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Roman just posted a video about the same thing. His rink was closed as of yesterday and they were scrambling to find ice time at TCC or Granite, but now that's out too. Good thing it's fairly early in the season, but who knows how long this will actually last for? Skaters who still have access to ice right now are definitely going to have an advantage come September. Provided they can keep that ice access...I have a feeling that sooner or later the whole world will be going through the same thing. For example, I just got a message from my uncle in Spain. They're now in lockdown. His girlfriend is an ER doctor, and he's over 65 with a heart problem. Time for anxiety

Their love is eternal, although Ice-chan is a tsundere

If they vote in this, I bet $100 they vote for each other.

Well, by long term I meant lasting a whole season. I know the Russian girls have a short shelf-life.

Scoring aside, I just don't see how she can successfully deliver results over the long term when she's lacking such a fundamental basic thing. The fact that she does is a testament to her own athleticism and determination, but raw physical talent will only get you so far. And we've seen this with her losses to Scherbakova and Kostornia already. Quads are not the be-all end-all

I know. There's nothing in that program run-through that made me feel it would deserve a medal at Worlds. But when even the stroking is off....!

I don't know how to put this but, compared to a lot of other skaters, her basic stroking seems like it costs her a lot of effort. She really looks like she's labouring during those moments. Her skating is clearly not effortless. 5 quads but she can't fly across the ice.

Not Yuzu related, but if anyone is thirsty for some skating, the World Junior Synchro Championships are streaming live right now: Synchro has a charm and a fascination all its own. I love that the athletes are such a mixed bag of shapes and sizes but the whole team is in unison.

He does like to revisit programs that he didn't feel got their due, so maybe we'll see it eventually some day. I adored the flag hijinks at ACI. Glad that Keegan acted on that impulse and started the show.

Good thinking!

LOL! Beware the fanyu invasion! As for effects on people, it's not like I can talk, his effect on me leaves me in need of CPR....

I feel like we should all be volunteering at it this year. Lord knows we put all those sweet little old ladies who run it through a lot the last two years

He's taking lessons from Nam, maybe? Not going to lie, Nam's programs at SCI this year left me wondering whether he was trying to make love to the audience. Anyway, he's 25 now... A man grown...why not have some innocent(ish) fun with the audience? He's just enjoying his effect on people, is my guess

His audience interaction skills are second to none, seriously.

When he spotted my crappy little 'Canada loves Yuzu' poster at the ACI medal ceremony and cracked up laughing. The jury's still out as to whether he thought it was genuinely funny or not, or whether he was simply reacting to the poster beside mine ( which had Tokyo Ghoul and YowaPedal on it), but I feel like I made him laugh with joy, and I was walking on Air the rest of the day. Second most favorite moment: during the skaters' final lap at the SCI Gala, I called out 'Arigato Yuzuru' to him, and he turned and made the heart shape with his hands in my general direction. There was no way he could see who it was that had called out to him, but he wanted whoever it was to know they were heard. This beautiful man....

You know what I miss the most about 4 min 30 programs? All the time skaters had to do beautiful spins. Etude just reminded me of that. Even though it's a SP.

Same! But maybe he was just flying around the rink for cardio. He moves so darn fast.

I guess so.

I'm thinking it'll be Seimei vs R&J 1.0 aka grown up Yuzu vs baby Yuzu...

Still don't know how you survived that.

Some of those match-ups are pure EVIL! How the heck am I supposed to pick!?

Yes but guess what? He's already practicing it anyway... which means that behind closed doors, he's repeatedly jumping it and trying to land it... already. Terror is relative

We might still. It's not like the CBC to waste an interesting story.

You're saying that like it's a bad thing...

I still want to see it! Would be great if CBC could air it somehow