Grrrr -- fat chance! 
