Rena Inoue
Rena Inoue
Rena Inoueis a Japanese-born American pair skater. With partner John Baldwin, she is the 2004 and 2006 U.S. National Champion. Inoue previously competed for Japan as both a single skater and pair skater. Inoue and Baldwin are the first skaters to perform a throw triple axel in competition...
backward takes
It is more complicated because he takes off backward and I have to take off forward.
exactly felt worked
It felt fantastic, it worked out exactly how I pictured it.
fantastic felt
It felt fantastic, just what I wanted. It's a fantastic feeling.
air control easier fact fantastic happened matter threw
It just happened to be just the way we wanted -- just the way we pictured that we wanted to do out there. This is a fantastic feeling. As a matter of fact he threw me really, really well so it was a little easier to control up in the air and land.
finally
I wanted to do something special, something no one else could do. We finally did it.
bad definitely hard looked nationals program saw took tried
Our long program at nationals was definitely better than today's, but still it wasn't that bad when we looked at the monitors and saw our elements. I took a hard fall, but I got up and got going and tried to put it behind.
forget
Forget it. This is not going to work.
until
You just keep working on it until you get it.
accomplish exciting goal reached team
We have a lot more we want to accomplish. Our team has a lot more to do and have not reached our top. It was exciting to accomplish our goal this year.
came definitely glad harder short stuff work
We're glad we came here. We got a lot of stuff out of this competition. We had some improvements in the short program. In the long, definitely the (U.S. championships) was a lot better, but we're just going to work harder when we get home.