rockstaryuzu

You may be right, but you're making a big assumption there, namely that Nathan reads what people say about him on social media. For his own sake, I kind of hope he doesn't! Honestly, most of what fans say online about his performances, any responsible coach would also be saying to him. Raf doesn't seem like the kind of guy who pulls his punches. My guess is that he read Nathan the riot act after the Olympics, and Nathan listened.

Agree with you here, but, thankfully, a good number of skaters appear to take PCS with a huge grain of salt and just keep working on getting better anyway, regardless of score. I think they're taking their cues from Yuzuru in that. He keeps on improving. The guy's the tip of the top, the very last grain of stone at the pinnacle of Everest, nothing left to prove, and yet he's still not satisfied and keeps on growing. I love it. And yes, in my opinion Nathan is one of those skaters who has decided that PCS is not an accurate measurement of his performance and that he has to work to improve his performance to suit his own standards. Look at him a year ago vs today - heaps of improvement in performance value. He moves better, his body lines are more precise, he's trying to hit the music better, if he'd just ditch the Vera Wang 'oh-look-i'm-a-skating-monk' outfits, I'd enjoy his skates immensely. If he were taking his PCS as Gospel truth accurate evaulations of his skating, none of that would have happened.

Yuzu did mention in some interview or other that he was watching ice dance these days...maybe he wanted to try a little routine.

I just came here to post the exact same thing. The CBC Sports piece: Canada adds Gabrielle Daleman to team ahead of world figure skating championships https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/figureskating/canada-worlds-figure-skating-gabrielle-daleman-1.5029767 Looks like our women's team will be Gabby, Aurora, and I guess Alaine, since she was the National champion. Her performance at 4CC wasn't awesome though. I can't help but wish Kaetlyn had chosen to defend her Worlds title, though. I was looking at her performances in the TYCT vids and it looks like her jumps have gotten even stronger. Anyway, here's hoping Gabby's strong and healthy through the entire competition at Worlds.

Forgot about that.

With five intertwined rings .

Of course I'd watch Ice Buddies first, but The Osaka Takeover sounds the most like a real movie.

But that's not really what we've seen so far...a lot of bad landings are getting negative GOE or even UR calls...

Yup. IMO it was crazy overscoring, and I think the changes that have been made to scoring since then are going to make this year's Worlds an entirely different affair

The men's comp at WC18 was something of a disaster. I don't remember anyone really going 'clean'. Except for Kazuki's clutch performance securing Japan's 3 spots, most of it was

But of course. For the King of skating is also the King of trolling.

Or just jumping 4A. For all we know, his ankle could be fully healed. My money's on 4Lo coming back, though.

How about his murderface at the end of Ballade? It's seriously lacking from our emoticon selection . I refer you to this link for image:

Plus, there's something about it that just seems to state the essence of Yuzu as a competitor. The whole in-your-face rock attitude. It always makes me think of Daisuke's quote that Yuzu is the King.

Not sure if Yuzu's quite ready to unleash that particular firestorm on the world...just imagine the frenzy it could cause.

Hey! It's not like I discriminate! I like white LGC too. It just makes me sad because I could have seen it in person, if I had only realized my fanyu destiny in time...:(

I knew LGC had to be in there somewhere! The Purple Pants of Sin never fail! R&J1 is another good one though.

Given how much he seems to have bowled you over, it has to be Let's Go Crazy.

All these Hanyu tuxedo fan arts have me knocked dead. It's said that a tux is perfectly designed to show a man's physique off to best advantage...with Yuzu that would go double.... Technically speaking some of those outfits are morning suits, but who cares? They look great!!

Wow, they must all have fallen in love with him from that description! I would have

All will be well...with this Laureus thing, Yuzu's gotten his obligatory silver...or metaphorical equivalent, anyway. So yeah, Worlds will be just fine.

"Golf is a good walk, spoiled." -- Mark Twain

That's right, she's a fanyu, eh? Well, look at it this way: now she can be our agent on the inside.

Gotta agree. Golf isn't exactly the world's most demanding sport....even if a golfer comes back from an injury, so what? Big deal. I thought for sure it would have been McMorris. Objectively speaking, he's the one who had the greatest distance to cover, in the shortest time, in his comeback. But there are a LOT of golfers on the board of the Laureus. Well it was fun while it lasted...

So, who actually won? McMorris?