Fa captures gold on home ice at Grand Prix de France
2022 Grand Prix de France – Men Adam Siao Him Fa of France rose from third place to capture the Men’s title at 2022 Grand Prix de France on Saturday […]
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Three Grand Prix events have been concluded, and each event had a Japanese skater on the podium. This shows the depth of field in the men's discipline for Japan, and both Yamamoto and Tomono were asked what their "take-away" was from this event.
"This season I'm trying in practice the quad flip which I did not include in this competition," said Yamamoto. "Even without the flip, I did made mistakes and I know that it's not competitive enough yet. With this layout right now, I need to give much better of a performance overall and hopefully I can practice a little bit more to include the flip in the program one day."
"I believe coming into this season, the Japanese skaters are all doing very well," noted Tomono. "Anybody could end up at the top of the podium a lot of the younger skaters have many different quads. This season for me to compete, I think my strategy will be that my program layout needs to be perfected. Now of course, next season, I might have to consider two to three different quads and I will probably do that."
"With this current layout for my program, I want to push my limits and really perfect it, Tomono continued. "Figure skating is not only about triple and quad jumps. I know what my arsenal is, I know what my weapon is, so I know I just have to hone my technique and improve everything I can at this moment to be competitive and score high points.
What are your thoughts on the Japanese men? How would you rank them from 1-5 (or more) in terms of where you think they will place at Japanese Nationals?