Mao Asada

[BounceAround]

I'm so not ready to hear this...

 

[yhmafan]

In May? Why has it been set in May? :think: Maybe Mao is not decided yet and said that by May, she'll know exactly what to do and say. We can only wait for now...

Because the article says that they need to submit “the list of players” who would participate upcoming GP series to ISU at the beginning of July.

rosewood said about it that “This is my assumption but she may announce her decision on the press conference for THE ICE 2015 like she did last year.” and I agree.

 

[samm22]

According to Mrs Kobayashi’s (The director of JSF) words, we will find out about Mao’s athletic career in May. My heart throbs.

:dance: but :hopelessness: but but AHHHHH

 

[Sophie-Anna]

According to Mrs Kobayashi’s (The director of JSF) words, we will find out about Mao’s athletic career in May. My heart throbs.

Part of me wish Mao will stay in competitive skating and she will fight for more medals. She still has one big gold left, but winning olympic gold is just really difficult. Second part of me just thinks Mao had amazing career, with beautiful programs, she is a great skater (and I can say she is a legend already) and now she should have time for more normal life. I don’t know how she will decide but at the end I am still her fan.

 

[yhmafan]

Part of me wish Mao will stay in competitive skating and she will fight for more medals. She still has one big gold left, but winning olympic gold is just really difficult. Second part of me just thinks Mao had amazing career, with beautiful programs, she is a great skater (and I can say she is a legend already) and now she should have time for more normal life. I don’t know how she will decide but at the end I am still her fan.

Yes... Probably almost all her fans would think that way, as you said, even if we all miss her desperately….we will only wait and see….

 

[gotoschool]

Here is a nice link with some wonderful comments about Mao. Mao has also moved up on the site and is currently the highest rated female on the list. But, I mainly like it for the compliments for Mao.

http://www.thetoptens.com/favorite-figure-skater-of-all-time/mao-asada-385757.asp

 

[gotoschool]

Here is Mao's radio show for April 27th. She is becoming a veteran DJ: a Delightful Joy to listen to. This is the second half of the interview with Midori Ito. Double the pleasure of listening to two living legends with kindred spirits, since this is the 2nd show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrJ6YKPr_6g

 

[yhmafan]

Here is a nice link with some wonderful comments about Mao. Mao has also moved up on the site and is currently the highest rated female on the list. But, I mainly like it for the compliments for Mao.

http://www.thetoptens.com/favorite-figure-skater-of-all-time/mao-asada-385757.asp

Yes, I enjoy reading that :yay:

By the way do you know that sometimes Mao is called 男前 “Otoko-mae” by Japanese fans, (Maybe someone who are her fans on other forums might have explained it already)
It’s kinda difficult to translate in English, but if there is any closer in meaning is that It’s “Handsome woman” or “Samurai lady” or something like that.

I find it sort of amusing because so many people picture her as one of the most feminine skaters such as Ballerina on ice..etc and actually seeing the grace and elegance that she appears on ice is very in contrast to being a Otoko-mae and so on.

I feel that even if she looks very feminine and has a received character, but at the same time she seems to have the strongest samurai mind in so many ways among Team Japan all (including men). and she has even said on TV that "Basically I have nothing to be afraid of" and that sounded so otoko-mae for sure
That’s what she is called the way by many fans, I suppose

 

[Sam-Skwantch]

Instead of a work related picture, which I thought I was texting to my boss, I pasted the last thing I had copied on my phone which was THIS: http://youtu.be/SiXqTwgj6CI because I used it as an answer to a GS game I played this morning

He said thanks and that it was a lovely performance but I'm not sure what that has to do with our conversation

 

[demarinis5]

^^That is hilarious. You could not have chosen a more lovelier performance for your boss. lol

Thanks everyone for all the Mao updates, she has been a busy young woman!

 

[Barb]

Instead of a work related picture, which I thought I was texting to my boss, I pasted the last thing I had copied on my phone which was THIS: http://youtu.be/SiXqTwgj6CI because I used it as an answer to a GS game I played this morning

He said thanks and that it was a lovely performance but I'm not sure what that has to do with our conversation

 

[yhmafan]

Mao Asada Montage Mao is so cute well done

 

[Mathman]

Mao Asada Montage Mao is so cute well done

 

[Franklin99]

Mao Asada Montage Mao is so cute well done

 

[gotoschool]

Yes, I enjoy reading that :yay:

By the way do you know that sometimes Mao is called 男前 “Otoko-mae” by Japanese fans, (Maybe someone who are her fans on other forums might have explained it already)
It’s kinda difficult to translate in English, but if there is any closer in meaning is that It’s “Handsome woman” or “Samurai lady” or something like that.

I find it sort of amusing because so many people picture her as one of the most feminine skaters such as Ballerina on ice..etc and actually seeing the grace and elegance that she appears on ice is very in contrast to being a Otoko-mae and so on.

I feel that even if she looks very feminine and has a received character, but at the same time she seems to have the strongest samurai mind in so many ways among Team Japan all (including men). and she has even said on TV that "Basically I have nothing to be afraid of" and that sounded so otoko-mae for sure
That’s what she is called the way by many fans, I suppose

That's a really interesting way to describe Mao. I remember Maxim Trankov saying "True Samurai" during her Sochi LP so either he thinks about Mao just the same as you do in Japan or he heard it first in Japan. The reason I like Mao so much is because she is incredible at creating a "balance" between being a beautiful prima ballerina who combines vulnerability, femininity and subtlety of expression with superior athleticism and a "fighter" mentality that is passionate and gutsy. The resolution of opposites and contradictory moods and forms of expression into a harmonic whole is the definition of a great artist, like Rachmaninoff in his 2nd concerto, which Mao mirrors so well in her performance to the piece at Sochi and Worlds especially. Here, the Battling Ballerina prances in passionate freedom during her acrobatic step sequence. She is a great artist because she does this in so many of her other performances as well. She is mysterious and Protean (a shape shifter) because she freely changes from one form of expression to another: joyous to melancholy, subtle and restrained to passionate.

Mao Asada Montage Mao is so cute well done

This is a great montage with a lot of adorable footage I have never seen before. Thanks so much to the upolader and to you for sharing.

 

[yhmafan]

Thanks everyone for the responses of my post

That's a really interesting way to describe Mao. I remember Maxim Trankov saying "True Samurai" during her Sochi LP so either he thinks about Mao just the same as you do in Japan or he heard it first in Japan. The reason I like Mao so much is because she is incredible at creating a "balance" between being a beautiful prima ballerina who combines vulnerability, femininity and subtlety of expression with superior athleticism and a "fighter" mentality that is passionate and gutsy. The resolution of opposites and contradictory moods and forms of expression into a harmonic whole is the definition of a great artist, like Rachmaninoff in his 2nd concerto, which Mao mirrors so well in her performance to the piece at Sochi and Worlds especially. Here, the Battling Ballerina prances in passionate freedom during her acrobatic step sequence. She is a great artist because she does this in so many of her other performances as well. She is mysterious and Protean (a shape shifter) because she freely changes from one form of expression to another: joyous to melancholy, subtle and restrained to passionate.

 

[yhmafan]

I like most of her/his videos. these are very something. (make me feel nostalgia)

Best moments of 2012-2013 【Ladies Edition】
Team Japan Best moments of 2013-2014


I love the editing of the video. Mao Asada - Supergirl!! (Both of them are so cute when Jeff kissed Mao).

 

[gotoschool]

I like most of her/his videos. these are very something. (make me feel nostalgia)

Best moments of 2012-2013 【Ladies Edition】
Team Japan Best moments of 2013-2014


I love the editing of the video. Mao Asada - Supergirl!! (Both of them are so cute when Jeff kissed Mao).

Those were really nice videos. Here is one that just appeared on youtube. It is Mao's Nocturne performances 7 years apart in really good quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvMJ-4_rTCI

In both her Sochi LP and Nocturne at Worlds 2014 and the early performance of Nocturne as well, Mao's emotional expression is like an incoming tide that swells slowly with the wave like motions of her balletic lines and extensions carried out with tender care, diligence, fine-tuned flexibility and flashes of athletic brilliance. The complex movements, transitions, spins and jumps are a fine weave of elaborate tapestry that draw me slowly into a trance, until I am carried away to a beautiful oasis once she descends into her soulful dance. She tells a highly personal story with her body that speaks from deep within her genuine spirit.



Here is also a really good quality of performance of Caprice with Abba playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W72o4XqdVXQ

 

[yhmafan]

Here is also a really good quality of performance of Caprice with Abba playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W72o4XqdVXQ

It’s a very unique video as ABBA’s sophisticated and decent music & vocal do so fit her skating.

I also would like to see that she skates to the music by Simon & Garfunkel or...”Just the way you are” “Honesty” by Billy Joel or something that ~ ’80’s would probably fit for her skating than the music these days...

 

[yhmafan]

rosewood kindly translated the second part of Talk show with Mao & Midori on Mao's radio show.

Here is the link #12.