About Kaori: her best program ever was that valse macabre sp she had in the beggining of the season. She should use that music later in her career. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aauzbmY0aZ0
You just can't read expressions on a very East Asian face. Kaori's face reminds me of a Hakata doll's.
Satoko’s novice-like jumps
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Come on, now! She is not the strongest jumper in the field, but "novice-like"?
Please check out her 2A-3T.
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Come on, now! She is not the strongest jumper in the field, but "novice-like"?
Please check out her 2A-3T.
The thing that bothers me the most about Kaori's FS is that she has never been an expressive skater in the "Western" sense: while she's skating, her face is often expressionless in a very composed and detached way. So why give her a program full of mimicking? Most of the time she looks as if she was doing it listlessly, as if she didn't really care: the result is that (as opposed to many Eteri girls such as Tarakanova) it is not a bit convincing :hopelessness:
I really think Satoko is by far the best ladies' skater Japan has right now. Kaori and Rika K. need help with PCS, Marin needs more work on both sides (she is very good in TES as compared to the excellent of Rika, and very good on PCS as compared to the excellent of Satoko), Wakaba is inconsistent, Mai delivers on FS but not really on the SP, and Rika H. is the opposite of Mai.
Satoko has clear edges on her jumps, and tries to rotate really fast to prevent URs. She has excellent PCS. She is the best. The JSF clearly thinks so, too. If marked correctly on her PCS (75>) and if she hustles to prevent URs (or hides them really, really well), then she should win the OGM.
On this, we can have some comparisons...What's amazing is how she's been able to compensate by rotating so quickly. She often looks like a hummingbird with the quickness of those jumps hovering inches over the ice. Because she's such a gorgeous skater and she's highly supported by Japanese Fed, perhaps the judges tend to give her the benefit of the doubt regarding URs. I don't know what she can do to try and build strength or adjust her technique in order to jump higher. If she could jump higher, with the quickness of her rotations, she might be able to rotate fast enough to even land quads.