WinForPooh

I hope something more gets quoted accurately in that one!

It is nice to have everything calm down a little and get such happy pieces of news about Yuzu. I'm glad he's taking breaks from power-eating protein to spend some time with family, even if that too revolves around skating somehow. Some things can't be changed, I suppose. As long as he's happy. It is hard to believe how much that matters.

Like an astral projection? Yuzu isn't Loki...

Oh, look at the bb looking up to Kohei Uchimura! Ah, I wish you his longevity and consistency, Yuzu!

Oh my, the relief! I expected something along these lines, but it's a relief to hear it from him. Unless he's being a lying liar, and if he is, he'll have to speed-hobble away from me on those crutches because I will... I will... I will do nothing, tickle him until he gives up, perhaps. He's too cute to even mock-threaten.

If it's a legit source and an actual report from JSF, then the implications are all positive. It means that Yuzu's medical team's prognosis is that he can be ready to train in a couple of weeks, because he'd need a couple of weeks of conditioning and training at least before he'd be ready to compete again. That would practically be confirmation that the ligament damage is not bad. It would mean, for sure, that surgery has been ruled unnecessary, too. Concrete news about his plans of participation in nationals is something I'm anxiously waiting for! But that report sounds vague and unofficial, so... *sigh*

There was something about JSF having been informed that he expected to be ready for nationals. Was that an actual source? Or speculation? It is so frustrating to have to depend on translations.

.... And this used car will take you another 10000 miles, and has excellent transmission. Look, so shiny! Btw, got this excellent bridge I might be able to let you get first shot at if you play your cards right... The adorkable liar.

THE POOR BB!!!

Overwhelming urge to make Yuzu soup and hot chocolate after watching that, the poor bb.

You're practically asking for him to be riddled by the Sphinx or something because that would be the one thing we'd miss in all our calculations. ETA: You read Pratchett, you remember that part towards the end of Lords and Ladies Carpe Jugulum (ugh my head, it's gone) where they're screaming at Daddy Vampire because he trained them on so many religious symbols that things that would normally have had no significance to them are now things that can hurt them? That's what this would turn into, this search to counter all specific scenarios.

That's not the only deadline I have for that day, and I have been useless since Yuzu's fall, this is practically prophetic. *runs around with head on fire*

A full-body impact fall was more likely than a pop, I guess, he was at almost a 45 degree angle. I can't believe he tried to land it. Even a regular fall like when I trip going down the stairs would've been better, it bangs you up but the impact is distributed evenly and you're just bruised all over instead of having anything really injured. Ah well. Water under the bridge.

About the 4lz - I might be completely wrong, but it looks as if he has a little too much speed/power going into it, snaps into rotation so quickly that he doesn't get all the height that the speed/power could get him, and that torques his axis off balance. The perfect ones we saw had him snapping into rotation a little slower so his axis looked more stable. I think he's rushing it because he's so anxious to get it right. It was so bloody off, I can't believe, still, that he didn't just pop it and try again. Or at least let himself fall more naturally. And I completely agree that Brian seems to have figured out how to pace him. More than anybody else.

That axis though. I never want to see an axis like that on any jump, ever, much less on Yuzu's jump when my heart is already in my mouth.

I wish for him whatever will make him happy. But I have given up on him getting over his stubbornness. Maybe the loss of that fifth GPF gold will make him listen to his body and not jump already-petulant quads when he's sick and feverish, but.... I don't think he'll stop doing stuff like that. His stubbornness is such a part of him. But he would never have become so good without that stubbornness, too. It can be an advantage until the moment he pushes himself too far. It might have been different if Brian could've been there. I mean, Brian managed to convince him to do a simpler layout at ACI. I doubt anybody else could've done it. Brian might be the only one who can convince him to slow down when he needs to. (Other than mama Hanyu. )

To think we thought the stubborn lad had learnt his lessons and decided to listen to his body. He sure did, and he told his body to STFU and then his body told him to STFU or else and then, well, there we have it.

Cannot stress this enough. Trust me, there will be a million and then some pieces that rewrite that quote from Briand, then find an old quote from Yuzu and paste that in without being quite crystal clear when it's from, comments from random doctors or people who have had ligament injuries about how long it *might* take for him to get better and how bad it might be. This will get clicks, and it will fill a page with a couple of photos - one from the fall, another in costume. When you read an article, look for: Where's the quote Who's it from Is it a direct quote When was the quote given. If you see there's no new information and no update once you answer those questions, ignore it. It's a recycled clickbait fluff piece. There will be weasel words like 'apparently', 'seems', 'it appears' and the like to give them wiggle room. There's no legal implications here or I would add 'allegedly'. Unless it's from a journalist you trust who has reasons for not revealing their sources, don't take any of these pieces seriously. The actual direct quotes we have say that he was able to walk and jump, and he withdrew on doctor's advice. What we saw with our own eyes was that he walked off under his own steam after the fall, and he managed to do his spins during run through. Until and unless we get more information from his team, we have every reason to be hopeful that it isn't nearly as bad as it might have been.

Cucumber aloe vera face wipes. I can go wherever I want. Which means I'm staying in bed and brooding all day without puffy eyes, of course.

I suggest not going back and drowning in catching up. There's really no news in there, it's just us trying not to split our heads open.

A nice, good smack. No mercy after hurting Yuzu. None. Off with her head.

That's what we thought last time. Baby 4lz needs a good smack.

Hopefully he's getting better with every minute of rest and icing and massage, even as our heads slowly catch fire.

That 4lz axis - if he can't fix it in training, it's not worth doing it in competition. It's not even worth training it and getting hurt. What on earth is wrong with it? He was as tilted this time as he was at CoR practice. Isn't training supposed to fix stuff like this? He has such a beautiful axis for his triple lutz and his axel, what is wrong with this stupid 4lz!!

I think it was in the NHK thread, so I guess it helps to have it here, too.