Mao Shimada

[yume]

Mao Shimada (島田 麻央 Shimada Mao) is a Japanese figure skater born on 30 october 2008 in Tokyo.

She is the 2021 Junior national champion, the 2021 and 2020 novice A champion, the 2020 junior national bronze medalist, the 2019 novice B champion.

She successfully landed 4T for the first time at 12yo at Kyoto championships and also attempted 3A in competition.

She is coached by Mie Hamada at Konoshita Academy. She was previously coached by Koji Okajima in Tokyo.

Her JSF profile: https://www.skatingjapan.or.jp/figure/player/detail.php?id=Zhh858U92yQ=

Her rinkresults profile:
http://www.rinkresults.com/skater?skater_id=31766


Here are the videos of her winning programs.

Mao's Quad Toe! March 2021

Mao Shimada quad toe loop!!!!!!!!!!!!

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2021 junior gold FS
2021 junior SP
2021 novice A gold
2020 junior nationals bronze
2020 Novice A gold
2019 novice B gold

Competition History​

		Short program		Free skating		Total
Competition	Level	Score	No	Score	No	Score	No
2021-2022
Japan Junior Championships 2021	Junior	61.76	4	126.75	1	188.51	1
Japan Novice Championships 2021	Advanced novice			120.03	1
Kinki Regional Championships 2021	Advanced novice			120.83	1
2020-2021
Japan Junior Championships 2020	Junior	57.89	6	115.55	3	173.44	3
Japan Novice Championships 2020	Advanced novice (A)			108.42	1
Kinki Regional Championships 2020	Advanced novice (A)			105.25	1
2019-2020
Japan Novice Championships 2019	Intermediate novice (B)			88.50	1
Tokyo Regional Championships 2019	Intermediate novice (B)			88.12	1
2018-2019
Japan Novice Championships 2018	Basic novice B			68.71	5
Tokyo Regional Championships 2018	Basic novice B			69.15	1

 

[yume]

Happy birthday to Mao!

Any news about her SP music this season? I'm looking forward junior nats. The battle for the podium will be fierce. Teammates Ayumi Shibayama and Hana Yoshida and others like Rion Sumiyoshi and Ami Nakai have strong arguments too.

 

[yume]

Mao won junior nats with two clean skates (including aa 4T in the free program).
I don't recall a novice winning junior nats.
And i just checked, among Japanese ladies, i think that so far she got the highest TES for domestic comps (76.03) and is only 2nd to Mihara when we take into account international scores. That's with one less technical element than seniors

https://mobile.twitter.com/figureskatingm1/status/1462355282760126464

 

[cohkaix]

Post-competition interview with Mao Shimada (translation roughly):

島田麻央　荒川静香以来27年ぶり飛び級Ｖ「イナバウアーの印象」一問一答 - フィギュア : 日刊スポーツ

1つ下のカテゴリーとなるノービスの全日本女王、13歳の島田麻央（木下アカデミー）が“飛び級”で初優勝の快挙を成し遂げた。ノービス年代のジュニア制覇は94年の荒… - 日刊スポーツ新聞社のニュースサイト、ニッカンスポーツ・コム（nikkansports.com）

www.nikkansports.com

*Shimada won the 21' Jr. Women's Nationals, as the current NvA Women's National Champion. This is since 94' when Shizuka Arakawa won the Jr. Nationals' title as the NvA Champion of that year (At that time Arakawa was a 1st-year high school student).

- In general, Mao said she was happy about the winning, and about landing the 4T in the FS program.
- She wasn't able to jump the 4T during the 6-min warming up, and she sensed that her jumping axis was off. So she made the adjustment afterwards.
- To be able to land 4T in the recent competitions including regional, NvA Nationals, and now at Jr. Nationals have helped her gain confidence.
- Comparing to NvA level skating, she had to add one more jump (and 30 sec longer) to make the Jr. program. Mao said she failed with the Jr. level program at first. So she's happy she can make the program works.
- For the future competitions (she'll turn Jr. next season), she wants to work more on the skating skills in addition to jumps, and paying attention to PCS. As for jumps, she will want to try 2 quads, and perhaps to start with 2 4Ts.
- She's happy to follow Arakawa's step and win the Jr. Nationals as NvA level skater (and her impression of Arawkawa is of course...the Ina Bauer!)

 

[yume]

Her SP.

Mao Shimada SP 20/11/2021 All Japan Junior National Championships

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[yume]

Post-competition interview with Mao Shimada (translation roughly):

島田麻央　荒川静香以来27年ぶり飛び級Ｖ「イナバウアーの印象」一問一答 - フィギュア : 日刊スポーツ

1つ下のカテゴリーとなるノービスの全日本女王、13歳の島田麻央（木下アカデミー）が“飛び級”で初優勝の快挙を成し遂げた。ノービス年代のジュニア制覇は94年の荒… - 日刊スポーツ新聞社のニュースサイト、ニッカンスポーツ・コム（nikkansports.com）

www.nikkansports.com

*Shimada won the 21' Jr. Women's Nationals, as the current NvA Women's National Champion. This is since 94' when Shizuka Arakawa won the Jr. Nationals' title as the NvA Champion of that year (At that time Arakawa was a 1st-year high school student).

- In general, Mao said she was happy about the winning, and about landing the 4T in the FS program.
- She wasn't able to jump the 4T during the 6-min warming up, and she sensed that her jumping axis was off. So she made the adjustment afterwards.
- To be able to land 4T in the recent competitions including regional, NvA Nationals, and now at Jr. Nationals have helped her gain confidence.
- Comparing to NvA level skating, she had to add one more jump (and 30 sec longer) to make the Jr. program. Mao said she failed with the Jr. level program at first. So she's happy she can make the program works.
- For the future competitions (she'll turn Jr. next season), she wants to work more on the skating skills in addition to jumps, and paying attention to PCS. As for jumps, she will want to try 2 quads, and perhaps to start with 2 4Ts.
- She's happy to follow Arakawa's step and win the Jr. Nationals as NvA level skater (and her impression of Arawkawa is of course...the Ina Bauer!)

Oh so Shizuka did the same thing. I hope Mao has the same bright future (with more consistency though).
Seems like her team gave up on 3A. She tried it at her first novice A nats. Too bad.

 

[yume]

The free program.

 

[RatedPG]

She was great. All green with all her elements. I will be rooting for her in Juniors next year.

 

[DougDorsey]

Does anyone happen to know who choreographed Mao's FS this season?

 

[cohkaix]

Does anyone happen to know who choreographed Mao's FS this season?

Both SP and FS were by Cathy Reed.

 

[DougDorsey]

Both SP and FS were by Cathy Reed.

Thank you!

 

[DougDorsey]

Are there any videos of Mao's performances at this past weekend's Kyoto Prefectural Championships?

 

[yume]

Congrats to Mao for her first international gold medal.