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same! it really adds to his appeal. thanks yuzu, the day you get instagram will be the day i

I haven't had many different boots, and most of them were risport (which actually don't seem so popular) because my old coach probably was a Risport dealer. i had a risport rf3 which i later lost (my luggage got lost in boston... ) and then i got the royales which i think got discontinued and replaced with these. i started out with jackson mystiques but they're like a step above rental boots. not much of a rocker on the skate to spin and definitely not enough support for jumps IMO. anyway, my experience was the the rf3s took a long time (maybe 24 hours of skating) to break in and were really painful while they were breaking in. in comparison, the royales were not painful at all to break in for some reason. but i have weird feet, so...idk. i actually need to retie my laces every time after warming up before i could do jumps bc they're never snug enough the first time around. (this could also be a psychological thing.) they're supposed to be for doubles/triples but they're not actually that stiff to me, and i'm only doing single i know they say not to overboot though, buuttt i also don't want to buy $500+ boots every two years. the worst part about going from those premounted boots -> actual boots is the toe pick. getting used to where it is. i've had so many terrible falls when first breaking in the boots where i'm just going forward and bam, toepicked the ice. it's really embarrassing

holy shit!!!!! i wanna buy that

bb

This costume makes him literally look like an anime. Sometimes I can't even tell.

damn, upper left bb yuzu had so much potential!!

hmm I guess for me a slight twist at my waist gives me about 120-160 degrees of vision (if looking straight forward is 0 degrees). If everyone is going CCW then you can see everyone sort of in front of you to make sure you don't run into them. Another way to describe it might be that you can see everything inside your circle, if you are going on a curve. have you tried pushing and gliding on one foot around the rink until you're more comfortable doing it? you can also do it on a circle.

so very true!

how...used?

thanks, i have merged them

this is definitely something i tried when i first started skating and even though it looks easy (cuz it's like, so easy to do going forwards), it's actually ridiculously difficult! but it's one of those things that, you never really need to spend time practicing, you just skate, and after a while you go back and do it and you realize you can do it fine now. lol. and 3-turns. hm. those are pretty killer. they look so easy but they're ridiculously hard, especially the ones that you hardly use (i.e. left inside 3-turn). when i first learned it i learned to do a 3-turn by turning your shoulders, but you're supposed to actually turn from the lowering/rising of your knees apparently, and now it's a hard habit to break (the turning/checking with your shoulders thing). hm crossovers. weirdly enough my forward counter clockwise crossovers are not my best ones (even though they're the ones you do the most). my backwards counter clockwise crossovers are by far the most natural crossovers. like if i'm skating backwards, counter clockwise, i will naturally do crossovers without thinking, but i have to force myself to do them when going forwards. i also feel unstable. 20 minutes of crossovers sounds exhausting. crossovers are definitely aerobic workout...haha. but ... maybe i should do it too. and toe loop...well, i'm only starting to get the timing of the toe loop. compared to waltz and salchow, it's not easy to me at all. my upper body doesn't seem to want to rotate at the same time as my lower body. i always end up twisted and it prevents me from rotating and also landing correctly. it didn't help that i used to do a "toe-waltz" jump where i would pick the same way as a flip/lutz (directly behind rather than across and behind) so that was another habit i had to break. actually mayyyyyybe all the most difficult elements are the ones where i carried over some bad habits. it helped to jump the toe loop off ice more and the floor at my rink is kind of rubbery so it's very bouncy so sometimes you want to do a single and then you suddenly do 1.5-2 revolutions or something lol. and spins... don't get me started. one day it works and another day it totally doesn't and you have NO idea why!! honestly, everything in figure skating is hard! and frustrating! but as is the nature of the sport, i guess. it makes it VERY obvious whether you're doing something right or wrong, at least to a degree compared to other sports. you either fall on your face or you don't! (on the other hand, figure skating requires a level of precision that most other sports do not. there's almost always something you're doing wrong with any move, sadly.) and it is very addicting, especially if you're addicted to progress, because figure skating also makes it very obvious when you're progressing. you're like "well i couldn't land a toe loop last week but now i can!" so it's definitely a double edged sword i'm glad we have so many skaters here actually, we can update each other on our progress!

LOL, i finally get it now... also, wow, did yuzu throw shade back at patrick? well played...

why not?! this is happy news for me lol, these interviews are so abstract but i'm so happy, this couldn't be a better interview. he sounds so positive and confident and analytical and i trust him.

yeah they put the watermark right on his face sometimes ahh i just love this photo

another kimono photo, source unknown (i found it on pinterest) hello! (source. a lot of yuzu photos here ) just adorable! (x)

this thread is majorly cute

I see what you mean, but I think @gladi @Yatagarasu @meoima have some plans for building out some of the subforums, particularly knickknacks, igloo world, the two competitions forums, and skating references...

i do i wish it was easier, but there are SO few rinks around me that it's really hard to go skating often unless you dedicate a lot of time, or money, or both to it. especially if you don't drive...

look at disss

Yuna looks gooorrrrgeoussssssssssssss

More gracie!!

more gracie, this time it looks more like her she looks good!

Is this gracie? she looks so different! i like the hair color change, it looks more natural!

dressed ... or lack of dress