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Kazuki Tomono

KiraraChin said:
I believe Japanese media didn't send anyone to cover Nebelhorn - that's why Koshiro had to be Kazuki's translator during the press conference - but thankfully we got to see great pictures by photographers from other nationalities, and by some very talented fans, too!
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So we know Koshiro's profession after his skating career? :biggrin:
Such a nice chance for the two, but I wonder what would they've done if they did not end up on the podium together? Koshiro crashing the press conference?

And it also seemed like Koshiro could translate bits of Adam's french statement to Kazuki as well? So brilliant 😁
 
yesterday said:
So we know Koshiro's profession after his skating career? :biggrin:
Such a nice chance for the two, but I wonder what would they've done if they did not end up on the podium together? Koshiro crashing the press conference?

And it also seemed like Koshiro could translate bits of Adam's french statement to Kazuki as well? So brilliant 😁
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Haha Koshiro really saved the day, not to mention he helped Kazuki with his EX!

Meanwhile, JSF released their official poster for Nationals and Medallists on Ice, and it features the Worlds 2023 team, meaning our boy is there :love2:

 


Considering that postcards are cheap and easy to make, and flowers are expensive, it's incredible that the campaign only lasted two weeks 🤯 Once again, Kazuki proves he has strong commercial appeal and I hope HD Flowers supports him even more from now on 🔥
Meanwhile, check out this beautiful 'Tsumugi' picture!
 
Nebelhorn, edited with Japanese comments and protocols

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Kazuki Tomono's series "#Tomono's Monogatari." Vol. 28 will be published tomorrow, Tuesday 3, around 6pm!
This time, we're going shopping 👕🚶.
The latest news is our impressions of the Nebelhorn Cup 🥈 We've also received lots of great photos from Tomono ⛰.

👘 👘 👘 Please review the last issue and wait!
 
kwanette said:
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友野一希連載【 #トモノのモノ語り。】vol.28「原宿でヴィンテージに浸る休日＆ネーベルホルン杯リベンジ 」＜フィギュアスケート男子＞ | 連載| non-no web

こんにちは、フィギュアスケーターの友野一希です。僕の好きなことや、お気に入りのアイテムについて紹介する連載「トモノのモノ語り。」第28回目です。今回は夏に行った
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Thank you! Lots of cute pics of Kazuki shopping, I really like the ones from the rockabilly shop. The counselling room was insightful as usual! However, I'd like to focus on his thoughts about Nebelhorn:
I managed to finish my first international match!
The Nebelhorn Cup went well, partly because the adjustments I made after arriving there went well, but my own impression was that I had done enough for now. I didn't have much time to spare.

This time, I tried not to show too much emotion from before the performance to the kiss-and-cry afterwards, and just tried to keep a normal mind. Last year, I was very tense from the first round, so this time, my goal was to make it easy and simple, in a good sense of the word. I tend to put in too much effort, so I tried not to be overly motivated, and to tackle the match quietly.
That worked positively, and I was able to skate while controlling myself well, and I think I was able to jump with a good state of relaxed energy.
In the short program, I was very relieved to have a quad salchow, which I struggled with last season, and this success gave me a lot of confidence.

What I need to improve is that my facial expression was stiff in the first half. I could enjoy skating in the second half, when the music was getting more exciting, but until then, I was a bit somber, so it would have been better if I could have a softer expression.

As for FS, it was a challenging program for me, as it was the first time for me to compete with a quiet tune. From the way I approached the competition, it was already different from before.

So I was relieved to get the second score (performance component points), but I think it was a little too bland. It was not a bad competition, but I was not satisfied with myself.

As for my quadruple jumps, I am still not in good shape yet. In practice, I jumped 4T-3T (toe-loop), but in the competition, I went to 4T-2T. I was not yet physically strong enough to jump the full composition, so I decided to go with 2T, to make sure I could succeed, to gain confidence.

So, my performance was organized, but I was still too full of holes, and I could not fully finish all the details, to be honest. From now on, I have to work on my 4T-3T to be able to skate the full composition.
He is so harsh on himself 😭 Kazuki calling his performances 'stiff' and 'bland' has the same energy as Shoma saying he is not good with expressions. Please...

But also great to know the 4T2T was planned, and kudos to him for being so self-aware and not pushing it in the first competition of the season. It's a bit scary to think that, if that was him without being physically fit yet, how is it going to be when he is in top shape? o_O In any case, his calm approach to the competition worked, so hopefully he keeps it up for the season:pray:


On a different note, here's a little message from Kazuki, for the launch of the Japanese National team fan book!

 
Not the greatest quality video, but here's Kazuki's performance from yesterday:

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I also wanted to share Shizuka Arakawa's comments, which were transcribed by a Japanese fan (Deepl translated):
Tomono's skating quality has improved dramatically over the past few years, and his skating, in which he takes fewer steps but covers a big area with each one, helps him to express this classical style. Being able to freely manipulate the skating makes it easy to make slow and fast moves, which leads to the development of speedy moves that don't appear to be accelerating very fast, making the program as a whole a compelling one.

What can I say? It's been an amazing early season for Kazuki, first the silver medal at Nebelhorn, now the team victory at the Japan Open 🎉 He says he's not in shape, and yet his skating looks amazing, the jumps are not perfect but better than ever, he's doing his job with the spins and he has a very strong set of programmes. The only thing missing is getting the judges on board, and the fact that he won the PCS in an event that also had Jason and Kevin gives me a glimmer of hope that the judges will finally wake up and give him some credit :pray:
 
Kazuki's post following JO, he says:
Thank you very much for your support.
I'm really happy to have won the team competition!
I will do my best again for the next game!


Also, despite the blatant underscoring, Kazuki has the fourth highest score in the Challenger series after 5 events 👀


I hope he gets to rest for a couple of days, now. He has now three weeks to prepare for Skate Canada, which is more time than he's had to prepare for Nebelhorn and Japan Open. The fact that he even considered to do Kinki in these circumstances still baffles me!
 
KiraraChin said:
Kazuki's post following JO, he says:
Thank you very much for your support.
I'm really happy to have won the team competition!
I will do my best again for the next game!


Also, despite the blatant underscoring, Kazuki has the fourth highest score in the Challenger series after 5 events 👀


I hope he gets to rest for a couple of days, now. He has now three weeks to prepare for Skate Canada, which is more time than he's had to prepare for Nebelhorn and Japan Open. The fact that he even considered to do Kinki in these circumstances still baffles me!
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That's great!
To be honest, I wouldn't say that Kazuki Tomono is much underscored, rather that another skater is outrageously overscored and another lately significantly overscored.
 
DizzyFrenchie said:
To be honest, I wouldn't say that Kazuki Tomono is much underscored, rather that another skater is outrageously overscored and another lately significantly overscored.
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It's both IMO.
Kazuki is underscored as per ISU rulebook, for example, that 3A in the SP at Nebelhorn deserved +4 if not +5, because it fulfils all of the GOE bullet points, including creative entry. Yet, he received mainly +2 with the odd +3. In general, the GOE in his jumps has been lower than it should be this season, with most of his jumps getting +2s even when he lands it beautifully. In PCS, at this point he should be getting mid 8s at the very least, yet some judges gave him 7s at Nebelhorn. It's things like that, you know. A little underscoring here, a little there, and then it adds up. I believe his total score at Nebelhorn was about 7-8pts lower than it should have been, at the very least.
Then, there's the issue of other skaters being overscored, which is extremely unfair :cautious:

Still, he has come so far. Non-no published a profile article looking back at his senior career so far, it makes me emotional to look back on the difficult times in 2018-19 and see how much he improved since then, mentally and skills-wise. I'm so proud of him.
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“浪速のエンターテイナー”の異名をもつ、日本が誇るスケーターのこれまでの歩みから、プログラム、その魅力を写真とともにたっぷりご紹介！
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Thank you! I hadn't watched the score sheet and indeed, it's not good. For the 3A, there's always the pretext that they're not high and long enough to a particular judges, so when they give that bullet to other skaters it can be either underscoring of Kazuki Tomono or overscoring of others, but even with that possibility, he should have got 3, that is, bullets for 4/5 and no call, but a cap at 3 because the judges doen't find his 3A high and long enough and it's one of the 3 first bullets.
As to PCS, I don't see how a severe judge (like in Patrich Chan's era) would give him anything under 8, and a more generous judge (supposing we're in such era) anything under 9? Meanwhile, a skater with absolutely terrible components gets high scores...
I wonder if he appreciates for its worth the indirect tribute the judges are awarding his skating by underscoring him, as putting him in the same underscored category as Yuzuru Hanyu?
 
DizzyFrenchie said:
Thank you! I hadn't watched the score sheet and indeed, it's not good. For the 3A, there's always the pretext that they're not high and long enough to a particular judges, so when they give that bullet to other skaters it can be either underscoring of Kazuki Tomono or overscoring of others, but even with that possibility, he should have got 3, that is, bullets for 4/5 and no call, but a cap at 3 because the judges doen't find his 3A high and long enough and it's one of the 3 first bullets.
As to PCS, I don't see how a severe judge (like in Patrich Chan's era) would give him anything under 8, and a more generous judge (supposing we're in such era) anything under 9? Meanwhile, a skater with absolutely terrible components gets high scores...
I wonder if he appreciates for its worth the indirect tribute the judges are awarding his skating by underscoring him, as putting him in the same underscored category as Yuzuru Hanyu?
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The thing is, Kazuki's 3A is objectively speaking a big jump in both height and distance, this has been shown by ice scope stats, and even Belinda Noonan commented on this during Worlds. So I don't really see how the judges would miss that, and that particular 3A was also effortless throughout which is another bullet point. For me, the only point of contention would be 'element matches the music', but also plenty people get +5s these days for jumps that don't connect with the music so...

Whilst one can't even begin to compare Kazuki's ability with Yuzu, I agree there's a parallel there... It's like the judges are saying 'I won't acknowledge your skill because it doesn't suit my agenda' 🤬

On another note, check out these pictures... I know he gets a lot of criticism for his lack of extension on his legs, but I still think his lines are beautiful!
 
I mean, there's no metric definition, so each judge can have theirs (which they must apply to all competitors), but I too found it high and long, and it was indeed effortless.
Shun Sato is in the same predicament with judges, yet his interpretation and skating skills have improved dramatically in the last two seasons.
I don't think that an outright comparison with Yuzuru Hanyu is fair, but let's not forget that Kazuki Tomono is a late bloomer. I hope that he'll continue to improve in the next years!
I had not even noticed that he didn't have exceptional extensions, because his choreographs are good, he doesn't need them.
Well, it's outright that, and they're destroying Figure Skating both as a sport because such unfair scoring makes of it a mock, as an artistic way of bodily expression because they dismiss any of the techniques leading to artistry which the rules list as having to be rewarded; and as a show because people who never saw Figure Skating are often shown perfectly uninteresting skaters and believe there's nothing more there, and people who used to love Figure Skating because it's so despair-inducing that they leave. Well, a very very few people are happy with that situation because the less they are, the most "elite" they feel, even while exposing blatantly their bias and lack of taste.
Meanwhile, competitive skaters have to be very strong mentally and morally to go on, everything is done to crush them. I am really grateful to all the skaters who strive to keep Figure Skating both a sport and artistic.
I'm reposting Nebelhorn:


 
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