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  1. xeyra
    To add up to the previous post, Wakaba's post-FS interview translation.
  2. xeyra
    I like to buy clothes made of fabrics and in styles that don't need ironing....
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    You're right, I just found it amusing to think Nathan was trolling people with that impossible layout but it seems dumb in retrospect. However, doing 4Lo at his first competition is a smart strategy. Because introducing the 4Lo only makes sense if it's to eventually do 7 quads, no matter how much they're 'ah that's crazy' and 'we'll see'. It's going to get that USA media tongue wagging all season, that's for sure. And for starters we have the icenetwork article with Max Aaron doing good PR work on Nathan and even his 4Lz4T!
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    Wait, really? I take it back, USA media sucks even harder than Japanese.
  5. xeyra
    Do they do this with Gracie/Ashley? Or did? I guess it is common then, after all.
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    It's like they can't be happy for both their skaters and root for both. Gotta compare, compare, compare. Oh he has a more difficult layout! He got a better score at the beginning of the season! Oh he can't keep up with the younger generation! I don't see US media doing this about Nathan and Vincent, for example. At all.
  7. xeyra
    I remember when Patrick's planned layout for 4CC (or was it Worlds) had him planning to Zayak, apparently.
  8. xeyra
    Japan...... Nathan has a 4Lo. It's not going to be Hanyu Shoma is gonna need to focus on to defeat... it's gonna be Nathan too!
  9. xeyra
    I know. I didn't take the planned layout seriously and they're usually all wrong anyway. But I wouldn't put it past his team's strategy to mess up on it on purpose.
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    Preferably subbed! I hope.
  11. xeyra
    Nathan's strategy for US Classic was obviously to debut the program, try it out in public for the first time, and get a base PCS score that should grow over time even as he adds in more quads. At the same time, he's playing an interesting intimidation strategy where his planned layout has lots of difficult quads (in this case even had 9 jumps instead of 8 lol) and doesn't match his performed layout so you never know what'll come out that day and thus can't as easily prepare your strategy against it. I wonder how many he'll do for Japan Open in direct competition to Shoma, who will be doing 5 for sure.
  12. xeyra
    What a what? Dis gunna be good... But he looks like a school boy or flight attendant in that getup...
  13. xeyra
    Wakaba Higuchi's post-SP interview translation by cantilover
  14. xeyra
    Shoma Uno: Lombardia Trophy Post-SP Interview - Translated by @cantilover
  15. xeyra
    Of those who've been around for a while, who was it who said (and to whom) that Yuzu was the one who was going to break this scoring system? I think Yuzu was still 17-18 back then. I remember reading something like this but don't remember the source or where I read it.
  16. xeyra
    Cuuuuute.
  17. xeyra
    Wait, since when is USA the underdog in anything?
  18. xeyra
    Supposedly getting rid of anonymous judging should have helped curb some things but I'm not sure it did anything other than make it more transparent to the informed skating fan the political tint of certain scorings. LOL at the examples given by the skating protocol instagram on Ice Dance.
  19. xeyra
    Yeah, pretty much the corridor judging is basically trained into them, then.
  20. xeyra
    I would one day really like to see a scoring sheet giving 7.5 on SS but 9 on IN... Or alternatively, 9.50 in SS but 8 in PE, for example. That'd be fun.
  21. xeyra
    You know, on one hand, there's something to admire about someone who gets the job done as best they can despite pain or poor physical condition. On the other, I feel like I want to strangle athletes who risk their bodies like that. I'm afraid I'm one of those people who found Yuzu doing the FS at COC seriously reckless instead of admirable and I'm happy that made ISU change some guidelines surrounding similar circumstances. I'm glad I wasn't around back then to witness it.
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    Yeah, agreed. There's only so much you can underscore a clean Yuzu (like the Mexican judge who gave 0 to the 3A at 4CC, I hope that one got rammed at the Judges review, though I doubt it) but I do think any little bit of missed GOE he should have probably received will weigh more this season when BVs are rising.
  23. xeyra
    I wouldn't trust the American and Canadian feds judges too much either. They're not likely to be any more generous to Yuzu.
  24. xeyra
    Good, because otherwise Brian might pass out from keeping up with his skaters and Tracy will be a calming influence on everyone.
  25. xeyra
    Well, asthma attacks are not exactly something he can control, and it's not like he wasn't taking care of his health this past season just because of that, so all in all 2017 Worlds was really his best condition!
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