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How lucky to have Nobu there to witness it! I hadn't heard that before. Amazing, amazing boy!

I can give the gist of it for now. Obviously the first part is just explaining how difficult his 3A entry is and basics of how entry and exits into jumps affect score. Next part is Nobu sharing a "legendary episode." He said he was watching a 15 year old Hanyu practice and saw him do a beautiul quad and praised him along the lines of "omg that was super beautiful!" to which a young Hanyu replied "It was my first time tying (challenging) that today." Which Nobu couldn't believe because he said it took him 2-3 years of practice to get a quad. He said it was unbelievable and amazing.

Very last OT post, I SWEAR!

That guy was a local Ukrainian "comedian" trying to bring (more) shame upon us!

Thread please! Will be fun next year if we're all still alive!

i know. It's so embarrassing. I mean, we just all watched Eurovision and laughed at it but somehow they thought we were serious and offered us a place and it was too awkward by then to break it to them so we just accepted out of guilt. Now it seems we just send the most boring people possible in the hopes that they'll uninvite us. I'M SO SORRY!

Nice work, detective Hydroblade! Hmmm interesting... Even his reaction to mucking up his FS and losing to Nathan seemed too... rational, calm, and reasonable? Just a bit lathargic compared to his usual self.

No one is more Eurovision trash than us Australians. Though also we are too jaded and ironic to live. Better.

What was up with 4CC, by the way? I just watched fancam of Swanny McSwanface and he seemed off.

If it was SEIMEI, for sure, no problem, I can last 10 hours. Chopin? Bring me all the Chopin. All of it. But Il Volo. Over and over and over with the Il Volo. Also watching in chronological order with SC being my favourite. And the pain and kuyashii of 4CC.

Still too low.

Will they dare give it this season? They have to. They just have to...

I think it's the "someone gave this kid too much red cordial" one.

How even?!

Oh, ditto. The first thing I said when I saw him was "Wow, this is amazing! This is the greatest thing I've ever seen!I had no idea figure skating could be like this!" She said "He's very handsome." I said "Nah, I don't think so."

My mother just said she would burst into tears if she saw SEIMEI live. >_>

Yuzu broke physics with his delayed axel already so anything goes now. -_- Emancipate yourself, dear child.

My brain didn't even register it as a shirt, such is its hideousness! I thought shirt under gray jumper, for sure. Why would anyone design and then sign off on and then send to factory to have made and then receive sample and then say okay please put into production and then receive shipment and then put in shops and then recommend to skater and then WHY WOULD SKATER BUY/AGREE TO WEAR THIS?! Beautiful people can get away with hideous clothes, though, the lucky bastards.

My mother made me play every Notte Stellata video for an hour the first time she saw it. A goddamn hour! 60 minutes of non-stop swanning! It nearly killed me. I nearly killed a swan. Thank god that delayed axel purifies my soul every time I see it. She's now trying to Chopin-bomb all her friends and relatives. I feel so proud.

How have I not seen this fancam before? Super clear seal-breaking move at the end. Aaron M, I luff you.

Oh yay yeah thanks! So it was NHK Special EX not ice show. I feel so lucky to have all these savant fans who can pull these things out in a split second. ETA: So he actually said Yuzu would be the one to jump all quads. Well of course he as to do it, right? And be the first one to do it.

I didn't even notice the star had been kept from the ice show version until all those HD flashbacks during open practice news. (I also kind of forgot this past year to wear my glasses until recently, though.)

I kind of just assumed, tbh (though who knows if 4F is included.) Plushenko said in front of him at that ice show table talky time that some guy would come along who could jump all 5 quads (then Yuzu would jump quad axel.) How could he let that slide? His notice-me-sempai game is strong. (Link to video, please, if anyone knows. I can't remember where it lives.)

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