Friends on Ice. Shin-Yokohama August 2014
Libertano was quite a challenge for Akiko. Sometimes she did less twizzles, less turns than Dai, missed some upper body movements, etc. It was difficulut for her to keep this Dai tempo and technique, but for whom it wouldn't be. Nevertheless the collaboration was very well-done. The hillarious joke in the last show where Dai started skating tango with ... Kenji was cool! Did he actually kiss Kenji or it was just a lip move? I was in the east side, couldn't see well. 
Btw, the collabortaion with Evan and Brian made me kind of sad. When you see them all together on the ice and can literally compare, you realize much clearer how messed up the judging system is, if SUCH skater is an Olympic champion and THIS one is not.
"Caravan" again proved that there is no music out there that Dai cannot play on the ice. This one had a combination of streches, steps, edge skills, changes of skating rhythm, hammer-put music accents. He did 3F (step out in the morning show), 3S. In the collaboration he did 3T, 2A. So many ikebanas, D!SK banners and amazing fan crowds. Dai looked overenergetic, genki, happy, like on adrenaline. Seeing today's pics in Kozuki Award ceremony, I suggest that he was celebrating his "last holiday weekend" before the time when he has to face the reality and make an important decision.
On the platform I bumped into Nagamitsu-sensei. I thanked her fo coaching Dai for so many years, said that Dai looked super happy today, she laughed! I asked her what now, she said Dai will be thinking.
http://twitpic.com/ear2pw
http://twitpic.com/e/2r8b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMmWQuQjFGE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJzGjJJYlQs
Btw, the collabortaion with Evan and Brian made me kind of sad. When you see them all together on the ice and can literally compare, you realize much clearer how messed up the judging system is, if SUCH skater is an Olympic champion and THIS one is not.
"Caravan" again proved that there is no music out there that Dai cannot play on the ice. This one had a combination of streches, steps, edge skills, changes of skating rhythm, hammer-put music accents. He did 3F (step out in the morning show), 3S. In the collaboration he did 3T, 2A. So many ikebanas, D!SK banners and amazing fan crowds. Dai looked overenergetic, genki, happy, like on adrenaline. Seeing today's pics in Kozuki Award ceremony, I suggest that he was celebrating his "last holiday weekend" before the time when he has to face the reality and make an important decision.
On the platform I bumped into Nagamitsu-sensei. I thanked her fo coaching Dai for so many years, said that Dai looked super happy today, she laughed! I asked her what now, she said Dai will be thinking.
http://twitpic.com/ear2pw
http://twitpic.com/e/2r8b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMmWQuQjFGE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJzGjJJYlQs