Kizuna

NOOOOOOOOO my golden girl. hope everything will be okay.

seems like Marin can hardly do triples anymore. She doesn't even have a lutz anymore either. And what happened to Sara Honda? Man, Honda sisters...

Now I'm imagining Yuzu reading his own ISU bio and going like, 'This information seems a bit out of date. Let me clean up this club information, gotta give some props to my sponsor. Oh, gotta add my beloved Sendai to my training base too. Ehh, this seems out of place. Let me update the coach order and choreographer order too, although they're the same group of people. Didn't miss out anything, did I? Guess not, this looks better now. Let me update the ISU on these changes.'

such dedication to his job. Amazing.

Kaori's spiral into Kaori entry 3Lo is usually one of the main highlights of her programs for me, but it felt pretty meh to me in this program. Maybe it's the placement of the 3Lo that doesn't make it look impressive? She also didn't get that much GOE on it. Maybe it should be moved to after the ChSq. I also didn't like the posing after the sit spin. hoping that Kaori will reconsider and return to The Piano.

Sorry that I can't translate it, but I found it hilarious that Yuzu's voice tone changed and he started speaking extremely enthusiastically when talking about his beloved earphones Basically, he's nerding out about his earphones towards the end. He also mentions something about the small movements when skating such as the movements up to the fingertips and way of breathing etc which can affect the beauty of the performance. This reminds me of a video of a ballet dancer (?) reviewing Yuzu's Olympic SP and saying that Yuzu's breathing at the end of the program was beautiful as he properly completed his program ending pose before starting to breathe again.

Clip of Kaori's FP at The Ice 2021. https://www.instagram.com/p/CUAdEUcpFw4/

I like how this isn't the only time this has happened, this happened in a Japanese newspaper too, didn't it? Promo video for the Beijing Olympics

Ehhh... I'm surprised I thought Yuzu's size (40.5 EU / UK size 7) was on the small side for a man. All my male friends have sizes of UK 9 (EU 43) and above. My own feet (tiniest compared to all women I know) are a UK 3.5 (EU 36) and is the smallest size available on the Adidas website in my country

so precious! Haru-chan: Here, Haru will wipe your tears Hana-chan: No, that was the choreography...

Perhaps just trying on the costume is not good enough to judge how it would look during a performance so I will reserve some judgement on that, but I think I have the same issue with Rika's dress and last season's FP, which is that she sees no problems with it. I wonder if she has seen her Titanic performance. I hope she reviews her performance and makes some adjustments with the costume.

I'm not sure if you have seen her Titanic costume yet as I recall you saying you haven't watched her program yet, but I think most of us on the DoI thread were not particularly fond of the dress. It has a heavy look and hides her movements. To think that she chose the design for this costume without hesitation and her saying that she really likes the design... And then there was last season's FP where she chose the music herself too...

... I'm starting to have questions about Rika's artistic taste...

What's with the 'kawaii ' in super deep Hanyu voice and super serious face

I'm TenChi-sama who does not take it directly, but waits for someone to share it with me

... We're having another ISU Skating Awards?

"Yuzuru Hanyu is the only active figure skater across all disciplines to win more than six medals at the World Championships (seven in total)." Man, am I so proud to be a Yuzu fan.

I did not just rewatch his programs a gazillion times just to submit my guesses Sorry but I could never have guessed some of them without rewatching. And I'm still not sure of some of them. gambarimashita.

This was really hard! I ended up guessing most of them based on the hand poses and winging the rest of them...

I did get the feeling especially during SOI that Yuzu was testing waters with his SP style to see how well the audience would receive it. During the opening he channelled LMEY and later performed LGC. As I've said before, I wouldn't even rule out that he was maybe considering recycling LGC. He probably does know that he gets scored well with piano pieces but I think he is also aware that Nate also gets praised for his 'modern' program styles that somehow appeal to the judges, so perhaps he was using this season as an opportunity for experimenting this rocker style before actually deciding on a program next season. Anyway, all this is just the feeling I get from watching him.

Thank you @sweetwaterさん! Ahh, so now we know where Yuzu gets his lovely halo from.

Downloads over 22K now, and I tried to check the download numbers for other papers and...

Yeah, I'm pretty skeptical as well precisely because he's never skated it clean but I'm just throwing it out there into the Hanyuverse Nah, I'm mostly just kidding, he probably won't, but... he also skated Chopin at FaOI 2017

Now watch Yuzu bring back LGC for Olympic season.