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Shoma Uno: 2014-2024

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Quote from Jeffrey Buttle: "Talent can only take you so far. It's hard work and dedication that separate the good from the great." I focus on Shoma's grit and determination. He has improved so much and certainly isn't afraid of hard work. Also when he was about 10 feet away from me getting jump training, I never heard Alex tell him your jumps are pre-rotated, under-rotated, your landings are terrible, etc. :scratch3:
 
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Just a little warning, don't go into the 3A-4T thread. Some 'like' Shoma's fun combi he does in practice enough to critizise it as if he had got +3 of GOE at the Olympic games for the element, in the competition.

I figured that thread would have 20 pages of negativity within minutes! :laugh2: Hopefully people are busy enjoying their own favorites rather than worrying about people playing with jumps, just like they all do in practices.
 
MAI KATZE I WANT YOUR AVATAR!!!!! It is fabulous -- even has the big nose! So cute!
 
Due to popular demand: The Shoma of my avatar is a Mii, a Nintendo (japanese Game company, you might've heard of them) avatar one can use in their games. Last year Nintendo entered the mobile game market with an app called Miitomo (Mii for Me and tomo for tomodachi, the japanese word for friend) It's basically an app where you play dollhouse, create little characters and decorate their rooms and dress them up in anything from Wedding dresses, Kimono, Jeans, Mermaid costume to figure skating clothes. I made an Anna and a Yuzuru Mii, the Shoma Mii I found on the Internet and scanned the QR code. I chose one costume I think that comes closest to his old free skate costume. You can create little Memes or pictures with the Miis, in any situation and add some text, speech bubbles, whatever.

Here are two I made recently:
One Two
 
https://twitter.com/BluecosmosH/status/831889121916264448
Kenji-sensei (choreographer, miyamoto) and Nobu were on TV and talked about the choreographers. Kenji-sensei says the choreographer who catches the attention most is Jeff (but he is so popular now among skaters, so it takes so much time for getting his coreo.)
And Nobu and Kenji-sensei referred to the young genius and picked up Shoma and Marin. Kenji-sensei says shoma is the type of sexier Daisuke and middle movements between strong movements are sexy.

BTW, shoma has any coreo by Kenji-sensei? I cant imagine him skating with his coreo...
 
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:hijacked::otopic: Slight digression -- moment of silence for the 56th anniversary of the crash of the plane carrying the U.S. figure skating team to Worlds. All 72 people on board were killed -- 18 skaters, 6 coaches, judges, and family members. That was a dark day -- February 15, 1961. :sad4:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCFdN-Jp8Ik
 
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It's from talk show in THE ICE 2010.
http://www2.ctv.co.jp/figure/2010/09/15/109/
I don't know whether the video is available or not. But, this is the video from same ice show.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/dTP9wUCl6_0

Thank you! :agree:




:hijacked::otopic: Slight digression -- moment of silence for the 56th anniversary of the crash of the plane carrying the U.S. figure skating team to Worlds. All 72 people on board were killed -- 18 skaters, coaches, judges, and family members. That was a dark day -- February 15, 1961. :sad4:

This was way before I was born, so I shamefully didn't even know about it, but I've just been reading up on it. What a tragedy with so many affected families and such farreaching consequences for the sport in the US! :(





Thank you very much for the translation, hamaguri!


Kenji-sensei says shoma is the type of sexier Daisuke and middle movements between strong movements are sexy.

Could this be one of these tricky to translate bits? Of course I wouldn't pretend to know any Japanese apart from a few very basic expressions (like "yonkaiten" ;)), but could it be, that he meant "attractive" rather than "sexy"? I recall a similar statement about Marin, where it was agreed upon, that "attractive" came closest to the intended meaning. :) Does the bolded part mean, that Kenji thinks Shoma is talented at varying/contrasting types of movement?



BTW, shoma has any coreo by Kenji-sensei? I cant imagine him skating with his coreo...

I don't think so. I believe, that until last season all of Shoma's choreo had been created by Higuchi-sensei? (I might be wrong :scratch2:) And of course this season there was "La vie en rose" by Stephane and he just received a brand new EX from David Wilson. I would love for them to work together one day! Kenji is pretty versatile (just compare Rika's "Riverdance" to Dai's "Sonatina for Violin" for instance or even "Sonatina" to "Eye"). I can imagine him creating sth., that suits Shoma. :)
 
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They drew for the SP -- Last group is 1) Jason 2) Yuzu 3) Shoma :hap10: 4) Patrick 5) Misha 6) Jin . I'm getting nervous already! :scard7:
 
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I showed my friend who is a former skater Shoma's 3A/4 Toe. He said it looked clean to him. If the 4Toe was a little short, it was less than 1/4th short.
 
Okay so since I saw the 3A+4T video I can't help but hit the replay button. It's amazing :love:
Good luck Shoma for the SP !!
 
Shoma is awesome and I love his jumps, he looks soft and fluid and so good. Who cares about the naysayers...Nobody forces them to watch his horrible jumps and technique. Honestly some act like Shoma only did this combo to get attention and so they can feel personally offended.
 
3A+4T is so pretty.

Where did the 4S come from? Is this for the Olympic season? I thought it might be a tiny underrotated.

I think he has been practicing quad sal and quad loop for a while but quad loop is more stable in practice so he decided to try and include it
 
The 4T combo tag could be the new standard post 2018. You get to increase the BV and you free up a jumping pass for the next highest triple.

If the highest 7 jump pass programme is 5 quad plus two triple axels. E.g.
4F
4Lo
4S
4T+2T
4T
3A+3T
3A+1Lo+3F

Compared to
4F
4Lo
4S
4T+3T
3Lz
3A+4T
3A+1Lo+3F

The BV is increase by 3Lz minus 2T
 
I still can't believe Shoma is jumping different kinds of quads. 4T, 4F, 4S, and even trying 4Lz ! :shocked:

It's just 3-4 seasons ago fans were praying, "What else Shoma needs is only 3A! Just 3A! So please God :bow: Then, he could be a junior world champ!"

We might be in a parallel world :reye:

Stay healthy, Shoma! This is another thing we have to pray for God :palmf:
 
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