Kanako Murakami & Sayaka Matsubara

clovera wrote:

Figure_skating_love wrote:

Any news on Kanako's EX?

"Be Italian" has been confirmed as her new EX ever since DOI took place.

None of the reports I found so far seem to recognize the music of what is apparently her SP though. Argh.

OMG really! That's great! Did she do it at DOI? If so does anyone have a link i can watch it at?

Figure_skating_love wrote:

OMG really! That's great! Did she do it at DOI? If so does anyone have a link i can watch it at?

This is the only version left on YT as far as I can tell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvl70stnjSY

clovera wrote:

Figure_skating_love wrote:

OMG really! That's great! Did she do it at DOI? If so does anyone have a link i can watch it at?

This is the only version left on YT as far as I can tell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvl70stnjSY

OMG
absolutlely love it!

Thanks so much! you guys always respond so fast

clovera wrote:

I'll just post this news here, since Yuzuru's thread was located a tad higher on the Other Skaters section prior to me posting this.

http://mainichi.jp/enta/sports/general/news/20100525k0000m050073000c.html

The JSF just announced their 特別強化選手list a few hours ago (I guess you can compare it to USFS's "A" Team Envelope in terms of funding and support) and both Kanako and Yuzuru made the list!

The rest of the members are:
Dai
Tono
Kozu
Tatsuki Machida

Mao
Miki
Akiko
Haruka Imai

The JSF website isn't updated yet; also, Fumie is off the list for the first time in years (she's listed as 強化指定A, which is more or less Team "B" if this was the USFS). I must say I'm not too surprised by this decision.

Thanks for the news clovera!!! I hope you don't mind--I'm posting it again in my haruka thread!

tilitom wrote:

Thanks for the news clovera!!! I hope you don't mind--I'm posting it again in my haruka thread!

Not at all!

Regarding 特別強化/Team A, it appears Fumie *is* on the list after all.

http://www.skatingjapan.or.jp/national/national_list.php?sports_id=2
from here, we will see that JSF ranks training 3 level :
S Rank（特別強化選手）
A Rank（強化選手A）
B Rank（強化選手B）

S Rank:
Takahashi Daisuke, Oda Nobunari, Kozuka Takahiko,
Machida Tatsuki, Hanyu Yuzuru

Asada Mao, Ando Miki, Suzuki Akiko,
Murakami Kanako, Imai Haruka, Suguri Fumie

A Rank:
Nanri Yasuharu, Nakamura Kento, Mura Takahito,
Tanaka Keiji, Murakami Daisuke

Fujisawa Yukiko, Goto Ayumi

B Rank (so many skaters so I omit to translate)

Fumie is still in rank S with other 5 ladies. I think that Fumie should
start job like Choreography. She is good in that way. Her jump techniques
seem poor, comparing to others in rank S

Does anyone know what became of Matsubara? Is she still skating?

Aibhlin wrote:

Does anyone know what became of Matsubara? Is she still skating?

She still skates as a member of Chukyo High School's skating club - that's pretty much all I know though, since I haven't read anything about her actually competing (she dropped out of Chubu Regionals this season).

Thank you for replying, Clovera.