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I am not sure about sponsoring, but PChan and Yuzuru use same kind of boot, though: http://www.edeaskates.com/
Ooh I didn't even notice. How cool!
I am not sure about sponsoring, but PChan and Yuzuru use same kind of boot, though: http://www.edeaskates.com/
Thank you for sharing! Dai having the most dork moments out of all does not surprise me. Also seeing Taka in his latino outfit reminded me of the Mambo group number he did with Dai, Akiko, Shizuka and Shae-Lynn Bourne at Friends On Ice 2011 so I'll post the link here That mambo SP of Dai's did wonders among his team mates. I remember even Yuzuru was doing parts of the choreography.
http://video.yandex.ru/users/jejel/view/323/?cauthor=jejel&cid=15
I might repeat myself but do not believe all that you read on Tumblr (though I don't know if that recent post on blades was published after reading here or viceversa). I've been seeing a lot of funny stuff in the tag - yesterday there was a post with a old photo of a Chinese skater who took a photo with Yuzuru when they were children and she was referred to as 'Yuzuru's sister Saya'. This is just one of many.
Wow, I watched the finale and Yuzuru landed the quad salchow... haha it's strange to think that he's been struggling with this jump for two seasons and he lands it comfortably during ice shows.
Are you talking about this post? https://24.media.tumblr.com/6cd03b8f8632e32997b904c1b8a917d1/tumblr_n528k14Ap01tya15so1_400.jpg
Funny, I logged in just now to post about Kento retiring - but then I saw deedee1's post above. I couldn't have put it better.Thanks a lot for such great translations, yude!
Kento Nakamura has announced his retirement from the competitive figure skating...sadly;;;
Here is his very last performence on May 3rd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvzqQo2tg24 where he had a pretty clean performance. So nice to see he nailed two 3As, and loved the very warm and friendly atomosphere created by all the audience there. Couldn't finish watching the vid without my tears, too...
He may not be the very top skaters in jump-wise, as well as competitive nerve-wise (too sweet personality, just like other J-boys like Nobunari), but very nice postures, soft blade touches to the ice, his graceful interpretation of the music, etc.; such one fine elegant skater Kento truly is whom I have always admireds. He could have made the national team for sure, if not representing Japan. My belief, rather sentimental and maybe selfish side of mine, is Kento would have made much better success in ice dance if only ice dance as a discipline were more popular in Japan. Yukina Ota for this matter, too. Such a shame indeed numerous injuries and the depth in singles in this country pushed these fine skaters to rather early retirement from the competitive skating.
For me this LP at J Nats in 2012-13 season is probably his best performance, despite of a fall on 3A: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ALjyKyCaWc Kento's and his coach Mr Higuchi's expression in the Kiss and Cry is just priceless! :yes:
Kento now goes back to college (Rikkyo University) to graduate next March. He does not say what his future plans will be, but whichever path he is to choose, best wishes to Kento! :yay: