rockstaryuzu

Part of me wonders if all of the athletes involved are aware of this. And yeah, this is the very definition of irony, considering how b****y T*L are about almost everybody. Frankly I'm tired of the 'being b****y is so hip' thing, would love to see it end.

So according to that, Shoma wins by the skin of his teeth, if he skates clean. IMO, Yuzu's more likely to skate clean than Shoma is.

I've always wanted to see a GoPro view of someone doing a quad jump. It would be so cool!

His records, break records. Yuzu might be the Chuck Norris of figure skating now.

I hope she got the bag back...

It's just proof that only Yuzu knows what Yuzu is really capable of.

Hence why I say we're in for a great season... actually a great couple of years. The depth of talent is amazing. As for Jun, I'm basing my opinion of him off what I saw at the practices at ACI and Skate Canada. Right now he's the only other skater in the men's that moves even remotely close to the way Yuzu does. It stood out to me. He may be young yet but he has the potential for sure.

I hope it works well for him.

Once Jun gets his technical content up to par, I predict that Yuzu will have a fight on his hands to stay on top. So far this year, Jun's as rock solid consistent as I've ever seen in skater, his spins are bang on, his jumps are crisp and sharp and he gets huge air. He has some of Yuzu's catlike qualities in skating skills already. If he figures out the same skill Yuzu has of holding on to a jump even when the landing's going sideways, then watch out because he'll be coming for all the gold. My friends, we are in for an amazing season IMO.

I think it's a maturity thing. Like, right now it's as if he's doing the sport like a talented prodigy: amazing skill, he's having fun, but he doesn't fully own it. He hasn't discovered his own internal drive to mark his mark; skating's just what he does, not something he lives for. I think that if he ever discovers the fire of his own intrinsic motivations, he'll give Yuzuru a huge run for his money. But seriously, right now Junhwan does a better job on the emotional/connect with the audience side.

Brian is his skaters' biggest supporter. I noticed during Skate Canada that he was always the first to clap whenever Jun, Jason, or Evgenia landed an element. You'd hear three or four lone claps from the coach's area, then the audience would join in.

Shoma's skate was great technically. In the sense of blade control and technical mastery, he mostly put on a clinic at Skate Canada. But the soul was missing. There was nothing of himself in that skate that the audience could connect to. Shoma's said in interviews that he doesn't think too hard about his pieces and just skates to whatever music and choreography he's given, and from watching and comparing him to Yuzu I'd say that's very true. He's great, but he doesn't have that extra something Yuzu has. If I had to sum it up, I'd say that Shoma is doing a sport while Yuzu is trying to communicate with the world through the medium of figure skating. So as long as both skate clean, IMO Yuzu will win every time.

I know, right? Kills me dead every time.

I hope he'll be able to come up with something...it's not like he can use a previous season's FS as a temporary measure what with the change in length and all. The best option would be to find another piece of music that'll fit the program he already has.

Not sure how to answer that...maybe? I mean everything depends on your usual taste in objects of affection. Although, when it comes to finding him attractive, since it's Yuzu, maybe that attraction should have it's very own label? Instead of 'gay' or 'straight' or whatever, we can all just be Yuzuphilic.

There's actually a quote from Christian tradition that I think quite fits the idea of Origin and also how Yuzu is portraying it: "the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." (Gen 1verse 2). What is Yuzu in Origin, if not a spirit moving upon the face of the waters, creating the world from the formless void? Although, as poetic an image as that is, it may not be Yuzu's idea of the program at all.

Hey, no judgement here...if I were a guy, Yuzu would have the power to make me gay too! It's so nice that we're all on the same page when it comes to murder face/ pre-performance Yuzu.

That's definitely how I see it. And I hope I'm not the only one who is really excited about the idea of Yuzuru as some kind of powerful spirit creating a universe through his skating. I think it opens up an amazing Avenue for him to express the power of his will on the ice.

Just purely from a writer's standpoint, I get what you mean. It's annoying to hear such over-the-top praise because you know that factually it's not true.

You've just reminded me of something. While I was at Skate Canada, I got chatting to the American woman sitting next to me, and she mentioned that the NBC Olympic coverage was so over-the-top people were literally believing all the US skaters had a shot at gold. (Well, technically not wrong, if everyone else ahead of them had simultaneous food poisioning and couldn't skate or something...) Anyway, my new acquaintance said it was so refreshing to see skating live and be able to witness to the fact that there were other great skaters out there. Some of whom she'd never seen, because NBC doesn't show them that much.

Well if they didn't , the rest of us would have nothing to laugh at...:)

With Javi gone, Yuzu has to be the senpai now and support the younger skaters. Looks like he's made a start on that.

I like the new default theme!

Junhwan is starting to show signs of that same smoothness though. At least I thought so from observing him at Skate Canada practices. None of the other men even come close to having that light flowing style. *Ooh, look, I'm Notte Stellata now!

This made me laugh an unreasonable amount. Where's Ondrej when you need him? But you know, Shoma got the ladies to lift him (take a look at the photo, the guys are only at either end, the girls are doing all the hard work.) I wonder if Yuzu dares....