rockstaryuzu

Wow. Congratulations on getting through that.

I like her FS now...didn't really like it at ACI...but I think she's figured it out finally and can give a good performance with it. I also liked the ACI version of OCS...but I feel like it would have been better to go a different direction with it than the flapper character they were trying. In my opinion, OCS is an innocent and happy piece of piece music and they could have taken it in that direction, but maybe Dave Wilson was a bit blinded by Zhenya's resemblance to Catherine Zeta-Jones as Roxy Hart in Chicago and couldn't see the other possibilities.

I miss 4T3A already, and I've only seen it once. I'm kind of starting to hope Brezina decides to go public with that 4S3A he bragged about at Helsinki and put it in a competition program. Why do I hope this? Because moving the sport forward and raising the level of the competition is what I want to see all the time.

I find it hard to envision Dai making the final 6 at Japanese Nationals even, for exactly this reason. Japan has depth of talent on the men's side, too. It's maybe not going to be quite the bloodbath the women's side will be, but it won't be easy by any stretch of the imagination, even without Yuzu.

I can tell you that the second sentence starts with 'Tohoku', aka the region where Sendai is. The rest is a mystery... Google Translate says the first sentence is "A wonderful person came" and the second sentence seems to be referring to the number of photos related to Tohoku at the exhibit..."Tohoku 3 shots!" ? I guess they mean 3 pics of Yuzu...

Those gifs of baby Yuzu playing dodgeball...so soft with the girls, then full-on ultra-competitive against the guys...so cute!

Same!

of course he did.

Plus he's so level-headed. I love that quote he gave about not rushing to get better but going at his own pace instead. So far his own pace looks set to take him really far.

Let's face it, he was simply blessed at birth by fairy godmothers or angels or Pooh or something...

His level of exercise and the fact he probably eats extremely healthy all the time would naturally give him great skin anyways.

The K-Pop world seems like it's pretty demanding of its stars, so I'm happy for Jun-Hwan that he's in skating for now. By comparison, figure skating appears to be the healthier world.

I think this is the best example ever of how to properly use imagery and positive thinking in sport, because he's focused on the goal (winning) and not the extraneous details (whether or not he skates error-free).

True.

Even if it was random like that, it still makes me uncomfortable to see it.

If that's the case, then the poor soul who took it is about to get a crash education in Yuzu fandom 101....

As happy as I am to see Yuzu back on the ice even if he's only checking out where his ankle is at in the healing process, watching a video that was obviously sneak-taken leaves me with a creepy-crawly feeling in the pit of my stomach. Why not just say you've seen him, rather than post video? Or you know, remain discreet. *Edit: Since the person posting the video turns out to have done it in all innocence and had no idea who she was filming, my comment is not directed at them, but my underlying opinion of videos taken without the subject's knowledge remains the same.

That hair and costume are amazing.

I think what you've said is truth.

As someone working in a highly academic field, I'm sorry to say, but high intelligence does not go hand-in-hand with moral rectitude as much as one would like to think As for Kozuka:

Well, so did Daisuke Takahashi, and yet, here he is, 4 years after officially retiring, about to skate in JNats again. Just goes to show that there's no telling what may happen. But seriously, if Yuzu has to go that route of sitting on the sidelines for a year or more before getting back to competition, I think it'll make me cry for months) I have faith. One day, all Yuzu's bad ankles shall be healed.

@swan_queen Thanks for sharing! I noticed this is your very first post on the Planet. You made it a good one . Welcome and I hope you enjoy it here. When you said this, I wondered how many of the people who have ever watched him skate, have felt the same. It's definitely a sentiment many of the satellites have expressed here on the Planet at various times.

So flexible! It's like he's made of rubber...if only we could all be so stretchy...

...oh my....