The 2022 Figure Skating World Championships came to an end last week, and while the World Championships are considered to be one of the bleak stars, there are some people who have successfully fulfilled their dreams, including Japanese figure skater Masama Uno. Due to winning silver medals in the competition many times, Masama Uno, who is called "cashier" by many ice fans, finally won his first world championship gold medal this time.
Due to the absence of Beijing Winter Olympics men's singles champion, American Chen Wei and Japanese figure skating star Yu Yushin, the men's singles competition at the World Championships has become a direct dialogue for a new generation of players, and the most competitive of them are two Japanese players, Masama Uno and Yumasa Keyyama. In fact, compared with the post-00s players, Uno Masamo, born in 1997, is no longer a newcomer in today's men's singles field, and in 2015 he completed his personal international debut in the adult group, and the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics won the silver medal, from Pyeongchang to Beijing, the two winter Olympic cycles Uno Masamo has almost always been among the first-line men's singles players.
However, unlike Chen Wei, who has gradually reached the peak of the Beijing Winter Olympic cycle, the earlier famous Uno Masamo seems to be tepid most of the time, he is a regular visitor to the world championship podium, but he has never been at the top of the podium, not to mention that even in Japan, he has a Feather Knot in front of him, which is almost like a god in the figure skating world. Therefore, even if Uno Masamo was the first male singles player to successfully complete the difficult action of Philip Phillip's four-sided jump in the official competition, even if his performance and gliding have always been in the top ranks of the world, even if he has won silver medals in the two major competitions of the World Championships and the Winter Olympics, when it comes to the men's singles event, more people think of the passionate Chen Wei, the elegant Yusheng, and even the aggressive key mountain Youzhen, Cha Junhuan and other potential new stars behind him. The 2019 Four Continents Championship championship seems to be the pinnacle that Masama Uno can reach.
But perhaps, the transformation of Uno Masama also began in 2019, that june, Uno Masama announced on his personal website that he ended his cooperation with two coaches, Mihoko Higuchi and Manchiko Yamada, who had been coaching him since the age of 5, although the specific reasons were not announced, but the speculation was that Uno Masama, who was in a technical bottleneck at the time, hoped to seek a breakthrough by jumping out of the comfort zone. At that time, Uno Masama said in an interview: "The change was not because the results of the World Championships that year were not ideal, but because I wanted a new start, although I wanted to get good results, but I also wanted to find my ideal figure skating." ”
Then, Uno Masamo began to go to a number of well-known European and American coaches for short-term trial training, and the well-known Russian coach Tu special Lize and the Swiss figure skating star Lambier's training camp have appeared in the figure of Uno Masamo. However, due to the lack of systematic training and the regular coaching company in the game, the results of Uno Masamo fell to the bottom that season, but after a series of attempts, Uno Masamo, who gradually found the direction of development, began to cooperate with the winter Olympic silver medalist, Known as the "Spinning Prince", Lambier, and finally a bronze medal in the Beijing Winter Olympics and now the world championship dream champion, also proved the success of this choice. On this ice that summons strength and beauty, not only geniuses will succeed, but the courage to constantly break through and the efforts they continue to make will also be rewarded.