WinForPooh

You know all these people, so-called serious devotees of figure skating, are going to look pretty damn stupid in a decade when the Internet lays out in all its glory that they dismissed one of the greatest skaters ever because he had too many fangirls. Yes, great skating analysis there, guys. Just great. Top notch.

What is all this crap I woke up to about new Yuzu skating fans being Yuzu fans only because he's cute... I mean, not to blaspheme, but if I wanted to fangirl over the cutest Japanese guy ever, I wouldn't be fangirling over Yuzu. I discovered all the cute stuff about him after I saw that perfect FS. I know he's as adorkable as he is because I fell for his skating and wanted to find out who had achieved that perfection - and found that whether you get perfection or top of the shelf angst depends on the roll of the dice that day. It sparked a deep desire to learn more of everything to do with figure skating. Didn't all these so-called serious figure skating fans see one iconic skate - iconic only to them perhaps but that counts too - and decide that this sport is something they could devote a lot of their time ane energy to? It's only valid if your perfect skate was somebody else's? What utter nonsense.

The loop and sal make very different shapes at the entry to the jump so it's not as difficult - loop looks like an X, sal looks like an A. Though yes, I have a bone to pick with the skaters who for the toe loop use the whole damn edge instead of just the toe and then pre-rotate, too, because then it confuses me again. Without really good technique, a lot of jumps blur into each other to the noob eyes. That can't be good for the sport. There really should be stricter judging so they don't all one day merge into just one confusing jump. And the axel. Did Yuzu get a lot of edge calls? Was judging stricter then? And zayak rule should have an Nobu subsection - when you get your combo invalidated, most probably with a third toe loop.

Every day I realize that figure skating deserves so much more respect than it gets. My eyes need to get quicker.

I see the difference - and boy, I do wish I had discovered this obsession when she was still skating. However I do not see the difference if they change edge at the last moment without slow motion replay. I guess that will come with lots of watching figure skating. What a punishment that will be. I'm not linking any video to show what I mean because all the flutz videos on YouTube seems to be Medvedeva bashing. It does seem in slow motion like her lutz needs work, but the number of videos comparing her to Yuna seems excessive. Her choreo doesn't appeal to me but really, a lot of people seem to really really hate her!

I know that in theory, but I think it takes a practised eye to see it when it's really happening. I obviously don't have a practised eye yet, at any rate. I can see it after it's pointed out but during, I'm not good at it. Apparently half the judges are as bad as I am, that is not a good thing at all.

Really? I must test this theory by watching a million videos. Yes, I must. Deadline? What deadline?

Why try? Embrace the sinful extra everything.

He does have an excellent edge. This is part of why I get so annoyed with flutzers and lippers. I'm not nearly good enough to figure out which jump is which without textbook technique. What am I supposed to make of flutzes and lips? Why won't these figure skaters (who spend the primes of their lives trying to become the best they can possibly be at doing things I cannot even imagine doing) be more considerate to me and my dilemmas?

Especially the oh-god-that-ankle-looks-like-it's-separating-completely-from-him-and-spinspinspin(spin). Also called the lutz by the unenlightened. Whatever are they thinking.

Boy, that's a mouthful. They really need to come up with pithier names for all the jumpy-spinnies. Maybe that's something ISU is competent enough to handle.

Thank you, I think I'm beginning to get the hang of this ice-jumpy-thingie. Diet spin-whoosh, then.

He could do that in practice in costume and I'd be almost just as happy, really... Not that I don't appreciate UA but I really want to see sparkly spin-spin-whooshspinspinspin-spin-spin.

Ah, I was far too blinded dazzled by that delayed single to even notice that twizzle before the triple during that. Now I see it, but the practice was better. *sighs* It's right there?

So perfect during that practice!

Forget competition then, that means he's done it like that in costume for galas? *off to waste lots of time, but it's not really wasted*

Guys, I just saw this, and I want to see this in competition just so much now...

Tbh I kind of feel bad for Shoma. The kid really seems to live for skating, and he really looks up to Yuzu, but he's also dedicated and single-minded enough that his goal is to surpass the one he looks up to. It really looks like he judges himself pretty harshly. He must feel very annoyed when performances he knows are not as good as his best are lauded as better than they are. He really seems to hold himself to higher standards than that. That kind of person usually doesn't take flattery very well. Like... Well, Yuzu himself, really. He knows when he's not done well enough according to his standards, and he corrects any suggestion that he performed better than he thinks he did. Except Shoma isn't exactly outspoken, so the fan wars rage around the poor boy...

NHK 2016 after his FS. He wasn't happy because it wasn't perfect, but then the audience showered him with soooo much love (and Pooh bears) that he was happy again. I thought it was just so precious, I had to gif that moment.

Ah, you wonderful, wonderful person!

But.... That's Christmas Eve, I won't have Internet! NOOOO!!!

This frustrates me on so many levels. Ugh.

TREASON!!

I have a possibly very stupid question, but... Well, if they're worried about TES outstripping the PCS so drastically and want to rein in the TES, why are they picking and choosing which quad gets deducted how much? It seems far fairer, altogether, to cut the BV of all quads by say, 12 percent, maybe the triples by five percent if they really want to, and leave the doubles as they are (random numbers being thrown around here, but you get the idea.. This cherrypicking seems to advantage skaters who're better on inside edge takeoff and not on the outside, because the only jump to stay the same right now is the triple flip, isn't it? But the good flips are usually from the ones with the bad or at least questionable lutzes, so why would one quad be cut more (considering the percentage) than the other? What is the basis for deciding BV anyway, because if they cut them unevenly, that's pretty much saying the values they'd given till now aren't accurate - they were wrong to keep the flip so much closer to the loop than the lutz till now? Is there some kind of logic behind this ten percent for one jump and fifteen for another business, and don't even get me started on the axel, like, why... No, seriously, why? Is there an actual reason?

Not quite the kind of UA or Pumpkin we're used to, though. Still.... Dancing pumpkin. A tribute is a tribute.