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I do love her! But it's hard to overlook her awful jump technique and at this competition it was really glaring. I think her program has gotten worse too, with the way they changed the jump order around.
Are you sure it wasn't a result of her thinking of her feet instead of a planned change? I think Satoko is better at thinking on her feet than say, Nobu and Kanako are.
I don't think she meant to do two 2A+3T in her programs--it might have been a result of her missing the first 3Lz+3T combo and then fudging her second 3Lz. Instead of doing a solo 3T like she did at NHK Trophy or a solo 2A like she did at Skate Canada, she ended the program with a 2A+3T. So perhaps whatever last jump she does is determined by the preceding jumps in her program.
I think she turned her first jumping pass into a 3-2-2 because she was hoping to add that 3T somewhere else (like in a second 2A+3T as she did) so she'd get points. Otherwise, she would have opened with a 3-2, and then her second 3Lz would have been a 3-2-2 and resulted in a loss of points.
[3Lz+2T, 3Lz+2T+2Lo, 2A] versus [3Lz+2T+2Lo, 3Lz, 2A+3T]
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