Yatagarasu

As usual @gladi to the rescue! Yuzuru Hanyu x Kanon Matsuda: A conversation she subbed the whole video plus the blurbs in the text post!

There's no one 'right' way to be a fan. There are many different kinds of fans of Yuzuru Hanyu. Those who prefer to joke and those who like to talk about serious things, those who like both, and even those who like neither because they are just focused on his performances, and not Yuzuru the person. None of these are wrong and everyone should be at liberty to decide what is important to them and what they enjoy talking about. This is a big board, and knock on wood growing each day, and we have many members. Our numbers alone will mean that we're going to have shy members who don't feel comfortable about expressing themselves on the more serious topics and those who have no trouble doing so, engaging in many discussions. We have younger members and older ones, who are more or less used to some things. We have people who speak Japanese and can discuss a video without a translation and those who cannot because they don't or are reluctant to engage if only a partial is available. There are those who will be at ease expressing both criticism and praise, and those who won't. One good thing about a big board is that we have plenty of places to post and of course, this, our main 'home' thread, can support two or more concurrent conversations. Please feel free to start many topics of discussion here. It doesn't matter if a group is talking about one thing; just start another topic. There is always going to be someone to pick the conversation up and it'll evolve. That's the beauty of our numbers; there'll always be someone with a shared interest. All of our interests will mingle, and weave this tapestry that is this colorful, vibrant, incredible fandom of ours. We are different people but we have one core common interest. There's plenty of space for us all and so much room to grow! One of my greatest pleasures here is to see this, and see how everyone here is respectful of each other, and Yuzuru, whether we're joking, cooing, trying not to mother him, having a really serious conversation about music, his personality or any number of things, or simply helping each other out on this or that matter. The variety of the 'threads' and their ebb and flow is what makes it all so special.

You've put the idea of Bowie in my head so you owe me a bottle of vodka when that fizzles out.

With lots of vodka though. How very Russo-Irish of us

I'm in. And since I'll be super hung over if I sit on him, good luck on moving me. Then you can bedazzle to your heart's content. (yes on the 2nd bottle)

Very bad. I'll even make it both flavored and non-flavored kind. For variety so we can get properly smashed Or we could make him a new costume. Subtle way of pointing out our displeasure. Very subtle.

If you've jinxed it, the next door bell is me with vodka. You're not that close but eff it

That is the 'new' Chopin costume?

Ted is a gem and he deserves all the views I am really thankful to him, and all he has done!

This is a complex question because the world itself significantly changed with the arrival and then spreading of the internet first, and then the social media second. Up until that point, and until it became available to such a large group of people, accessibility was much lower. You could see FS on TV if you were lucky and read the papers but that was that. Today we have YouTube and all the videos after a few clicks, from practices to competitions, to fans all over the world watching live and communicating in real time; talking and grouping, like on this board. We can now talk to each other like this and share our appreciation for his skating but at the same time glimpse just how many and how wide-spread we are. This wasn't possible a few decades ago. Travel has become more accessible in that time as well so that helped change the landscape too. It is therefore a tough call to make as we are comparing the incomparable. Megastars like Yuzuru are rare in the first place but at the same time, human lives experienced a significant shift with the internet and the change in how we communicate. I would say that for their time, there were stars like Yuzuru, say John Curry was one but still, very few.

Woot, all done and ... I am sure I continue to suck at this but as long as I don't suck at the men's prediction all is well Just guess. Many folks do. And they end up doing better often enough than those trying to actually figure out who may podium based on form etc

New Zhenya interview about the Anna K program http://fsrussia.ru/intervyu/3242-evgeniya-medvedeva-proizvolnuyu-programmu-my-pomenyali-posle-turnira-v-bratislave.html so it is official. She's being very diplomatic towards Averbukh and all, doesn't rule out even going back to it at some time in the future, but yes, Anna K is it. I'm happy. And I think what she says about needing to understand the story she's trying to tell is right, I think it shows in her skate Anna K fits her better plus definitely true that the music at the Olympics needs to be strong, and accessible. Overall I do think this is a better choice for her right now.

Final Tally The top 6 in each discipline will get into JGPF. Red confirmed, blue are substitutes. Men Ladies Ice Dance Pairs Alexei KRASNOZHON (USA) 30 Alexey EROKHOV (RUS) 30 Camden PULKINEN (USA) 28 Mitsuki SUMOTO (JPN) 24 Makar IGNATOV (RUS) 24 Andrew TORGASHEV (USA) 22 Joseph PHAN (CAN) 22 Luc ECONOMIDES (FRA) 22 Roman SAVOSIN (RUS) 22 Tomoki HIWATASHI (USA) 22 Alexandra TRUSOVA (RUS) 30 Sofia SAMODUROVA 30 Alena KOSTORNAIA (RUS) 28 Daria PANENKOVA (RUS) 28 Anastasia TARAKANOVA (RUS) 26 Rika KIHIRA (JPN) 24 Mako YAMASHITA (JPN) 24 Nana Araki (JPN) 22 Eunsoo LIM (KOR) 22 Riko TAKINO (JPN) 18 Christina CARREIRA / Anthony PONOMARENKO (USA) 30 Anastasia SKOPTCOVA / Kirill ALESHIN (RUS) 28 Sofia POLISHCHUK / Alexander VAKHNOV (RUS) 28 Marjorie LAJOIE / Zachary LAGHA (CAN) 28 Sofia SHEVCHENKO / Igor EREMENKO (RUS) 28 Arina USHAKOVA / Maxim NEKRASOV (RUS) 26 Ksenia KONKINA / Grigory YAKUSHEV (RUS) 24 Elizaveta KHUDAIBERDIEVA / Nikita NAZAROV (RUS) 24 Caroline GREEN / Gordon GREEN (USA) 22 Alicia FABBRI / Claudio PIETRANTONIO (CAN) 18 Daria PAVLIUCHENKO / Denis KHODYKIN (RUS) 28 Apollinariia PANFILOVA / Dmitry RYLOV (RUS) 26 Ekaterina ALEXANDROVSKAYA / Harley WINDSOR (AUS) 24 Anastasia POLUIANOVA / Dmitry SOPOT (RUS) 24 Aleksandra BOIKOVA / Dmitrii KOZLOVSKII (RUS) 24 Yumeng GAO / Zhong XIE (CHN) 22 Polina KOSTIUKOVICH / Dmitrii IALIN (RUS) 20 Evelyn WALSH / Trennt MICHAUD (CAN) 20 Laiken LOCKLEY / Keenan PROCHNOW (USA) 14 Audrey LU / Misha MITROFANOV (USA) 14

Bringing over from Gen Chat I would pay a massive amount of money for that. If we can also see him under Bowie make up? RIP Yata

The Lunge is an old Jeff Butler move. The Bielmann for the guys was first done by Plushenko, so he'd take priority and even now, MCM has a better Bielmann than Yuzuru. If anything turns out to be a "Hanyu", I don't think we've seen it yet. When Nessie shows up, it'll probably be something so I'll take that

Gracie Gold has withdrawn from this season's GPs. She is in treatment for depression, anxiety, and an eating disorder. http://olympics.nbcsports.com/2017/10/13/gracie-gold-figure-skating-withdraw/amp/

This got me going nicely

I heard that she should be back in time for the final though? Well fingers and toes crossed and no wonder she wasn't at her best in K&C, must have been hurting poor baby.

Hello everyone! Since CoR is approaching and we are slowly talking about it more and more, we've opened a pre-comp thread for it that will also be a thread for official practices, fluff, etc! Please join us!

Well Galustyan is in, I suppose it was a mater of who is closest. I'll add her in a bit.

The OP for all disciplines (they will start going up next week) will have all the streams we have, every time, so nothing to worry about! Just check out the opening post of it and you're set

Same, same. Best SP she's had and she's matured a lot. I am so pleased we got this lovely version of it from CoI though I cannot wait for a properly filmed one at CoR. I still think this dress is divine, she's like the universe or a sky full of stars and just gorgeous. When ever someone shortens it that way - AK dress - all I can think of is Avada Kedavra dress - but then I realize that it may very well be appropriate, ultimately!

Well if we look at the actual possibilities... 34 Glenn USA 35 Hicks USA 41 Matsuda JPN 45 Nitaya JPN 55 Craine AUS 60 Kihara JPN Maybe Kailani, if she can get there in time? Or one of the Japanese.