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ど の What kind of work did you do during the off season?
Tomono: The first thing is spins and my free leg. I'm working on where I can make improvements right away, and I think my free leg, on which I wasted points last season, has been firmly fixed. Since the sponsor, Central Sports runs gyms, I am getting support from a trainer for training. So it's helping me to jump with more ease, my skating has become more stable, and how to use the body has become better. I believe I'm making improvements as I'm doing better at showing my skating and each of my movements, being careful to the smallest details even to the tips of my fingers (in expression) than the last season. Especially with spins and my free leg, I want to show my improvements in competitions.
陸上 Is the on-the-ground training (off-ice) an effort to focus on the usage of the body rather than the power-up?
Tomono "Both. Training to stimulate the nervous system and also to prevent injury. Since I am still thin, I am doing a lot of weight training to make my body flexible and less prone to injury."
── Do you mainly train your lower body?
Tomono "No, upper body too. Using the whole body firmly, not partial, using the weight, feeling its weight, and correct the way I use my body while controlling it. And to have my whole body under control, since I sometimes have an axis tilting when landing a jump. Practicing on ice is of course the most important, and on-the-ground training is complementary, but it seems that my body has changed little by little. It is not the kind of training that shows a difference in appearance nor that enlarges muscle, but I am getting better and better (physically), and I am also doing core training, so in terms of controlling my body, I think I grew as much that I can feel it myself. "
ど の In what part of your skating do you think the training is most effective?
Tomono: Stability when landing or taking off the ice (for a jump), and correction of the axis when tightening (body when jumping){in other words, drawing in arms for the conservation of angular momentum}. Both for skating and free leg, to raise the leg I think that I should have a strong muscle, and I think that I have come to be able to do more difficult positions and movements more easily by repeating the training that I was taught by (Philipp) Mills sensei, such as ballet lessons. Although I'm not quite there yet, I think it's got more stable as a whole. I am doing training while being aware of which muscle of the body I am using, etc., so I started to realize which part (of my body) I'm using when I'm on the ice too. I think that I can take advantage of that for both skating and jumping."
き っ か け What made you realize that you needed off-ice training?
Tomono: "I was doing it last season too, but I didn't have a dedicated trainer for myself, besides, not like I could do it every week ... It's the first time I have a one-on-one training (with a personal trainer). I also felt that my skating skill still lacked stability compared to others around me, so I would like to continue full-scale training on a level that does not place a heavy burden on practice on the ice. "
感 じ I felt that your quad toe loop had its results.
Tomono: "It does... sort of, I think... maybe. (laughs). I have been practicing on the ice all the time, so I do not know suddenly, but it feels like I can rotate more easily than before. Some kind of stability when making it into a combination, or even when I'm landing badly, I can now manage it (to do the second jump). And my posture got a lot better. There are more things I can do now than when I started the (weight) training. At the beginning I was trembling horribly when doing a plank, but now I can even do the weighted (plank). Even when I'm just walking in my private life, I can feel the "core" of my body much more than before. I want to make use of it for skating some time (soon)."
--- Please tell us about your new programs.
Tomono “The short program is choreographed by Philip Mills, "The Hardest Button To Button" It is not the original music but the music in the contemporary work of ballet choreographer Wayne McGregor. Contemporary requires you to interpret the music well and express it with your own body, and so I want to be conscious of that. Contemporary is one of the genres I have always been interested in and wanted to do. In addition to choreography, Mills sensei gave me guidance on technical aspects such as how to use my free leg and movements in ballet, etc. The free program is “Moulin Rouge” by Misha Gee's choreography. It is made of 4 parts, with clear different dynamics and there are many appealing points. It is a number that encourages me to “do strong performance” which is my goal for this season. I want to show a new style in artistic aspect in short, and it would be good if I could deliver a strong performance in free."
Tomono, who talked about training in detail. His words overflowing one after another show how steady growth is realized.
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he just has to adjust that pale pink on the nek in my opinion
So frustrating...
