Mao's Chopin Nocturne SP was a masterpiece !!

[amateur]

Poor Mao!

Even fan forum threads about her are now turning into threads about YuNa instead!

On topic: It would certainly be nice to have some of this Mao (Chopin SP) back!

 

[Medusa]

I don't think it's a masterpiece.

It's a little girl, who seems a lot less worn down, skating to soft piano music that suits her soft balletic skating style. It's like you can have Johnny Weir skate to nearly every beautiful pop-ballad - it's always going to look good. Or Lysacek to these powerful fast-paced finales in classical music. The music then emphasises the skater, but I never have the feeling with those kind of programs that the skater skates to the music.

 

[Blades of Passion]

I agree that spreading out the jumping passes makes the program so much more enjoyable, but Yu-na's Die Flaudermmas SP had (I believe) the same jump layout as TdR and the former is usually not considered her finest moment.

She did the combination and solo triple back-to-back in Die Flaudermmas.

That SP is definitely her least impressive. It never quite captures the feeling of the music, except for perhaps the opening movements and that moment after the layback where she does the little poses.

Her LP in 2008 was definitely also her weakest.

 

[wonderlen3000]

Can we start a forum about either just Mao or just Yuna, without getting into Yuna vs. Mao again?? hwell: