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Hi all! Is there a recording of today's show? I missed the livestream due to time difference

Is there a recording of today's Prologue performance?

Thank you so much! 💖

Hi guys! Is there a video recording of the full Prologue shows? The time difference was bad for me and I slept through both of my 5am alarms

As a physicist who has been developing and training neural networks to analyze gravitational waves for the past few months, I totally understand and sympathise with the frustration of getting NaN or some random compatibility error after changing a small piece of code. Hang in there! You are close to your goal, and soon, all these subroutines will come together and work the way they are supposed to, just like the last bits of rotation for Yuzu's 4A. I believe that we will witness a beautiful 4A and the release of your package by September! Let us know how it goes P.S.: this editor-in-chief sounds like a jerk, there is no reason to assess your scientific ability based on one single project which is not even within your specialization

He's moving exactly at the speed of light, there is no passing of time for him! (Btw nice to meet another physics enthusiast )

Thank you!

Wow that's amazing! Where did you read that? Did he say it in an interview that I missed?

You're welcome! Of course, you can PM me. I love this emoji by the way! It seems like our situations are very similar indeed! My parents enjoy seeing me skate occasionally as a hobby, but forbade me from training seriously, mostly for health reasons as well. I have a genetic illness (hemophilia) that might make surgery dangerous for me, and they were terrified of potential injuries requiring an operation. In addition, there were some practical factors (money, not living close to a rink, etc) weighing in their decision. I am a Yuzu-style perfectionist, very passionate and wanting to do my absolute best in all of my activities (including skating), so these restrictions have been highly frustrating. Now that I am moving out of home and abroad this fall for my PhD, I will finally have the freedom to practice as much as I always wanted! I am so impatient for it that I have started "preparing", working out, building core muscles, improving flexibility, teaching myself off-ice double jumps etc so that I can progress as fast as possible once I get to train on ice! That is absolutely mind-blowing, he really is the GOAT! Yes that's for sure. I hope he knows how to balance practice and rest time to avoid injury, and also that he will have access to the doctor / physiotherapist he mentioned in an interview ASAP.

Thanks for letting me know, I hadn't noticed! Still a newbie here haha

Hi @CaroSkate, nice to meet a fellow figure skater here! I have been a recreational skater since childhood (not by choice, I wanted to be part of a club, train regularly and compete but my family didn't allow it ). I learnt the single Axel in my late teens with my adult height (1m80!) and no regular on-ice practice, just skating on some public sessions whenever I could and having a few scattered private lessons per winter; as you can imagine, it was a real struggle for me as well. Some other skaters' parents at the rink were being naysayers and telling me it's not worth it to try, I would never land it at this age and in these conditions (at a completely different scale, this mindset reminds me of the people who don't believe in Yuzu's 4A). I am happy to say that I proved them wrong! You are definitely right about the Axel being a different beast from the other single jumps: landing it took a lot of patience, quite a bit of off-ice practice (let me know if you'd like tips about that, it really helps!), and many, many unsuccessful attempts every time I had the chance to be on ice, but it finally worked out. In relation to another poster's comment earlier, this also leads me to think that Yuzu needing over 1000 4A attempts is not actually as outlandish as it seems: my coach kept telling skaters that they would go through several hundreds of attempts to get a decent 1A, and that's just a single! With the sheer difficulty of the 4A, I am not so surprised to hear that it is not ready yet after 1000 attempts, although I agree that it is slightly terrifying to think about Yuzu throwing himself into this monster of a jump so many times without landing properly. If my skaters' perspective can reassure anyone here, I'll just say, however, that most of my unsuccessful 1A attempts didn't end in a fall: I actually had many more two-footed landings, hands down, stepouts, URs etc than falls. 1A and 4A are hardly comparable, obviously, but we shouldn't assume that all of Yuzu's 1000 attempts ended in dramatic, GPF19-style falls (especially knowing how much of a perfectionsit he is and what his criteria for a "proper landing" are!) Anyway, this was a long digression haha. Good luck with your Axel @CaroSkate , I believe you can land it, especially with Yuzu as a motivation!

Great! Looking forward to the translations

Is it just in Japanese or will there be English subtitles? Also, where can we watch the interview?

This is so cute and funny!

Great, thanks! I'm glad Switzerland isn't geoblocked, they barely show any figure skating on TV here... I don't know what I would do without the live streams lol

Do you know if there will be an ISU live stream of WTT like there was for Worlds?