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Thank you so much! Both for your ideas and for giving us a link to your blog. It's true that for Origin, and also for Ten to Chi to, on many videos one just don't have all the music. And not every audio system can get it either. And I don't know if Yuzuru Hanyu will work as a sound engineer but if he organises skating shows he will certainly be a very sound attentive, and proficient organiser. Like, Krystian Zimerman does hire piano tuners for his concerts but he can do the job himself if maybe not as precisely, and he can chose and direct the tuners, tell them exactly what he wants, which makes that with the same (faulty) piano at a few days intervals, another well-known pianist had a mess of a concert, some notes sounding like from a saucepan not a piano, while Krystian Zimerman had directed a very precise tuning so that with a certain way of touching the central keys this strange sound came, but not with other ways of touching them, and (with David Zinman as a conductor, this certainly helped too), he had a Chopin 1st Concerto of anthology, the central part of the first movement sounding like if played on a zither (a bit like, in Strauss' Tales of the Viennese Forest parts are indeed played on a zither) and all the other parts of the concerto sounding "like his usual self". No one can beat a person who's both a nerd and an artistic genius. And if some day he builds a skating rink like Evgeni Plushenko, it will certainly be a sound wonder with tuning devices for empty rink of full attendance, for the music to be beautiful from any part of the rink and the audience, etc. EDIT : Also, in another article you wrote : It made me think of this wonderful version of La Bayadère at the Mariinsky in 2007, with Uliana Lopatkina as Nikiya, and guests (from the Bolshoi) Nikolay Tsiskaridze as Solor and Maria Alexandrova as Gamzatti, who were so happy to dance together that they had to change the plot : instead of being coerced into marrying Gamzatti while loving Nikiya, in this version Solor did fall in love with Gamzatti and later believed her to have killed Nikiya and his love went back to the latter, and this twist was as believable and fit as any ballet plot. In Olympic Seimei, Yuzuru Hanyu doesn't picture the same moment in Onmyoji, that's all. And in GPF Origin, he pictures the warrior to whom the fate murmurs he won't stand the storm, and who answers he is the storm. Both were highly convincing interpretations.

It seems the WTT time schedule is out. http://www.isuresults.com/schedules/WTT2021_ColouredSchedule.pdf [NEWS] ?

Vincent Zhou and Boyang Jin may nevertheless prefer to change SP...

At the moment, 1. Ten to Chi to 2. Ballade 3. Haru yo, Koi! 4. Seimei 5. Romeo & Juliet 1 6. Notte Stellata 7. Origin 8. Let's go Crazy 9. Parisienne Walkways 10. Let me Entertain You Hey! What's the matter with my maths? I'm unable to count to 10 or what? I've put so few of his best programs, and there are many other left which clearly belong to "his ten best Senior programs"!

And about that scoring thing... We know Yuzuru Hanyu has no agent. But do we know, for all top Single skaters, if they have an agent, and if this agent is IMG? We could then divide skaters in three categories : - IMG as agent, - Russian flag, - none of these. Then, if some satellites can score objectively each top skater's score at Worlds and compare to the official score awarded, finding a correlation between being IMG or being Russian and different scoring, would be "interesting", wouldn't it? Because IMG's behaviour with SOI seem at the very least highly unethical, so I would suspect them of anything.

Even a grandmother, he has a lot of kids : his programs. Do you guys happen to know this initiative? Do you have an opinion about it? I have none... =

ISU issued a communication three days ago, about virtual skating events with remote judging. https://www.isu.org/inside-isu/isu-communications/communications/25714-isu-communication-2389/file [NEWS] ?

And I thought quad-quad combinations had no base value in the current system... In fact it's only in the short program. In the free, a combo can indeed be quad-quad (p.19). He would also get a new record for one jump pass base value. https://www.isu.org/figure-skating/rules/sandp-handbooks-faq/24781-tphb-single-skating-2020-21-final/file I tend to think only him can do this because only him among Men can jump a quad, particularly a quad Salchow, "out of nowhere", isn't it? You know what? I don't know if he can skate to this layout, but I'm sure he's thought of it. By the way, searching ISU guidelines made me find a new communication about remote judging but I will post it in General Skating Chat.

This physics-laws-defying waist movement, with facial expression, torso, arms and all, had it all at Worlds'17; I'm not asking for something really luscious, but something "seriously to the purpose" (and this LGC movement was a miracle). But it took him a whole season to get it. So I'm hopeful for Let Me Entertain You, particularly if he skates it in shows, with attendance, that's a silver lining of his probably forced participation to WTT and SOI.

Thank you! I have never tried anko but received this very morning, just in time for Easter (tomorrow) kuri anko (for non-Japanese satellites : a white bean paste with some chesnut paste, here 10%, he loves chesnut paste), and my husband hasn't seen it yet so he's believing we'll "only" have macarons tomorrow. Sort of egg-hiding. In the refrigerator. @GraceAndPower Thank you so much for this link! I had never dared to ask here why PH founders had left GS, or even to allude to GS as it seemed painful to many here. Now I understand why. It was really mean. And the moderation team here are really kind, even to satellites they may disagree with on some topics, I can attest of it. It must be said that GS has more search engine visibility, plus the very name of PH can make some people fear a sort of craze and partiality, and this was why at first (after GPF'19, to voice my disapprobation of unfair scoring) I registered there without even lurking on the Planet. So, once I had left GS after observing the intensity of trolling there, and registered here, after months I did return there because some fanyus still go there and fight, and I feel otherwise people like me, who have just discovered Yuzuru Hanyu, may be lied to and sadden and leave figure skating fandom. But I'm not a good fighter at the moment, and I go there more for Ladies' fan fests. (Among Ladies there is also a scoring problem but I find them all "on the same foot", each with her merits and faults and overall beauty, there is not this superiority in everything which sets Yuzuru Hanyu apart from all other skaters.) Plus I've not been on GS these last weeks, not fit for the period of the year (well, no TPT either; they're really mean in another way, to the point the gay audience of the beginnings on DL has deserted, but really funny and sometimes insightful). @dreamelena To continue on what you were saying, being a fanyu is intrinsically not for the faint-hearted, with his injuries, illnesses, all adversities, and also the joy his skating gives (and his person, character and all); but if one adds the poison shed by haters, and if one take it at heart, it can be too much. I am very glad I'm not on Twitter or SNS (though I really regret missing photos and videos some skaters and others send on Instagram). It seems that their very system allows truth and beauty lovers to be drown under more vociferous haters of all kind. And the most enormous lies pass off as they are yelled louder. In general, as long as we just rely on what's trending, and don't check primary sources (which have never been as available before I believe), because we are so thrilled by all this whirl, we will believe lies. We fanyus refused to believe evidently wrong narratives about his skating compared to others' because at least we believed our eyes, but how many people won't watch him and really believe another is the best because this is the dominant narrative? The same in so many other domains and there we may not check by ourselves, and let ourselves be led astray. I think it deserves a reflection about social media (and why IT and social media moghuls themselves never let their own children dive in all that stuff). EDIT : @Figure_Frenzy This is true, and also true that I can access Tweets, for instance of fanarts, or translations, sent on this site by satellites, and this is great.

This is so nice! Yet he might be surprised by how little intimidating some figure skating fans may find a descendant of one (if not the) most fearsome of the warriors of the Sengoku period : Nobunari Oda. Does he know about Nobunari Oda?

But even this fantastic proof of consistency has some bittersweet taste in it. How many of these 3A should have got 4.0 GOE, that is, 5 over the board? In the last years, I should say nearly all. How many points were stolen from him, just upon his more-than-perfect, dream-like triple Axels?

Here, I wouldn't even accuse the JSF of anything else than a cover-up of one person, then head of the tech panel, who took this decision out of the blue. This person seems to be a fierce anti-Hanyu, maybe because he's still "guilty" of having supplanted Daisuke Takahashi.

Did Olympic Channel do something further than using their translation (with credit at least) and publish it?

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yuzuru_Hanyu Thank you!

Yet we can guess this 1/8 of rotation is to have 4½ full rotations, not just something which would give a validation. Because at GPF practice, he did land an 4¼-revolution 4A, if falling after. Something "validable". Yet not enough for him.

Yet he had done 2¾ revolutions in this position, which should have given him a level 3, not an invalidation. @shanshani About Nathan Chen's spin problem, it seems to be a recurrent one with him, probably because his lowest possible position seems to be just the limit of a valid spin, so it may be harder to hit it, or more risky for his balance, and he doesn't always succeeds. The fact that it is a recurrent problem, worth several points, very visible, and it has never been called (as far as I know), is something which should strike people, when at the same time Yuzuru Hanyu gets imaginary calls where he is not used to fault.

Yet I do think we could find safer ways to hold events and we don't try enough. There were really concerns at Worlds, the athletes necessary movements had clearly not been carefully encompassed to avoid unnecessary exposure. Not to speak of the absence of enforcement of the mask rule in the corridors, by skaters who probably believed they could not be contagious because they had had a previous bubble, so I don't say expelling them right at the first transgression, but a serious warning at the first and an expulsion in case the warning remained unattended, would have worked. I am really certain ISU, if taken as a whole, doesn't care a straw about skaters' health. And I regret Sweden lent them too much confidence. It is one thing to make one's decisions between rotten events, it is much better if there was a choice between better ones (a non-compulsory and rather safe event, or staying at home without sanction). For instance, in events with attendance, to this date I've never seen vertical panels hanging from the ceiling to stop the air from the bleachers to go down towards the skaters, who are too exhausted to have good immunity by the end of their program. Maybe some arenas have good ventilation systems to prevent such contamination, but I've not been aware of any to this date. While for instance Alain Ducasse has managed to study and control air circulation in some of his restaurants to minimise risks of contamination.

I think yes, a choice of music can have an influence on a score, sort of, like a base value. A skater with moderate musical talent ought to limit itself to pieces easy to interpret, because there he/she can skate a really enjoyable program, but of course, the interpretation score cannot go as high as for a skater who manages to interpret with depth and variety of expression, and wholly with the music, a much more complex piece. When Krystian Zimerman cut and played Chopin's 1st Ballade for Yuzuru Hanyu, he did have a thicker touch to compensate for a skating rink's unavoidable reverberation, but rhythmically he did play it his way, which was Chopin's, with continuous variations on the rhythm, which very few other skaters than Yuzuru Hanyu could have internalised enough for an interpretation, and I think, no other would have had the skating skills to skate to, even Patrick Chan at his best — and of course this should reflect in skating skills mark too. @Yuli I do agree we are sort of involuntary accomplices of WTT going on, but I think @MssSwan has a point in pointing the fact WTT will have attendance. (And that thing of watching the Gala in cinemas!!! ) This being said, I think even if cases in Japan are on the rise, there are much less there than in Western countries in general (and you can't imagine what some governments do to spread the virus). So, the viral charge in the arena is likely to be lower. But the lower, the better, and I think it is too much of a risk unless they have really thoroughly studied the air circulation in the arena, which I confess I doubt.

Thank you! I confess I'm a bit puzzled by Russian Ladies alternates too. Alexandra Trusova goes after Elizaveta Nugumanova, and Alena Kostornaia, who was first alternate for Worlds, doesn't appear among the three alternates. I hope she's not injured. @Muralla17 So this is probably why all three coaches from TCC were not at Worlds while they had three students there : Ghislain Briand was "kept in reserve" in case WTT would be held after all.

This means, if a quad should be downgraded because of a clearly forward take-off but the judges let it pass off as a quad, it is counted as a landed quad for the poll purpose?

It must be said that judges and tech panels cannot see everything. So they have to use shortcuts. (This reminds me an elementary school teacher pretending an 8-year-old pupil was cheating because she could answer immediately any calculus the teacher would ask.) Artificial intelligence could tell, a minima, every bullet (or call) of every element, step sequence, spins and jumps. And much more in fact.

Do you think this combo doesn't have enough stability, or is it that it wouldn't fit this jump pass as it is?

One can be both Carmen and Don José. EDIT. Thank you so much @yuzuangel for embedding the video!

Not to speak of Yuzuru Hanyu's programs to Russian folk music... His "un-reflection" was so enjoyable!