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From Absolute Skating's Skate America Day 3 report: http://www.absoluteskating.com/index.php?cat=reports&id=2017skateamerica-day3-2

So you are one of the amazing young people born in 1994. Happy birthday month! (I looked for a birthday cake emoji but I could not find it...)

ありがとう。。。 私もKizunaさんがいつか必ず元気な羽生君を会場で見られるよう心から願ってます。 本当にみんな健康が一番大事です。 羽生君も一日も早く元気になりますように！

In the previous version we can see Patrick, so he won't compete in Nationals...?

No one except us...

According to Kahoku Shinpo, Sendai did this to pray for his fastest recovery and cheer him up for Pyeongchang. The panel will stay there until April 8th.

Yeah, I know that you did not mean to correct his Japanese, and as you said, we don’t usually address ourselves with honorific except when we use “ore-sama” or when we are hosting a TV show for kids. I don’t know why Jason said “Jason-san”, but it reminded me of the casts in such TV shows. They often introduce themselves saying things like, “Minasaaan, konnichiwaaa! Uta no oneesan desu yooo!” or “Yaa, minna! Taiso no oniisan dayo!” Maybe he should teach children English via TV It’s a short TV program aired yesterday. The title means “doors to awareness”. It’s about how people learned important things in their life. For Yuzu, going to Canada and having to communicate with his coach in a foreign language was a door to awareness of the importance of putting his thoughts into words. When he went to Canada he was learning things depending only on feeling because he could not communicate with Brian in English so well. So he started taking notes in Japanese, to digest what coaches told him. Then he realized that things he puts into words stay in his memory. Feeling is unstable and gets easily affected by the situation he is in. Words, on the other hand, is stable and don’t get affected by his surroundings. This awareness helped him to improve and become what he is now.

I would not be surprised if he needed time alone and away from competing after SCI. When you have doubt in your mind, you can’t just keep going according to your schedule. I think coming back for Nationals and Olympics is still one of his options, otherwise, he would stay completely off the ice like Mao did after JP Nats last year. Hope he will come back.

うーん。私が一度受け取って、行けなくなったら日本国内でどなたか宛てに郵送する？と一瞬考えたけど、 よく考えたら私自身がスワンが届く頃家族のところにいて郵便を受け取れない可能性がある。 でもチケットの二次発売の抽選結果が分かるのは8日だから、それから当選した人に送るのでは間に合うか危ういですね。。。 他にも行けそうな方が見つかるといいのですが。。。 Thank you for the tutorial! Third pancake!

全日本、男子は遠い席だけどショートフリー両方ともチケット取れました。 でも、最近家族が体調を崩していて時々サポートしなければならないので まだ確実に行けるか分からない状況です（場合によっては公式トレードに出さなくてはいけないかも） ちゃんと行けると分かったらお手伝いしたいけど、それからスワンを送ってもらうのでは間に合わないよね。。。 @miinyanさんから預かった4羽は、私さえ都合がつけば一緒に全日本に行きます。 手前の4羽が今うちで出番を待っているスワン。 奥の4羽は左から @Kizunaさんにもらったもの、miinyanさんにもらったもの（作者はHydroさんかな？） 残り2羽が私が試しに折ってみたものだけど、皆さんのと同じ作り方だと思って折ってたら全然違うものができてびっくりしました。 これ水鳥ではあるけど白鳥じゃない鳥のような気がする

Get better soon, Boyang! Waiting for you and Yuzu to come back in good shape and be able to show what you two can do at the Olympics. And Good luck, Jason! 2014 was the first year when I heard Yuzu’s name on the street came out from a mouth of stranger. She was a little girl about 4 or 5 and saying “Hanyu Yuzuru-kun kakkoii!” I cannot forget that snowy February morning.

Thank you for sharing! He spent almost half of his time for the message for Yuzu! He is so warmhearted. As for not correcting his Japanese, I think the person filmed him thought that the most important thing there was his heart to try to communicate and his message itself.

Boyang withdrew from GPF. Hope he will be able to focus on healing. ETA: another source

Movie of the news on Ice Rink Sendai

Reminds me of what Tracy said on Yuzu's R&J 1.0 in NBC broadcast of Worlds 2012. Compared to how he performs now he really looks a bit introverted here. I also remember that he said that people (coaches and choreographers I think) pointed out that he had a tendency to get absorbed in himself too much and that he should direct his awareness to outside world. (source: an article published on WebSportiva in 2015) However, I’m not sure if these have anything to do with what was said in Max’s podcast. And I think in LGC last season he was clearly be able to connect with the audience, and in H&L he was able to get absorbed in himself and open himself up at the same time.

Happy 2K+ pages and we are now in 2002, the year of Salt Lake City Olympics! (or the next year of the SLC, maybe?) Meanwhile, in Sendai, renovation of Ice Rink Sendai seems to have been finished. There’s a nice message on the welcome board: "People gather through sports and talk to each other. Voices of teammates, supporters, spectators resound in the city and invigorate it. The voices spread and travel, and the liveliness of the city attracts more people. Many people gather and improve each other, and it bears an international athlete (t/n: or "international athletes") His/Her/Their success encourages people and they become proud of their hometown. The pride is passed down to next generations, and the courage makes the future vibrant."

Roman Sadovsky has created a youtube channel

No, these songs were used for all other sports too. In Olympic broadcast, they don't prepare a song specifically for a sport. This is Fuji's theme song for PyeongChang "Hello Kagerou" by GReeeeN (Yuzu appears at the end)

There were several songs used as theme songs for Sochi since each broadcaster had their own theme song, though I remember only a few of them. “今、咲き誇る花たちよ” (To the flowers in full bloom now) by Kobukuro (NHK) “Number One” (Fuji)

ランビエールやトマシュや織田くんとかもですけど、選手時代を見てきたスケーターがキスクラにいると手とか振りたくなりますよね ははは、スレッド内がなんかフルーティな感じ

女子のセラフィマ・サハノヴィッチのコーチとしてデビューしてました。 不振続きだった彼女がショースケーターへの転向を考えてプルさんに連絡を取ったそうなのですが、いやまだ現役諦めるのは早いと説得され、そのまま彼の元でトレーニングすることになったようです。 今回はポゴちゃんの欠場と交代する形で急遽出場が決まったみたいですが、ジュニアで活躍していた頃よりジャンプの質も良くなっていて、最近まで引退を考えていたことを思うとちょっと涙が出そうでした。 プルはJapan Openに来た時も、他の選手を見ている間きっちり質の高いジャンプにしか拍手してなくて、リアリストで厳しい人なんだろうなと思うんですけど、P&Gや今日の様子を見ていてとても温かい人でもあることを再確認しました。 スケアメ男子はちょっと寿命が縮む感じの試合だったので、良いところだけ選んで見た方が良いかも知れないです。録画をどう確認して残すべきか悩んでます。安心して振り返れる演技はヴォロさんのSP、FPとアダムのSPくらいしかないかも…。 追記：Hossyyさんの下の投稿を見て思い出したのですが、ネイサンのSPも確かにまとまった演技でしたね！ フリーは誰が転倒しかけてもパニックになる流れだったので、まるで指の隙間から見たような印象しか残っていないですが…

さっき女子ショートのキスクラにいるプルさんを見て、温かく励まして演技が終わったらよくやったよくやったと褒めてる様子に この間のP&Gの会見で羽生君について語っていた時の様子を思い出しました 羽生君順調にリハビリが進んでいるといいですね スケアメ男子の皆も適切な治療を受けて一日も早く怪我から回復できるよう願ってます

I'm happy that Karen decided to go back to her old programs because I loved her SP last year. (I enjoy Adam's FP too! I guess I have a weak spot for bird themed programs...)