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  1. Please refer to @yuzuangel's post regarding taking this off-topic conversation to PMs if you wish to continue it. We do not condone fetishization or racism, and sexual content is against the rules.

     

    @senemgencerplease do not police what others may consider racist based on your own experiences. Your experiences are 100% valid, but others have other points of view based on their own experiences and those are also valid.

     

    Please respect what we asked earlier about not continuing this off-topic conversation here. If you wish to continue it, take it to PMs.

     

  2. 3 minutes ago, senemgencer said:

    Thank you for this comment. I am surprised by how harshly people can critise others and accuse them of being racist nowadays. We all have prejudices and it doesn't help to use such hurtful words like "disgusted". You can critise someone of sharing too personal information here and I also agree that here is not the right place. 

    But I am NOT ok with acussing people of being this or that so easily. Please stop picking up words and making things into huge issues. I have met enough number of Asians, Americans, Europeans, Arabs and Turks who have their own fair share of prejudices against other races or religions so I want to invite everyone to think twice and chose his/her words calmly before typing. 

     

    I don't feel comfortable with anybody taking my reply to mean "don't call people racist". Sometimes racism is unintentional. But intent does not decide impact. Fetishizing is a form of racism. Even if that was not the intention, the result was the same.

     

    It is important to center the impact and hurt caused to those who were harmed, even unintentionally, and prioritise that over the feelings of the one who caused harm (even if unintentionally). Ideally, the person who caused harm would see that the harsh language comes from a place of hurt that was caused by them, and focus on the content of what is said, and not the harshness of the language in which it is said.

     

    Not everything is about intentions. Sometimes it is only about impact, and that is fair.


     

  3. 33 minutes ago, SeimeiOrigin said:

    My apologies. I did not at all mean to imply that I did not want to be attracted to a man of any race. What I meant was that I am so distracted that it makes it hard for me to concentrate on my everyday life, hence asking when will it end. I do not think there is something wrong with me for thinking Yuzu is attractive. It was just unexpected and I am trying to adjust to a different way of thinking. I thought posting my feelings here would be in good company and other people would understand. I do not realize that the way I was feeling could be construed as racist or fetishizing. If it came across that way it was not intended. 

     

    No, there is nothing wrong with considering Yuzu attractive.

     

    However extrapolating how attractive Yuzu is - or rather how attracted you feel to Yuzu - to a generalization about your attraction or lack thereof towards Australian/Japanese men, referencing your own race and citizenship, and then indicating that you might now extend Yuzu and his attractiveness towards other Japanese men because Yuzu is now attractive IS fetishizing, and also possibly crosses a few lines we've always had about how much sexual content is allowed on PH. According to our rules, NO sexual content is allowed. It is not enforced very strictly but it is still a rule and there are lines satellites are expected not to cross.

     

    ETA: Here are forum rules, for reference:

     

     

     

     

     

  4. 14 minutes ago, yuzuangel said:

    Same! I like the black lines and the more structured design... The swanyu one is a bit too soft/"flashy" for me! I would wear the origin one if it is the right size (not sure how big it would look on me :laughing:)

    As long as the watch isn't bigger than your wrist... It really is a nice one, I hope the planking champion fanyu managed to buy one.

  5. The Origin watch really appeals to me more than the Swanyu one, though I guess technically my wrist would be considered too small for the Origin one. But on the other hand, it is my wrist so I get to decide what should be on it and if I like big, strong, hefty Origin, well then...

  6. 5 minutes ago, dreamelena said:

     

    I was trying to recall if I had read about it somewhere before but my memory is  getting weaker so I  can't really trust anymore lol. I'd just consider I  haven't read about it before.. but  imagine him jamming to their songs using his expensive hi-tech earphone?? :rofl3:

     

    Well considering how he got really into Call Me Maybe, I'd say he enjoys his pop music!

  7. 59 minutes ago, 180267 said:

    I just even don’t know what you mean. 

     

    This is a request to please let this drop now.

     

    Everybody is allowed to have their opinions about TCC coaches, or any coaches. If you wish to criticise any of them, it needs to be constructive: based on facts (that you can point to with reference if asked to). We do not allow baseless criticisms of, for instance, Raf or Eteri either. Criticism has to have basis in fact, or at least if you can't find a specific reference, acceptance within enough of the community that we can be reasonably sure the citation is out there, just needs some work to track down.

     

    Yuzu said in his interview that training in Sendai has pros and cons. He said that not being able to see his doctors in Toronto as he trains 4A is a con. There are definite advantages to being in Sendai, mostly connected to his freedom to train on his own time and schedule. However else he feels, it's up to him and not for us to guess. It's definitely not for us to infer any kind of animosity between him and his coaching team when neither party has shown any as far as we know.

     

    It is perfectly legitimate to have complaints about Brian - personally I think that his PR game when it comes to Yuzu is pretty below par and in a heavily politicked sport with coach bonus, it might be a contributing factor to some of Yuzu's inexplicable components, but that is my personal opinion and if it's not shared, I cannot source it and neither can I argue that I'm right and everybody else wrong because again, it is just my perspective on things. Therefore I'll accept that my opinion is a fairly minority one, agree to disagree and move on, rather than derail the General Yuzuru Chat thread by repeating myself.

     

    If you wish to criticise Brian or any other person at TCC any more, kindly do so with specific citations and primary sources. Everybody has heard your point of view on them and made it fairly clear that most disagree with you. At this point, if you wish to continue the discussion, it needs to be with more than your opinion, which has already been heard.

     

    Thank you for your time.

     

     

  8. The recent news about Euros:

     

     

    Plus a few soft whispers that a fed has unofficially told their skaters that they can expect Euros and Worlds to be canceled (this is unconfirmed and a rumour so far) makes it very likely that Nationals are fairly irrelevant this year anyway.

     

    I think holding Nationals is a very bad idea, without audience, as well. Looking at the numbers in the area right now, even without audience, how would it be a good idea? Organizing an event on that scale cannot all be done online, setting it up cannot all be done over Zoom, and that process will involve more than five people together indoors at multiple times anyway - and even if they are all masked up and distance as much as possible, that is still unnecessary risk that would go against cautious guidelines. To top that off, we do know that Yuzu is a high risk individual because of his asthma, so him being out of his bubble at all would be a risk. JSF is being pretty terrible by advertising their event using a high risk individual who would be in danger even for a no-audience event.

     

    We've seen how backstage and training areas end up being - people wait indoors while warming up. There are coaches and teams present. There are organizers and staff present. The longer you spend indoors with a group of people, no matter how good your mask, the higher the risk if just one person is an asymptomatic carrier at a point too early to be detected by a test. Having an event at all is a gathering of people, indoors. Doing that in a place where numbers are rising, audience or not, seems like a pretty terrible idea to me, for everybody involved - let alone when you add a high risk headliner to the mix. It's a figure skating event, not an essential service. (Even if seeing Yuzu feels like an essential service for the sustenance of life to be me rn lol I'm at the full-on dramatic stage of Yuzu-withdrawal.)

     

    So yeah, I hope there's no undue pressure on Yuzu to compete, because left to himself, I believe he'd WD.

     

     

  9. 4 hours ago, SitTwizzle said:

    I find a tremendous progress from the times when ISU's CoViD answer was to add an event allowing direct contact between the athletes and a thousand spectators for Worlds.

     

    Well, I suppose going from 200 feet underground to only six feet underground is progress but buried is still buried so not really.

  10. 5 hours ago, yuzuangel said:

    I think Aliona didn't intend to make a change. She wouldn't make a change after the transfer period. IMO Eteri found out that she even dared talk to Plushenko and kicked her out. Knowing that this would put her in a really difficult position. She'll most likely try to make it very difficult for Aliona to skate next season. Eteri seems to be over her head in a power trip. Without her skaters, she is no one.

     

    This sounds very plausible. But I don't know if even she has the power to prevent the reigning champion of every competition that happened since she turned senior from skating - I don't think the fed will let her shoot them in the foot like that. Would they?

  11. 27 minutes ago, Fay said:

    In Russia coaches have connections and so it might lead to sponsorship deals. Top coaches are likely to have more. But I believe that it’s not that Eteri didn’t want Alena to have any sponsorship deals, it’s that bad luck with the current crisis. Eteri would have cut 40 per cent of Alena’s gains anyway, why would she have objected? 
    So I don’t think it’s those non-grata skaters lists - they were never mentioned by Gleikhengauz after all. It could all be down to money. 

     

    I guess if she's thinking about money now and after retirement, Plushenko is a good option - he does have connections, doesn't he? Maybe with the combination of her jump coach going there and Plushenko's experience with marketing himself, the move might have made sense to Alyona and her family. Maybe she's counting on her having established her components in her first senior seasons to keep her scores high?

  12. 2 hours ago, barbara said:

    I'm an old person and don't know how to do screen caps - but you don't need to.  The before and after, the one and the other, are both up simultaneously on different platforms.  

     

    You wouldn't happen to have a link, would you? I can't find any screencaps of the newly altered version.

  13. 1 hour ago, Henni147 said:

    Come to think of it... The skater who is punished the most with these changes is Boyang actually. He is one of the very few active skaters, who can jump a true quad Lutz, which now gets devaluated and he doesn't have 4Lo or 4F in his arsenal to to compensate the punishment.

     

    I'm pretty sure that in the future only die hard traditionalists will bother to learn a proper Lutz technique. The majority will go with the new excessively pre-rotated version. There is absolutely no motivation to learn the difficult Lutz technique anymore. The soul of Alois Lutz must be sobbing very hard now, wherever he is.

     

    Boyang has had a 4Lo before, so maybe he'll bring it back? It was a good one in practice...

  14. So I thought that the 3F and 3Lz << values were different because of table errors from ISU, which has happened, but now it looks like it's not? DG jumps get BVs corresponding to the lower no of rotation version of the same jump, so the 2F and 2Lz have different BVs, so the 3F and 3Lz DGs will have different BVs despite 3F and 3Lz having the same BV, what on earth kind of sense does this make?

  15. 26 minutes ago, SparkleSalad said:

    I'm not sure any skaters from Sambo could ever truly be all-rounders with the cheated jump technique they teach there. Then again, ISU can just keep changing the rules to accommodate it so who knows. 

     

    My sodium levels are through the roof today. :facepalm:

     

    My, my, sparkle, you are in fine form, aren't you! I've been missing out, mining for salt in ISUngard when apparently you've found it all and have been flinging it around with wild abandon!

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