2018-2019 State of Japanese Men's Skating

ankifeather · Dec 31, 2018

Sai Bon said:
Holy moly :eeking:

But why not? Japanese ice dance needs all the talent it can get.

Oh this is TCC coaches idea. I was at Helsinki GP and came across Ghislain chatting to someone. He basically said that if you don't have quads by the time you are 18, the likelihood of you getting it is slim. Hence they are persuading Shingo to do dance instead given there is no one for Japan, despite Japanese have such good skating skills, and that they already have a good partner in mind. Looks like they have persuaded him. Some other interesting tidbits includes he was surprised by how advanced the male single training system is in Japan. He was invited to some training camp for kids there, and arrived expecting to teach 1A and was told by the kids they are already learning 3A. And he also was praising how hard working Yuzu is, often to the point they have to tell him to stop.

Casual · Jan 1, 2019

yude said:
Shingo Nishiyama announced that he would do men's single and ice dance from this year, he said he would try to do his best in both. His partner seems to be Utana Yoshida, she had already skated with him in the training camp a few days ago. Good luck to him!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BsD2tJFBd-M/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=7sflp8e5ovb0

What did he mean, both? He'll do both at the same time? (Or switch to dance later in the year?)

yude · Jan 2, 2019

Casual said:
What did he mean, both? He'll do both at the same time? (Or switch to dance later in the year?)

Yes, he says he will do both at the same time, tagging "two way player(skater)". (I am guessing he is going to choose one in future though.)

Skater Boy · Jan 2, 2019

Marin said:
Are we sure Nathan is skipping 4cc? it is in CA .. would be strange tto skip it no?

This is rather ethnocentric perhaps but are we talking California or Canada?

lanceupper1114 · Jan 2, 2019

Skater Boy said:
This is rather ethnocentric perhaps but are we talking California or Canada?

Central America, obviously.

tzazu · Jan 3, 2019

Skater Boy said:
This is rather ethnocentric perhaps but are we talking California or Canada?

California

surimi · Jan 18, 2019

Does anyone know who Sora Tarumi is? I can't read much Japanese, so I'm in the dark. I've never heard of him. He's participating in the Challenge Cup, and I believe a quick google search showed he's in Novice? I recall seeing a 'Sora' in some photos of Howa center's banner gallery, does he skate in that club?

yume · Jan 18, 2019

Sora is the novice A champion i think.
Nice to give Shun Sato an international assignement.

cohkaix · Jan 19, 2019

surimi said:
Does anyone know who Sora Tarumi is? I can't read much Japanese, so I'm in the dark. I've never heard of him. He's participating in the Challenge Cup, and I believe a quick google search showed he's in Novice? I recall seeing a 'Sora' in some photos of Howa center's banner gallery, does he skate in that club?

Sora Tarumi is the National NvA Champion of this season. No he doesn't train in Howa. His home rink is 'Papio' skating club in Fukuoka (so one of the rarely-seen winners from Kyushu).

Dreamer57 · Feb 10, 2019

Just thought I'd update this thread:

Shoma Uno became the 2019 Four Continents Champion, with a total of 289.12!

Keiji Tanaka came 7th overall and Kazuki Tomono finished 12th, as summarised beautifully here (credit to @mtnharuki)

~ Shoma and Keiji will be preparing (& hopefully resting) for Worlds next month, whilst Kazuki's next competition will be the Winter Universiade.

Koshiro Shimada won the 2019 Bavarian Open with a total of 210.80 (Senior Men)!

Yuto Kishina finished in 4th place overall.

~ Koshiro will be heading to Junior Worlds in early March.

CanadianSkaterGuy · Feb 10, 2019

Congrats to Uno for finally winning the Four Continent title - and he now holds the highest FS score under the new system. :clap:

Keiji should also get credit too for landing two quads and two triple axels in the FS. :agree:

SkatePL99 · Feb 23, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG1KFK-Ezyw :clapper:
Sota Yamamoto land quad and two 3A at Challenge Cup! Only negative GOE was on 3Lz+3T combo. Improved his season best by 40 points.

Sai Bon · Feb 24, 2019

SkatePL99 said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG1KFK-Ezyw :clapper:
Sota Yamamoto land quad and two 3A at Challenge Cup! Only negative GOE was on 3Lz+3T combo. Improved his season best by 40 points.

Formidable! :dance:

yume · Mar 9, 2019

With Japanese boys' results at JWC, Japan earned only 6 JGP spots and 2 spots for worlds. Well, i hope things will go well for Eastern skaters at those closed test skates next season.

Dreamer57 · Mar 9, 2019

Will any of the current juniors be moving up to seniors?
I don't think any of them age out this year.

idontknow · Mar 9, 2019

I think koshiro
https://twitter.com/sayaka10305/status/1104235688910708736?s=19
And good luck try 4S and 4lz next season
https://twitter.com/goldenskate/status/1104108916412170240?s=19

AQFS · Mar 10, 2019

Dreamer57 said:
Will any of the current juniors be moving up to seniors?
I don't think any of them age out this year.

As @IdontKnow said, Koshiro is now confirmed to go senior next year (good luck to him)

But I am also wondering if Mitsuki Sumoto will move up too??

I would actually think it might be a good thing to move him up to give more chances to the up and coming juniors especially with few JGP spots to distribute.

Dreamer57 · Mar 14, 2019

AQFS said:
As @IdontKnow said, Koshiro is now confirmed to go senior next year (good luck to him)

But I am also wondering if Mitsuki Sumoto will move up too??

I would actually think it might be a good thing to move him up to give more chances to the up and coming juniors especially with few JGP spots to distribute.

You make a good point. He didn't have the best junior season this year though (has he competed after junior nationals?) It is definitely tough up in seniors.

surimi · Mar 14, 2019

AQFS said:
But I am also wondering if Mitsuki Sumoto will move up too??

Dreamer57 said:
You make a good point. He didn't have the best junior season this year though (has he competed after junior nationals?)

Mitsuki competed in the Inter High School Championships at the end of January, where he placed 3rd with a total of 207.31. So he should be healthy by now. I think I read a while ago that he was planning to stay in juniors. I am guessing Sena will want to turn senior though, especially if Coupe du Printemps goes well for him (which is likely, barring meltdown).

Interspectator · Mar 19, 2019

https://twitter.com/online_on_ice/status/1107921745787277313 Here's our team Japan Guys! Good luck to them!

2018-2019 State of Japanese Men's Skating

ankifeather

Casual

yude

Skater Boy

lanceupper1114

tzazu

surimi

Congrats to Sota, #10 in World Standings!

yume

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cohkaix

FS data keeper

Dreamer57

CanadianSkaterGuy

SkatePL99

Sai Bon

yume

🍉

Dreamer57

idontknow

AQFS

Dreamer57

surimi

Congrats to Sota, #10 in World Standings!

Interspectator

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