I love Sui/Han! That was great...42+ TES woah!
Her throw 3F was HUGE; I really loved the transition into it.
I agree they probably were better off staying together, but ultimately if Narumi's goal was to go to the Olympics, she had to do what she needed to do.
Can one of the resident experts who watch and post here (which is virtually everyone beside me explain to me why S&K got level 1 on the 3TW? I thought I was finally getting a handle on the different levels.
Maybe no hard entrance footwork and maybe not enough of a split, but her hands were above her head at the end and his went down to his side in the middle and I didn't see a "crash landing"? I thought those three be enough to get beyond level 1? (Off the top of my head from what I remember reading elsewhere here on the levels.)
This stuff gets so confusing sometimes.
Narumi's chance of going to the Olympics (not as part of the team competition) in the future is very low at this point with this current partner.
However, Tran has a better chance in the future. The quality of the male partner is 70% of a pair, I believe. Narumi's current partner can take her nowhere.