Japanese → English transcript
In pair skating, when you express that kind of artistry on the ice, I feel there always has to be a relationship of trust that comes with it.
In the end, it really is the daily accumulation of things—practice and training, managing our diet and so on—and it is not just each of us doing it for ourselves, we both have to be careful about those things.
I do think it took a really long time, but while doing that, we also tried to keep our own style, our version of “RikuRyu-ness.”
I feel we were able to express that kind of artistry, and within that, we were very focused on bringing out our own distinct style as strongly as possible.
But during the time when we were not really able to enjoy it, we could not skate well or get good results, and the more we thought “We have to make it better, we have to make it better,” the more tangled up we got. In that period when we could not enjoy it—everyone probably knows about that—I think it was a bit… how to say it, it was not good.
When we were able to go back to our starting point of simply enjoying it, I feel that was when our strengths really came out.
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Original transcript (Japanese)
ペアスケートにおいて、そういった芸術性をリンクで表現するというものにも、必ず信頼関係が伴ってくるのかなというふうに思っています。 やっぱり日々の積み重ね、練習やトレーニング、食事管理であったり、そういったものを自分だけじゃなくて、お互いに気をつけないといけないので、 やっぱり時間はすごくかかったのかなというふうに思うんですけど、私たちも自分たちなりの陸流らしさを残しつつ、 そういう芸術性を表現していけたかなというふうに思うので、その中でも私たちらしさを強く出すことに、私たちはすごくフォーカスしていたのかなというふうに思います。 ただ楽しめていない期間というのは、なかなか自分たちがうまい、いい結果も残せませんでしたし、良くしよう良くしようと思うと、逆に絡まってしまって楽しめない時期は、皆さんご存知だと思うんですけど、少し楽し…なんだろう、良くなかったと思うんですけど、
一番原点である楽しむということに戻れた時に自分たちの良さがよく出たのかなというふうには思っています。
