Congratulations on winning your first global title as a coach!
It's really Shoma's title. It's an honour for me to have been able to support him. He has and always had all the pieces it takes within him. I just helped him to put them together.
I'm happy to have seen what I've seen today [during the free skate]. When I welcomed Shoma in Switzerland, after his poor showing in Grenoble at the end of 2019, that's the main thing I wanted to show him - the pleasure of skating, and the beauty one can feel while skating. I saw that today, especially during the second part of his program, he showed his freedom!
The "Bolero" music is a grand and dense one. It doesn't allow for a mistake. That is, it requires you to bring a complicated content to be consistent with the music. Shoma elected to present one of the most demanding programs of all time tonight, including five quads. The main challenge was to put both the technical difficulty and the music together. With this technical content it's of course not easy to free yourself from it and use your music the way he did tonight. Shoma displayed a quality of jumps and a personal dynamic that impressed me, especially in consistency with the spirit of his program. Then, once he had landed his biggest elements, I saw him light up. I loved it when his face started shining! He let things go, he was completely free in what he was doing. He expressed a lot of pleasure and gave me a lot of pleasure, too. Skating is a fighting spirit, but with a lot of fun in this fighting spirit.
Has it been a long way to achieve this result?
I would have hoped to see such a performance earlier in the season. I was also happy with the technical level of the elements he delivered; his technique was really sharp.
Shoma always had this particular presence and a specific charisma. He is cat-like in his approach. His choreographers have understood well how his body works and they value that well. The baroque music that accompanies his short program (Marcello's and Vivaldi's oboe concertos - ed.) pushes him in directions he would never have imagined himself. Once he is on the move and connected, one can't help being surprised by the way he integrates things. He has always had a sensitivity to music, a natural emotion. And a body intelligence that makes creating with him easy. Or, rather, that facilitates creative work with him. You wouldn't choose baroque music without Shoma's talent. That's what makes him really inhabit his program.
He looks so handsome and at ease!
you’re an amazing person.
He was playing so seriously lol, as expected! It was really funny 
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I was waiting for it since 2018!
