Takahito Mura Cheer Thread

[livetoskate]

He's not quite as old as Voronov, but Takahito Mura has been competing forever, overshadowed by Daisuke Takahashi, Yuzuru Hanyu, and now Shoma Uno. I think he has a chance of competing at the Olympics and/or Worlds this year, and hope he skates well at 4 Continents (which he won in 2014, after only placing 6th at his nationals.). Mura's got the unforgettable costumes & cool hair. He skates to a variety of great musical selections, and manages to do quads and giant triple axels in heavy looking, ornate costumes with jewelry. After a downer of Grand Prix competitions, he did pretty well at Japanese nationals, winning bronze.

Here's his recent free skate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2PtHlOX1nA

Huge jumps at the junior grand prix final in 2006 with a wild costume:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f3evPzGYLM

 

[arakwafan2006]

He was uber proud of himself as well as his father. That was nice to see.

 

[livetoskate]

Here are some videos of some of Takahito Mura's performances.
2012 where he won TEB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GImzO0175Kk

2014 winning Skate Canada; he landed a perfect quad toe-triple toe!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2E5E2kCDfc

2014 winning Four Continents, SP & FS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up2IJdfQgmc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rac1TzGPtk

Check out his amazing quad toe-quad toe attempt in practice (pretty good, two-footed the landing of the 2nd jump) & showing off his 6-pack, starting at about the 1:10 mark:
https://tadakixd.tumblr.com/post/158182731575/kiritoru-tv-mura-yuzu-macchi

Appearing in one of the ShibSibs videos from The Ice 2012. Very entertaining with other top skaters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y06vF8Lu3-c

 

[livetoskate]

In honor of Max Aaron (go MAX!), here's footage of Takahito and Max doing side by side quad toes in exhibition practice at Skate Canada in 2014!

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=669195833179141