1. In the entire world,
I only hate two thingsCopy !req
2. and those are cockroaches and Jun Yodaka.Copy !req
3. If I had to choose
between a roach smoothieCopy !req
4. or going to buy cigarettes for Jun Yodaka,
I'd take the smoothie every time.Copy !req
5. Jun would probably run his own
errands if he saw Rioh like this.Copy !req
6. Well, I think I see the issue.Copy !req
7. You're angry that he made it look so easy.Copy !req
8. Huh?Copy !req
9. I think you resent him so muchCopy !req
10. because you admire him so strongly.Copy !req
11. Admire him?Copy !req
12. I...Copy !req
13. Huh?Copy !req
14. - Um, hey. Wait, what are...
- Now, you just hold on tight!Copy !req
15. Coach Hitomi!Copy !req
16. Hey, look who's back.Copy !req
17. - Huh?
- Heya.Copy !req
18. Can we play his song?
Do we still have time?Copy !req
19. What is going on here?Copy !req
20. Yeah, sure thing. We skipped his turn,
so he can go twice.Copy !req
21. Well, good.Copy !req
22. Because before he goes,
I would like to skate it once.Copy !req
23. SHIRONE'S LESSONCopy !req
24. Hold up. What's going on?Copy !req
25. Um, Coach Tsukasa's skating?Copy !req
26. But, like, I didn't hear why.Copy !req
27. I guess it's like a lesson for Rioh.Copy !req
28. - Lucky duck.
- Huh?Copy !req
29. Watch and learn. That's my Tsukasa.Copy !req
30. For real, what the hell is going on here?Copy !req
31. Does he even know my choreo?Copy !req
32. Most likely, yeah.Copy !req
33. He usually only needs to see
a dance once to have it memorized.Copy !req
34. Oh.Copy !req
35. Here we go.Copy !req
36. His crossover is quick!Copy !req
37. He reaches top speed crazy fast.Copy !req
38. - Oh, wow.
- Whoa.Copy !req
39. Aw, I can't skate like that anymore.Copy !req
40. Am I hallucinating,
or is he, like, super hot right now?Copy !req
41. I had no idea he was this good.Copy !req
42. He is good.Copy !req
43. He's much better than I expected,
but that's not the shocking part.Copy !req
44. Aside from the absence of any jumps,
his skating is exactly like Jun Yodaka's!Copy !req
45. Look at that spin.Copy !req
46. How is he speeding up?Copy !req
47. Smooth, quick, detail-oriented...Copy !req
48. His blades lean so far
they catch the lights.Copy !req
49. His long limbs cut through the air
so gracefully.Copy !req
50. It's beautiful. Magical...Copy !req
51. Breathtaking. I love my coach.Copy !req
52. Even his fingertips are expressive.Copy !req
53. He's so relaxed
but his rhythm is energizing.Copy !req
54. He's accelerating
inside the step sequence?Copy !req
55. I didn't know you could do that.Copy !req
56. Every step and turn
is so deliberate. It's beautiful.Copy !req
57. When it comes to pure skating,
he may be better than Jun Yodaka.Copy !req
58. Right here is where Rioh
went for the triple Salchow.Copy !req
59. And this choreography was probably
meant for jumping, so...Copy !req
60. Do or die.Copy !req
61. Whoa!Copy !req
62. He fell there,
so I'm not positive what comes next.Copy !req
63. But Coach Sonidori would probably
follow that jump with a set of turns...Copy !req
64. A flying camel spin!Copy !req
65. But that's where I fell.Copy !req
66. How does he know my choreography?Copy !req
67. That takes me back.Copy !req
68. Tsukasa has such long legs,Copy !req
69. we always added a camel spin
in our routines to really highlight them.Copy !req
70. He's good, right? Huh?
Right? Isn't he good?Copy !req
71. I, uh...Copy !req
72. Ice dancing can be an awful lot
like running a three-legged race on ice.Copy !req
73. You have to be perfectly in sync
or you'll fall.Copy !req
74. And if there's a difference
in skill level,Copy !req
75. you can't even perform
basic steps together.Copy !req
76. Coach Tsukasa may have started late,Copy !req
77. but he never gave up on bettering
his skills and expanding his talents.Copy !req
78. He would sooner die
than let an opportunity pass him by.Copy !req
79. He wanted to find his place on the ice,
and take it.Copy !req
80. And he succeeded. That tenacity
is what got him to the All-Japans.Copy !req
81. He had a thirst for the rink
like no one else.Copy !req
82. He accomplished something really amazing
in ice dance.Copy !req
83. Wow!Copy !req
84. We're out of time.
We have to resurface the ice!Copy !req
85. Sorry, everyone.Copy !req
86. - Let's get to work, okay?
- What?Copy !req
87. Come get a bucket!
Scoops are first come, first served.Copy !req
88. - Oh, okay.
- Um, right...Copy !req
89. Good work! You all got enough ice?Copy !req
90. Double-check where you made
all your good jumps today.Copy !req
91. The resurfacer won't get
those deep toe pick scars!Copy !req
92. Coach Tsukasa is pretty awesome, huh?Copy !req
93. Yeah, I wanna see it again.Copy !req
94. Hey, you guys still got ice?Copy !req
95. What do you think?
Isn't Coach Tsukasa an amazing dancer?Copy !req
96. Well, I only think people who can jump
are amazing, so, whatever.Copy !req
97. Really?Copy !req
98. Rioh, you thought he was good, didn't you?
You looked totally spellbound by him.Copy !req
99. Why are you so loud?Copy !req
100. Heya, Coach,
do you mind if I take this bucket away?Copy !req
101. No, go on ahead.Copy !req
102. Huh?Copy !req
103. Uh...Copy !req
104. Hey, gang!Copy !req
105. They're coming in with the machine!
Time to get off the ice!Copy !req
106. - Okay!
- Thank you!Copy !req
107. Better go.Copy !req
108. Bath time? What do you think?Copy !req
109. Mm-hmm!Copy !req
110. Good morning.
Thanks for opening up for us.Copy !req
111. Bright and early today as usual.Copy !req
112. Yeah, sorry. Never enough hours
in the day, you know.Copy !req
113. - Good morning, Coach.
- Oh.Copy !req
114. - Hey there, Rioh.
- Mmm.Copy !req
115. Um, you won't be able to get on the ice
for, like, another hour at least.Copy !req
116. I know.Copy !req
117. But I was hoping to catch you before camp.
Figured you'd get here before anyone else.Copy !req
118. Here's this.Copy !req
119. Hmm?Copy !req
120. Hey, hold your head up.Copy !req
121. Uh...Copy !req
122. Wait, actually, never mind.
Will you put it back down?Copy !req
123. Whoa! Come on, Coach.Copy !req
124. You gotta keep professional.
You know that.Copy !req
125. But I can't! It's so hard when
I got such a great student right here!Copy !req
126. Well done. Thank you, Rioh.Copy !req
127. Either way, I'm looking forward to
the rest of camp with you.Copy !req
128. Thank you for all your help.Copy !req
129. Huh?Copy !req
130. Did his tire blow out?Copy !req
131. Uh, hey, are you all right?Copy !req
132. Yep! All good over here.
Don't worry, this isn't even my car!Copy !req
133. How does that make it okay?Copy !req
134. Oh!Copy !req
135. - Oh!
- Oh!Copy !req
136. - Hey!
- Hey!Copy !req
137. Dude, thank you so much for being here.Copy !req
138. Are you kidding? Anything for you.Copy !req
139. This place
is way the heck out here though.Copy !req
140. Sorry, but you need to leave.Copy !req
141. Whoa! Hold on, now. No, he doesn't.Copy !req
142. We don't need some drifter hanging around.Copy !req
143. What a read.Copy !req
144. What? I'm right.Copy !req
145. No way. I invited him.Copy !req
146. He's a special guest coach
who's here to lead our class today.Copy !req
147. This guy's a coach?Copy !req
148. Name's Kohaku Shirone!
But feel free to just call me Shiro!Copy !req
149. Uh...Copy !req
150. - Coach!
- Huh?Copy !req
151. Good morning, Coach Tsukasa!Copy !req
152. Whoa, who's the greasy-looking punk?Copy !req
153. Morning, you two!Copy !req
154. Let part two of our training intensive...Copy !req
155. - Huh?
- ... begin!Copy !req
156. - Mittens, are you done?
- Mm-hmm.Copy !req
157. Okay, on three. One, two, three!Copy !req
158. Oh, my gosh, we look so cute!Copy !req
159. Ballet has long been a secret weapon
for skating.Copy !req
160. It can help you build
a super solid foundation.Copy !req
161. And so today, we have a guest ballet coach
visiting from Nagoya.Copy !req
162. I'm Shirone! Glad to meet you.Copy !req
163. Coach Shirone is a really seasoned dancerCopy !req
164. who's won a bunch of different
championships all across the country.Copy !req
165. Really? I thought he was, like, a punk
from the back streets.Copy !req
166. Oh, what are the back streets?Copy !req
167. Ah, Coach Tsukasa!Copy !req
168. Thanks a lot, buddy.
How'd it go out there?Copy !req
169. Well, could have been easier.Copy !req
170. He was super pissed.Copy !req
171. He couldn't believe you'd been driving it
on the highway in the first place.Copy !req
172. Seriously?
That's hilarious!Copy !req
173. But aren't you the one who drove it here?Copy !req
174. Yeah. But Tsukasa took the fall for me,
so what do I care?Copy !req
175. All right! Now who's ready
to get warmed up?Copy !req
176. First off, we'll roll our wrists
and ankles, and bend forwards.Copy !req
177. Whoa, he's bent so crazy!Copy !req
178. I mean, a lot of people can do that.Copy !req
179. Wait. Does that mean
you've done ballet before?Copy !req
180. A ballet teacher comes out to our club
once a week,Copy !req
181. but every other day for me and Hikaru.Copy !req
182. Mittens, have you?Copy !req
183. I started 'cause they said
it would be good for skating.Copy !req
184. But it was frickin' boring, so I quit.Copy !req
185. O-Oh.Copy !req
186. Now let's get you en bas!
You'll hold your arms down like this.Copy !req
187. Imagine a fist under your armpits,Copy !req
188. and keep those ballet fingers
nice and elongated!Copy !req
189. Stretch 'em out all the way to the nails!Copy !req
190. What, like this?Copy !req
191. Next is en avant!Copy !req
192. Imagine you're holding
a ball in front of you.Copy !req
193. - Palms in towards your tummy!
- Uh...Copy !req
194. À la seconde.Copy !req
195. En haut.Copy !req
196. Tendu.Copy !req
197. Retiré!Copy !req
198. All righty! Now let's
put it all together with music.Copy !req
199. Put it to music?
I can't remember all of that.Copy !req
200. I'm already lost.
He's moving too fast.Copy !req
201. How can they all just do it?Copy !req
202. Uh... Uh...Copy !req
203. What's her deal?Copy !req
204. Why is she staring at me?Copy !req
205. What's wrong?Copy !req
206. It's totally fine if you got lost.Copy !req
207. Okay!Copy !req
208. Take a five-minute break, and then
we'll gather back up for a center lesson!Copy !req
209. Inori.Copy !req
210. - Who cares if you can't do it?
- Hmm?Copy !req
211. You can already do
a triple jump just fine.Copy !req
212. - You don't need ballet at all.
- I don't?Copy !req
213. You're that uninterested?Copy !req
214. Do you even know
why we do this in the first place?Copy !req
215. I don't care why.Copy !req
216. Ballet sucks!Copy !req
217. Like, what's even the point of flapping
our arms and legs around like this?Copy !req
218. It's stupid.Copy !req
219. You know he can hear you, Mittens.Copy !req
220. Huh?Copy !req
221. Okay, stop pulling.Copy !req
222. Did something happen?Copy !req
223. I don't know what I'm doing, Coach.
These kids are eating me alive!Copy !req
224. Yeah?Copy !req
225. But you're so chipper.Copy !req
226. Maybe we just switch to
a "ballet is fun" type of thing?Copy !req
227. Nah, it's okay. Stick to the plan.Copy !req
228. I can, but look at them.Copy !req
229. I don't know what to teach these goobers!Copy !req
230. It's the stances.Copy !req
231. They need to understand
the importance of posture.Copy !req
232. Posture!Copy !req
233. Okay! I gotcha!Copy !req
234. All right, eyes on me.Copy !req
235. Three twists? On the floor?Copy !req
236. Wow! That was amazing.Copy !req
237. Check out these skills!Copy !req
238. You see? When I landed, I still had
these fist-sized spaces under my armpits.Copy !req
239. - Hmm.
- Yeah.Copy !req
240. Here's the deal.Copy !req
241. When you do ballet,
your awareness of your body changes,Copy !req
242. and it'll become easier
to control your posture in any situation!Copy !req
243. Like during a jump.Copy !req
244. Ballet lessons will check
and re-check your stances every day.Copy !req
245. Eventually, hitting all those
clean, super-precise anglesCopy !req
246. will be second nature.Copy !req
247. And once all that stuff sinks into
your muscle memory,Copy !req
248. your heart can run free!Copy !req
249. Then even when you dance expressively,
your posture will stay pretty,Copy !req
250. and you're less likely to fall.Copy !req
251. What do you think? Cool, huh?Copy !req
252. Barre lessons may not be flashy,
but they're crucial for figure skaters.Copy !req
253. What did Coach Tsukasa tell him?Copy !req
254. Whatever it was, was good.Copy !req
255. I didn't choose ballet back then,Copy !req
256. and now I'm four years
behind the kids who did.Copy !req
257. It makes me feel
like I'm so far behind now.Copy !req
258. - This is good.
- Huh?Copy !req
259. One more thing to start working on.Copy !req
260. Hey, Coach? Is it possible
to practice at home?Copy !req
261. - I wanna do ballet every day!
- Oh!Copy !req
262. Now, that's the right attitude.Copy !req
263. When a skater first lands a new jump,Copy !req
264. that doesn't automatically mean
it's ready to go in their program.Copy !req
265. That takes fine-tuning. You need
to be deliberate about when and whereCopy !req
266. you include the jump in your choreography.Copy !req
267. Can you shorten your steps
a little? Try that!Copy !req
268. And put your arms out in front of you!Copy !req
269. Okay!Copy !req
270. My posture starts to crumble
because all I think about is landing.Copy !req
271. I need to be more aware of my form,
and get those ballet fingers up!Copy !req
272. Well done! That was great!Copy !req
273. Super clean landing on that double, Inori!Copy !req
274. Now we have everything we need
to ace that level six Badge Test!Copy !req
275. We got this!Copy !req
276. That ballet lesson really helped, huh?Copy !req
277. Maybe I shouldn't have
quit ballet the first time I tried,Copy !req
278. but I can't go back in time
and change it now. So why worry?Copy !req
279. Huh?Copy !req
280. I just gotta win
with what I know. That'll show 'em!Copy !req
281. That will prove I made the right choice!Copy !req
282. She just did a triple Salchow!Copy !req
283. That's my girl!Copy !req
284. I gotta watch the timing
of my pull-in after liftoff.Copy !req
285. And remember what
Coach Akeuraji said to me.Copy !req
286. Don't think too hard about it.
It's okay to mess up.Copy !req
287. Keep trying. No one's gonna stop you.Copy !req
288. A triple-double toe loop combo!Copy !req
289. That was amazing!Copy !req
290. Yeah! He did it!Copy !req
291. I can do it too.Copy !req
292. See, that wasn't hard! Easy-peasy!Copy !req
293. That's right.Copy !req
294. - Once you can land a triple, the momentum...
- Whoa.Copy !req
295. actually makes a triple-double combo
pretty simple to pull off.Copy !req
296. Coach Tsukasa!
Can I go practice a combo too?Copy !req
297. - What?
- I'm gonna do it!Copy !req
298. U-Uh...Copy !req
299. Well, she didn't nail it
right off the bat...Copy !req
300. but who's keeping score?Copy !req
301. Okay! Ten more seconds!Copy !req
302. She stuck with
all the mundane strength training...Copy !req
303. and she kept practicing hard.Copy !req
304. Hey, I did it!Copy !req
305. And she succeeded before camp was over!Copy !req
306. Congratulations on making it
to the end of training camp!Copy !req
307. And thank your parents
for putting together this barbecue.Copy !req
308. Wait! Do you do your hair like that
because you like cats too?Copy !req
309. It's more than that.
It's like my whole identity.Copy !req
310. That's inspired!Copy !req
311. Like, oh, my god! It's art!Copy !req
312. You think it's art?Copy !req
313. Well, I landed a three-two first.Copy !req
314. Which means
my Coach Akeuraji is incredible.Copy !req
315. I... You... What are you...Copy !req
316. Why is Coach Tsukasa
yours all of a sudden?Copy !req
317. That's not fair! He's my coach!Copy !req
318. I know, but I landed the combo before you.Copy !req
319. That doesn't matter! I had him first!Copy !req
320. You don't get to hog him, Rioh!Copy !req
321. Hey, kids.Copy !req
322. Who wants to light some sparklers?Copy !req
323. Whoa, really?Copy !req
324. You're such a child,
getting excited over sparklers.Copy !req
325. Hey, Rioh, come on!Copy !req
326. Let's go light sparklers together!Copy !req
327. Yeah, okay! Be right there!Copy !req
328. Well, who's the child now, huh, Rioh?Copy !req
329. Shut up! It's different.Copy !req
330. Throw 'em in this bucket
when they burn out, okay?Copy !req
331. Okay!Copy !req
332. Coach Tsukasa?Copy !req
333. Yeah? Hey, Inori.Copy !req
334. Can we light sparklers together?Copy !req
335. - Is that okay?
- Of course.Copy !req
336. When camp is over, it'll be time
for the level six Badge Test.Copy !req
337. Mm-hmm. In a little bit,
you won't be "behind" anymore.Copy !req
338. Once you hit level six,
you'll be a real athlete.Copy !req
339. Right up there with the girls
who started when they were five.Copy !req
340. It makes me a little sad.Copy !req
341. How come?Copy !req
342. I started skating so much later
than everyone else.Copy !req
343. I hated who I was before I met you.Copy !req
344. All I could feel was,
"I don't want to stay like this forever."Copy !req
345. And I think that feeling is
why I worked so hard.Copy !req
346. But once I'm level six, I won't need
to feel that way at all anymore.Copy !req
347. Like, I can finally tell
the old me I hated so much,Copy !req
348. goodbye, and thank you.Copy !req
349. I see.Copy !req
350. Wait, is that weird?Copy !req
351. That doesn't make sense, huh?Copy !req
352. Sorry, I don't really know
how to put it into words.Copy !req
353. It's fine! You're not weird at all.Copy !req
354. I completely understand.Copy !req
355. I was thinking something similar today.Copy !req
356. All the stuff I went through,
the things I hated about myself,Copy !req
357. it's all working in my favor now.Copy !req
358. Maybe I should tell myself thank you too.Copy !req
359. You too, huh?Copy !req
360. But, hey, I don't think
you were bad at all before.Copy !req
361. You were a hard worker when I met you,
and you're a hard worker now.Copy !req
362. That hasn't changed, and you're only
gonna get more amazing from here.Copy !req
363. I really am having
so much fun all the time.Copy !req
364. I used to get so sad
about all the stuff I couldn't do.Copy !req
365. But now I get to do everything,
and it's exciting to get better!Copy !req
366. I really enjoy it.Copy !req
367. I trust myself now.Copy !req
368. I can get up when I fall.Copy !req
369. I'm finally chasing my dreams.Copy !req
370. And I love it. Every minute.Copy !req