rockstaryuzu

Poor Toshl is pretty far gone...maybe he needs a fanyu intervention? Not that I blame him though, Yuzu makes me want to get on the ice too.

No dissing the hip rolls! They were what first drew my attention to The Waist! Yuzu did his pure little lamb best with those, and the story behind them is pretty funny, too. Apparently they were meant as a joke punishment to him for talking too much all the time during his choreo sessions, or something like that. I have to say that I adore the version of Change where he falls and flips off Ice-Chan. Such a Yuzu moment. Anyway, for fun how about trying imagine Masquerade-type Yuzu doing those hip rolls....there aren't enough smelling salts in the world to revive all the dead fanyus that would cause.

Oh no, how will I ever survive

Seriously, I can barely tell the difference. With other skaters, I always look for that big curving sweep of the non-jumping leg as the giveaway for the Sal, and a straight glide with heavy toe pick for the toe loop. Yuzu's not like that.

...I could have sworn that was an edge jump. Wow.

Isn't that a 4S?

I spy Yuzu, Jun, Zhenya, Conrad, Joseph and Jason. And by the way, I think it's very cool that even Yuzu still takes edge classes. Makes you realizes that mastery of a skill isn't an endpoint but a continuous ongoing process.

The only one of those competitions where Yuzu's participation has been announced by the ISU is Skate Canada, and that's the ISU assigning him there. There hasn't been any official announcement yet by the JSF or Yuzu as to which competitions he'll do.

At TCC, it could be any one of them - they all seem like a bunch of kids having fun. Even Brian.

I remember seeing that when I was watching it live and thinking that he didn't look his usual self...then later on in interviews he mentioned that even though he'd had a longer time between his injury at Rostelecom and Worlds '19 than he'd had between NHK 17 and the Olympics, he had not been able to work as hard and get back up to fitness, so he was very nervous going into Worlds this time.

Love his commentary - literal translation 'why in such a time, Pooh-chan?!' aka, what the heck are you doing there, Pooh? LOL.

He injured himself just before Worlds, though - or was it Russian Nationals? I can't remember, but considering his age & such, maybe his physical condition is a question mark right now? That's most plausible reason I can see for putting him on the reserve list. Personally I hope he comes back, I like Voronov, I admire his spunk for continuing to skate (and do 4 Lo!) when most would say he's too old.

....they put him in his Under Armor.

The fancam clips fit right in! I honestly wouldn't have spotted them if you hadn't given the timestamps for them right at the start of the video.

Lapras bowing might be the cutest thing I've seen today.

Yuzuru Hanyu, Father of 4As

Also, we're surely not the only Yuzu forum that idolizes The Waist. So he could be lurking, just not here.

The most recent was when he talked about the muscles that gave his waist it's, well, Waist-ness in that interview just after FaOI. It could have been completely coincidence but it sounded like he had been lurking our discussions of The Waist and specifically the ones where we were wondering what he does in the gym to get such a good one.

Eh...I sometimes wonder if Yuzu himself lurks here. There are times when he says things in interviews where it seems like he is directly addressing things that have been said here.

The dancer's leap is so powerful and straight up, it actually looks like he's being pulled up on a wire , even though he's not. I'm willing to bet that Yuzu can get similar height in the dance studio as well, unemcumbered by skates etc. Considering that Yuzu did it after coming out of a hydroblade, which, physiologically speaking, is almost the exact opposite muscle movement, it show some pretty awesome athleticism on his part. Even if I were fit enough, my thighs would be screaming after that. Never mind skating the rest of the program.

Aww. That just made me miss Origin all over again. It was truly meant to be a masterpiece. I hope with all my heart Yuzu brings it back again someday, and is able to skate it the way he intended for it to be.

Clearly, made him very very happy and inspired! Just like the rest of us.