Con Ghiaccio

On February 17th Rika went to Risport’s factory in Italy. She said there are a lot of occasions where she couldn’t find good product so she went searching for them at the factory instead.

She went to Risport in Venice and they prepared 50 pairs of boots for her. She said each boot has their own features and some products have deformation so she is searching for the item that is the most not deformed from the factory. So she thought of singling them out from all that was in the factory. She checked all 50 pairs the factory prepared for her seriously.

They asked her: which part is she paying attention to? (when choosing)

She said it’s easy to notice when seeing them, she showed cameraman the one she’s holding and said that it’s dented on the part which is connected to heel, not straight.

With this weird dent it can affect the jumps greatly.

She is a person who adjusts her blade position up to 0.1 mm count.

Until now there were a lot of cases where she has difficulties adjusting her boots in the middle of competitions, so boots is an important factor for her. She checked all the boots for 6 hours. She bought 11 right and 9 left boots.

Satoko will be publishing a book in which she talks about her skating career, competing at the PyeongChang Olympics and learning English! The book will be released on March 28 and can be preordered here: 

The top junior skaters in the world will face off this week in Tallinn, Estonia for the Junior World Championships! This post will be updated as more info appears.

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Mar. 4: Men’s SP 12:40; Pairs’ SP 19:15 Mar. 5: Rhythm Dance 13:15; Pairs’ FS 18:30 Mar. 6: Ladies’ SP 10:45; Men’s FS 18:15 Mar. 7: Free Dance 11:45; Ladies’ FS 15:45 Mar. 8: Gala 15:00