2020 Japan Nationals - Men FS

[JoannaLouise]

Shun Sato

3lz step out
4t hand down
4t3t
3a2t
3a, just held on
3f1eu3s
3lo

score 153.21, total 236.52, into 1st

 

[Sylvia]

Current top 5 with 4 to go:

Shun SATO 236.52 5 2 (153-21 FS to Rota's Romeo & Juliet with a vocal version was last season's music)
Kazuki TOMONO 223.16 7 4 (141.44 FS)
Kao MIURA [J2] 221.26 13 1 (153.65 FS)
Koshiro SHIMADA 220.94 9 3 (149.06 FS)
Sota YAMAMOTO 217.34 6 5 (134.74 FS)

 

[Colonel Green]

Tanaka once again finds his customary good skate at nationals.

 

[JoannaLouise]

Keiji Tanaka

3s hand down
4s2t
3a
3f
3lz
3a step out
3lo
yes, really sell the fw!
I always enjoy that little "tada!" hand gesture at the end

Way to go! I think this is the best he has skated in basically forever! (despite the lack of combos...)

score 155.22, total 238.83, into 1st

 

[Sylvia]

Keiji Tanaka in 1st - 238.83 4 1 (155.22 FS to Sherlock Holmes OST)

 

[Gris]

Shoma looks happier and more relaxed than before.

 

[umronnie]

Welcome back, Shoma!

 

[JoannaLouise]

Shoma Uno

4s
4lz
3t
3a
4t
4t(hand down)1t
3a1eu3f
so nice to see him smiling through the fw sequence
kind of stumbled a bit in the last spin

Great job! Not perfect, but so close to being clean!

Lol, Lambiel in the KnC: "I screamed 'do a single toe or something!!'" re: Shoma's 2nd 4t almost not being a combo. You speak for all of us, my friend.

score 190.59, total 284.81, into 1st

 

[Ka3sha]

Shoma is doing okay and looks happy
but I haven't seen such an empty program or a long time (well, probably since Samarin's LP yesterday, but the point stays)

 

[Kateri]

Wow! I still think the programme is dreadful, but Shoma skating virtually clean is... wow! Once in a blue moon?

 

[LeafOnTheWind]

I am loving Stefan's pep talk to Shoma

 

[Colonel Green]

Lambiel, he skated well, he doesn't need that level of a pep talk.

 

[Kateri]

Lambiel, he skated well, he doesn't need that level of a pep talk.

He had a year of no coach, he needs extra to make up for it!

 

[LeafOnTheWind]

It was a bad year too so I imagine his confidence took a hit. Then you add a year with strange conditions on it.

 

[Kateri]

My stream totally died, did the fanyus log on?

 

[Spikefan]

Mine is dead too.

 

[LeafOnTheWind]

Back in the middle of Kagiyama

 

[Sylvia]

Shoma Uno 284.81 3 1
1 Uno 190.59 98.23 92.36 9.25 8.93 9.32 9.32 9.36 0.00 #22

Try this: http://live.qq.com/10012776

 

[LeafOnTheWind]

I don't know what to think from his reaction since I missed most of the skate. Good/Bad/Tired?

 

[Colonel Green]

Not as good as NHK (and not what he needed to stay ahead of Uno), but solid.

 

[JoannaLouise]

Yuma Kagiyama

4s
4t, huge lean and step out
3f
4t3t
3a1eu2s (this was a "step out disguised as euler" combo)
3lz3lo
3a

score 180.19, total 278.79, into 2nd

 

[LeafOnTheWind]

He's not happy with himself.

 

[umronnie]

Da King is in da house

 

[LeafOnTheWind]

He is clearly more comfortable with this type of program than his short. I wish this had been a better year for competition because it would have been interesting to see how the short would have developed.

 

[Colonel Green]

Long live the King.

 

[JoannaLouise]

Yuzuru Hanyu

4lo
4s
3a2t
3lo
4t3t
4t1eu3s
3a

Wow! Amazing! I would 100% throw Pooh for this.

 

[umronnie]

Has Hanyu been training on his own all this time? Because that was mighty impressive.

 

[Kateri]

Hilariously, my feed losing frames made it look like he doubled everything, but I gather that was not the case.

 

[JoannaLouise]

score 215.83, total 319.36, into 1st

 

[Colonel Green]

The Fanyu Inquisition over those missing 2.78 PCS marks will commence immediately.