“I wanted to go somewhere where no one knew me. I wanted to create an environment where I could focus solely on skating but it turned to be the rock bottom period of my skating life.” Marin Honda about training in the US
Marin Honda shared the lowest point of her competitive career.
original source: news.yahoo.co.jp
Marin Honda (23) appeared on Kansai Telecasting Corp’s ‘Okabero’ broadcast on the July 13th, she shared about the lowest point of her active career as a competitive skater. Here’s a translation of her comment.
In 2016, after winning the World Junior Championships at 14 years old, Honda suddenly attracted a lot of attention, and she recalled, “I was going through puberty, so I particularly disliked being followed even to school. I thought I didn’t like cameras, so I kept running away.”
From ages 16 to 18, Marin Honda moved her training base to Los Angeles, USA to train with Arutyunyan. “I wanted to go somewhere where no one knew me. I wanted to create an environment where I could focus solely on skating,” she explained. There, she said she experienced “the rock bottom period of my life.”
“I grew taller all at once and my sensations changed. My coach also changed, and the way of teaching was different. In Japan, the coach tells you everything, and what the coach says is absolute, while in the US, the athlete is the most important. The coach teaches what the athlete wants to do. If you don’t speak up for yourself, you get left behind. Unlike before, things didn’t go well without thinking, and they didn’t go well even when I thought about it,” she struggled due to the changes in her body and environment.
She didn’t enjoy life in the US and revealed, “I spent most of my off-days at home, and from around 11 pm, I would go to a nearby spot with night view and look at it for about an hour. Looking back now, I think I was quite depressed.”
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