Despite being so young, she has it figured out!
"I believe this is all pretty much all mental," said the 15-year-old. "I feel like you can never be 100% in competition the way you are in practice, but it's about getting as close as possible to that and just adjusting to a different environment, bright lights, a lot of people, and judges. It's about kind of getting used to that so that you can perform the way you do in practice at the competition. That's really the main goal."
Here's wishing her luck in Great Britain at her next GP! Fingers crossed for those rotated triple-triples!
Sakamoto captures elusive gold in fifth trip to Skate America
2022 Skate America – Women’s Recap In her fifth appearance at this event, Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto captured gold in the Women’s discipline at 2022 Skate America on Sunday afternoon in […]
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"I believe this is all pretty much all mental," said the 15-year-old. "I feel like you can never be 100% in competition the way you are in practice, but it's about getting as close as possible to that and just adjusting to a different environment, bright lights, a lot of people, and judges. It's about kind of getting used to that so that you can perform the way you do in practice at the competition. That's really the main goal."
Here's wishing her luck in Great Britain at her next GP! Fingers crossed for those rotated triple-triples!