yuzuangel

OMG! lol!!

Can you try again? I looked at our tmp folder and it seems like there's nothing much in it right now. And I clicked edit on your post and there's no more error unlike before. So maybe this time it will work? To anyone, if you get the error code again, can you point me to where you get it? Then I can try to pinpoint the source of the error. Maybe it's the tmp folder not clearing itself frequently enough. If I can recreate the error or check as soon as we get an error it will be easier to see...

omg awk you think he practiced that in front of the mirror

well well well... also: did nathan officially make the team or what?

He could take a part time course load...most schools will allow you to take literally forever to graduate if you have a good reason. I have a friend who literally took every other year off of school for no real reason and she's graduating 4 years late but she's still graduating. And I have some friends who took off 2-3 years for work and that's fine too. They might not give you financial aid for all those years, but he doesn't need it... He *could* delay matriculation as well, but I can see him doing that for 1-2 years and not for a whole 4+ years. But based on other factors, I highly doubt, given his current strategy, that he's aiming for a long-term career, but I could be wrong. As we can see with Polina Edmunds, frosh year of college is literally the best time of your life. Having to balance that with skating will probably prove to be a challenge for all but the most motivated skaters...

3turns are hard...i'm still working on them

I'm going rollerblading this weekend, I'm so excited...

It's totally fine, it's the system's fault But it's fixed now!

oh thanks hahahahhahahaha

It's not just you, it's a bug -.-; one second

Hello @asahi Welcome to Planet Hanyu! We aren't opening threads for individual skaters because that's not what our forum is for and we won't have the manpower to moderate them. But we do have threads where you can post about all other skaters, including one for Shoma and the rest of Team Japan. I've moved the posts there (well, here now). Thank you for your cooperation!

i think i missed this joke @robin @Hydroblade please explain

I think most people have a preferred orientation, i.e. counterclockwise or clockwise. That's why some skaters jump CCW and some skaters jump CW...it applies to things like crossovers and 3-turns too...and going backwards makes it even harder!

Amazing! You really capture his expressiveness here

I have a poster of the first one on my fridge... So probably not new

Clockwise backwards crossovers were by far the hardest for me...I couldn't really do them even after skating (casually tho) for a year. The thing that really forced me to learn them was that they were the entry to my spins...

Spot, yes, is pretty much guaranteed but momentum for OGM is important too.

This is so unfair to Zhenya. Not just her injury, injuries are always unfair, but how much RusFed is pushing the other girls' PCS as if she's expendable, and they can just replace her. Well, I guess to them any skater is expendable if she's not winning. Alina's PCS rise is meteoric, unprecedented...it's totally unfair. While I personally think many skaters' PCS are inflated, Zhenya has spent two entire years working for hers. Two seasons of being undefeated except one competition. More clean competitions than not. And she has been working on and improving on her presentation even though her PCS was rising anyway. It's not fair that because it's Olympic season Alina can get all of that so fast. She hasn't even skated a clean short in a while. I like Alina mostly because her jumps are my favorite of the Russian ladies, but I have a feeling if she wins she will be another Adelina and retire immedidately whereas I don't feel that way about Zhenya.

Thank you! This was hilarious because yuzu wasn't actually there so...in his place they used a cardboard cutout of him

omg i love this picture! he looks so good

same.......

Thank youuuuu

Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier (Canada) source Piper Gilles used to compete for the United States but switched to Canada to partner with Paul Poirier. They won 3rd at this year's Autumn Classic International. Piper has an older brother who competes in Ice Dance and a twin sister who competes in singles, and Paul has siblings who play hockey. Short Dance: Bossa Cubana Gopher Mambo Free Dance: "Stolen Hearts," the theme from Perry Mason by Fred Steiner Smokey Sax This season's results: Competition Placement Cup of Russia 4th Last season's results: Competition Placement World Championships 8th Four Continents 6th Skate Canada 3rd Trophée de France 3rd Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu (China) source Shiyue and Xinyu are this year's Asian Winter Games champions and Cup of Nice silver medalists. They also placed 7th at this year's Finlandia Trophy. Shiyue started skating when she was 6 and Xinyu started skating at 4 years old. They began training together in 2013 and represented China at Worlds last year, where they placed high enough to quality one dance team to the Pyeongchang Olympics. They then represented China at the World Team Trophy shortly afterwards. Shiyue and Xinyu's choreographers include Pasquale Camerlengo and Anjelika Krylova. Short Dance: Rhumba: Despacito Free Dance: Over My Shoulder Happy Ending This season's results: Competition Placement Cup of China 6th Last Season's Results: Competition Placement Worlds 16th Four Continents 7th Cup of China 6th Skate Canada 9th Isabella Tobias / Ilia Tkachenko (Israel) source Isabella used to compete for Georgia and Lithuania. She also danced for seven years with the American School of Ballet. Ilia used to compete for Russia. They teamed up in 2014 to compete for Israel. Isabella represented Lithuania with partner Deividas Stagniūnas in 2014 at the Sochi Olympics, where she placed 17th. With her old partner, they also won a bronze medal at Skate America in 2011. In 2017, Isabella got married to Samuel Lites, who plays hockey for the NHL Detroit Red Wings. With his old partner Ekaterina Riazanova, Ilia won silver at the 2010 Trophée Eric Bompard and bronze at 2012 Skate Canada. Short Dance: Shape of You by Ed Sheeran She Will Be Loved by Rhythms Delmundo Fire Ball by Pitbull Free Dance: Samson et Delilah by Camille Saint-Saens Last Season's Results: Competition Placement World Championships 12th Europeans 4th Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte (Italy) source Anna and Luca are the 2014 World Champions, only the second team from Italy to win the World Championships in ice dance. In the same year, they also won the European Championships. They also competed at Worlds seven other times and won three more silver medals at Europeans and one bronze. In 2015, Cappellini married pair skater Ondrej Hotarek, who skates with Valentina Marchei. Anna and Luca competed at the 2014 Sochi Olympics for Italy, placing 6th. They are the six-time reigning Italian national champions. They are also this year's Minsk Arena Ice Star champions. Short Dance: Kaboom performed by Ursula 1000 Skip to the Bip performed by Club des Belugas 1008 Samba Free Dance: La Vita e Bella (soundtrack) by Nicola Piovani This season's results: Competition Placement NHK Trophy 3rd Last Season's Results: Competition Placement World Championships 6th Europeans 2nd NHK Trophy 3rd Skate Canada 4th Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed (Japan) source Kana and Chris are the 2016 and 2017 Japanese national champions. They are also the 2017 Asian Winter Games silver medalists. Kana started skating in 1998 and competed in singles up throughout the 2013-2014 season before switching to ice dance. As a singles skater, she won the silver medal at the 2011 Triglav Trophy. Chris used to compete in ice dance with his sister Cathy Reed, and they were seven-time Japanese national champions. Chris also competed with Cathy for Japan at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, placing 17th, and the 2014 Sochi Olympics, placing 21st. Kana and Chris teamed up in 2015 and train in Michigan with coaches Marina Zueva, Oleg Epstein, and Massimo Scali. They competed at the 2017 Nebelhorn Trophy and won the silver medal, securing a spot for at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics and a tentative spot for Japan in the Team Event. They also won the bronze medal at this year's US Classic International. Short Dance: Cha Cha: I Like It Like That by Pete Rodriguez Rhumba: Mondo Bongo by Joe Strummer Samba: Batucada de Sambrasil by Estudios Talkback Free Dance: The Last Emperor (soundtrack) by Ryuichi Sakamoto Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence by Ruyichi Sakamoto This season's results: Competition Placement NHK Trophy 9th Last Season's Results: Competition Placement World Championships 23th Four Continents 9th Skate Canada 4th Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov (Russia) source With former partner Ruslan Zhiganshin, Victoria was the 2012 World Junior Champion. With former partner Elena Ilinykh, Nikita was the 2014 Olympic bronze medalist and Olympic gold medallist in the team event. Victoria and Nikita teamed up in 2014, and their former partners teamed up as well. Victoria's father and aunt both competed as gymnasts. Nikita started off skating in men's singles, but struggled with jumps and turned to ice dance. Victoria and Nikita are the reigning Russian Championships bronze medalists. They are also this year's Minsk Arena Ice Star bronze medalists. Free Dance: Piano Concerto No. 2 Op. 18 by Sergei Rachmaninov This season's results: Competition Placement NHK Trophy 4th Last Season's Results: Competition Placement World Championships 10th NHK Trophy 5th Cup of China 4th Tiffany Zagorski / Jonathan Guerreiro (Russia) source Jonathan is a two-time World Junior medalist with his former partners Ekaterina Riazanova and Ekaterina Pushkash. Tiffany is originally British and first moved to France to skate for France before teaming up with Jonathan and moving to Russia to skate for Russia. She received Russian citizenship in 2015. In 2012, Tiffany acted in a French comedy detective film as a "Je fais le mort" in the role of a figure skater. Jonathan was born in Austrlia, and his mother once competed in Ice Dance for the Soviet Union. They were once coached by Alexander Zhulin, but switched coaches in May 2017 to Elena Kustarova and Svetlana Alexeeva. They placed 2nd at this year's Ice Star in Minsk, Belarus. Short Dance: Samba: Hip Hip Chin Chin performed by Club des Belugas Rhumba: Volveras performed by Gloria Estefan Samba: Batucada Brasiliera performed by Samba Brazilian Batucada Band Free Dance: Exogenesis Symphony Part III by Muse Exogenesis Symphony Part II by Muse Ruled by Secrecy by Muse This season's results: Competition Placement Cup of China 4th Last Season's Results: Competition Placement Cup of Russia 5th Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker (United States) source Kaitlin and Jean-Luc are the 2014 World Junior Champions and the 2013 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalists. Kaitlin also has two brothers who play hockey. They teamed together in 2012 after both Jean-Luc and Kaitlin first competed in singles. Jean-Luc is also interested in martial arts and has a black belt in taekwondo. In 2015, Jean-Luc suffered a concussion after Kaitlin accidentally hit him with her swinging arm and was off the ice for two weeks. Jean-Luc's mother competed in ice dance at the Olympics representing Great Britain, and his father competed in pairs internationally. They are this year's US Classic International silver medalists. Short Dance: Samba: Get Busy by Sean Paul Rhumba: Soha Mil Paso by Isabelle & Felicien Samba: Fire Ball by Pitbull Free Dance: Liebestraum arranged by Maxime Rodriguez This season's results: Competition Placement Skate Canada 4th Last Season's Results: Competition Placement Skate Canada 6th NHK Trophy 4th Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani (United States) source Maia and Alex Shibutani are three-time World medalists (silver in 2016, bronze in 2011 and 2017). They are also the 2016 Four Continents champions and four-time Grand Prix series champions. They are also the 2016 and 2017 U.S. national champions. They competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics and placed 9th. They are coached by Marina Zueva and her group in Canton, Michigan. The siblings enjoy taking part in choreographing their own programs and regularly blog/vlog for the USFS. They won the only medal for the United States at the 2017 World Championships. This season's results: Competition Placement Cup of Russia 1st Last Season's Results: Competition Placement World Championships 3rd Four Continents 2nd Grand Prix Final 3rd Skate America 1st Cup of China 1st Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons (United States) source The Parsons swept the junior circuit last year and are the reigning World Junior champions and Junior Grand Prix Final champions. They also won gold at four Junior Grand Prix events and six other Junior Grand Prix circuit medals in total. They are this year's Ondrej Nepela Trophy silver medalists. Rachel teamed up with her older brother Michael in 2010. This is their first year on the senior circuit. Short Dance: Rhumba: Mambo Molly by Mambo Molly Slow Rhumba: Everybody'S Got To Learn Sometime by Zuchero Mambo: Congo Crazed by Mambo Molly Free Dance: Ghost Dances: La Partida by Victor Jara Sikuriadas by Inti Illimani Quiaquenpita by Inti Illimani This season's results: Competition Placement Cup of Russia 7th