Valkyria

Yep, Javi's not going back to Toronto until August, at least: he's got another summer camp in Majadahonda from July 31st to August 4th.

Entries like Yuzuru's back counter are technically difficult no matter how much mastery of it one shows, so they should be still considered so and rewarded accordingly here's me side-eyeing the not +3 GOE for LGC's 3A ¬¬ The problem comes more with the "creative " part, imo: it's very open to interpretation, since a skater could be doing a lot of (simpler, but more eye-catching) choreo into a jump and have it rewarded the same as a truly difficult entry. And in that case, why make the effort of going for the more complicated entries?

So, Yuzuru in hakama strikes again... and it's forever deadly. I was not prepared

Thank you so much for the translation! I'm always up for learning more about what goes into producing FS programs, it really takes a village (And oh, Yuzu. No one can escape from his shenanigans )

*starts lolo-ing her way through Spain's national anthem* Good times It's a bit unfair how Javi's height would give us a good idea of Yuzu's but his is also all over the place *facepalm*

El día de hoy pasará a la historia como "el día en que Yuzuru Hanyu rompió internet sin querer y salieron los lurkers de debajo de las piedras"

...I just had an image of Yuzu in an Austen novel kind of setting, oh my god (He's Lizzie Bennet, come on)

El inglés es, sobre todo, perderle el miedo. Por lo que he visto, gran parte de los que estamos por aquí no tenemos el inglés como primera lengua, así que somos muchos en el mismo barco Pero vamos, que a mí me da igual hablar en un idioma que otro: tiradme de la lengua en español y también me apunto a un bombardeo

Figure skating is a damn difficult sport to master and takes such physical conditioning on top of it. People who say otherwise have never stopped to think about what goes into making these flowy and light performances happen.

We've been spoiled up till now, it's true. But once the ninja mode strikes and there's no news for weeks, we'll be feeling the withdrawal symptoms that much more

Shhh, just come. We're all nice people and don't bite much. And the off-season should really start right about now...

Congrats to everybody going to ACI! We'll be expecting first-hand commentary and screams, nosebleed and tears XD Schedule looks good, let's hope for a good season

Ah, the last installment of Yuzu being embarrased about being called a prince is here

It really does seem like there's one kind of judging for Yuzuru and another for the rest. He's held up to a higher standard than others, so even if he wanted to water down his tech (which he obviously doesn't, because Yuzu) it wouldn't yield results regardless of going clean. They expect perfection, anything else won't do, and it puts so much pressure on him *sigh* Us in the audience can think and like whatever (re: style, transitions, "artistry", etc), but judges really should be held accountable for their work. I don't care if they lean towards candies or harshness at this point, just be consistent across the field and we're golden.

Me: *loves streaming parties* Also me: *looks at schedule* *does tetris trying to arrange it all* And I thought the off-season was going to be chill

Thank you for this, it makes it much easier to find stuff than having to comb back through the comment threads! Really useful

That was a whole lot more than I expected to get. Pretty packed with stuff for 56" (and not utterly terrible camerawork? What???) (OMG the Pooh ears. I can't XDD)

Funniest thing is FujiTV seems to uderstand Yuzuru's pull, since they're using him to bring in viewers. But only to a point, because then they go and waste all that material that could bring in even more viewers

...no one was surprised, right?

And now... the news

Tourist Zhenya, so far...

They can, but in that case there'd be quite a bunch of angry people with torches at their doors.

It may be only 30s that we'll be getting, but we'll be getting something after all

HE WAS THERE

Hope's the last thing to go. So here I am, with Fuji TV in the background just in case