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Looks like the base values and GOE changes for next season are on hold, according to the new ISU communication. "...based on feedback received from ISU Members..." So what they're saying is that nobody thought having loop, flip, and lutz worth the same base value and adding yet another degree of under-rotation call to an already overly-complex and overly-subjective scoring system was a good idea?

I managed to get an hour of ice time yesterday. I didn't even try to jump or spin, just worked on moves for the full hour to re-familiarize myself with the ice. Turns out skating involves some serious muscles. I am so sore today after not being able to skate for three months and then trying to pick things back up where I left off. (Also, my rink is currently doing all levels at the same time, as opposed to the usual low-level sessions I skate, and it was my first experience dodging people working on getting their triples back after the lockdown. Slightly terrifying.)

It wasn't as exciting as you'd think, to be honest. The novelty wore off after a few minutes. When he's off the ice and not trying to be the center of attention, he's human like anyone else.

Fans generally tend to leave him alone on planes from what I’ve heard. I’ve been on a flight with him once (and sat quite close to him, actually) and nobody bothered him. And he was sitting next to one of the people he travels with, so no worries about him having to sit next to a fan. He’s got the travel situation managed pretty well, it seems.

Hello and welcome! I think a lot of us fell down the Youtube rabbit hole one day and never came back. The glossary does need an update in some important ways, though. Yuzu finally got his 4CC gold and had his season’s best score at Skate Canada - seems like 19-20 was the season for curse breaking!

Is everyone forgetting about the Xylitol outfits? I hope they pay him a truly mind-boggling amount of money to wear those in public. (And then they always photoshop him within an inch of his life, to add insult to injury. How they expect to improve on perfection, I don’t know.)

I ran into one of the directors of my skating club the other day at the grocery store - rumor has it my rink may be reopening some freestyle sessions in the next week or two, max of 10 on the ice. My skates and I are ready whenever they do finally get to reopen. But will I actually remember how to do anything?

Dermatologists would also probably say not to wipe your face with the same towel that you just wiped your skate blades with, but apparently Yuzu is just exempt from all of these rules. It’s not fair.

Sure - it could be the solo quad. (Or in the combo, but the thought of that... ) The risk of doing that is that it needs to be very stable to avoid having invalid jumps. If he pops to a single Axel, he gets no points for it, much like at 2019 Worlds when he popped his solo quad to a double. Popping it to a 3A would then make his solo 3A invalid (I think?) due to it being a repeated jump, or force him to do a 2A instead for his planned Axel (and use the 3A as a solo triple) which he apparently can no longer do. (Edit: or I suppose he could YOLO a different solo quad where he has the 3A planned.) He could pop it to a 2A and it wouldn’t cause any layout issues, but it would be a huge decrease in BV. (But oh, the irony if he did that.) Overall, unless the 4A gets incredibly stable, it probably won’t be worth the risk to have it in the short, IMO.

Plus, he knows that he has to keep the 3A in good shape too. Senior men have to have either a 2A or 3A in their short program. Yuzu’s smart, he knows better than to put that gorgeous 3A of his at risk.

It's never happened, actually. This is not an exhaustive list of mistakes each has made in competition against the other, just at least one from each comp. Yuzu's going to be overrepresented here, because I know a lot of his without having to look them up. 2019-2020 GPF: Yuzu missed his SP combo 2018-2019 WC: Yuzu popped his SP 4S to a 2S 2017-2018: Olympics: Nathan had that disaster of an SP (missed combo, messy landings) Rostelecom: Yuzu fell on his SP combo 2016-2017: WC: Nathan fell twice in his FS 4CC: Yuzu popped his SP combo 4S to a 2S GPF: Nathan fell on his SP 4F NHK: Nathan fell on his SP 4Lz WTT: Yuzu had a messy SP (popped 4Lo, fall on the combo) I'd love to see them go clean head-to-head someday. It would be amazing.

Oh, trust me, this is the HILY performance I’m referencing any time I talk about how much I like this program. I found the video on a Youtube search one day not long after PC (thinking “hey, I liked that guy who won! I wonder what other programs he’s done...”) and it had an embarrassingly large part to play in me becoming a Yuzu fan. I was shocked that this is the same skater that gave us Ballade.

If he were to skate this now, there would be riots. You know what the crush for seats at ACI is like, and that's just for a spot in an small venue that has no bad seats. Can you imagine what would happen if Yuzu's sweaty, freshly-skated-in-and-then-autographed shirt went flying into a crowd these days? (I'm saying this like I wouldn't be in the fray. We all know I'd be shamelessly elbowing people out of the way, provided I wasn't still unconscious from the effects of an all-grown-up HILY...) But like... do the trashbag pants even fit now? Inquiring minds want to know...

Here, this picture shows off his back muscles and was taken in public at GP Finland. No worries about the ethics of snapping this photo! image source

I got Javi's Satan Takes A Holiday costume with the pinstripes. Eh, I've seen worse... @barbara I like to sleep. I seriously considered not choosing to quarantine with Yuzu practicing his 4A at 3 AM. One of the other options was to quarantine with Nathan, but he just wants to talk about how much he admires Yuzuru all the time. Which seemed like a perfectly fine way to spend quarantine to me... but I still decided to go with Yuzu in the end.

I think that's Shcherbakova in the grey between Kostornaia and Valieva? She's the only one anywhere near the camera I can't identify for sure. Anyway, she makes it look better than anyone else, but I'm not sure I'd say "good" is the right word. She's a good dancer, but there's only so much one can do with that material... So if the choreographer of that mess is who this newest interview is from, I think we all know exactly how seriously to take it.

And Yuzu, yet again, gets dragged into unrelated drama. Great.

My Russian drama is that I betrayed Plushenko because I wanted to skate to Sex Bomb. Trust me. Nobody wants me to skate to Sex Bomb, self included.

Oh, don’t get me wrong, it’s hilarious that that’s one of the first few images that comes up. (And I double checked, same for me!) I just have so many questions about why it exists in the first place.

I have an irrational mild fear of goats. (I think it’s the eyes.) That is a cursed image. Gonna go find that Pooh plushie I bought for Worlds to hug now. As Yuzu once said, I have a trauma.

Well, this is impossible. Chopin was my introduction to Yuzu, my sentimental favorite. I still remember, clear as crystal, watching PC Chopin and being in awe of what I was seeing. But if I had to pick one program that is quintessentially Yuzuru, I'd choose Seimei in a heartbeat. Impossible, I tell you.

Ah. Gotcha. I haven't been around all that long in the grand scheme of things, sometimes I miss nuances like that. Thanks!

4CC 2011? Unless we're counting gala performances of White Legend as post-3/11... but he skated them competitively at the same time.