Kaori Sakamoto
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Many congrats to Kaori and her team for winning the Nats!!! This girl can deliver when it most counts. I truly admire Kaori trying to stretch boundaries of her performing skills by picking up two music that are rather/still difficult for her to interpret this season. :yes: Great job done, Benoit san! :thumbsup: https://twitter.com/Benoitrichaud/status/1076825400733560839
So happy for Kaori!!! Her skating is just sublime. It's amazing how much she has grown as a skater. I'm not one to rave about skating skills, but Kaori is the first person I've seen since Patrick Chan who's really impressed me with hers. Also, her reaction after realizing she won is just so cute! I love the little goggle or wow eyes she makes. 
Kaori and hope she delivers the same brilliant performance at Worlds!
Kaori and hope she delivers the same brilliant performance at Worlds!
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CBC aired the GPF Gala yesterday afternoon, and her exhibition number is at 11:21 (the password is gala): https://vimeo.com/299709574
Late to the party, but a huge congratulations to Kaori on the Nationals win! I was surprised about the result, but a very pleasant surprise. Her and Rika are my favorite Japanese ladies so it was a happy 1-2.
Kaori's reactions were so cute, she's such a bright, happy girl, I can't help but root for her. Here's to hoping her 4CC and Worlds' outings will be great as well.
Kaori's reactions were so cute, she's such a bright, happy girl, I can't help but root for her. Here's to hoping her 4CC and Worlds' outings will be great as well.
, so send me a PM if you'd like a temporary download link for the GPF Gala.
Kaori article on InsideSkating
http://www.insideskating.net/2019/01/15/features/kaori-sakamoto-the-coming-of-age
http://www.insideskating.net/2019/01/15/features/kaori-sakamoto-the-coming-of-age
Oh man it's emo time with Kaori ;-;. I will never fully grasp the amount of struggles she went through behind the scenes at the beginning of the season, I'm so proud of her from bouncing back from that initial slump.
On the other hand, I'm so pump that Kaori is thinking of taking Ballet lessons and emphasizing her choreography more, and excited to see where it will take her. Her character reminds be a bit of Midori Ito.
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Kaori will compete at the 68th National High School Championships from January 24th-27th. Should be a good tune up for her before 4cc
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- Mar 9, 2013
Yes, but one minor point is that, for the inter-high school competition, it incorporates specifically the ISU FS rules for junior categories. This means the programs of all competitors have to follow the rules for junior (incl. only flip as solo jump in SP, and other restrictions). In this case, it's not necessary advantageous for skaters who are already competing in senior to change their program layouts. This is one of the reasons why Kaori had been jumping 3L-2T and practicing 3L-3T during Nagoya FS festival.
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Oh I didn't know that. Will be cool to see her solo flip.
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She’s has to shorten both her SP and FS as well, I think. She does have to get rid of the Choreographic Sequence she has in her FS.
According to Twitter Kaori did 3Lz3T 2A 3F, scoring 73.75
https://twitter.com/figureskatingm1/status/1089017671436255232
https://twitter.com/cherry_fs212/status/1089017648682172416
3Lz3T tho??? I thought she'd go for 3Lo3T but I never expected 3Lz3T b/c of her edge issue, but pumped she's in first place!
https://twitter.com/figureskatingm1/status/1089017671436255232
https://twitter.com/cherry_fs212/status/1089017648682172416
3Lz3T tho??? I thought she'd go for 3Lo3T but I never expected 3Lz3T b/c of her edge issue, but pumped she's in first place!
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Yes the protocol is here: https://www.jsfresults.com/National/2018-2019/fs_j/highschool/data1303.pdf
She only got ! for the 3Lz3T attempt, and with positive GOE. This might be a better choice than the 3Lo3T.
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Glad she did well. Part of me was secretly hoping she'd bust out a new 3lo+3lo combo, but that probably wouldn't be too realistic, although I'd love to see her try a loop combo at some point, her solo loop is great. Anyway, good luck to Kaori in the fs, she will skate last
https://www.jsfresults.com/non_resp...,National/2018-2019/fs_j/highschool/index.htm
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Also, Kaori is still practicing 3A and hoping to perfect ot by Beijing 2022. Here is an attempt where she falls pretty hard and underrotates, just hope she stays injury free.
https://t.co/MtxT1RTwbO https://twitter.com/0409_Obi/status/1088781152029011969?s=17
https://t.co/MtxT1RTwbO https://twitter.com/0409_Obi/status/1088781152029011969?s=17
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