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Wow, lucky satellites, potentially getting media day reveals on a Birthday!

I see you are in top form...

Nah he won't, he probably knows by now fans don't really buy it. Well okay, he probably didn't mean it, but totally unaware? Haha.....yes, and I'm totally a stuffed pooh tissue box.

Ah, taaango, I'm thinking tango or latin for SP. But for all we know, it could be the koi song.

Um, it could have been filmed earlier and just broadcasted on that date. But seriously, if it were just a bunch of practice videos from shows....it will be the greatest troll-heist ever.

The janitor overalls might be fine, he can probably make it look like runway wear. The fake moustache...ugh no. It'll probably be more like TCC practice, the triples and quads edition. Probably at some point, even steady Cha and Jason Brown will get involved. Poor TCC coaches-the shedding will be terrible. @Yatagarasu: I'm glad that our continuous effort to insert the idea of Tango+Zu has persuaded some people to the idea of Yuzu doing a tango or latin piece. Exceeeellleeeennnnt

True....but if you had to, would you rather Yuzu interpret Carmen, or Yuzu interpret Rooooxaaaannneee

I'm opposite...I can stand Tango de Roxanne, but might not forgive him for Carmen.

@Hydroblade That is precisely why I'm not worried about ever having to draw the quad ladies in the next 1-4 years. Heheee... Either that or Yuzu has decided it's clearly a way lure him out of the training cave/stealth mode, and has decided that he will not concede.

I'm not tempting fate, I'm making a very deliberate and calculated bet. It's unlikely he'll reveal he lurks here, assuming he does, and if he does it will probably be waay waay later after he r*****s.

Well if Yuzu ever drops a hint that he's been here, I might have to draw the quad ladies. *smiles knowing that the artistic skills will never have to be used*

Not sure if I would die laughing or crying if he really did create an anonymous account secretly just to debate stuff out in Gen Skating thread. What if he and I are diametrically opposed when debating over there?!

Some of the newer satellites probably missed the a) banners and boards and fan stuff we did back at ACI 2017; b) that our very own @Hydroblade put her l33t programming skills to work and made an interactive map where satellites and others could put Birthday wishes to him (and in the end we sent it to the TCC twitter).

Just watch him troll us by making us think that no news will happen until ACI....and then announce stuff the week or 2 weeks before that. new level of trolling....

In so far as skating is concerned, he is probably closest to what I would consider the living embodiment of figure skating. No more, no less. In terms as a person, he is a beautiful soul, regardless of what he is doing. A beautiful mind and soul that should be valued, praised, honored and for us to aspire to.

Hello there, we love you btw!

Uh guys...the 2 male skaters from Japan without 4CC golds, won the highest placements for Japanese men at the olympics. Maybe that's the tradeoff?

@MrPudding: you heard your mission as a mascot now-when flung, you must now rotate 4.5 times in the air and land on 1 foot in the audience.

Imagine your trajectory-high and floating like the glorious trajectory of his 3A. If you had arms as the mascot to squish his face, you'd have arms to cling to him to prevent being flung.

What's so hard here? Just be the mascot, and then magically squish his face when he bends it downwards to tie his sleeves.

You mean the traditional powerhouses are crybabies? XD Man, we need to see either China or japan just go and mess up that team podium. Can't wait for the reaction then...oh wait, that's why they want those segments, because it'll happen sometime by 2022-2026 eh? As for sponsors, aren't majority of the sponsors Japanese companies? Yet I don't see candies for Japanese skaters. So wonder which--oh wait, NBC.

That's the issue no? If everyone goes clean, it becomes far more subjective because the final determinate are GOE and PCS on the more subjective scale. What you mentioned about jumps: -Skater A: big jumps, less steps, assume effortless and clean. You can give the skater +3/4, for hitting the bullets other than complex steps into the jump. - Skater B: smaller jump w/complex steps, assume effortless and clean, again, +3 because the skater didn't hit the very good height and distance bullet. But essentially they're both the same type of scores. Sure, subjectively I might like skater A type jumps more, but ultimately, they both are showing mastery of a certain jump, just in different ways. I'm probably also on the boat that tech panel doesn't play enough of a role. Watching the JGP scores this week was....interesting. It's interesting to note that some of the cleaner jump techniques were coming from skaters who were from smaller feds or from lesser known coaches in larger feds.

Hmm, I don't have an issue with ice dance or dance as a sport. I think the issue with ice dance in general, and one that I really have with Broadmoor open (or the future artistic program style), is this: - If everyone goes clean, how will the top 6 be determined? With school/compulsory figures, judges and refs will actually go measure with tools and such. So it's possible to still have an objective standard. With ice dance, with training you can tell apart edge depths, and twizzle quality etc is something that can be seen (due to the stringent requirement of ice dance on basic SS). But I think in singles it's going to be harder-and here is where it gets worse. Let's say that guys decide to differentiate themselves by using harder jumps followed by transitions. Let's say skater A does a quad followed by 8.5/10 quality twizzles before and after. And skater B does a triple sandwiched between quality 9.5/10 twizzles. Who do I give the higher score to, skater B or A? Skater B had the higher quality twizzles sure, but skater A had the harder element to control. So do I say skater A or skater B is the better skater? If anything, that issue of linking PCs and the mystery quad buff on SS might get just hidden with the format.

His 3Lz didn't have anything very noticeable either when he trained 4Lz...nor his 3Loop when he had lady 4Loop waiting in the wings....

Um, did anyone record it? I think I might have missed Yuzu to watch JPG ladies >_> *waits to be kicked out of the Hanyu planetary system*