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Sigh that's a wise plan. I just try to seize every moment I can get myself to the rink... In my experience rinks seem to be least busy on weekend mornings... although you might run into a birthday party and kids can be the most dangerous. So small and slow and falling left and right

I go skating on Wednesday evenings bc there is a student discount on Wednesday evenings but that'a also why it's CRAMPED. You can barely even practice crossovers, it's mad (I'm actually thinking of dropping this rink altogether. It's too expensive on usual days but it's also the closest to where I live.) Last time I went skating in the other rink (two hours away from where I live) there were two schooltrips happening at once and there was another girl practicing skating like me and she came to me to complain about how full it is and that it would be better for me to just take a corner and mark my territory (I was practicing in the middle) and I almost burst out laughing bc I was practicing so well in spite of the students not minding the skating direction and chasing each other It might have taught me the skills to practice in crowded rinks but I think I might stop going to my local rink. It always gets me down at the end of the day because I don't even have enough space to get comfortable on the ice let alone be focused enough to practice properly, it feels like I'm regressing sigh I wish our local rink wasn't so expensive BTW, does anyone know of all-year-round rinks in Germany? I might go to the Netherlands for my internship in the summer lol

LOL he wants the +3s and the 10s

This reminds me of eurovision lol

I feel old

Try actually saving the edit

I think I've got the knack of waltz jumps now. I've been getting pointers here and there by people pitying me and my technique and today someone took their time with me and it started to feel like I was doing it right, or at least I know what to pay attention to and there were a few times where it felt pretty perfect... ofc it's hard to judge because I am not seeing myself and I loose focus immediately if there's a camera directed at me. (I could never be a competitive skater, that much I know now.)

OMG please there’s nothing I want more than to learn skating from Yuzu!!!

Aww guys I think you’re giving us too much credit. What really makes the planet such a great place is your contributions. You shape the community and you hold it together and you give it life. We only provided you guys with the space and honestly we could not have dreamed it would flourish and grow to this extend! I’m just happy to see you guys have fun here Thank you guys

We're in the 21st century

Hahah I love how even tho his face is blocked you just know the way he must be glaring at the gold medal (and then at the end you get a short glimpse of it)

I am pretty sure it's 110% worth sharing

We'll get there one day

I just watched it bunch of videos on how to do 2 foot spins yesterday (like this one, although I don't find it very helpful in explaining which parts of the blades one is supposed to spin on) I also just "tried" to "spin" lol. My "spins" had like 4 rotations max but I got really dizzy and whenever I tried to count my rotations I lost focus... so it could be less than that. But it was fun!

Also I tried spins for the first time... lol it was fun

Speaking of 3 turns... I’ve only been doing RFO and LFO ones but today I spontaneously decided to try one backward. RBO specifically. And after 3 tries or so I was successful? Which was pretty cool but then I intuitively added another 3 turn? And I am still shook about that bc I had never tried inside 3 turns before? And I could suddenly do them? I ended up doing sequences of 3-5 3 turns in disbelief and I am really happy but also super confused at how that happened lol But I still need to work on them. I can’t really do them casually and they slow me down rather than speeding me up but at least they don’t feel as labored anymore Also my left leg is super lazy Welp maybe I should try brackets. I haven’t really studied how to do them yet I just decided to try rockers bc they start like 3 turns but I think that actually works against them

WTT gala was a gift

Yeah right, what‘s the point of 3 turns if you can‘t jump a 4T combo out of it??? I‘m lucky if I can ever lift off the ice enough to jump a 1T lol

Rockers are hard. I can't do them anymore (or maybe I wasn't actually doing them before, idk) otoh my 3 turns are getting more and more effortless

Whatever happens, regardless of wether Yuzu can make it to nats or not, it makes me feel at ease knowing he’s in Toronto and in good hands.

Oh sorryyy, I misunderstood you. You‘ll get there soon enough, tho I think it took me about a month after I started skating backwards to dare and try backwards crossovers, at all Is there a reason why they are so hard? I’m still really bad at them

Congrats!! Backward crossovers are hard!! I had to stop skating for 3 weeks and lost them again and it took me two sessions to relearn them on both sides My babystep is forward outside rockers

His english speaking face is goooooold