WinForPooh

I guess that is the functional and practical way of looking at it or all satellites won't be able to see the map well enough to mark locations, but I kind of like the idea of the world being overrun by Poohs.

I think the map might soon be hidden by Poohs!

I'm just sitting here laughing at the idea of me having sophisticated tastes, sorry.

I guess we're both saying the same thing - the ones who really know nothing pften just see how beautiful Yuzu's skating is, or how fun it is, without really knowing how good a skater he is. Those who know skating appreciate how good his skills are but have a firmer opinion on what kind of presentation and performance they like. I guess this just shows how subjective In and Pe are.

That is actually an excellent point, because I always admired the spirals and spins. I think it might also be that you need to know at least a bit about what you're supposed to expect from men's skating to know that the delicacy of H&L isn't the norm. I think I just didn't have expectations about men's figure skating being a different kind of interpretation because where I'm from, figure skating is simply not a thing. What I did get was from pop culture and that is usually more about beautiful, delicate, graceful princesses who are also strong enough to do beautiful, elegant jumps. I think maybe the people you consider casual observers have more exposure to skating and expectations from men's skating than I did. Yuzu's skating seemed like the perfecting of the most casual observer's idea of skating. I think I was a blanker slate than most casual observers from places where figure skating is at least a more common thing! It might also be a reflection of me. Years ago, I happened to watch a gala on TV because there it was there and I was bored, and the one I still remember is Johnny Weir. I'm sure there were other more traditional performances, but I don't even remember who else was there.

You know, I don't really agree. I was a very casual observer who happened to watch H&L. It's not like I didn't ever watch skating before, but I watched it very casually and I knew nothing about it, just that it's a very beautiful sport. Yuzu's H&L is what made me want to understand skating. When I joined the forum, and ever since then, I noticed that there are a LOT of satellites like me - ones who saw Yuzu's H&L pretty randomly and decided that this sport was worth getting into. There are a lot of people who saw YoI and watched a few skating videos, and suddenly found themselves pretty hooked on Yuzu, too. That's why Yuzu fans aren't exactly held in great esteem by 'proper' skating fans, I feel - because a lot if us are perceived to be people who just like him, not skating. Until you get into skating and start interacting with Yuzu's fans, you don't really get to know of how adorable he is, especially if you don't know Japanese. The fact that so many people who would've been considered casual observers started following skating because they saw Yuzu - not anybody else, saw him, especially H&L - that speaks to his appeal even if you know nothing about skating. That's down to his performance and interpretation. He turns casual observers into... well, people who obsessively read rules and check protocols and watch skating documentaries and videos. All that has made me appreciate his skating, but before that, before I even knew how many kinds of jumps there were, I just fell in love with his performance because it made me feel as if I had watched the complete athletic and artistic performance on ice. If that isn't the power of his performance and interpretation, I don't know what is. ETA: The only other performance I've seen that made me react so instinctively was Jason's Riverdance at the nationals. I saw it only after I started learning a little about skating, but it's the closest I've felt to how I was completely drawn into a world created by a skater.

We've reached skinny jeans times? My nemesis! NEVER! I shall rebel against trends and wear culottes.

I think he registered 'tell me about' and 'short programme' and assumed he was being asked about his own short programme. I mean, the importance of short programme in figure skating sounds like an essay question in a theoretical paper, not an interview question to a top skater during a short two-question kind of backstage interview! Very understandable assumption on his part. Resolutely ignores the age discussion because my much younger siblings are officially becoming adults this month and I'm just so not on board with that, what does that make me, I don't want to know.

*packs away flared trousers and shaves moustache regretfully* I think I miss the seventies.

I say we all grow moustaches and get the flared trousers out. The tie-in-front shirts. Platforms. The seventies.

I hadn't watched skating even casually for a really long time before that video of H&L popped up for me, and I watched it and thought, "Oh wow, figure skating achieved perfection when I wasn't looking." But I honestly didn't realize that that was just Yuzu at his best. I thought the sport itself had evolved that drastically in the few years I hadn't been watching it at all. (I watched mostly to see pretty spirals and spins from the ladies, honestly.) I soon found out different, didn't I! Also, anybody who attacks Yuzu for anything he does in his personal life will find out that the Evil FanyuTM is a thing because I will become that thing. This deathstare cinnamon roll overlord shall be protected at all costs. AT ALL COSTS. Though if I could ask him one thing ever, it would be a very frustrated 'Why don't you listen!! To your team and your body! Listen!!!'

Hydro... Just You absolutely did what you meant to do.

If we must stay in the seventies, I'm growing a moustache.

That step sequence gave me serious PW flashbacks!

Can I insist that any judge who doesn't give his excellent solo 3A (only the obviously perfect ones, I'm not unreasonable) a +3 but gives anybody else a +3 for any other jump must write a 3000-word essay to justify their requirements for that +3?

I don't blame you for deleting it after that, it looked like the judges had, too. As had ISU.

Ah, I don't know about the sources and use of clips - you'd ideally have to PM them on youtube or wherever and ask, and make it clear you'd get no ad revenue and you'd credit them, I suppose. Though I don't know, I've not worked with videos in such contexts. But sending it to somebody on PM as long as it does not get uploaded anywhere should be fine? (hint hint)

Yes, you're right, I meant if he could do it in competition and get the points for it. Isn't there something about the shifting of weight during a combo that would make an Axel-Axel combo not worth it? Take-off and landing foot things? Or does that not matter?

You do need a special Planet Title of your own. You really do.

Thank you! But ohgodohgod, warning satellites, the 2014-15 one has the disaster one. Bandages. Landed 3A combo. Oh, my heart. Oh, you poor boy. Take care of yourself, bb! Let our wishes protect you!

If there was a way to do a 3A-3A-3A combination, he really would do it.

What do you mean, not worth sharing! Share it! Shareitshareitshareitshareit! Gimmeitnow!

I will wait years if I must! Dooo iiiiiiit!! But wait for the Planetaniorational Treasure, in case one already exists... (Yes I'm having fun making up words. :D)

I have to insist on Planetary in the title. Planetary Treasure Gem-Finder. Planetary Teasure-Seeker. Anything, really, just not National. (Wouldn't mind coining Planetational as a word...)

I don't suppose there's a Yuzu 3A collection video somewhere to watch? @kaeryth If there was one, you'd know, wouldn't you? The definitive Axel Overload from the Overlord?