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The Russian commentator was so concerned about Yuzuru and was so right, the "God mentality" is a huge burden. After NHK and GPF 2015, the expectation became huge and crazy. I am glad he has to endure it earlier than Olympic season. It's a good lesson to learn and now he is more experienced than that.

Go for the gold Yuzuru! You will make it!

Thank you Fay for the translation. No, Mishin. No. I respect him but most of the time audience can not tell which jump is which. And they definitely won't be thrilled with an ugly quad with bad landing. 4 rotation or not.

Soft knee definitely has more to do with basic training. Very tall and big men can have soft knee too. About the body, we should take note that, it's not the Asian being better at jumps. It's more likely that smaller bodies rotate faster, they need less power to go up on the air. This is pretty much relevant in ladies when small girls jump and rotate faster than mature ladies with taller and bigger frames. Asian men do tend to be slender than White men. For example Nathan and Boayng do have very thin bodies. But will they stay like that for their whole life? Men can still grow at the age of 25. Not to mention, some white men can be very thin (see Adian Pitkeev, Sasha Abt or Plushenko at his prime) and some Asian men can be sturdy (Patrick for example).

Jeremy Abbot is 6 feet and he has always had super skating skills (his coach is the skating queen Yuka Sato by the way). He has been underrated because of his SUPER inconsistency. But at his best, I think his SS is NO weaker than Patrick Chan (who also has kinda thick body type).

This is just amazing!! Thank you so much!

Isn't it ironic that Yamaguchi calls Yuzuru as consistent while the skating world call him inconsistent? You know, aside from NHK 2014 (we knew why he did badly), ever since Sochi, Yuzuru never placed lower than 2nd. He either win silver or gold for 3 straight years. How is that inconsistent?

I just watched this video to understand about Asthma. I wonder what kind of asthma Yuzuru has. But it is great that he has become quite better at dealing with it.

The issue with Yuzuru in the old days was that he kinda "wasted his energy" or more like he didn't know how to phase his power and speed. It's understandable though, he had low stamina, often grasped badly in the second half of the program. But if we all watch them in practice, he had shown quite deep edge, transitions and speed. He is wiser now and knows better to phrase his movements and distribute the energy even in him programs.

Even that time, Max Ambesi even commented that Yuzuru's skating skills at the age of 17 were already better than all Japanese men. I agree with him. Watching Yuzuru skate, especially in practice, I can see how deep his edges were by that time. He was blazing fast too. In 2012, there was a joke that Yuzuru at the end of the program was faster than Javi at the beginning of his program. The biggest issue at that time was that Yuzuru had so weak stamina. I am glad he has improved his strength vastly.

Yuzuru already started fixing his Flip by the peculiar entry he had since he was with coach Abe. I remember the talk that they already tried to fix it by that time. And he actually had flat edge now and then even during the time with Miss Abe. But certainly he need time for it. It took several seasons for him to fix his Flip completely. The edge call before Vancouver was actually much harsher than today. I remember when Mao and other ladies persistently got edge calls and UR calls, thus judges never give Mao any easy pass on her jumps. But Mao is a lady so it's much harder for her to fix her edge and UR issue. In the other hand, Yuzuru only had issue with the Flip. Yuzuru pulls himself up onto the air very fast, that's why he doesn't Lip anymore cause he leaves the ice before the Flip edge rock to the outside. Unlike some skaters (especially ladies), they pull themselves up onto the air quite late and slower, so their edge rock to the wrong side.

Yeah... being treated strictly might be what Yuzuru prefers. He is not the type who likes being taken lenient. It is just his personality.

It seems team Brian has just updated their twitter, I wonder if there is some news: https://twitter.com/TeamBrian2018

Autumn Classic in Canada on 20 September (4 weeks) // Cup of Russia in Russia on 20 October (4 weeks) // NHK Trophy in Japan on 10 November (4 weeks) // GPF in Japan on 7-10 December (2 weeks) // Japan National 20-24 December (7 weeks) // Olympic in Korea 14-20 February Not a bad schedule.

They should hire many guards to protect that... thing from me! I might go there and burn it!!

Does anyone know the video where this gif was from thank you very much.

Sorry for being late but reading this make me laugh kinda a lot: Technically he understands that: "As long as you skate cleanly, even if you have no transitions, people still think that you have a lot of transitions." What's the point of adding so many difficult transitions into his programs then? Seriously... why Yuzuru doesn't play it the easier way. But guess what, if Yuzuru did 40 crossovers in a long program, he would never get the same PCS as someone, a skater who actually has almost 40 crossovers in his long program. The judging makes me sick. Now you understand why ex top skaters never want to become a judge or a specialist, they know skating and they can not stand the stupidity, the bias and the lies in the judging. Ask Trankov. He even said it out loud.

Patrick is a nervous skater... he is the master of blade but he is still nervous. And when he is nervous it's harder to control his jumps and edge.

I have just realized... it's just 8 months before the Olympic... no wonder he chose Chopin.

from https://youtu.be/nsdTKcFAPSw

Is there any new article on Sportiva? Is there any news about Yuzuru in that? Thanks.

Oda has a lot to say sorry for the fans... he is being so close to Yuzuru that makes people get jealous.

Team Brian says something about Yuzuru here: something about Yuzuru doesn't tell what he thinks. And that Yuzuru is passionate. I hope someone can help with a proper translation.

I just cut my hair so short even Yuzuru's hair is longer than mine now...

I need to practice my voodoo now... the organizers piss me off.