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i hope this is the right thread for this... russian junior championsip is fast approaching! i'm personally rooting for alena kostornaia, love her skating a lot i was just rewatching her sp & fs performance from the start of this season and watching back to back like that just makes me realize how fast she is growing both in the technical and performance side! (watching her performance from last season feels like watching a whole different person, was she injured then?) her spin from the start of this season is slower? she also had some troubles with it bc of nerves, i think. but now its lovely, fast and quite centered her lutz at nationals had a right edge! *cries* may this trend continues. her interpretation grew as well, my favorite is her fs at nationals. that was sublime (probably because there was no pressure). i also love how in adios noninos she held the layback ina bauer longer than before. when most ladies do it my reaction usually was like, 'there was an attempt', but i love hers. i also love her rippons highlighting the combo jumps. welp this turns into me solely gushing about alena oh well is she practicing any quad like sasha? will she stay in junior next season? i'm really looking forward to how she will grow.

i know exactly what you're talking about and i agree. its sad though isnt it, that everytime an analysis about technical content or literally just counting corssovers which ppl can see for themselves, ppl dont want to talk about them. Granted this one's calculation is hilariously bad. but still. i find numbers, statistics, and the technical side of skating fascinating. so imagine my surprise when i found out that discussing these things need to be a bit hush hush. but eh whatever i guess.

....Brian was the one who rein him in and not go all out for FS practice in Helsinki n to just trust his training, bc he tends to overdo it when he's frsutrated. he left him alone directly after his sp bc he needs to tend to javi, bc he was going to skate. not when yuzu was practicing. edit: anyway, sorry for being harsh but i dont like this insinuation that brian n tracy obviously favors javi etc etc. even when ppl probably dont mean it to be a bad thing. but im. tired. of this conversation happening, again, and again. and again. especially not now. im cranky.

no worries i think it was just my connection its all fine now!

this is a great idea! the only problem is that i cant leave a message bc the window that was said to appear didnt appear and i cant find the save button so i cant save the mark either i see there was a lot of people already though, so good luck to others~

All this reveal is that he apparently remember how 'thank you' in korean is pronounced, AND remember enough about korean alphabet to write it down, which is surprising to me lol he is so sweet

Did he write the japanese pronounciation of it? lol (Kamusamunida) its cute tho, n now i wonder if he actually memorizes the korean alphabet

I want to see his handwriting in other language (the thank you in Russian was cute) That pooh abomination.... I cant unsee it omg

So many tears were shed (thought dai was third, turns out he was fourth oops) Nationals this year will be watched by many, i hope yuzu can perform his best!

Thanks! I wish we have extensive database history for this thing lol which makes me think, how the hell max ambessi can just pulls off random fact at the top of his hat every time something happened, does he actually have a database or is he just that much of an fs nerd

Eh wait i dont remember if his win at gpf that year overtake Patrick or not.... (Just that Dai was third, i think)

I logged back in n ppl are seriously wondering if 'jsf favoring other skater' would mean yuzu not going to make oly..... when there are 3 spots..... This is so bizzare lmao Also, he wasnt no 1 in world standings going to sochi either so it literally does not matter (he didn't even skate sp in the last group....)

Ummmmmmm it is not confirmed that their team pay the rink to rent it out (although the odds is... err). It is just speculation, please dont spread it as a fact GPF 2016 was such a disaster n if it's true that skaters had to share rooms bc some problems arise from lack of money or something... then, yikes.... Hope tdf this year is better

He looks sad.... His laugh, that resigned laugh... is this saying the same thing like in the news article?

bc he is registered on the entry list for nhk. patrick is replaced by keegan messing

their take of 'serious injury' is the last one in boston so.... i dont know what to think, for now im gonna take it as not as bad, and that it can heal before nationals, but not as light either edit: i mean, he still insisted to compete, up until they take him to the hospital and the doctor told him not to, which kind of forces him to wd....

i was thinking his TCC team but idk if they check twitter often, but nobu is a good idea too

that is a really good idea to show our support! we could also tag someone close to him who has social media

is it too late to hope for a new wa-inspired exhibition program? he could perform it 3 times in japan this season (nhk, gpf, nats), and perform notte stellata 3 times too (rtc, oly, worlds) i just really want him to perform with fan again lol (like that time team japan had great choreography for group ex on wtt, yes i disilike ppap, fight me )

oh noooo he said he'll be at nhk just a few days ago.... hopefully it's not bc of injury (had a feeling something's not quite right since he wd from nebelhorn ) gpf men prediction becoming more and more open....

I think i saw otabek's fanart doing that in my tl wow

It almost has 100k likes omg, its gone viral edit: scratch that, the other tweet has like 170k likes holy crap

I guess its easier to blame the music, instead of, you know, whatever happened on the ice back then.... (Kinda sad that ppl always said its the same as the chopin before, bc to me the interpretation is really different lol but eh whatever, like, some (top) skaters skate always the same even with different music)

like i said in the men sp thread, its not the recycling, not even the lack of clean-ness, its the ur it killed the ladies too lmao

he's not a judge tho, he's on the tech panel....