- Tripleaxelqueen wrote:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GywQa2WKoEE&feature=youtu.be
This is an interview with Mao the jumps look good. Please translate the video Japanese Speaker. Please
Thanks for the link. Great jumps!!!
So excited!!!
Quick translation
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The interview was done before her birthday and they gave Mao birthday cake.
She checks the cake and said “Yes, it’s 23.”
Interviewer: What do you feel about turning 23.
Mao: Well, it still in the first half of your 20s, so nothing would be different, I suppose.
I: I didn’t feel it’s going to make any difference when I turned 23.
Mao: When I turn, say, 25 I think I will feel oh I’m reaching my 30s.
I: Exactly. It’s exactly like that. (The interviewer is 25 years old now)
When she appeared the show on April 10, 2010 (after Vancouver Olympics), she expressed her thought for Sochi Olympics.
Mao: In four years, there will be another big Olympic games to be held in Sochi. I wan to increase what I can do year by year and absorb anything that will help improve my skating (ability).
I’s been three years since then. Mao Asada says Sochi Olympics will be the last Olympic games for her to compete. In order to understand what changes have happened with her, we asked her to put the four things (jump, thought for figure skating, how she spends her holidays, her favourite food.) in “changed (red)” and “not changed (blue)” boxes.
I: Miss Asada, you were very fast to decide.
Mao: It’s first time for me to do something like this.
The first one is “how she spends her holidays” and she says it’s changed.
I: I understand how you spend you holidays has changed.
Mao: On holidays, usually I get up in the morning, go to massages, eat lunch and do some shopping, dropping by supermarket or bookstore, and then go back home.
I: Well, it’s very ordinal way of spending holidays. Do you go shopping for clothes?
Mao: I don’t check clothes recently. I mean by shopping, I often go to supermarket, because I eat banana and yogurt every morning. I buy bread and I like going to bakeries.
I: Do you like bread?
Mao: Yes, I eat bread for my breakfast.
I: So, you eat bread, yogurt and banana (for your breakfast) ..
Mao: And Kinako (sweat soybean power). I use kinako as a topping for banana.
I: You eat kinako and banana together?
Mao: Yes, and also with yogurt.
I: Is that the way for you to start the engine in the morning?
Mao: It’s said banana is a source of power ... and it’s so easy LOL. Breakfast with rice is troublesome to prepare in the morning, isn’t it?
Next one is about “her favourite food” and it hasn’t changed. Her favourite food is Sushi.
I: So your favourite food hasn’t changed and you like bread, banana ...
Mao: I like anything ... but one thing that has changed with food is now I’m able to eat wasabi.
I: You’ve grown up! (superimpose says “looking down attitude?”) So, around times back in Vancouver Olympics, you ate Sushi without Wasabi didn’t you? But now you eat it with Wasabi.
Mao: Yes.
I: Aren’t you happy that you can eat Wasabi now?
Mao: Yes, I thought I became a grownup.
Mao Asada’s grown up and now she even goes to Sushi bar by herself. She started figure skating at five. She soon envisioned her dream: “I want to skate at Olympic games.” She won her first gold medal at Japanese nationals when she was 16. And in 2010 Vancouver Olympics, she was on her dream stage and succeeded landing 3 3As in one competition, making a Guinness record. However, she made two mistakes and ended up with silver medal. “There was a bit of regret in my performance. But it’s good that I was able to get a medal.” It’s been three years since we saw her tears and Mao Asada is determined to go to Sochi Olympics with special thought. “Sochi Olympics is a very big stage, and I want to skate my last and best performances there.”
She’s determined to skate at Sochi for her last performances (as a competitive skater). She says her jumps have changed. Secret formula for wining gold medal is related to triple jumps.
I: How many triple jumps do you have in your program in total?
Mao: Eight.
I: Eight. I assume you will be able to make a Guinness record.
Mao: Oh, that’s true. It’s good. I will do my best and hope I will be able to nail all of them.
Secret formula for wining gold medal is to land eight triple jumps in free program. Eight-triple program is quite high in the level of difficulty for female figure skaters. If she succuessfully nails all the planned triple jumps, she will become the first senior female skater who achieved it.
I: What are issues you have to overcome regarding jumps as of now?
Mao: Since Vancouver Olympics until now, I’ve been reworking on jumps and finally I started to feel the achievement. I think I’ve almost come through regarding reworking part. I just need to bear in mind cautions (not to resume previous habits) and just keep practicing every day.
I: What is the most important secret for you to nail eight triple jumps at competition?
Mao: The first jump, I think.
I: Triple axel?
Mao: Yes.
The key to succeed eight-triple program and win OGM is the first jump, 3A.
Next thing is about her thought for figure skating and she says it’s changed.
I: So, you think your thought for figure skating has change?
Mao: I’m planning to end my competitive career in Sochi Olympic season and therefore I feel it’s changed. I competed at Vancouver with the goal of winning OGM. But, when it was over, I was very much frustrated with my two mistakes rather than the color of medal. I wanted to win OGM back then, but my performance ... at the end of the day, it’s my performance. And I was frustrated with it. So, at Sochi Olympics, I want to deliver performances that I will feel satisfied and I will not regret ... well I have no regret about games at Vancouver though. I want to finish games at Sochi feeling a sense of accomplishment.
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Mon Sep 23, 2013 7:01 pm
He is very lucky and you are so lucky too!! Maybe you can visit him next year when he's back at Chukyo and seek a chance to see Mao on campus. 
I want to see level 4 and +3 goe across the board.
I know it's next week, but honestly, this is going to be the longest week ever.
Or is this too difficult.
Either way, I really hope that TAT included this part of the music as well.
