#jgpf 2024

[figureskatingpenguin]

Mao Shimada (JPN): Defying Gravity | 2024 ISU Junior Grand Prix Final, SP

achieving a season's best, mao shimada plays her best performance as elphaba in her short program, defying gravity 💚 

[skate-the-onion]

"You know what, you do whatever you can. Push those judges to give you a higher presentation score. If it means grabbing your derrière, then ... do what you gotta do."

-- Mark Hanretty

[eggplantgifs]

2024 Junior Grand Prix Final: Women's Podium

Mao Shimada 🇯🇵 199.46

Kaoruko Wada 🇯🇵 191.75

Ami Nakai 🇯🇵 189.58

[theskatingarchive]

和田薫子 Kaoruko Wada (JPN)

2024 Junior Grand Prix Final Free Skate (123.98)

[raininyourblackeyes]

For once I appreciate Ted hyping up a skater. This is a huge achievement for a kid from non-existant skating fed, and he hasn't let anyone down, he is just a kid shouldering the expectations of being the first from his country...

[austerlitzborodinoleipzig]

There are small kids in the rink today and the mood at junior pairs practice is amazing. They are cheering so loud every time anything is happening on the ice it's great. And tbh the junior pairs deserve more love and hype than they're getting

[roseandsalt]

20 years old and a junior is pushing it a bit don't we think

[justnotkrikkit]

grimmskiy out here like mind if i save the entirety of ice dance and don't wait for an answer