Marin Honda, a professional skater, overcame “too high a wall”.
With a radiant face, she began her second act as a professional skater.
On January 19, the “Prince Ice World” ice show was held in Tokyo at the Daido Drinking Ice Arena in Nishi-Tokyo City. Among eminent members such as Shizuka Arakawa (42), Daisuke Takahashi (37), and Masama Uno (26, Toyota Motor Corp.), there was Marin Honda (22, JAL), a female figure skater who announced her retirement. She performed “The Little Mermaid,” a Disney movie that she had been using for her free program this season, in a modified ice show version, and received a big applause from the audience as she stretched out with Ina Bauer and other moves. After the show, Honda responded in an interview with the audience.
When I was little, I once said, ‘I want to be in the ice show, so I’m working hard in the competitions. I like to skate in the stretch. Now that I could come to that place, I want to skate in various genres. I will try my best to express myself in various ways.”
At the age of 14, she won the World Junior Championships, and was in the limelight as a prodigy girl, but after switching to the senior ranks, her performance was sluggish, and she did not achieve any outstanding results. Nevertheless, her dainty looks and innocent demeanor have made her one of the most popular girls in the world. Perhaps because of the gap between her ability and popularity, she has been slandered on the Internet.
While considering leaving the stage, she decided to live up to her name, which is a wish for her to lead an interesting, straightforward, and unwavering life, and she has arrived at where she is today. We look back on her twists and turns in her athletic career, including the All-Japan Championships last December, the last time she was active, and her remarks at the press conference she held in Tokyo on January 11 to announce her retirement.
I had already started learning to skate when I can remember, so, to put it in a really cool way, skating was a part of me,” she said.
With an ice rink close to his home in Kyoto City, he took to the ice at the age of two. He took to the ice at the age of two, playing ice hockey, swimming, gymnastics, tennis, and piano-o. Skating was one of the many things she learned, but the attraction of “having so many people watching you and only you” made her fall more and more in love with the sport.
She is the second daughter of five siblings. Together with her younger sisters, actors Mochiyui (19) and Sarai (16), she was featured as one of the three Honda sisters. Her first rival was her older brother Taichi (25), three years her senior, who started skating at the same time.
She said, “I am not the type of person who hates to lose, but I wanted to catch up with my brother in the family, to be told that I am better than him. When he was absent due to injury or entrance exams, I sometimes felt like quitting if he didn’t come back.
