Figure_Frenzy

https://mobile.twitter.com/guavaguavable/status/1188862900150112262 Sorry for repost but just in case it hasn't been posted I'll just leave it here 😏

Done and done!

I'll try to compliment this post and write on this topic (ITL's most recent podcast episode) just this once and for all — in spoilers below↓

I can only surmise that, when the skater twists their body due to the PR it might add an additional strain to their joints (and not just the usual joints like knees or ankles (usually affected during landing), but like hip joints, and possibly the spine as well) compared when they jump with minimal amount of PR (because they don't twist their body). A good research idea for biomechanics researchers, I reckon!

...but then that means you were annoyed for...what, exactly? Those media people who are usually dogpiling on Yuzu now buttering up at him seems... suspicious, to say the least, but then what does their buttering up to Yuzu exactly prove? That they are spineless people? Most likely so. Nasty people for being so spineless? Sure, you can call them that, and it's completely reasonable to feel repulsed by their nastiness. That they secretly wishing a fall multiple times as hard after he is being praised to the moon(eg. failing to win Worlds after a "narrative builldup" of his current rivalry)? I honestly don't think they thought it up that far. It's more of an amoral volatility rather than deliberate malice. Because they even blasted their own skater whom they propped so highly when he imploded real hard (and we all saw that they didn't report him in the line of "...just a couple setbacks and he could be back in contention for gold medal again!" but more of out and out doom and gloom for succumbing to the pressure). In the end they (media people) may dream up how the skating season goes according to their own wishes but no one can predict exactly how it will actually happen, much less make it happen so it fits the supposed continuation of their narrative (...not the media people's jobs anyway :v). In the end, I guess all I mean to say is to direct your anger to the main people who make those media people blab this way (ie. the big*ss fed such as U*FSA etc.) because in the end those media people were only accessories to this vile machination moved by that root of evil that is the big fed.

...at least Masquerade has an increased possibility to be performed at NHK trophy? Even though just for a bit... (EX with live accompaniment from ToshI would definitely be swell too — then perhaps the choice would be Masquerade, with or without the live accompaniment? 😏😎)

...and when he does, it would take a long while for other skaters to even approach it....again!

....so I was today years old when I found out that Macchi skated to Don't Stop Me Now EX (in Sochi ) ....to fuel further frustration on the Queen EX wish 😢 Imagine Yuzu skating to Love Of My Life as an EX, ah the melancholy.... ...but if you want a fun one (though I don't think it could ever be performed in comps, unless Javi can always come help him 😅), imagine the four cricket boys (Yuzu, Javi, Junhwan, Jason) skate to I Want To Break Free as an EX! Maybe in ice shows, but imagine it!!! Yuzu — Melina (Freddie) 😏 Jason — Brianna (Brian) Junhwan — Liz (Rogerina) (Roger) Javi — Belisha (Deacy)

https://mobile.twitter.com/y_nakajima_/status/1165263126205349888 Gangsta Pooh anybody??

...gotta love that strategic nipple covering by the fallen leaf 😏😏

Unless the ISU youtube channel sets up a channel membership and holds the competition streams exclusive for the members, the stream on youtube is by default free. I don't think music copystrike is that big of a potential problem either, since the competition streams (and the skaters' programs) usually remains uploaded on the channel. So that leaves geoblocking. I think...vpn should solve that problem. ...and let's just hope the steam goes well no matter what :p

I think it might actually be a modern haori of sorts — which explains why it was worn over the jacket (and haori is like an overcoat analogue for the whole kimono ensemble). Why the collar was tucked under the jacket's lapels, maybe because it's more aesthetically pleasing that way ;þ

It's a foolproof cool hairdo for Yuzu, we all can be sure of that now! (And yes....that means that just because the advertising agency gets to do Yuzu's hair the LGC way, doesn't mean that any clothes he is going to wear along with his cool hairdo going to look effortlessly cool!)

My middle school biology teacher lost all of her extended family in that tsunami in 2004. Even with all the aftermath photos published in the media it is sometimes still hard to register just how intensely the disaster had impacted the region. To my knowledge, the areas that did get rebuilt, they got rebuilt without even considering the disaster risk (ie. built as if the area wouldn't ever have another earthquake or tsunami), which definitely is not the wisest way to go about it. People like to think that the island of Sumatra is the island most often frazzled by the earthquake but frankly, all islands in Indonesia are at the risk of earthquake ...except maybe Borneo, but even that is a big maybe (and I am not a geophysicist so don't quote me on that!). I'd like to think that we are now somewhat better at doing what to do when earthquake or tsunami happened, if only marginally (eg. get to the safest open place whenever possible, take cover under tables/at the corner of rooms/under the door frame etc.), but this is a thing that takes continuous effort to do (not just a one-off PSA, but rather continuous learning in classes and meetings, etc.). And I haven't even talked about how to build an earthquake-proof building and all other things related to that... To tie it back to Yuzu's role in the recovery, I think a person analogous to Yuzu's role would be someone who is 1. Famous enough, at least at a national level (imo doesn't need to be an athlete, but it helps being an athlete), 2. Has a considerable financial worth (ties in to the capability to help the region in monetary terms), and 3. Is consciously community-minded. The one person closest to this role And this was actually stretching it was Martunis, the boy who survived the tsunami on a floating bed and ended up meeting Cristiano Ronaldo (because CR was his football idol and he was found wearing CR jersey by the SAR team). The last I heard of him, he went to a football school CMIIW , and I haven't heard from him again since. Of course, the presence of this one figure doesn't magically translate into immediate recovery of the region from the disaster (there are definitely other aspects to be considered as well), but as the case of Yuzu's role has pointed out, sometimes it takes an ambassador to point out that 1. Recovery from a disaster can take a long time, and 2. It helps to have an ambassador (of sorts) to keep raising awareness of this said recovery. Just my thoughts...

...realer than the x**it*l green treachery that's for sure! :Þ

...she just won a team gold o.o , but I understand your complaint...

I'm kinda thankful that the first and the last T*L video I watched didn't have Yuzu mentioned in it at all (it was about Karen Chen and other NA skaters, I think? In other disciplines as well...), and even then they took like 95683426 years to get to the point they were about to make A great turnoff for watching them, Yuzu dragging aside! (...and they were talking about NA skaters, why the heck not get to the point and straight up smother them with flattery and all that jazz (even when said NA skater was riddled with bad news(!) ))

....so, I presume that rEPoRt of Yuzu being *screwed* whatever the word means now, since it's T** that said it is just a false alarm? Good grief!

Oh, you know the technicality of it, as in they were messing Nobu up not in their direct capacity as JSF officials, but *just* as Kansai Uni officials :v :v :v ...which ofc doesn't excuse JSF from handling this affair, because... shouldn't JSF be allowed to take over on regulating to speak of it in broad strokes a skating club if said skating club has a problem? (I mean, they ought to? As the organization with the highest level of authority regarding the sport and the management of it, surely they ought to straighten up things, should problems ever arise?) Oh wait, bold of me to assume that those impotent dullards even have authority to begin with!

....seems like he accidentally(??? lol) picked up that *habit* from someone

A Japanese Jason fan account over at twitter said that he is recovering and gearing up for Skate America, so rabbit rabbit white rabbit for Jason as well!

Apparently Hamada sensei suggested to Dai to try ice dance... ...welp now it doesn't turn into an embed tweet on its own -.- (Update: ...now it's showing properly! Oh well )

I think it's actually coming up with another name? (...forgot the exact name though 😫) ...also with the rabbit rabbit white rabbit thing, I just think that (we) fans just wish him the best health no matter what...

...also Nobu, *whispers* go coach in Sendai, the Tohoku kids needs you, Nanami sensei surely can get a helping hand, especially from an Olympian as special as you! (I hope his immediate family (ie. wife and kids) is open to the idea of moving to a new place — I mean, I know that commuter marriages are common in Japan, but I can't bear the thought of Nobu being separated from his family should he take an offer to coach in another region, especially not after such a battered mental state

...oh.... I mean, I get it, it's senpais time, but still, aren't (good) senpais supposed to make their kouhai feel included and seen? This made me feel wary, if the things already known to us were that bad (eg. D**'s stans booing Yuzu during Sochi FS run through), what with the things only known among athletes behind the scenes?? (....sure hope I was just overreacting on this -_- )