Beautiful movements with a lot of emotion, and well connected to the music ! I love how she uses her hands and fingertips sensitively.The Ladies FS is scheduled for Sunday afternoon 3:30-7:25 pm in Japan (1:30 am start time US Eastern time early Sunday).
You know, there are nice ways to say you don't like a costume :sheesh:
Thankyou - Akiko
I get so tired of the "CoP argument" that there is something wrong with Akiko's skating. I think she is just terrific and see faults with so many skater's that are getting placed above her.
Her jumps are amomgst the cleanest with the best air positions I have seen this season. Her musicality and steps are so superior it is embarrassing for me to say I am a skating fan when I see how she is scored. Give me a break gkelly and others who want to make up excuses for the judges. It is about the fact that the other girls have BIG sponsers.........
It's not like we are blind and can't see what an absolutely charming skater she is!!
I thought her SP was fantastic!!
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perfect captions. I love how Fumie is considered a granny at 28, she still looks like she's 16!
The slo-mo replay aired on Fuji-TV looked like they downgraded on prerotation, Mao's blade turned almost 180 degrees.... so with the rule this year, it's not unthinkable.is there any posibilities that mao's 3A got DG because of the take off, i know normally a 3A has a little bit of prerotation but dont know what to think abut this one
She said that her first 3Lz landed without enough speed so she had to instantly decide to add 2Lo instead.
What rule is this? Do you have a link or more information on it I can read up on? If they're being strict with the prerotation, I don't see how Mao will ever have another 3axel ratified (same with Lysacek, but he seems to get away with it).
One thing to remember is that the technical panel is supposed to review the takeoff of any suspected pre-rotated jumps at regular replay speed, not in slo-mo.
