Osaka Rinkai Sports Center Rink will be closed, too.

Osaka Rinkai Sports Center Rink will be closed like Wel Sunpia Kurashiki Skating Rink. Daisuke has practiced for two years from 2004 after the rink of Takatsuki city closed. The people of Osaka, many figure skaters and users would like to continue to skate this rink.
"I've practiced to skate at Rinkai Sports Center Rink for two years." Daisuke added. "And I'll do the best for supporting to continuance of this rink."

Rinkai Sports Center will be closed in Japanese News
http://www.asahi.com/kansai/news/OSK200805090112.html

May 13th, 2008(Tue) 19:00～20:00 Charity Exhibition in Rinkai Sports Center
Osaka Rinkai Sports Center Rink
http://maido.rocket3.net/rinkai/ex.asp

Expected to participate:
Daisuke Takahashi
Kensuke Nakaniwa
Nana Takeda

If you wish it, you can support Rinkai Sports Center by doing a sign for the petition for bellow site. All your petitions will guarantee the continuance of this rink.

Hope to the continuance of Rinkai Sports Center
http://maido.rocket3.net/rinkai/index.asp

Rinkai Sports Center
http://www.nankai.co.jp/odekake/rinspo/index.html

Leode,

regarding the Rinkai Sports Center rink,

Do I understand it correctly that there is no way to sigh the petition online?

http://maido.rocket3.net/rinkai/syomei.asp

If so, I could print and sign the pdf-form, I guess... but what's the address? Could you pls help me on this?

Hi, hsuhs, thank you for your comment!
Sorry, there is no way to sign the petition online and we have to send it by mail.
First of all, click to download PDF file like this and wrote your name and address.

PDF file
http://maido.rocket3.net/rinkai/images/syomei.pdf

Finally, send it to bellow address of Hope to the continuance of Rinkai Sports Center by air mail.

Address:
Ms. Sachiko Agata
Hope to the continuance of Rinkai Sports Center
Hamadera, Takaishi-shi, Osaka Yubinkyoku-dome, JAPAN
Gip code: 592-8799

Thank you, Leode. I will do that.

Hello, everyone at DTFF

I went to this Rinkai Charity Exhibition today!!
I live right near this Rinkai Sports Center and was so lucky to have a chance to participate.
This was my first time to watch Daisuke skating live, and I was sooooo excited

Since this exhibition was open for only Osaka Prefecture residents and the number of seats was so small, audiences were limited to only 400 people.
So it was a kind of compact show for just one hour, but was warm and hearty, wonderful one

Daisuke appeared for the opening and did 3F and spins, then as the last performer of the show, he skated to Swan Lake.
He looked a little tired, I think, but did 3F, gorgeous 3A, 3Lz very easy, and incredibly fast and beautiful spins (including camel spins)!!
Besides, step sequences were...just amazing!!!
Daisuke was like a storm or something.

I was surprised by his terrific speed and elegant skating without any noise
For an encore, he did 3F-3Loop(fall), wow!!!
Although he fell on the second 3Loop, it was unbelievably a huge jump

At the end of the show, he spoke to the audiences and medias about this closing issue of the rink.
This speech deeply moved me, because I could tell he really worries about young skaters' future.
Then he run through the rink with young skaters (of figure skating, ice hockey, speed skating), with a big smile waving his hand to the audiences.
As he was about to get off the rink, he gave a small bow with a smile to the audiences, and the smile was sooooooo cute

I had a wonderful time and appreciated for the skaters, but at the same time, I felt so sad for the fact this rink is in a danger of closing.
I wish Governor of Osaka Prefecture would think again about this rink and try to find another way to solve the issue.

Anyway, Thank You Daisuke!! For doing a wonderful performance for the future of figure skating

Here, you can see some pictures of Daisuke at this event

http://sankei.jp.msn.com/life/trend/080513/trd0805132312017-n1.htm

Thank you very much for your report and for the link, Yshion!

I'm so happy to read that Daisuke showed his wonderfull 3A again! And I really want to se this camel spin!!!

I can't imagine that situation for ice-rinks in Japan was so difficult... Japan has a world champion and some of the top skaters in the world... I think a lot of children want to do this sport, isn't it?

Thank you so much for your wonderful report, Yshion!

Yshion wrote:

Although he fell on the second 3Loop, it was unbelievably a huge jump

It seemed it was a huuuuuge fall as well. Hahaha.
http://sankei.jp.msn.com/photos/life/trend/080513/trd0805132312017-p4.htm

It is a great attitude of him as Japanese champ to dedicate him a lot to this movement. However I hope he will be able to have enough time for himself in order to consider a new coach and choreographer after Festa on Ice in Korea.

glorydave wrote:

I can't imagine that situation for ice-rinks in Japan was so difficult... Japan has a world champion and some of the top skaters in the world...

I think the problem in Japan is that people don't go skating for pleasure. How about in Italy?? Is it popular to go skating?

miyu wrote:

I think the problem in Japan is that people don't go skating for pleasure. How about in Italy?? Is it popular to go skating?

There're always a lot of people going skating during winter week-end only for pleasure... often it's also difficult to skate because there're too many people!
I don't know exactly about young skaters, but after Torino 2006 figure skating has become more popoular than before, but not so much... During GPF in Torino last year you can find only one page about figure skating on sport newspapers... and 20 pages on football

I found this article about ice-rink in Japan...
http://www.japancorp.net/Article.Asp?Art_ID=18108

Rinkai EX news
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8H-qBEpckU
You can see Dai-chan's wonderful 3A around 5:40. It was really weightless. His off-ice outfit on thtat day was aslo very nice. Which do you like better, this or Takahashi-san's (<-I mean one in Korea.) ?? Hahaha.


Thank you for your reply, glorydave.
Wmmm. So in Italy skating is very popular among ordinary people. I used to go to ice rinks when I was in elementray school (Loooooong time ago! ), but one day I witnessed someone injured there. It made me scared enough to stop going there. Maybe I should occasionally go to ice rinks as one of figure skating fans.

miyu wrote:

You can see Dai-chan's wonderful 3A around 5:40. It was really weightless.

Yes, it was weightless. And huge. I LOVE his 3A, and I told him so too, when I met him in person, in Goteborg.

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His off-ice outfit on thtat day was aslo very nice. Which do you like better, this or Takahashi-san's (<-I mean one in Korea.) ?? Hahaha.

He's wearing a white tie in that vid Very elegant indeed.

Thank you for the link, miyu!

miyu wrote:

Wmmm. So in Italy skating is very popular among ordinary people. I used to go to ice rinks when I was in elementray school (Loooooong time ago! ), but one day I witnessed someone injured there. It made me scared enough to stop going there. Maybe I should occasionally go to ice rinks as one of figure skating fans.

... maybe figure skating is not very popular, but there're not so many ice-rink and for example the one near my home is open for ordinary people only during the week-end... so there's aways a lot of people... I'm not an assiduous haunter of the ice-rinks... my friends always ask me how can I be a so big fan of figure skating and so incapable on skate ...

You can watch some of Rinkai Sports Center Charity Exhibition's performances on "Hope to the continuance of Rinkai Sports Center" site.

http://maido.rocket3.net/rinkai/event.asp


Direct video links of Dai-chan's performance and speech are below.

Opening
Hip Hop Swan Lake
Speech
(It seems sometimes these links don't work, please try again.)

Beatiful 3A and amaging skating with very high speed.
I hope their efforts will be rewarded.

Thank you, miyu.
Great performance by Daisuke!

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I hope their efforts will be rewarded.

I hope so, too...

This is a good news for Daisuke and Japanese skaters!!

http://maido.rocket3.net/rinkai/article.asp
(written in Japanese only, sorry, I don't have time to translate ...)


Rinkai Sports Center is going to be maintained until at least 2014, under the consideration of it's need for repair on a large scale.
If they will be able to improve an administraion on the aspect of benefit, they could continue to keep the icerink after 2014

It's wonderful that big efforts of Daisuke and everyone involved were rewarded in this way!! I appreciate, as a Japanese figure skating fans,
everybody who paid attentions and helped them.
Thank you

Thank you Yoshion. Very good news!!

Oh it's great! Thank you Yshion!

They'll have enough time till 2014 to come up with the ways to keep the rink open, or at least, I hope so. And yes, Daisuke should be proud of himself.

Oh, that's good to hear! Thanks for the news, Yshion!

WOW, good news!!
Thank you for the heads up, Yshion!
I wish it would be happen same thing to Daisuke's home rink in Kurashiki.

Thank you Yshion for letting us know a wonderful news!!

Leode wrote:

I wish it would be happen same thing to Daisuke's home rink in Kurashiki

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Yes, exactly.

Hi, wow, thanks very much for sharing this wonderful news with us, Yshion! Even though I am not Japanese, I am so glad to hear it. Daisuke must be so happy to hear about this too.

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I wish it would be happen same thing to Daisuke's home rink in Kurashiki.

Yes, I agree, but what happened here is a hopeful sign and a good step forward.

I also just noticed that it's swandie's birthday. So Happy Birthday if you see this, swandie!!

UMgal wrote:

I also just noticed that it's swandie's birthday. So Happy Birthday if you see this, swandie!!

Thanks, UMgal!

Happy Birthday, swandie!!

Thanks, Leode!

And so I don't totally throw this thread off topic...
Hopefully, more rinks will be allowed to remain open. They've also been talking about using this resin alternative to ice so that skaters can practice some moves. I hear it's not good for edge jumps and things like that.