Mao SHIMADA (JPN) | Junior Women Free Skating | Yerevan 2023 |

[@emak06]

Wow, not only her technical skills but also artistry is improving! Beautiful skater.

[@Ann-Cat78]

This really feels like a potential Olympic program so powerful yet gentle and emotional. Wonder if she will be able to keep that fantastic level until she will become olympic eligible..

[@ゆずみかん-b7c]

麻央選手優勝おめでとうございます！ ロシア女子選手達がバンバン4回転決めてて感覚が麻痺してるけど、やはり4回転ジャンプは１つ壁があるとても難しいものなんですね。 しかしミスがあったとしてもこの得点、いかに麻央選手の技術が優れているのかがわかりますね、 ファイナルも応援してます！

[@acoaco5618]

圧倒的な才能とポテンシャル 練習からひとつひとつの技を１００％の力でというお話 目指すべき目標が高いからこそ日々の努力を怠らない ジュニア選手ながら既にプロフェッショナル 演技披露される度、技術力も表現力も進化されている

[@tomirab]

Congrats on the medal! I look forward to seeing this program develop :)

[@atlantatlantic6386]

Is the best junior in the world. 👍🏻

[@awnnemwndndne]

Go Mini-Mao! Good luck at the JGPF!!

[@CocogoatMain0501]

She's awesome, i wish her a long career

[@jeffobrien3172]

Great skate for Mao Shimada except for the 4t fall, such great skating skills, artistry, and spins with amazingly picturesque positions and rotation speed. Bad tech call on the ur with negative GOE It was rotated and really well done.

[@bellahu5331]

Such a pretty costume too! Anyone else getting Hope and Legacy vibes?

[@HelTra91]

@@mihaillenivov485 They are referring to Yuzuru's costume he had when he skated his Hope and Legacy program (2016-2017 FS costume). Satomi Ito designed Yuzuru's costume and has designed for Mao Shimada too, not sure if this creation is hers though.

[@なあ-i9v]

麻央ちゃん比であんまり調子が良くなかったかな？って思うけど圧巻の優勝😳 ビールマンでもスピードが全く落ちないスピン大好物です！！ 3Aは割とものにした感じするから無理して4T入れなくてもいいかな？って個人的には思います とにかく怪我してほしくない‥

[@coconuts1145]

島田さん、ホントにスピンが上手い。

[@bocilsakti3526]

How wonderful she is

[@ラナ愛]

島田真央ちゃん、やっぱり素敵💓 彼女の演技はいつもワクワクする。 体型が大人に変わるから、４回転はかなり難しいね。ロシアの選手が体型が細いのもわかる。💦

[@ponkanmisaki]

グランプリファイナル、ジュニアとシニア中国で同時開催。完璧に出来たらシニアも含めて麻央ちゃんが１番。

[@Valentina-mx3rl]

👏👏👏💖💖💖🌺🌺🌺

[@さよちゃん-z1x]

総合的に素晴らしいスケーティング、表現面はシニアが勝るけど、現時点で女子世界トップかも。日々、真面目にすごく努力してるんだろうな。怪我だけはありませんように。 JGPF楽しみです😆

[@АндрейКлиментьев-е4я]

Russians, only russians

[@nannan1naccchi32]

優勝おめでとうございます!🏆 ジャンプも勿論すごいのだけど、高速スピンが楽しめるのも麻央ちゃんのスケートの魅力❤ ただでさえ回転が速いのに、スピンの回転を速くする練習をしたとインタビュー記事で読みました。 こんなに速くてもブレないのは、きっと体幹がしっかりしているからでしょうね！

[@awnnemwndndne]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@user-mc3hz2dv4x]

良い

[@roufuyou]

海外勢ファンまで、濱田コーチの低空ジャンプを心配する人がたくさん出てきた始末。 4Tは捨てろ勢も出てきているけど、麻央さんは真央さんのようにアスリートとして拘っているので 私は捨てて欲しくない。 でも、早いうちに濱田コーチの元を離れるべきだとは思う。 それから、麻央さん専門の医療スポーツトレーナーを付けるのも必須。

[@KumaKumaKyun]

The under on the triple axel was too harsh. I would call it a q at most. But they let her off on the triple lutz of her first 3-3 and the triple toe of her 3-3-2. Both were blatantly underrotated, and the judges didn't call them at all. Strange.

[@KumaKumaKyun]

Hm looking again in even slower motion for the triple axel, perhaps under rotated wasn't so harsh after all. Looks like q or < are both reasonable. Even her triple salchow from her 3-3-2 could've been given a q... Hopefully these rotation problems are only temporary for Mao. The judges were quite lenient today by not calling several ur's and a potential q, but they will not be as nice in the future if she were to get a reputation of underrotating jumps.

[@yhg5076]

Her rotation for triples was fine in Osaka and for the whole season last year. Not in her best shape today but she still held up, pray for the best in the final!

[@DS-us1vi]

@@KumaKumaKyun I don't think she has trouble with the axel, she seems to have entered into it at a bad angle that was the issue here. The quad is likely due to her age and puberty, she will be OK, she just needs time to rework her skills.

[@KumaKumaKyun]

@@yhg5076 yes I hope it is only temporary. She is such a wonderful skater that I truly hope this is just an off day and that these issues with rotation don't continue.

[@KumaKumaKyun]

@@DS-us1vi she grew a lot from last season, so it's understandable. I just hope these rotation issues won't continue. She is just a gem of a skater.

[@jackblack3934]

３A回転足りてると思う。片足氷にかすってるようにも見えるが回転不足は厳しい判定。

[@kdcm6690]

She gets really high GOEs but her jump landings look a bit heavy and her jumps are generally not that high. But her spins are superb and she has really good facial expressions. Her arms are also beautiful.

[@pooppoopie4838]

let her muscles grow as she gets older.

[@HoiNguyen-qw9xj]

Most of Mie Hamada's students don't have high jumps. They only rely on quick rotation so when they grow up, the technique will start to fall, eventually.

[@deeangel6396]

​@@HoiNguyen-qw9xj Yes you are right. Theres a lack here in her programs and techniques are forced making it look out of placed. No originality too. I hope she grows into her own style.

[@ingrid4587]

What gave you being smoking?her jumps are high and also very good in distance,yes :it’s not always fully rotated but it’s not cause of its high

[@ManuelGarcia-vh2vg]

Patina bien; sin embargo, como la mayoría de las japonesas, tiene problemas de rotación. Sería maravilloso que arreglaran eso desde este momento. Verla es increíble. Si tuviera la potencia de Kaori, sin duda, sería una patinadora excelente.

[@rafael00084]

No es un problema de japonesas es un problema de la entrenadora Mie Hamada, la cual cuenta con la mayoria de patinadoras destacadas de japon como eteri en rusia, ella a dicho que en lugar de enfocarse en altura se empeña a entrenar velocidad de rotación lo cual esta bien pero cuando llegan a la pubertad realmente sufren para ajustar su tecnica, por eso Ayumi, Ikura, Haruna que son del equipo de Hamada han tenido problemas esta temporada, en el caso de Mao pues tiene mucho mejor bote de salto y tecnica en general que la ha mantenido en mejor nivel.

[@rafael00084]

Ademas de que las marcas que se dieron en esta competencia fueron muy exageradas, su triple axel no era under, si acaso podia recibir una q pero no mas de eso, muchas patinadoras recibieron llamadas de atencion muy extrañas aqui, pero bueno esta claro que la calidad de giros, de pasos y de los saltos ademas de la coreografia y sobretodo su consistencia son de las mejores en el campo junior por lo mismo incluso en sus malos dias realmente no le va mal

[@ManuelGarcia-vh2vg]

@@rafael00084 De acuerdo contigo. Creo que Mao es la mejor junior, hablando de las competencias oficiales. Habrá que ver cómo es su rendimiento contra las rusas, cuando se les permita competir. Será agradable verla en competencia. Le falta ese empuje de verse en aprietos, los cual le dará más carácter.

[@deeangel6396]

I love this athlete but she had many jumps under rotated and a bad fall. I belive the scores was very inflated look at their faces they knew it was not that good. On top of that 2nd placed American was underscored in the Short program giving room to Mao. These differences in Figure Skating today is what injuring our sport. If we cannot have compentent Judges then let some other judging algo do the work.

[@ta9050]

宮原さんが見えてきたね...

[@joeyartk]

She is already better than Sakamoto.

[@문어짬뽕]

트악 두번넣는게 더 나을거같은데.. 쿼토는 아무리해도 안될거같음 저높이에

[@gdaliahushtirmer1612]

mao should stop with the quads immediately. otherwise she will finish with a broken spine like rika. mie hamada doesn't seem to care. we want to see her for many years.

[@engalinse]

Rika doesn’t have a broken spine, it’s her ankle, but I agree with you.

[@jeffobrien3172]

Rika has an ankel injury. but I do wish Mao would go for two triple axels instead and go to a jump coach as Coach Hamada is excellent at developing skating skills and artistry but not good at developing jumps.

[@HelTra91]

@@jeffobrien3172 She's also good at developing injuries and mental trauma

[@user-so7ni3uw1j]

It seems impossible for woman to make guad. Every single female skater doesn't have to make it with the risk of injury.

[@Yurito12]

@@user-so7ni3uw1j tuktamysheva?

[@АлександрЗаваров-е1ы]

Чем то напоминает Миахару крутка хорошая, прыжочки низкие.

[@ckzf1842]

With absolutely no disrespect to Mao Shimada and her commendable performance ( and without any reference , implicit or otherwise, to current geopolitical complexities ) - I am SO sorely missing viewing the stellar , stratospheric competitive skating performances of certain young women skating prodigies, from a disbarred nation …. 😢

[@ddjr6673]

Sure, ok but at what expense? With also the spectre of allegedly performance enhancing drugs? Alleged dodgy and abusive coaching practices? And an expiration date of 17 years of age?

[@jeffobrien3172]

I am not missing it because of the ridiculously inflated PCS, GOE and tech immunity of the barred nation not to mention no penalties for taking performance enhancing drugs and depriving skaters from around the world from having their Olympic award ceremonies almost 2 years after the Olympics because of their preferential treatment.

[@HelTra91]

they have their own competition in Russia if you are missing them so bad

[@ingrid4587]

Rip 🪦 ruzzia :rip :nobody missing you :and -you don’t have anyone better or even close to :you are all gone with our wings 🙈💯

[@mihaillenivov485]

I love Mao Shimada, Jia Shin, Minsol Kwon, Minkyu Seo. Kishimoto\Tamutura are the biggest surprise - amazing, stunnning, Rena Uezono is excellent too, but JGP would be better, much better if our Russian skaters were here.

[@0208-v5k]

회전 부족이 많이 보였던 경기… 컨디션이 안 좋았던 걸까