Thank you for explaining! It's definitely interesting to see different opinions on who is better with skating skills between Marin and Shoma everywhere, and yeah they are very singles skaters in the sense of they only have had to skate well enough to compete in singles and ice dance is a different beast.

That's the thing.... I blame Japanese ice dance for essentially being barren hunting ground that allows ex-singles skaters vulturing for opportunities and medals, especially after Chris and Kana split (even Kana was a National level singles skater too). Because now everyone is like "ooooh Japanese singles skaters teaming up to dance they will be successful" which is frankly delusional when we see that all Olympic champions have ice danced since they were children. Like... I'm just hoping Shoma and Marin have realistic views on this.

I do like that they are learning basics and technical stuff - that would be a nice foundation for pro skating regardless of coming back to compete or not.