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Feb 11 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
#RinkaWatanabe time!
This season has been a breakout one! #RinkaWatanabe said Skate Canada was her second big competition... and this whole season was a bunch of Big Competitions! She can't believe it! Sometimes she's scared and feels some pressure.
#RinkaWatanabe recalls that she was 6th in Japanese Nationals last year and her first big competition being Junior worlds wasn't so great.
When #RinkaWatanabe got Skate Canada she was so happy and excited and maybe that happiness got her her good showing! NHK she felt more pressure. Though she's happy with the big competitions. She still has Worlds and she wants to be clean with performances.
#RinkaWatanabe is happy and appreciative to be here. She's not sure if the experience accumulated so far this season will help for Worlds but she just wants to be happy.
#RinkaWatanabe looks forwards to Worlds especially since it's in Japan with a Japanese audience. She feels some pressure but it's a different kind of pressure.
What inspired #RinkaWatanabe's free music? She mostly just wanted to do Japanese music program kinda like how Yuzuru Hanyu did it... but she didn't want the same music so she ended up here after the coach suggested her free program music!
#RinkaWatanabe has seen a little bit of the Jin drama and those parts is what she shows in her performance but also she shows her own personality and self in the program.
What does #RinkaWatanabe want to skate to in the future? She wants to skate to english music! She loved Kaori's short program. The music isn't too low but still upbeat. She wants something like that for her short... if she did it for her free she'd feel like she'd die 😂
If #RinkaWatanabe could skate to any anime music it would be something upbeat like Ariana Grande!
We wanted to ask her favourite animal but she didn't know the name in english or japanese and we accidentally sent her in a spiral since her phone wasn't charged for her to being up a photo for us 😂😭
Slight correction: it was her favorite animal she saw at the zoo, described as a big cat but with big ears? Not as big as a lion though…still a mystery 🤔

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