Japan Skates

You may recall Japan Skates’ extensive interview with Yuki Nishino last August.  Yuki was a top junior skater about to enter a transitional year into senior.  She had been training in Toronto and was competing at (and went on to win) the Figure Skating Boutique Summer Skate in Thornhill, Ontario, near Toronto.

Japan Skates attended the All-Japan Championships in Osaka in December, and we were able to arrange a brief interview with Yuki immediately following her short program.  Yuki skated strongly, finishing 14^th in the short program.  She would go on to finish 16^th overall in the always-competitive Nationals.

This brief interview served as an opportunity for us to catch up with Yuki and see if some of her hopes for this season had been realized.

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At the 2008 Skate Canada International, Gregg, Gigi and I had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing Yasuharu Nanri.  Yasu was (and is) a dynamic skater who had his sights on the Vancouver Olympics.

I had first seen Yasu skate live at the 2006 Four Continents Championships in Colorado Springs.  He was a two-time All-Japan bronze medallist, and had made his World Championships debut the previous April.  Yasu had finished 8^th at Skate Canada.

It has taken us a long time to post this interview… Indeed, it had been “forgotten” in the archives until a chance meeting with a Yasuharu fan at the All-Japan Championships in Osaka back in December!  We hope that you enjoy meeting this soft-spoken skater, who is still a force in Japanese skating in 2010.

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