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  1. But Japanese votes still will get taken into account under subparagraph (a) - they will take both non-Japanese and Japanese votes into account to get an overall objective view. If Yuzu end up with little vote from Japan, it will also look very weird. Considering his broad fanbase, I don't think he is the skater that needs to worry about too much skewing towards his home country ( I can't say the same for some other skaters)
  2. Oh I see he doesn't care a bit about all the naysayers on recycling program...Good for him. Although I wonder if he is talking about perfecting the jump layout itself rather than necessary the exact program. Because even I can't imagine Origin repeated four years with all my love for it.
  3. You even plan to wear the watch he designed? If I managed to buy one, it will be sitting in a glass box as an ornament on my shelve
  4. Look at CWW goods to get an idea of what Yuzu will design...Blue green and feathers! Or the watch will be gold - two designs - one resembles the Sochi medal, the other like the PC medal
  5. Oh the video says Part one, that means there are more to come...I hope Part two asks more interesting or rare questions, I feel like every sponsor always ask him the same questions every year
  6. Raf is going to complain it's phsycological warfare! Although I think the campaign say there is only 600 of them so this scenery is probably not possible. I don't understand why they can't mass produce it.. it is not a very complicated model. Plus it looks cute in my opinion even for a non Yuzu fan.
  7. Imagine the future days when Seimei soundtrack and Asian dream song become warhorses (it is already starting)
  8. Whoever did this, now I am going to think of chocolate dispensers whenever I see Origin starting pose ....
  9. To be honest I will take the reveal of the salmon pink costume over say 5 sec of Mezamashi trolling us by just reporting something we already know like ACI is on next week. After all the fun we had , how can we not see it in its full glory
  10. Our favourite Mezamashi has Yuzu on tomorrow...Could he be announcing his program songs ? Or could he be revealing the bottom half of our dear pink salmon costume in a Lotte advertisement making of
  11. To be honest if I could part with that much money in a split second, I want Worlds front row seats to watch Yuzu skate more. On the other hand, whoever can buy such a watch on a whim probably already owns front row seats tickets.
  12. Is today some sort of lucky day on the Japanese calendar? Why all his sponsors decide to release new photos/campaign/videos on the same day? It is right for us to get this much water in one go?
  13. I didn't know it was possible to outdo the white onesie with yellow frills...This pink one better not be the costume for this year's Lotte clear files....what happened Lotte, you were so on point with last year's green Japanese costume
  14. Who said the suit fits not only does it not fit, it's not even ironed properly. I bet Yuzu gave Citizen a few hours only to snap as many pictures as they want and go ok I'm back to practice. Nevertheless, he still looks fantastic!
  15. I feel like you can hear a tiny tiny portion of Origin right before Seimei (could be wrong though)....And there is faint music playing in the background when he was jumping the 4S and quad combo. Anyone think it could be related to his short program?
  16. This Mami sensei looks exactly the same now as she did in that Yuzu photo 17 or 18 years ago when she was teaching baby Yuzu....People originating from Sendai rink really don't age do they
  17. Or even better, every medalist's gift include the 'Yuzuru line' of watches (I know they are ladies line, but they can develop a men line too)
  18. I was thinking something about the drawing seems off, but the above hit the point...The body proportion are too realistic such that it ends up being an unrealistic portrayal of Yuzu
  19. Oh Yuzu, what people would pay to hear you sing the Hime song (those who have watched Yowamushi Pedal knows what I'm talking about). Can this be part of the charity event?
  20. Why does something as exiting as a new endorsement (it seems like premature leak?) have to occur when it's time I have to sleep? (Now I can't sleep, ahhhhh, LGC hair!)
  21. He is famous enough in China that someone wants to trademark his name? Geez. Hopefully ANA will sort it out, I think legally you can't trademark someone else's name, although I'm no expert on the matter. But I hope it's a warning sign to Yuzu's legal team to hurry up and trademark in China not just his name but also any other brandname he might want to use in the future such as Continued with Wings. Not that he will necessarily hold ice shows in China but to prevent any misuse of brandnames associated with him. I recall Yuzu already trademarked Cotinued with Wings in Japan.
  22. To be honest the best time to introduce a quint for Yuzu is after he retires from full time competitive skating, because right now it is not worth it if it has no known mark. After retirement, he can train it at his pace and when it is ready, just enter himself into some international challenger event whose results are recognised by the ISU, but he does not need to commit himself to a full season. That way he can build a program that is choreographically supportive of the quint (or maybe even more than one for more opportunity to succeed), jump it and get his name down in history as the first to land it. He can simply just do one quint, one quad and the rest triples if it makes the success rate higher (in a lot of these challengers, two landed quads is all you need to win) But since he is retired, what total marks he gets doesn't really matter anymore.
  23. TSL said Yuzu would stay a month in Japan around Worlds with Ghislain ....Did not happen...He arrived a day late and left almost soon after. So they really barely have info on him. I mean even Brian alot of times don't seem to know Hanyu's plans and state well himself. That is not to say Hanyu can't be training quints, since after the Olympics, he said he would like to try quints too.
  24. The reason I didn't list out BVs & GOEs is because values and no. of jumps have changed in 2018/19, so a bit hard to compare directly. Also H&L, Seimei 2.0 and Origin were all planned 4 quads two 3A programs, so the technical difficulty is roughly similar. BVs of popped programs are also not comparable to ones without pops. H&L and Origin had the 4lp, Seimei 2.0 started with 4Lz, but by the Olympics had only 4T and 4S. Which is why I find these three seasons largely comparable. Based on the protocols of the competitions I have listed, other than Olympics 18 and NHK 15 getting exemplary GOEs for successful jumps, the other ones all had middling GOEs given (since they were the first three skates of a 4 quads program). The number of and type of mistake are listed for the sake of seeing how close to being clean Yuzu managed to get on each attempt. One would think H&L with slower music and less busy choreography is easier and more PCS friendly than Origin. But if you actually compare the first three skates, Yuzu wasn't skating less clean in Origin compared to H&L, and in fact getting better PCS for similar amounts of mistakes (maybe busier choreography did get him some more marks). And overall, Origin is not that far off Seimei in terms of trajectory. Interestingly, the first time he cleaned Semei at NHK, he got 97 PCS. When he first cleaned H&L he also got 97 PCS. I guess its left to see where Origin will be if cleaned (that is if he really is recycling it this season)
  25. I was wondering whether Origin is a more difficult and judges unfriendly program, as compared to say H&L and Seimei. So I decided to compare the first three skates of the LP from the last three seasons (which all had four quads). I stopped at three as 2017/18 season only had three. I counted Worlds 2019 as the third time for Origin because RoC 2018 LP was a complete Yolo on the spot with injuries bad enough to need crutches - so really an anomaly. Also I think it is ok to compare NHK 16 to Olympics 18 and Worlds 19 because Yuzu couldn't train properly under injuries for 2-3 months. Image training can't really make up for lost competition skating and judges familiarity. it is fair to say his Olympics 18 & Worlds 19 physical state was likely where he may have been at 2nd GP or GPF had he not get injured, since it's usually when he peaks in the past too. With that in mind, the number of visible major mistakes he made and the PCS he got are listed for comparison: Hope & Legacy (2016/17 year) ACI - 2 bad landings, 2 falls. PCS: 86.6 SC - 1 fall, 1 pop. PCS: 88.12 NHK - 1 fall. PCS: 92.52 Average PCS: 89.08 Seimei 2.0 (2017/18 year) ACI - 2 bad landings, 1 pop, 1 fall. PCS: 89.5 RoC - 1 bad landing, 1 pop. PCS: 94.38 Olympics - 2 bad landings. PCS: 96.62 Average PCS: 93.5 Origin (2018/19 year) ACI - 2 bad landings, 1 fall, 1 pop. PCS: 87.9 Helsinki - 3 bad landings. PCS: 92.42 Worlds - 1 bad landing. PCS: 95.84 Average PCS: 92.05 Interestingly, Yuzu makes similar amounts of visible mistakes in the first three skates each year (although bad landings are less severe than falls). So Origin isn't necessarily much more difficult. Using PCS as a guide, it appears whilst judges liked Seimei 2.0 slightly more than Origin, they liked Origin more than H&L at similar stages. However, Seimei 2.0 may also be getting higher PCS due to it being the second season, and had a reputation already. If you compare the average PCS of the first three skates of Seimei 1.0, it is slightly lower than 2.0. Semei 1.0 (2015/16 year) ACI - 1 fall, 1 bad landing. PCS: 92.1 SC - 2 bad landings, 1 fall. PCS: 88.94 NHK - completely clean PCS: 97.2 Average PCS: 92.75 Between two seasons, Seimei was skated 9 times (cleaned on third go, but it only had three quads). In one season, H&L was skated 7 times (and only cleaned on 6th time). Like said above, Origin only had a proper skate of 3 times. So it really needs a few more outings before a proper comparison can be made. If you look at early stages, its trajectory is actually better than H&L.
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