rockstaryuzu

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.

Maybe it looks a little hokey on Youtube, but it really worked as a high-energy open for the show on the big screens at the arena. And yes, Kaitlyn and Kaetlyn opened the show with some great skating.

Popularity isn't what I meant by having many people agree that you're the GOAT, though. What I meant is that in order to be the GOAT, whatever skill, talent, or genius has to be obvious to a reasonably large number of people, from a wide variety of viewpoints on whatever discipline you're in, and that those people would rank your skill, talent, or genius as better than all your competitors. I mean, Jason Brown is popular but he'll never be the GOAT. Plushy is often controversial and not necessarily popular but there are many who would consider him the GOAT.

I think that was the case last year too.

You can see it so clearly with Kurt. His feet are big LOL so his skating skills stand out.

I was thinking exactly that last night. I hope she's just being a sponge and absorbing ALL THE KNOWLEDGE... because even Nam has those skills and you can totally see it in the show. If I had to describe Patrick's technique, I'd say he put his blade down heel first, if that makes sense...except that's not possible in every single step..but that's what it looks like - like the rear half of his blade makes contact with the ice before the front does. But it's so, so, so subtle of a difference - most of the other skaters are making contact in the middle area of the foot I think. I'm not 100% sure even of this observation, because they all move so darn fast. It's like they're playing a game of 'the floor is lava' and stepping so quickly that each foot doesn't touch the ice for long unless they're holding an edge.

Agree. Although whoever choreographed SOI Canada this year tried to include some of that into the group numbers. There was a whole piece with a breakdancing theme that was basically all the skaters pairing off in turn and doing SBS elements. Unfortunately it was nearly impossible to film with my crappy Android and all my videos are blurry.