rockstaryuzu

you just had to go there, @Geo1. Now my mind is lost in the gutter.

I don't mean this badly, but i sincerely believe Yuzu is level-headed enough to realize that the 4A is something he can't coach himself for. As much as i would love to see him do it, YOLOing it is not the way.

Poor baby is trying so hard!

Keegan does social media. I would think that if he's got a consistent 4Lz, he'd have popped it up on his Insta

No, in fact this is more detail than I knew. 4Lz...I can see why that would tempt the selection committee. There's no question that having some firepower in the jumps department is important at the top levels. And if we're talking about consistency...to be honest, none of them are rock solid in that regard. They all have good days and bad days. I don't think you could use that as a basis for comparison. My guess - and it's only a guess - is that they went for firepower plus experience and ended up with Keegan. Too bad though. It was really shaping up to be Roman's year. I'm dying to see that free skate of his live.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Tbh, there was no way this situation was ever going to be anything more than crappy for all of them. Keegan ( if he goes to Worlds and doesn't decline out of a sense of COVID caution) needs a top ten finish to get Canada's second men's spot back. And Nam and Roman are forced to sit on the sidelines again.

My understanding is that he lends them.

Thanks for the translation and explanation, it will keep us from falling into a negative discussion indeed.

I love it. It just screams snarky Musubimaru* energy. *Musubimaru is the samurai onegiri mascot of Visit Miyagi** twitter. **Sendai is in Miyagi***. ***Am I being ponderously pedantic just for fun? Yes****. ****My sense of humour may not tickle everyone's funnybone. Oh well.

Jun's SP is up in the thread that @barbara posted, above. Other skaters too but i only had time to watch Jun this morning. He's skating very well but you can still tell that he really needs to get back to his coaches for some tuning up of jumps, etc . Can't believe we haven't seen him skate in a year and two weeks. Miss him so much.

I think I've only re-watched it a couple of times because emotional rollercoaster - still!

Same. My dad did FINA officiating course one after another and wrote a computer program to help the swim club tabulate results...and he only knew how to do breastroke slowly... Volunteers make everything happen, in the end.

For the sake of sweet suffering Jesus, WHY? It was the single most stagnant, opaque, thoroughly corruptible system that ever existed to score a sport anywhere. IJS, and the current +5 GOE system , have their faults but at least a skater can break down their score and see what the judges thought of them and why they thought it, and go home with an idea of what to work on for next time. It's not even like the American women are all that bad. It's just that the Russians and Japanese are way ahead. To paraphrase something TAT once said, not every judge was once a figure skater. Like any sport, some officials are probably parent volunteers who got invested in it and got better and better at it. Just like in swimming. If every timer, starter, stroke&turn judge, meet referee, etc had to be a former swimmer to qualify, swim meets wouldn't get held. It's all parent volunteers. So maybe the answer is to provide a welcoming atmosphere and training for BIPOC parent volunteers to contribute as skating officials, and then they can work their way up to the higher levels. Nothing ever happens without grassroots involvement when it comes to amateur sport. For coaching you probably do need former skaters, though.

Not that I'm aware of. He might not even be in Juniors yet, from the size of him. He's not as fast as Yuzu (but who is), but he's got the Step Seq down pat otherwise. Love that he does the knee slide too. Hats off to Ravi doing his coaching outside in the depths of an Edmonton winter, BTW.

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Cost is for sure the most fundamental problem.

You thought so too, eh? While the writer had a point about how expensive figure skating is as a sport, most of the rest of the piece had me rolling my eyes. And the nostalgia for the 6.0 system nearly made me puke. No one ever had any clue how the judges arrived at those 5.8s and 5.9s. At least in the new system you can see what they're doing, more or less. As for discrimination in figure skating, it's a problem that isn't going to go away as long as there aren't many coaches and officials of different ethnicities than white...you can promote racialized skaters all you want but the fundamental problem will remain until there's a diversity of voices in the powers that be of the sport.

...after they cancelled 4CC there?

aka "since we know they'll all fail the test, we need to make a loophole so the Russians can still compete". Sorry if I sound cynical, but really, is this a problem any other fed is likely to have? They're the ones who've been dropping like flies....

...and he did it again. This time jumping the CN Tower:

This topic is evergreen, it's never old. I love hearing all the great things Yuzu inspires people to do!

Unless you're prepared to do hundreds of squats and lunges a day, don't feel bad. MY muscles ache just thinking about the two decades of hard work it took for him to build that physique. Chocolate eclairs are so much more enjoyable.

Plush has two big brass ones, and never backs down from a fight. I think he absolutely wanted to challenge Yuzu in Sochi. He must have been so frustrated when he got hurt.

I'm sharing this here as well as in the Team Canada thread. Look at this beautiful view of Toronto provided by Nam. Can you imagine Yuzu being there too?