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Oscilla
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 |  Subject: Mao's step sequence - analysis from a newspaper  Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:20 pm | |
| I found this article about Mao's step on dcinside:  I decided to share it as I found it very interesting. The pattern of Mao's steps looks almost like an abstraction art piece.  It looks really challenging and complicated. It definitely makes me appreciate Mao's effort even more!  |
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polosatik
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| | Subject: Re: Mao's step sequence - analysis from a newspaper Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:48 pm | |
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bibi
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| | Subject: Re: Mao's step sequence - analysis from a newspaper Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:05 pm | |
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polosatik
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| | Subject: Re: Mao's step sequence - analysis from a newspaper Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:28 pm | |
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bibi
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| | Subject: Re: Mao's step sequence - analysis from a newspaper Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:59 pm | |
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clovera
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| | Subject: Re: Mao's step sequence - analysis from a newspaper Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:00 am | |
| Thanks for sharing Oscilla! The analysis on the page is done by Higuchi Yutaka (former skater who we previously saw commentating and holding the segment Yutaka's room for the NHK Trophy). Looks like he appreciates Mao's efforts and mentions in the analysis here that the step sequence for Masquerade has Lv.4 potential as well. 
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misokatsu
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| | Subject: Re: Mao's step sequence - analysis from a newspaper Sat Apr 11, 2009 8:06 am | |
| Thank you for this! I was hoping that there would be an analysis of her amazing step sequence in 仮面舞踏会 but didn't expect anyone to actually do it! Since first seeing it I've been mesmerized with the grace and effortlessness she goes about executing it. From a video interview with Tarasova apparently the step sequence was inspired by a scene from an old Russian film titled, what else, "Masquerade Ball." |
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tianrushui
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| | Subject: Re: Mao's step sequence - analysis from a newspaper Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:53 pm | |
| Oscilla, Thx. I hope that Mao's step sequence could reach Level4 next season. I really think she has this ability. |
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Okami
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bibi
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| | Subject: Re: Mao's step sequence - analysis from a newspaper Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:45 pm | |
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chiyori
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Batsuchan
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| | Subject: Re: Mao's step sequence - analysis from a newspaper Wed Apr 15, 2009 3:56 am | |
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 I've watched that step sequence so many times that I was actually able to see Mao doing it in my head as I was following the tracings on paper.  |
Haha, that's awesome chiyori! 
Thanks bibi for finding this!!!
I love, LOVE, *LOVE* that step sequence!! 
The twizzles she does when she throws her hand up and pulls it down fast - I *adore* those, and that big dramatic arabesque in the middle - 
I hope Mao gets level 4 at some point! She totally deserves it!
I don't know if I mentioned this before, but Shizuka Arakawa made a very interesting comment during one of the early performances from this season. (Well, I think it was her who said it. I may be remembering bits and parts of different things.  ) Anyway, she was watching Mao, and she was saying that Coach Yamada used to say that Mao might not be the best jumper ever, or the best spinner, etc, but she could be the best ever at the step sequences.
And I think that's true - we're so used to thinking about Mao as being a really amazing jumper, but I think over the past two seasons she's really shown that she's way ahead of everyone else in her step sequences!  |
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snowdrops24
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| | Subject: Re: Mao's step sequence - analysis from a newspaper Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:45 pm | |
| Yes, Mao's step sequences is really stunning. I think Joannie's in her FS is very charismatic too. My favourite Mao's FS step sequence performance this season is not the ones performed in competitions, but the one she performed as an encore at Nagoya festival:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvwhNyxUAN0 LOVED her energy. I guess in competitions, she's probably feeling pretty worn out by the time she gets to her steps, so she slows down more. Her tango costume complement the music well too. I like Mao is a more vibrant shade of red. |
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getmewild
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| | Subject: Re: Mao's step sequence - analysis from a newspaper Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:09 pm | |
| I am really surprised to what happened on the worlds and other competitions... ehem.. about GOEs Her footwork is so difficult.. packed with content and moves with the music... yet she did not get the highest GOE for it! anyway that magazine is fantastic... so Mao is really famous in Japan? can I ask a question? any Japanese around here? If I walk in Japan and met a stranger... let's say a female stranger and asks her if she know Mao Asada... what would be the probability that she would say yes? 70%? 10%? what do you think? |
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SoMiTripleAxel
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No one in the world have such footwork,nothing close to Mao. Her step sequences are perfection by any means 
