Will you come to practice tomorrow? Shinba Higuchi, the first winner of the GP Series, was saved from burnout by her “mentor.
Burnout” after the Beijing Olympics in ’22
In the first part of the article, “[She was ready to retire, but…] A ‘new strategy’ that led to the comeback of Shinba Higuchi, who won her first GP Series title in a stunning comeback,” we discussed the “stunning skating” of Shinba Higuchi (23), who won the Grand Prix series this October, after a long break after the ’22 Beijing Olympics. In this article, we reported on the “stunning performance” of Shinba Higuchi (23), who won the Grand Prix series this October after a long break after the Beijing Olympics in 2010.
Read the first part of the article , “[She was ready to retire, but…] A ‘new strategy’ that led to the comeback of Shinba Higuchi, who won the GP Series for the first time with a stunning comeback.
At Skate America, the first round of this season’s GP Series, Higuchi won her first GP Series title in her 14th competition. It was on October 20, one night after her victory, that she revealed her secret story about the victory she had won after a twisting and turning skating career.
When a reporter asked her if she ever thought of retiring, she smiled and reminisced.
I honestly thought, ‘I can’t do this anymore,’ a little after the Olympics (in Beijing) were over. I thought I couldn’t do the same amount of training, and with my injury, my mentality was in shambles and I was in no shape to handle it. So I chose to take a break, but rather than taking a break, I thought I would just disappear.”
Since her junior years, she has been called a “rocket,” with her speedy skating, and her manipulation of high-difficulty triple jumps. 13 years old, she competed in her first All-Japan Championships in 2002, where she placed 3rd, becoming the first skater since Mao Asada to reach the podium in her second year of junior high school. The following year, she also placed third at the World Junior Championships, where she finished sixth. 24-year-old Kaori Sakamoto, the current world queen, said, “You can’t beat Shinba.
However, she suffered repeated injuries and weight adjustments, and narrowly missed the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 2006. For the past four years, he has been thinking only of the humiliation of that loss. He was in a state of burnout after his long-cherished dream of competing in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
