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Atom (Doshisha Univ sports) x Kanspo (Kansai Univ Sports) Collaboration Project
http://doshisha-atom.net/web/result.php?no=2434
Figure Skating Men* Special Crosstalk Second Series
(Note: "～男子/danshi" is a kind of slang to categorize types of men, like 草食系男子/herbivore men, メガネ男子/men who wear glasses, etc.)
The Daily Life of Kinki Men ~ On-Season Part 1
Shu Nakamura x Taichi Honda x Kazuki Tomono
Photo: From the left, Shu Nakamura, Taichi Honda, and Kazuki Tomono
The project is back after a year! This time, (the topic is) on-season. (The session is done in January during All Japan In-Colle.) So, how did the three spend the season?
―How was this season?
Tomono(T): I still have the second half of the season to go, like 4CC and such... (This session is done in January during All Japan Inter-Collegiate Skating Championships.) I couldn't reach my biggest goal (to take part in) WC, but I still have competitions to participate in. I have to stay sharp, this season isn't over, and it feels like it's yet to come. Last year, there were good things too, but I faced bad things at the very end, I'm afraid. I'd like to make it better in the rest of the season (competitions).
―Have you had improvements through 2 games in GP series?
T: I got the opportunity to participate in a competition with many top skaters such as Yuzuru Hanyu (ANA), Shoma Uno (Toyota) and other foreign skaters, and I enjoyed the atmosphere there. During those games, I was inspired a lot by spending a lot of time with them. It came as a fresh reminder that Japanese Men are strong. Also, those games were very fruitful. I made too many mistakes in Canada, and that helped me to be strongly determined in Russia to deliver what I've practiced. That, I think, is leading me into the future. With (the competitions in) Canada and Russia, I think I grew mentally a bit. The biggest harvest for me was gaining experience.
―You had spoken of 'facing up to quads' since the beginning of the season.
T: I've been thinking that it really means nothing to land them successfully in practice when failing them in competition. Last year, my success rate of quads weren't that high in practice either, so I wasn't bothered as much about failing them in competition. But now, I've been able to jump them with confidence in practice, and when I fail them (in competition), it's even more frustrating, or more like, I realize again how hard it is to deliver them in competition. In order to improve further, it's really important how I can manage succeeding them in competition. Technically I can, so, like I just really need to make it in competition. Moreover, the success rate of quads isn't as good yet, either. So I have to strive to be able to jump them easily to take for granted.
―This year, your local competition (=Kinki figure skating championships) must have been different, I guess. How was it for you all?
Honda(H): It was thick with tension, and the atmosphere was unusual.
T: But what I felt the most was a distinguished presence that Takahashi Daisuke senshu(Kansai Univ KFSC) had. I realized that yet again by competing with him around. I did know, but it was more than I expected. His skating is great, let alone his techs. As an athlete, not just as a figure skater but among all the athletes in Japan, he is legendary. [laugh] All in all, he's a big name. I'm sure he too has his own challenges, but I think his jumps and expressions got even better than before his retirement. With his accumulated experience, he absorbed even more things and came back, or should I say, he's raised his level again. I was struck again by his greatness.
Nakamura(N): Well, I feel sort of grateful to be able to perform in such an atmosphere in the opening competition.
T: It was fun too.
N: Thanks to that experience, I could perform without getting flustered at Nats.
T: It was fun~.
H: Warm-up was good.
N: Felt like I got better.
T: We all had the best condition at 6-min warm-up. [laugh]
All: [laugh]
T: At Kinki, we all were fricking sharp at 6-min warm-up, [laugh] but we got wrecked at our performances. [laugh]
N: Like, (I felt) Dai-chan (=Daisuke Takahashi) made it, so could I. [laugh]
H: Kazuki, you don't usually get to jump many quads at 6-min, but I saw you jumping like three of them. [laugh]
T: Yeah, yeah. [laugh]
H: You were out of breath after 6-min. [laugh]
T: It was just too fun and I ended up doing many. [laugh]
N: Me too. [laugh]
T: Like, we all, including Dai-chan (had too good conditions at 6-min). [laugh]
H: Dai-chan too was jumping (quads) a lot. [laugh]
―So, you were sort of having fun rather than getting too tensed up and overwhelmed?
N&H: Not tensed.
T: No, not at Kinki.
N: It was just plain fun. [laugh]
T: You have your own goals for Nats, well, actually for Kinki as well, but (it's a bit different). As for Nats, everyone has something to aim for and you put pressure on yourself, instead of being overwhelmed by the atmosphere, and such a pressure accumulates. But at Kinki, it's more relaxing, sort of.
H: I only had fun.
T: Right, only had fun.
H: Everyone said so.
T: After the game, everyone went like "It was so fun~. That 6-min." [laugh] (they had fun at 6-min instead of the most important performance part)
All: [laugh]
T: But, Free was like a hell. [laugh]
N: It was really tough. [laugh]
―The rules changed. How was it?
N: I've got used to it now. Yeah.
H&T: Yeah.
H: Early in the choreographing phase, I already thought it was "so dense(=crammed)". [laugh]
T: For me, quads got riskier. [laugh]
H: This season, you can score very high without quads if you make no mistakes. It's scary.
T: Indeed. [laugh]
H: Haven't seen people doing perfect performances, maybe.
T: You're right. All the way through this season. Definitely not, including foreign skaters. More chances and more risks, but still, it feels like those who have practiced/trained thoroughly get rewarded, as was expected.
N: Particularly so with spins. As for jumps, it depends on the occasion, though.
T: Yeah. Before, it was like, managing jumps could get you decent scores, I think. But it's not all about jumps now since this season. It really feels like those who have worked hard get rewarded. But it's even harder mentally when you make a mistake, I think. And as they increased the (range of) additional points (for GOE), it feels like our various mental stuff (like stress and pressure?) got doubled too. [laugh]
―What is the toughest?
H: The toughest is the length of the music. Scoring in competition changed. Scores are different from what I felt I got, sometimes higher than I had expected. Jumps that I thought "I landed it! Good!" before the changes are now getting big deductions this season.
T: Ah. Hmm. I got used to the length, but I want it a bit longer. [laugh] If I don't do routines for a bit, I'll just end up returning to the previous habit (of having 30 more seconds).
H: In comparison, it was easier before for sure.
T: Yes! By far. Even if it looks/feels easier now, definitely it was easier (before).
N: You had some room in your program.
H: Such as combinations. We had 3 (combos) out of 8 (jumps), and now we have 3 out of 7.
T: Yeah. After thinking about it again, maybe that's why jumps go wrong in Free. That said, seriously, Shoma-kun (=Shoma Uno, Toyota) and Hanyu-kun (=Yuzuru Hanyu, ANA) are really amazing.
All: [laugh]
T: They're awesome, really. The most amazing thing is that they can deliver great performances in such important competitions.
―What is it like with Misha Ge, who choregraphed your Short?
T: Misha Ge san is now beyond a choreographer. [laugh] He's more like a sub coach. He supports me thoroughly, not just with expressions but with techincal things too. He belongs to different communities and knows various mentors, so he has taken me to different places and taught me a lot. I was really amazed that the level of the skills he has are incredibly high, like skating skill, expressions, and so on. He has a lot of knowledge, and I'd like to learn the techniques he has as many as possible and make them my own. (As for SP) the program brings his color to the fore, so I feel that I need to not get outdone by it, (but instead,) to take advantage of it. Also, he has a lot of different colors (characteristics and/or qualities to offer), and I'd love to learn from those different choreos by him and to be able to elicit such varieties (of emotions, expressions?) myself, too.
End of Tomono-version Part 1
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Atom (Doshisha Univ sports) x Kanspo (Kansai Univ Sports) Collaboration Project
http://doshisha-atom.net/web/result.php?no=2434
Figure Skating Men* Special Crosstalk Second Series
(Note: "～男子/danshi" is a kind of slang to categorize types of men, like 草食系男子/herbivore men, メガネ男子/men who wear glasses, etc.)
The Daily Life of Kinki Men ~ On-Season Part 1
Shu Nakamura x Taichi Honda x Kazuki Tomono
Photo: From the left, Shu Nakamura, Taichi Honda, and Kazuki Tomono
The project is back after a year! This time, (the topic is) on-season. (The session is done in January during All Japan In-Colle.) So, how did the three spend the season?
―How was this season?
Tomono(T): I still have the second half of the season to go, like 4CC and such... (This session is done in January during All Japan Inter-Collegiate Skating Championships.) I couldn't reach my biggest goal (to take part in) WC, but I still have competitions to participate in. I have to stay sharp, this season isn't over, and it feels like it's yet to come. Last year, there were good things too, but I faced bad things at the very end, I'm afraid. I'd like to make it better in the rest of the season (competitions).
―Have you had improvements through 2 games in GP series?
T: I got the opportunity to participate in a competition with many top skaters such as Yuzuru Hanyu (ANA), Shoma Uno (Toyota) and other foreign skaters, and I enjoyed the atmosphere there. During those games, I was inspired a lot by spending a lot of time with them. It came as a fresh reminder that Japanese Men are strong. Also, those games were very fruitful. I made too many mistakes in Canada, and that helped me to be strongly determined in Russia to deliver what I've practiced. That, I think, is leading me into the future. With (the competitions in) Canada and Russia, I think I grew mentally a bit. The biggest harvest for me was gaining experience.
―You had spoken of 'facing up to quads' since the beginning of the season.
T: I've been thinking that it really means nothing to land them successfully in practice when failing them in competition. Last year, my success rate of quads weren't that high in practice either, so I wasn't bothered as much about failing them in competition. But now, I've been able to jump them with confidence in practice, and when I fail them (in competition), it's even more frustrating, or more like, I realize again how hard it is to deliver them in competition. In order to improve further, it's really important how I can manage succeeding them in competition. Technically I can, so, like I just really need to make it in competition. Moreover, the success rate of quads isn't as good yet, either. So I have to strive to be able to jump them easily to take for granted.
―This year, your local competition (=Kinki figure skating championships) must have been different, I guess. How was it for you all?
Honda(H): It was thick with tension, and the atmosphere was unusual.
T: But what I felt the most was a distinguished presence that Takahashi Daisuke senshu(Kansai Univ KFSC) had. I realized that yet again by competing with him around. I did know, but it was more than I expected. His skating is great, let alone his techs. As an athlete, not just as a figure skater but among all the athletes in Japan, he is legendary. [laugh] All in all, he's a big name. I'm sure he too has his own challenges, but I think his jumps and expressions got even better than before his retirement. With his accumulated experience, he absorbed even more things and came back, or should I say, he's raised his level again. I was struck again by his greatness.
Nakamura(N): Well, I feel sort of grateful to be able to perform in such an atmosphere in the opening competition.
T: It was fun too.
N: Thanks to that experience, I could perform without getting flustered at Nats.
T: It was fun~.
H: Warm-up was good.
N: Felt like I got better.
T: We all had the best condition at 6-min warm-up. [laugh]
All: [laugh]
T: At Kinki, we all were fricking sharp at 6-min warm-up, [laugh] but we got wrecked at our performances. [laugh]
N: Like, (I felt) Dai-chan (=Daisuke Takahashi) made it, so could I. [laugh]
H: Kazuki, you don't usually get to jump many quads at 6-min, but I saw you jumping like three of them. [laugh]
T: Yeah, yeah. [laugh]
H: You were out of breath after 6-min. [laugh]
T: It was just too fun and I ended up doing many. [laugh]
N: Me too. [laugh]
T: Like, we all, including Dai-chan (had too good conditions at 6-min). [laugh]
H: Dai-chan too was jumping (quads) a lot. [laugh]
―So, you were sort of having fun rather than getting too tensed up and overwhelmed?
N&H: Not tensed.
T: No, not at Kinki.
N: It was just plain fun. [laugh]
T: You have your own goals for Nats, well, actually for Kinki as well, but (it's a bit different). As for Nats, everyone has something to aim for and you put pressure on yourself, instead of being overwhelmed by the atmosphere, and such a pressure accumulates. But at Kinki, it's more relaxing, sort of.
H: I only had fun.
T: Right, only had fun.
H: Everyone said so.
T: After the game, everyone went like "It was so fun~. That 6-min." [laugh] (they had fun at 6-min instead of the most important performance part)
All: [laugh]
T: But, Free was like a hell. [laugh]
N: It was really tough. [laugh]
―The rules changed. How was it?
N: I've got used to it now. Yeah.
H&T: Yeah.
H: Early in the choreographing phase, I already thought it was "so dense(=crammed)". [laugh]
T: For me, quads got riskier. [laugh]
H: This season, you can score very high without quads if you make no mistakes. It's scary.
T: Indeed. [laugh]
H: Haven't seen people doing perfect performances, maybe.
T: You're right. All the way through this season. Definitely not, including foreign skaters. More chances and more risks, but still, it feels like those who have practiced/trained thoroughly get rewarded, as was expected.
N: Particularly so with spins. As for jumps, it depends on the occasion, though.
T: Yeah. Before, it was like, managing jumps could get you decent scores, I think. But it's not all about jumps now since this season. It really feels like those who have worked hard get rewarded. But it's even harder mentally when you make a mistake, I think. And as they increased the (range of) additional points (for GOE), it feels like our various mental stuff (like stress and pressure?) got doubled too. [laugh]
―What is the toughest?
H: The toughest is the length of the music. Scoring in competition changed. Scores are different from what I felt I got, sometimes higher than I had expected. Jumps that I thought "I landed it! Good!" before the changes are now getting big deductions this season.
T: Ah. Hmm. I got used to the length, but I want it a bit longer. [laugh] If I don't do routines for a bit, I'll just end up returning to the previous habit (of having 30 more seconds).
H: In comparison, it was easier before for sure.
T: Yes! By far. Even if it looks/feels easier now, definitely it was easier (before).
N: You had some room in your program.
H: Such as combinations. We had 3 (combos) out of 8 (jumps), and now we have 3 out of 7.
T: Yeah. After thinking about it again, maybe that's why jumps go wrong in Free. That said, seriously, Shoma-kun (=Shoma Uno, Toyota) and Hanyu-kun (=Yuzuru Hanyu, ANA) are really amazing.
All: [laugh]
T: They're awesome, really. The most amazing thing is that they can deliver great performances in such important competitions.
―What is it like with Misha Ge, who choregraphed your Short?
T: Misha Ge san is now beyond a choreographer. [laugh] He's more like a sub coach. He supports me thoroughly, not just with expressions but with techincal things too. He belongs to different communities and knows various mentors, so he has taken me to different places and taught me a lot. I was really amazed that the level of the skills he has are incredibly high, like skating skill, expressions, and so on. He has a lot of knowledge, and I'd like to learn the techniques he has as many as possible and make them my own. (As for SP) the program brings his color to the fore, so I feel that I need to not get outdone by it, (but instead,) to take advantage of it. Also, he has a lot of different colors (characteristics and/or qualities to offer), and I'd love to learn from those different choreos by him and to be able to elicit such varieties (of emotions, expressions?) myself, too.
End of Tomono-version Part 1
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