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I will miss the excitement of looking forward to be shot by Wakabond

I think Kaori would fit equally well in TCC as Wakaba would but two TJ girls would probably be an overkill. Well, I'll be super happy if Wakaba gets in

So soon! She must have worked on it between nationals and worlds?

I love how you can tell it's a lutz without seeing his feet.... anyway, how'd he land that tho? Such a cute save

Wakaba looking super happy

Hm that's also true. She hasn't been very present in the sport this season... but I also don't really know how present she's been in Japanese media? I don't really follow her. Did she fall off a bit?

Hm well she's already got considerable fame at this point (and had some success as a junior) so I don't see an incentive for her to be successful for the sake of fame, anymore. If she really decided this coach change by herself I would say she's genuinely interested improving herself as a skater

Wow that's a really unexpected coach change. Could be that Marin is trying to move away from the media attention and focus more on skating (maybe the results form this season were a wake-up call for her)

Bits about the parade

ok but did they consider smaller comps with like 10 people sitting in the audience LOL

Sounds like recycled news to me? He was def asked abt Beijing in the days after his win and he replied something like that if my memory isn't failing me (I mean.. what else is he supposed to say)

Aww he probably feels sorry because 90% of their work consists of picking up his Poohs in a hurry

Well you can see that they’re taking off from the toe pick in the end whereas Yuzu takes off from the full edge Yeah in any case, if we had as much prerotation as they have here we wouldn’t rotate in the air at all in a waltz jump lol eta: I’m probably not seeing right tho

But isn’t that weight transfer to the ball of his foot bc he takes off from his edge unlike most people? I wonder if it makes sense to use him as an example for waltz jumps