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Geo1

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  1. @Perelandra please don’t burn my eyes out! I want to be able to see Yuzu’s next chapter!
  2. I agree with everything you said, except he’s not just a “once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon.” With his skating, personality, character, charisma, grace and beauty, he is a unicorn – a hypothetical ideal who actually exists. A skater the likes of whom no one has ever seen before and will never see again.
  3. This may not be that far fetched. Not only would Stephane happily welcome Yuzu with open arms, but there is a chance that Ghislain, who is very close to Stephane and regularly goes to Champery to work with him at his skating school as a guest coach, may be there during the relevant period.
  4. The article was written by Mansi Jain, a woman and a Fanyu. “Mansi Jain is a US Sports author for EssentiallySports. She has a Bachelor's degree in Multimedia and Mass Communication from the University of Delhi and has also previously interned for HT Media. She is always one mention of Yuzuru Hanyu away from delivering an hour-long speech about the athlete's legacy.”
  5. "What would you do if you were Yuzu?" That sounds familiar. A tongue-in-cheek song was made of another male Olympic gold medalist figure skater asking the same question about that skater: "What Would Brian Boitano Do?" Brian Boitano was the gold medalist male singles skater at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics and winner of the "Battle of the Brians", the other Brian being, of course, Brian Orser. Perhaps Miya should make a heartfelt song about Yuzu entitled, “WHAT WOULD YUZURU HANYU DO?”
  6. In the CBC commentary of Yuzu's free skate (Romeo and Juliet I) in the 2012 world championships, just before the fall, Kurt Browning said, "I spoke to him (Yuzu) during ice shows in Japan earlier this year and I asked him if he was an athlete or an artist and he said, 'I am an artistic athlete.'"
  7. I think that Yuzu will take a well-deserved rest at home. The last time he trained at the TCC in Toronto was March 2020. I am pretty sure that he is finished with the TCC as a training centre.
  8. Has this been posted already? Or is this what started the slut conversation?
  9. To understand why Shohei Ohtani is so popular, you have to understand that he is a unicorn in the sport of baseball just as Yuzu is a unicorn in figure skating. Just as Yuzu is a one-of-a-kind, never to be repeated type of skater, Shohei Ohtani is a one-of-a-kind, probably never to be repeated, type of ballplayer. For those of you who are not familiar with Shohei Ohtani, he was born on July 5, 1994, the same year as Yuzu, and is the same age (27) currently. He was also born in Tohoku, the region ravaged by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. I will put further details of why Shohei Ohtani is special under the following spoiler, for those of you who are interested. As the following video shows, Yuzuru Hanyu and Shohei Ohtani have mutual respect for each other. It is incredible that two amazing unicorns were born in the same year and in the same region of Japan to become the best in their respective sports. This is another video about Yuzu and Shohei. Apparently Shohei Ohtani was offered the People's Honor Award, but declined, saying that it was still too early for him – I.e., that he had not accomplished enough to deserve it. I wouldn't be too sure of that. Shohei Ohtani is tall, dark and handsome and has a lot of female fans. Edit: I put in the following spoiler a couple of short videos of what people are saying about Shohei Ohtani. One is a sports commentator and the other is a former MLB National League MVP and three-time All-Star. I wish that people were this honest and complimentary about Yuzu.
  10. I do not know whether it's the same satellite, but the biggest Pooh bear (or imitation Pooh bear) that I saw being thrown into the rink at a Yuzu performance, either live or on video, was at the 2019 Skate Canada International in Kelowna after his Otonal short program. We were at this competition and I noticed this Pooh because it was about as big as the fan who brought it there. I wondered if the fan was planning to throw it onto the ice and how she was going to do it. After the short program, the fan did drag the huge Pooh down to the boards and managed to get it over the boards and onto the ice. The only video I was able to find with this big Pooh is the one by "Beth S". You can see it lying on the ice at about 7:25. It was bigger than the girl who went to pick it up. I felt bad for the fan because Yuzu barely gave it a passing glance. While we're on the subject of Winnie the Pooh and Pooh rain, I will post this short video entitled "Reign of Pooh" by On Ice Perspectives which was filmed at the 2019 Skate Canada International in Kelowna. I love the soundtrack!
  11. Yuzu’s save of his 3A at the 2021 WTT looks like the illusion movement in gymnastics. Another extraordinary save was the initial quad Salchow in his FS at the 2014 World Championships in Saitama. Chris Howarth’s comments: “How he stayed on his feet…” “The skill of this guy… “Anyone else would be on his right ear.”
  12. I don’t know when he landed his first quad toe loop in practice, but he landed his first quad toe in competition as his first jump in his free skate at the 2010 NHK Trophy, his first senior competition. It was October 24, 2010. He was 15 years old.
  13. It is normal not to have quadruple jumps in ice shows. Quadruple jumps are competition level jumps and are risky at the best of times. They are even more difficult to do in a darkened rink under spotlights. The skaters performing in an ice show want to have clean performances. Nothing detracts from an ice show performance more than a fall. Therefore, even skaters who are used to doing quadruple jumps in competition will simplify their gala exhibition and ice show performances by using something less difficult instead to ensure an eye pleasing clean program. Yuzu is different. He has always challenged quads while skating competition level performances in his gala exhibitions and ice shows. It isn’t just quadruple jumps that are rare in gala exhibitions and ice shows. Doing a triple axel in a darkened rink under spotlights is a real challenge, but for Yuzu, this is like a walk in the park. Raising the age limit for senior competition is a totally different matter. I am not on top of this issue, but I suspect that this is in response to 15-year-old girls being burned out by the time they are 17 and being replaced by another batch of 15-year-old girls.
  14. I see that we both became fans of Yuzuru because of Sochi 2014 and that we have been members of Planet Hanyu since May 1, 2017. I cannot imagine the hardship that you and your family must have gone through as the result of the Great East Japan Earthquake. I sincerely hope that life has improved for you and your family since then. Did you see Ghislain at the Makuhari show on Saturday, May 28? Your English is perfectly fine. Please post more often!
  15. I think that I have been chastised for something that I said back in February, but I have no idea of what this person speaks since my damning comment has not been identified. May I ask, Sir or Mdm., what it is I said that caused your ire to rise to the point that you felt compelled to cast dispersions on me?
  16. Ghislain this morning at the airport on his way to Tokyo. Looking happy at the prospect of seeing (and, hopefully, speaking with) Yuzu.
  17. As everyone knows, Ghislain has been working with the Kinoshita Group in Kyoto this month. He is returning to Canada on May 29. There have been rumors that he may show up at one of the Fantasy on Ice shows. Although I am not at liberty to reveal the source of my information, I am able to say that Ghislain will be in the audience at the show on Saturday, May 28. I hope that Yuzu and his fans will acknowledge Ghislain’s presence and give him a very warm welcome. (I wonder whether the fans will be able to recognize him because he has lost so much weight!) I am also hoping that Ghislain will have an opportunity to meet and chat with Yuzu.
  18. Don’t worry, in a couple of days the crumbs will disappear and you will have the whole Yuzuru Hanyu, body and soul in all his glory…
  19. You were hibernating… Now you are awake and starving for Yuzu.
  20. I got a laugh when I received this Google Alert regarding a mention of Yuzuru Hanyu in an article about Shaun White and his actress girlfriend Nina Dobrev attending the red carpet premiere of Tom Cruise's Top Gun Maverick. It turned out that the mention of Yuzu is in the description of the author of this article which appears at the very end of the article: Mansi Jain is a US Sports author for EssentiallySports. She has a Bachelor's degree in Multimedia and Mass Communication from the University of Delhi and has also previously interned for HT Media. She is always one mention of Yuzuru Hanyu away from delivering an hour-long speech about the athlete's legacy. https://www.essentiallysports.com/us-sports-news-snowboarding-news-tom-cruise-glen-powell-top-gun-maverick-nina-dobrev-and-shaun-white-finally-make-their-red-carpet-debut-for-her-exs-movie-premiere/ This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].
  21. Yuzu has always aimed to be the complete package – the perfect balance of technical and artistic elements complementing each other. Now that he has won everything there is to win and has nothing more to prove, he has the luxury of skating the way he wants to – the way skating was meant to be. Patrick Chan once bemoaned that figure skating was becoming a slam dunk contest. By his use of the idiom “slam dunk” contest, I assumed that he meant that figure skating was becoming a contest decided solely by the number of quad jumps deemed to have been landed in a program and it appears that he was right.
  22. Just his Japanese and Chinese fans alone would account for most of the world tour ticket sales. They would be happy to follow him all over the world, especially the Japanese since tickets for the shows in Japan are almost impossible to get. If only he would come to Rogers Arena in Vancouver. It has seating for almost 19,000 Fanyus… Over twice the seating capacity of Makuhari Messe and almost three times the seating capacity of Prospera Place in Kelowna, the venue for 2019 Skate Canada International. Just imagine the Yuzu-Fest and Pooh-Palooza we would have with that many Fanyus in one place. That’s a lot of seats, but if one person can fill them, it’s Yuzu. Everybody else in the show is just a side dish.
  23. I am only paraphrasing the words of the commentator in the first video and a portion of Yuzu’s comments in the second video, and is not a proper translation. In the first video, the commentator is saying that the cameraman caught the moment of Yuzu injuring his right ankle during the practice before his free skate. Despite this injury, Yuzu was determined to compete in the free with the use of painkillers. In the second video, Yuzu is asked about his feelings after competing in these Olympics and he says please wait, turns his back to the camera and becomes emotional. When he faced the interviewer again, he said that honestly speaking he was kuyashi. He said he put in a lot of effort and suffered a lot. He honestly wondered whether he accomplished anything in these Olympics, but if people watching thought that there was something good in his skating, perhaps that was enough to justify his efforts.
  24. It was when @Hydroblade saw Yuzu in his formal kimono, haori and hakama that all resistance to Yuzu fell away and she found herself going down the Yuzu rabbit hole. The history of our Planet may have been different if @Hydroblade had not watched the Kohaku Uta Gassen that year…
  25. This was Ghislain yesterday morning in the Air Canada Lounge excitedly waiting for his flight to Tokyo. He will be working with Mie Hamada at the Kinoshita Academy in Kyoto until May 29. This is the link to the Kinoshita Academy. https://kinoshitaacademy.com/
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