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Satoko Miyahara

roma said:
New pair for The ICE from now on like Mao and Jeff? hehe!
It's good to finally see Satoko looking not so restrained and really enjoying it.

I'm looking forward to seeing her in Japan Open in Saitama.
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She's competing at the US Classic before that :) I recommend watching her new SP too, her performance is as full of joy and freedom as this one.
 
According to this newspaper article, Satoko is excited about her technical goal for the new season: introducing the 3A.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsMDceOVUAAtPrI.jpg

"In case I fail to land the 3A I want to recover with a 3-3 combination in the second half of the program" :shocked: :shock2: :giveup:

People on twitter are wondering whether they made a mistake in the article or mistook her for Rika Kihira.
 
ioanna said:
According to this newspaper article, Satoko is excited about her technical goal for the new season: introducing the 3A.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsMDceOVUAAtPrI.jpg

"In case I fail to land the 3A I want to recover with a 3-3 combination in the second half of the program" :shocked: :shock2: :giveup:

People on twitter are wondering whether they made a mistake in the article or mistook her for Rika Kihira.
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Tiny queen is taking bad examples from Yuzuru and Shoma.......... :rofl2:
 
Here's the thing. We know she has been practicing the 3A for quite some time now. She said she needs it to be fully competitive and with the Olympics basically around the corner now is the time to start testing it. The truth is that so far she has to rely on other skaters making mistakes for her to win a medal. Finishing 5th at Worlds with better performances than the ones she won silver with a year before must have been frustrating for sure. Another thing is that her consistency basically lacks excitement for people who aren't her fans; it's a paradox but her skating clean programs every time kind of bores people. That's the impression I've gotten over the past season. Not to mention them being annoyed with the double 2A-3T combo (which has fortunately disappeared this season).

Now we don't know when she's going to do it but I'm all for her doing it. She should start risking. Without a certain success rate in practice, I'm pretty sure she wouldn't have talked about introducing it in her programs. She's the most level headed skater when it comes to these things and her team has known how to speculate the code of points so far.

Taking a look at her layouts

SP last season: 3Lz-3T / 3F, 2A
SP this season: 2A / 3Lz-3T, 3F

The placing of the 2A this season looks like it's waiting to become a 3A. (The placing of the 3F, however, is giving me the chills)

FS last season: 3Lz-2T-2Lo(rippon), 3Lo, 3F / 3Lz, 2A-3T, 3S, 2A-3T
FS this season: 3Lo, 3Lz-3T, 3F / 3Lz-2T-2Lo(rippon), 2A-3T, 3S, 2A | Alternative: 3Lo, 3Lz-2T-2Lo(rippon), 3F / 3Lz-3T, 2A, 3S, 2A-3T

The placing of the 3Lo as the opening jump also looks like it could be a 3A in the future, although I see it happening in the SP rather than the FS.

Satoko will compete this weekend so we will see which layouts she's going to choose. Her talks about the 3A have been vague all this time so we don't know when to expect it.

PS: Sam, you don't have to delete your posts. We come in peace. :laugh: This thread could use more life and discussions after all.
 
It worries me that she may try 3A soon, but it's true that she has been considering that jump for quite some time.
Maybe it's worth risking it for US Classics, or it may be too soon. I guess we'll see soon enough.
 
I am a bit skeptical about the 3A for Satoko. I agree that if she is seriously talking about it, the success rate in practice must be high enough, yet we have never seen any video or evidence of her landing or even attempting the 3A. I mean, that is kinda weird isn't it? Or is there a video of Satoko doing a triple axel that I haven't seen?

I do have to say that would be quite hilarious to see Satoko performing clean triple axels in competition while people moan about how bad of a jumper she is.
 
There's no video of her attempting the 3A because we can only see what they choose to show on TV. There are no fancams allowed in Japan and no open practices. But she said the following thing: she wants to be able to do a 3-3 at any point of her program so in case she tries the 3A she can do a 3-3 in the second half of the program and recover the points. There are videos of her jumping 3Lz-3T and 3F-3T in the second half of her SP and she jumped 4 combinations in her FS at THE ICE (which some people here thought was ridiculous and hilarious). Suddenly it all makes sense. I expect her 3A to look like Rika Kihira's; fast rotation and distance rather than height.
 
Satoko was the only skater who I could watch more or less calm, because I knew she wasn't going to fail.... but now, I guess I'll be a bit more nervous:laugh: Kudos to her for trying new things, I believe she can do it, she rotates very fast and with a good speed I expect a good 3A.
 
ioanna said:
There's no video of her attempting the 3A because we can only see what they choose to show on TV. There are no fancams allowed in Japan and no open practices.
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I am conscious Satoko is not Japan's media favourite skater but if TV had footage of Satoko landing 3A or even a close honest attempt at 3A I am sure they wouldn't chose not to show it.
 
daphenaxa said:
I am conscious Satoko is not Japan's media favourite skater but if TV had footage of Satoko landing 3A or even a close honest attempt at 3A I am sure they wouldn't chose not to show it.
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It's more like Satoko choosing not to attempt 3A when the media showed up at the practice rink. Knowing her, she wouldn't want to attract any kind of attention with her attempts; she's the type of skater who always wants to show the finished "product".
 
I hope Satoko throws that triple axel! I can just see the indignation from posters on here if she gets credit for it; after all, according to many here, Satoko can't jump, cheats the system, blah blah blah.... Go Satoko!
 
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