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He was 10th in the SP at Jr. Worlds and fell on multiple jumps. And then 3rd in the FS..if you compare to JGPF, where he dominated with perfect form the whole way through, yes it's a drop. Of course no one's going to be perfect all the time, but it's hard not to notice sudden changes in performance either.

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I'd go with Hanyu-sensshu. It's how they call him in the Japanese newspapers.

I know he was with Lee Barkell for the last half of the season. And frankly, his results dropped as soon as he left Brian, (went from winning Junior GPF to bombing at Jr World's) so I dunno if the move was such a great idea. TSL is maybe not the most reliable source ever.

I would love to see his 4Lz Ice Scoped. He's got to be clearing at least 0.7 or 0.8m in height there.

Agreed. I have nothing more to say. More interestingly and importantly, it seems like Yuzu's trying out a little bit of coaching.

Frankly it looks like women's skating is going to have it's own quad revolution this year. I predict there's going to be quite a few more non-Russian girls trying to get them. All I have to say about that, is that there's quads and then there's actual good-quality quads like Yuzu does...would really not like to see the women's becoming a wasteland of poorly executed 4Ts...

Someone needs to teach that app to look for Adam's apples!

I predict it'll say he's a 10 year old girl, as always.

Maybe b/c it's a Chinese site? I know that some things can be more complicated b/c of that.

For various reasons, I was really feeling sad this morning, but a quick dip into the Planet's Yuzu drought goofiness cheered me up! Satellites are the best, silly though we may sometimes be.

This would actually be a great off-season pastime...how many Yuzus can we spot in the wild?

Agree!

What kind of mayhem are you trying to encourage, @Geo1?

Same. She's still skating amazingly and looked great when I saw her at SOI four days ago. On the other hand, she's done so much already. She's such a powerful skater and women's singles needs that.

All he has to do is show up and smile, actually, for the adoration to happen.

Yuzu as a choreographer...somehow I picture it being more like him and Mura in CWW: " and then you do twizzle-3A-twizzle, that 50-step StepSeq I showed you before, one-foot travelling camel spin, Ina Bauer into another 3A-" "-Hanyu-sensei?" "-3A combo, 4lo, hydro-" "Hanyu-sensei!" "-what?" "I'm still trying to understand the first combo jump...4T-3A into a sit spin, you said?" "You mean the easy part?"

The little samurai onigiri character though! So cute. Matches Yuzu.

I wonder if kids in Sendai pretend they're Yuzu when they play in the playground or schoolyard and try to do 3As? It's something I would have done at that age.

I like Yuzu's the best, but Yuna's has less travel so in a TES sense, hers is probably better. However, his had more impact and significance in the program.

He's not in Chan's league, no. On the other hand, I challenge anyone to sit rinkside during SOI Canada, watch those guys skate side by side, and try to spot a weakness in any of their skills. For that matter, try and spot a weakness in any of Radford's, Poirier's, Poje's, or Nguyen's basic skating skills. It's just not there.

He has them though. Anyway, it was a different era, the programs were constructed differently. He was definitely known for fast feet in the footwork sequences. They don't even do footwork any more. It's step sequences now.

Even so, people will try, and going across different eras is exactly the case for which you'd need widespread agreement in order to identify a potential GOAT. Any one individual can say someone else is the GOAT, but to really be the greatest of all time, more than one person has to think so.