- Joined
- Mar 21, 2005
Thank you Akiko for your gorgeous skating! I will miss you dearly after this season!
Her smile, joy, musicality, perseverance ...
This is how I feel about Akiko too! I will miss her terribly when she retires. I really like her better than any of the other current ladies and hope she is on the podium at the Olympics!
She just exudes so much joy when she skates. Her musicality and performance quality are exquisite. She's such a fighter but also seems like a very nice person. Physically, I think she's beautiful despite of the nasty comments that have been made and she's the best-dressed skater out there.
Her skating shows the kind of abandon that perhaps can only be revealed when a skater is either very young, and thus incredibly young, or wonderfully mature, and the inhibitions of 'still growing up' doubt have sufficiently melted away
I love that she can HIT a long program. I love the way she just glows with happiness when she is hitting. I love that she tries tough combinations and that she can feel the music. (And I almost always ENJOY her music selections). I think she's a competitor. She isn't always on, but when she is--look out! She could throw those young Russian girls for a loop on their home ice if she really shows up. Even with her competitors skating clean.