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To be a required element for senior men's FS in 2023...competitors to be judged on volume, pitch, vocal projection, emotional content, whether the scream fits the theme of the program, and sincerity of effort.

Of course! And Yuzu never forgets the people and places and things that helped him.

Definitely not. I think Yuzu has made the right decision. It still makes me sad that he's not going to be back here for a long time yet.

Pretty much. To start with, non-essential travel is refused, so everyone entering has to prove their reason for coming in. On top of that, all travellers arriving by air have to provide proof of a negative COVID test result taken within 72 hours of boarding the plane. On arrival in Canada, another test must be taken, and (currently, anyway) travellers must isolate, at their expense, at a government designated hotel for another 72 hours, before heading to their final destination, at which point they must continue the quarantine until at total of 14 days have passed. It's all big pain for anyone arriving, and it's main purpose to discourage people from even thinking of traveling here until COVID is over. And travel direct from certain countries with bad outbreaks, like India, is outright banned for the time being. Travellers arriving by land from the US have a slightly different requirement - they have to do the 14 day quarantine but all the rest is waived. So if Yuzu went to US first, he could then drive here, but he'd still have arrange something to do in the US first. Until two weeks ago, all Canadians returning to Canada had to go through the same process. Now the quarantine requirement has been lifted for fully vaxxed Canadians who can prove they're vaccinated, but I believe you still have to have the negative COVID test

I have not, I only read the other, more dramatic translator...I should have realized and known better... Ugh. Still though, the longer he's away, the worse it gets.

This is exactly why I didn't expect him to come back just yet, but thinking it myself and hearing him say it for real are two different things.

Not necessarily. It could just be his evolution as an artist and athlete. While I agree that he still needs coaches for that outside perspective and the whole "two heads are better than one" thing, he doesn't have to come to Canada to get that, either. Under current circumstances, someone could go to him for a bit, too.

We fanyus! So evil, much plan...

My reaction to the DOI news: 1. Has anyone checked on ToshI? Is he okay after Yuzu resurrected Masquerade? 2. Yuzu not coming back to Canada is what I expected given the circumstances, but I'm really anyway. It's the end of an era in a way. Yuzu is moving on to a new way of being.

If you look around, you'll see that the Planet has a few of these hobby-specific forums, where satellites who have other interests in common, as well as liking Yuzu, can have their own conversations without cluttering up the main Yuzu threads. It's more of a courtesy to other satellites honestly.

Exactly. Normalize screaming for Yuzu the way rugby fans scream during the Six Nations. LOL

I scream for the videos too, just not as loud because my neighbors would panic LOL

The accident that's seared into.my brain is the one from the Jr. Pairs practice( or warm up) at Canadian Nationals last year. The guy tosses his partner up for a twist and then trips and falls flat on his face. She finishes her twist and he's not there to catch her - he's still scrambling to his feet - and this tiny, fragile little four-foot-nothing 13 year old girl goes pancaking flat onto the ice, dropping like a stone from six feet up onto the ice, barely managing to break her fall. In my lifeguarding days, that would have been a showstopper: clear the pool, everyone out, all hands on deck, 3 lifeguards to get her immobilized onto the spine board, call an ambulance, send her off to the ER, the whole nine yards. Instead, her partner picks her up, sets her back on her feet, they go over and get examined by their coaches and whatever so-called medical staff happened to be on that day, and she goes back out to skate their SP...with a broken kneecap and wrist but somehow miraculously not concussion. And then Ted B praised her bravery. Instead of using the opportunity to call for better injury protocols. It's got to be one of the few high risk sports where there's so little regard for safety. And where being downright foolhardy is considered a good thing.

Thanks for this, although now that I've read it, I have even more sympathy for Brian. He must have been absolutely beside himself trying to get the medical staff to move at first, and trying to get the appropriate care for Yuzu once he was off the ice. And I totally understand his surprise at how they tried to get Yuzu up. Every first aid course I've ever taken tells you that the very first thing you do in a situation like that is tell the injured person "Don't Move", then examine them for concussion and possible spinal injury. THEN, and only then, do you attempt to either put them on a spinal board (if they need to be immobilized) or get them onto a suitable conveyance to bring them to safety so that you can examine them further. I wish 'Team Brian' was available in English, and in Canada (it's not). All this happened and I had no idea because it's never been published here.

That was our intention, yes.

As regards CoC 2014, I might be wrong but I do believe Brian has indicated in at least one interview that the decision whether Yuzu should skate or not was in the hands of the Japanese team officials and Yuzu, I.e. it wasn't Brian's choice to make. Also, I doubt anyone realized the extent of Yuzu's injuries at the time, so it wasn't as clear-cut a situation as it looks to us now.

So many satellites were in that audience! We made our presence felt.

I think Yuzu has made it abundantly clear that he likes it when we scream, so no need to feel embarrassed. And also Awesome story!

She (Ice-chan)'s a cruel mistress but she bestows her favor and her rewards upon the deserving. Among those gifts, eternal youth. Although tbf I think it's just Yuzu's Sendai constitution. Shizuka Arukawa doesn't look a day over 30, either.

I'm actually not so keen on the darker blue, but I cast my vote for more and brighter sparrows and flowers.

Good work! Also, ever since Yuzu started training so focused on 4A, all his other jumps got way better and he executes them with ease. It really stuck out to me this year. Maybe Yuzu has discovered the true secret to jump supremacy: overkill. Shoot for 4A and everything else becomes a piece of cake.

Welcome!

So, for all intents and purposes, they'll either be limiting events to Chinese athletes only, or else conducting them in a super tight bubble, at least for now. I keep having this feeling that Beijing ain't gonna happen, and all this travel restrictions stuff does nor improve my confidence

Oh wow, I didn't even realize! Thanks!

....the thing is, it's not readily available outside China at the moment. I think this is in truth a way of saying they don't want anyone coming in, without actually saying they're closed for the time being. But whether they'll apply that to international athletes is another question