^ Actually those pictures Masa put up are from the single release event on 11/27 that Miichan originally said she'd do the backflip for.
I think that Miichan is one of the best dancers in AKB48... there's no doubt about it~
I understand and acknowledge that she has tried her best to train for her back flip...
However, that flip with the support of the trainer was something I did not expect from Miichan.
I can see it coming from Kojiharu or Acchan... but not from Miichan. I hope to see her do it on her own
at a concert soon!
Technically, she
did perform a backflip, which is what she promised. The coach felt she wasn't entirely ready to perform the backflip on her own however, thus the support. If you read an article about it (or seen news clips or watch the AKBINGO ep on Dec.02 [I'm assuming that the footage will be in it, since at the time I'm writing this I haven't seen it yet]), it'll show that Miichan was in tears by the end of the song because she was unable to do the backflip on her own. She
did say that she'd keep practicing though and would like to perform it on her own some day.
Personally, I have to applaud Miichan for being able to do a backflip even with support. Two weeks (or more) of training may be enough, but only if that were the
only thing you were doing. With all the promotion going on with the new single and whatever else she had to do, who knows how much time she actually had to practice?