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Great translation, thanks for doing that!

Just want to add that the taste was light but distinct, delightfully refreshing, and entirely different from other beers, with no off-notes or undue bitterness to linger on the tongue and ruin the experience. Very yuzuish.

So I was out for drinks with my coworkers tonight and found this: https://godspeedbrewery.com/yuzu which was listed in the menu as 'Godspeed Yuzu'. I had two. Godspeed at Worlds, Yuzu, may you have the skate you've always wanted, and amaze us all. Again.

Yes, but it's a sunuvabish for anyone coming from any distance away at all, especially those who can't afford to rent a car. I was hoping they'd switch it to somewhere more scenic with an airport/mass transit close by and hotels closer to the rink.

Yes, me too, @Geo1. I was looking forward to it being somewhere else. On other topics, take a look at this video of wee mushroom Yuzu doing The Firebird and tell me if that opening position and choreo doesn't seem awfully familiar: When Yuzu said last year that he was going back to his origins in skating, I didn't think he meant it literally, but there it is.

Look, if it's officially Oakville again, we need to organize ourselves and get some sightseeing going so that satellites can get a chance to learn there's more to T.O. than powerlines, Tim Horton's and gas stations...

That's because the info is only on the 'Volunteer Opportunities' page of the Skate Canada site so far (they're looking for volunteers for next year). So it may or may not be official yet. Be nice if SC could get that competition away from the suburban wastelands of west Toronto and back to somewhere hotels are within walking distance of the rink.

Whatever's easiest, or DM me

But Vertigo has shy baby hip roll!

Pitting LGC against Vertigo was horribly unfair! How can I chose?!!

The pins arrived sooner than I thought. They look great! These will be distributed at Worlds. If you're not attending Worlds and still want one, DM me and I can make arrangements to send you one. A couple points: 1. Names still to be added. Since these arrived early, I can start adding names now, using a labeller and by request, or it can be hand-lettered by marker by you. 2. These are intended for use at Planet-only gatherings. Otherwise use at your own risk. 3. Numbers are limited. I have 50 of the green Seimei and 25 of snow. Therefore, 1 per satellite please. Is anyone interested in having these embellished a bit? I was thinking along the lines of adding something sparkly like crystals or glitter tape.

Your hubby is a joy forever...He's seen Yuzu skate in person and still thinks it's makeup? LOL. You need to bring him to another competition so he can verify for himself.

There's something to that - if I sit on an office chair and spin it, I only get dizzy if I tilt my head back or stick it forward. If I keep it aligned with my spine, I'm okay.

I thought I saw some video of him applying a lip balm or something like it while he was waiting for the press conference to start, right after the Sendai victory parade in April 2018. It was impossible to tell what he used but he definitely quickly applied something to his lips. My guess is was a softer lip balm, maybe like EOS brand or the Japanese equivalent? Because his lips seemed just a little shiny afterward. Anyway, it was part of a nearly two-hour-long live feed so finding it back is a task... nothing popped up on Youtube, but if you're looking, I recall it was right before he entered and took the seat at the front of the room to start the presscon. The live feed cameras followed him all the way in so they caught it.

Found a super-interesting article talking about brain adaptations in elite athletes. They had this to say about figure skating: Shutting Out the Sploshing Defying gravity and embodying grace while balanced on two thin, steel blades is hard enough; figure skating also requires skaters to sabotage their own sense of balance. Take a triple axel, whose 1,260 degrees of rotation is already enough to make the average person dizzy. Then there are spins, with a minimum of eight rotations each. Elite skaters usually do them in combination, one after another, easily wracking up dozens of revolutions in one vertiginous blur. All that spinning sends the tiny pools of fluid in the inner ears sloshing. This is the vestibular system, which uses the movement of this fluid to keep track of the head’s movement and maintain coordination. In figure skaters, the vestibular system is sent into such overdrive that they—and their brains—learn to ignore its signals. Figure skaters just don’t get as dizzy. Most athletic skills require sharper, faster reflexes, but adapting to dizziness actually requires a weaker one. When your head rotates in one direction, your eyes instinctively shift in the other; this vestibulo-ocular reflex happens even in the dark and even when you’re unconscious. But sports physiologists have found that this basic reflex is weakened in figure skaters.7 A study in ballet dancers, also expert spinners, provides some insight into what’s going on in the brain.8 A group of 29 ballet dancers were spun on a chair in a dark room and asked to turn a handle in time with their perceived rotation. Unsurprisingly, their vestibulo-ocular reflexes were slower and their perceived rotations shorter. When neuroscientists peered into the dancers’ brains with MRI, they found less gray matter in the very areas of the cerebellum that get input from the vestibular system. The cerebellum is a fist-sized bundle of nerves at the nape of the neck that processes sensory feedback and uses it to fine-tune physical movements. The cerebellums of pirouetting ballet dancers and spinning figure skaters have likely adapted to ignore what is, for them, the counterproductive feeling of dizziness. I'm guessing figure skaters don't see the point of the Tilt-a-Whirl ride, then... The whole article can be found here and it's really, really intriguing reading: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-jocks-and-mathletes-are-alike?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Something like kabuki theatre makeup would be extremely interesting, especially if he went with the whole theme and created a program based on it

He definitely does not use anything. His skin and features always appear the same.

I wanna live somewhere where Yuzu ads appear at random!

Might be the best photo of him yet - like a visual representation of his real personality!

Pins are in production. I ordered some stickers as well, from a different company, just as a backup in case the pins don't arrive in time. The art proofs look pretty good, hopefully the pins will too! I'm supposed to have them by March 12. Will post a pic when they arrive.

Whichever one matches the term 'galaxy brain' !

Ditto. Although I feel like the button should be in the shape of a galaxy...

Plot twist - Misha comes back as a pairs skater, with his wife.

Anyone up for some more Olympic Channel fun? I have to say, Oly-chan is winning the Internet with all these. ISU_Figure could take some cues from them.

Oh my. that last pic...I surrender! Love the first one of him jumping down from the bench.