rockstaryuzu

It's harder, but it's not impossible.

I find it interesting that the historic champions - Button, Curry, Cousins et al - are in general much taller than current competitors. Except for Scotty Hamilton of course. The current wisdom seems to be that you need to be short to get those quads in. Roman and Conrad are mavericks bucking the trend, when you think about it.

No, I knew Shoma was quite short. I just didn't realize he was Smallest of All* *Perhaps he is one of Rabbit's friends-and-relations, and therefore from the same forest as Pooh. . . . Yes, I'm getting a little batty from all this social distancing. Yuzu is exactly the same height as I am, and therefore perfect.

Yes, but I thought he was taller than Yuzu. Nathan is much much shorter than I expected

Roman is the tallest guy currently competing, it seems. And Shoma is the smallest of all time :). The ones who surprised me were Nam, Johnny, and Michal Brezina. Johnny was taller than I thought and Nam and Brezina shorter.

For me, a wobbly feeling would be more of a big event - like you just had a really big scary shock, followed by something that relieves the shock.... that's when you'd be wobbly. I'd say Yuzu has a lot of occasions where he's feeling wibbly. K&C seems to be the perfect breeding ground for wibbly-ness.

Depends who we're talking to. Sometimes, but in reference to maintaining physical balance.

Aw.

No, I made it up. It means this kind of thing: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/QuiveringEyes Another example: you know that clip of Yuzu where he's all emotional and asking "Why'm I crying?" , because he's actually happy? That emotional state is what I mean by 'wibbly'.

One would expect any Yuzu exercise to start with scrunching Pooh's face, no?

Yuzu got me in the feels again.... I was minding my own business, not bothering anyone, just quietly social distancing away and watching a YouTube of FaOI 2019 Toyama when this bullet to the heart shows up in the auto-translated subtitles of one of the boy's post-skate interviews: " The energy from everyone cheering here, or all the thoughts people send through watching me on TV, I will skate and train, swearing not to waste these things..." Wah! I was all wibbly in an instant. This wonderful, wonderful boy.

I'm going to preface my comments by saying that I quite like Daisuke and I think he's a sweetheart, and I still wonder why Nathan, Jason, Vincent, Camden, and Tomoki, not to mention a few others, aren't enough for USFed, that they go looking to bring someone back from retirement? However, it will be interesting to see what Dice can bring to the table now, and I'm all for people challenging themselves.

For me it's 4CC all the way. He owned that performance easy as breathing. PC Chopin certainly has a special place in my heart because it was like the sun coming out after a blizzard, but in terms of which one was the better, more perfect Yuzu performance, it's 4CC. You know how he sounds in media when he introduces himself and says his own name? That's what 4CC Chopin was like. At least, in my eyes, anyway.

Oh kill me now! Fiery passionate baby Yuzu vs. powerful yet controlled high finesse grown-up Yuzu...help I can't choose!

I wonder why. Honestly, I think the sport has evolved beyond what he's able to do. Unless he's trying another discipline?

Isn't it awesome?

It's simpler than that - when other kids were learning to swim, he was practicing skating. I forget which interview it was where he said that, but it's out there.

2, 4, and 6. I'm guessing #4 is supposed to be the LGC/Origin hair, but it's not really a great pic of it.

Really? I thought that was something he decided on impulsively, day of the competition. It had such YOLO energy I figured it couldn't be anything else.

These arm positions are why I love Origin Ina Bauer the most. Like, I just want to hug it, as silly as that sounds.

@yuzuangel The pistol pose is a good one! Also, how about the LGC slide?

How about this one?

I wasn't thinking about it, until you brought it up! Now....

Okay, I understand a bit better what you were saying. Yes, he does need a core layout with potential variations, but not to be all over the place. Tbh, I think the problem with Origin was that Yuzu had a grand vision that he actually wasn't able to pin down. That being said, if he feels like going for another layout like the one at GPF 2019, only sensibly paced so that he doesn't run out of steam, I'd be all for it.

Also, having multiple layouts is part of his strategy for dealing with unexpected things like bad ice conditions or a problem on a jump early in the program and so on. Part of why Yuzu wins so much is because he's a magician at disaster recovery - think of all the times he YOLO'd jumps into his programs to save his score when he had issues early on. The reason he's able to do that is because he practices different layouts. So I doubt we'll ever see him bring a program where he only uses one definitive layout the whole season long. Yes, exactly.