2020 Japan Nationals - Ladies FS

[Sylvia]

Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020 [following the Free Dance; note: RUS Nationals Awards & Gala will take place at same time and will end after Satoko skates in the final group of ladies.]

Ladies FS time schedule by skater (17:04 to 21:11 in Nagano / 3:04 to 7:11 am Eastern time): https://www.jsfresults.com/National/2020-2021/fs_j/nationalsenior/time0205.pdf

Japanese Wedgie live scoring

17:04:00 17:11:00 Warm-up Group 1 (3:04 am Eastern start time)
1 Mone Chiba 24 54.45
2 Chisato Uramatsu 23 55.05
3 Honoka Hirotani 22 55.27
4 Akari Matsubara 21 56.25
5 Hina Takeno 20 57.04
6 Hanna Yoshida 19 58.79

17:59:30 18:06:30 Warm-up Group 2
7 Yuka Nagai 18 58.99 (4:07 am Eastern start time)
8 Rika Hongo 17 59.05
9 Yuhana Yokoi 16 59.83
10 Natsu Suzuki 15 59.93
11 Yuna Aoki 14 59.97
12 Wakaba Higuchi 13 61.53 (4:47 am Eastern start time)

18:55:00 19:20:00 Ice Resurfacing

19:20:00 19:27:00 Warm-up Group 3 (5:20 am Eastern start time)
13 Shiika Yoshioka 12 62.00
14 Rion Sumiyoshi 11 62.62
15 Yuna Shiraiwa 10 63.96
16 Tomoe Kawabata 9 64.56
17 Mana Kawabe 8 64.70
18 Rino Matsuike 7 65.57

20:15:30 20:22:30 Warm-up Group 4
19 Satoko Miyahara 6 66.48 (6:23 am Eastern start time)
20 Rin Nitaya 5 67.16
21 Mako Yamashita 4 67.28
22 Mai Mihara 3 69.55
23 Kaori Sakamoto 2 71.86
24 Rika Kihira 1 79.34
End 21:11 (7:11 am Eastern end time)

Hopefully someone can find & post a link to watch here (check Jackie Wong/rockerskating's Twitter account/play-by-play blog for unofficial livestream options as the event gets underway).

 

[Tak]

JPN print media report on 27th morning Ladies FS official practice: Nikkan Sports
Rika Kihira: In her run-through she landed her first jump (4S).
Kaori Sakamoto and Mai Mihara: Perfect run-throughs with all jumps landed.

 

[Frau Muller]

Fourth early morning in a row for me.

Any chance that Ted will do this one? Just kidding!

Is there a link to view? Starts in a couple of minutes.

 

[Gris]

Links: http://live.qq.com/10012776 (audio has been fixed) or https://live.bilibili.com/2564449

 

[LeafOnTheWind]

Chiba's music is obviously from some movie soundtrack that my tired brain can't remember. It just seems an odd music choice for skating though.

 

[Karen-W]

Chiba's music is obviously from some movie soundtrack that my tired brain can't remember. It just seems an odd music choice for skating though.

My parents wifi isn't the greatest so the illicit feed keeps buffering for me but the bits of her music I heard sounded like Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

 

[LeafOnTheWind]

I am really tired then.

 

[Frau Muller]

Chiba's music is obviously from some movie soundtrack that my tired brain can't remember. It just seems an odd music choice for skating though.

An American in Paris.

Uramatsu - Miss Saigon

Hirotani - Firebird

 

[LeafOnTheWind]

Matsubara is having some really painful looking falls.

 

[Frau Muller]

Matsubara - The Piano

Lovely skaters...gentle and feminine. However, lots of errors/falls. We’re not in Russia anymore, at least with the early ones. All so pretty, gentle, relaxing to watch. What the world needs.

 

[Frau Muller]

5th skater Hina Takeno - Romeo & Juliet.
Skating well!
Into 1st. 163.06 total

 

[Frau Muller]

Hanna Yoshida - Sarasate Gypsy Dance (violin)

Lots of nice triples. Quick rotations & snap. Super, overall. She’s happy! Coach is happy! Somebody wants to advance.

I see Wakaba by the boards...about to warm up with GP 2!!!

 

[Sylvia]

Rika Hongo - 4th i FS, 3rd overall - wonder if that was her coach in Vancouver (M. Seki?) live on her iPad?

1 Hana (Hanna) Yoshida [J2] 163.78 19 2
2 Hina Takeno 163.06 20 1 (106.02 FS)
3 Rika Hongo 160.85 17 4
4 Mone Chiba 158.22 24 3

Yuhana Yokoi is skating now. Music is the upbeat & entertaining "Tom & Jerry at MGM" by Scott Bradley.

ETA: Yokoi scored 134.39 in FS, and leads by a lot! - 194.22
Jackie Wong tweeted her jumps as 2A, 3Lo, 3Lz, 3F, 3Lz2T, 2A3T, 3S3T2T

https://twitter.com/rockerskating/status/1343127161209823232

 

[Gris]

I'm loving this.

 

[tony]

Completely pointless but I believe the female in-rink announcer is the same that was at the Nagano Olympics.

 

[Hedwig]

Yuhana was fantastic!

 

[Sylvia]

Natsu Suzuki [J7] - West Side Story - 170.13 (110.20 FS) in 2nd

Yuna Aoki - "Beethoven's Five Secrets" by The Piano Guys - into 6th overall with 158.24.

Wakaba skates now!

 

[mjb52]

Got here just in time for Wakaba

 

[Hedwig]

Wakaba Higuchi


3axel near fall


3lutz 3 toe nice


3sal step out


skates a bit subdued today


3loop nice


2axel 3toe good


oh completely messed up next jump


3lutz 2toe 2toe


nice use of the music in the step sequence

 

[tony]

The jumps Wakaba got right were glorious, and there is some great choreo in this. The stuff into and out of the 3Lo and how precisely it matched the music, for example.

5 triples, so close on the Axel. I’m sure the judges will be stingy with PCS but I still think she’s one of the three strongest that Japan has to offer.

 

[Spun Silver]

She was fantastic in the closing step sequence. Landed some gorgeous jumps but missed too many. She won't climb back on the podium with this, alas.

 

[Frau Muller]

Wakaba Higuchi. Flamenco. That was underwhelming. Not just the step-out errors. Slow. She tried to perk-up at the end with clapping hands. Poor Wakaba.

THE performance of the night, so far, by a mile: Yuhana Yokoi’s TOM & JERRY! Whee!!!

 

[Sylvia]

Wakaba's jumps: 3A fell out, 3Lz+3T nice, 3S step, 3Lo, 2A+3T, 1F step out, 3Lz+2T+2Lo.

Poeta by Vicente Amigo / Flamenco Passion & Soul

After 2 groups:

1 Wakaba Higuchi 195.04 13 2
2 Yuhana Yokoi 194.22 16 1
3 Natsu Suzuki [J7] 170.13 15 3
4 Hana (Hanna) Yoshida [J2] 163.78 19 5
5 Hina Takeno 163.06 20 4
6 Rika Hongo 160.85 17 7
7 Yuna Aoki 158.24 14 9
8 Mone Chiba [J8] 158.22 24 6
9 Akari Matsubara 155.46 21 8
10 Honoka Hirotani 149.58 22 10
11 Chisato Uramatsu [J9] 148.36 23 11
12 Yuka Nagai 146.94 18 12

FS:
1 Yokoi 134.39 73.21 61.18 7.64 7.21 7.96 7.64 7.79 0.00 #9
2 Higuchi 133.51 68.43 65.08 8.29 7.75 8.14 8.21 8.29 0.00 #12
3 Suzuki 110.20 57.52 52.68 6.50 6.21 6.71 6.64 6.86 0.00 #10
4 Takeno 106.02 53.44 52.58 6.75 6.36 6.57 6.61 6.57 0.00 #5
5 Yoshida 104.99 54.37 50.62 6.50 6.25 6.32 6.39 6.18 0.00 #6
6 Chiba 103.77 53.79 50.98 6.50 6.11 6.36 6.50 6.39 1.00 #1
7 Hongo 101.80 48.23 54.57 6.79 6.46 6.75 7.04 7.07 1.00 #8
8 Matsubara 99.21 54.36 46.85 6.14 5.57 5.79 6.00 5.79 2.00 #4
9 Aoki 98.27 44.76 54.51 6.89 6.64 6.68 7.00 6.86 1.00 #11
10 Hirotani 94.31 51.78 43.53 5.82 5.07 5.57 5.54 5.21 1.00 #3
11 Uramatsu 93.31 44.22 49.09 6.43 6.04 5.93 6.21 6.07 0.00 #2
12 Nagai 87.95 37.13 50.82 6.61 6.21 6.11 6.46 6.36 0.00 #7

 

[Tak]

Yuhana's "Tom and Jerry", somehow reminds me of Midori Ito 87 SP, also skated to cartoon segment music from Movie "9-5". IMHO, the antithesis of princessy routine is cartoon themed skate with an attitude. Good skate! and that hand pump after the last jump, brought back fond memories of Midori's 88 Calgary FS.
Since Hana Yoshida popped hers, but Wakaba put hers in, 3A attempt count stands at 5 for both segments. If there are two more, then new JPN Nats record.

 

[Hedwig]

Shiika Yoshioka


3lutz 2toe


3loop fall


2axel 3toe


3flip


3lutz bad fall


nice soft basics but she skates a bit from jump to jump


3loop 2toe


2axel


step sequence very slow

 

[Hedwig]

Rion Sumiyoshi


3flip 3toe


3lutz << fall and it looked like an edge call


2axel


3loop


3flip 2toe tano


2axel 3toe 2toe


3sal


better speed and ice coverage than the sakter before her but she skates through the music


lost connection and could not see the rest

 

[Sylvia]

Shiika Yoshioka - "Memory" from Cats
106.82 4th in FS, 168.82 in 4th

Rion Sumiyoshi [J5] - Les Demoiselles de Rochefort by Michel Legrand (one of my fave soundtracks)
123.46 3rd in FS, 186.08 in 3rd

Yuna Shiraiwa (coming back from last season's injury) is next.

 

[TAHbKA]

I forgot there are programmes where the skater simply glides from one side of the rink to the other without putting their leg behind their ear and doing 10 rockers on the way...

 

[Hedwig]

Yuna Shiraiwa


3lutz 3toe


3flip


this is immediately different – what attack!


3sal


spread eagle into 2axel


3lutz 2toe


2axel 3toe<


3loop fall


a few mistakes but one can see right away how much better her basics are – great speed and attack and finally a program and not just skating from element to element

 

[JoannaLouise]

Yuna Shiraiwa - I absolutely loved this program! Beautiful glide, and also made excellent use of the music.