General Yuzuru Chat

[robin]

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. 

[ralucutzagy]

Cute! 

 

[Sammie]

1 hour ago, ralucutzagy said:

Cute! 

 

This would be the perfect ornament on my tree.  

[ralucutzagy]

7 minutes ago, Sammie said:

This would be the perfect ornament on my tree.  

Just as I thought! 

[Floria]

hace 9 minutos , Sammie said:

This would be the perfect ornament on my tree.  

 

hace 1 minuto , ralucutzagy said:

Just as I thought! 

Brilliant idea, I hope my family has nothing against this new Xmas decoration 

[Anony]

4 hours ago, kaeryth said:

Can our friendly neighbourhood kumamon @Anony do age/gender app thingie

 

 

ETA: 2nd pic/tweet removed due to it being photoshopped.

 

 

 

Your local Kumamon is here, litteraly just woke up 

 

At least you're not 7 

 

The other two pictures..... Well...

Looks like his human disguise device is failing  I even tried to straighten the picture, see if that'll help recognise his face, no luck 

 

[the50person]

 

 

[dancingnoodles]

49 minutes ago, Anony said:

Your local Kumamon is here, litteraly just woke up 

 

At least you're not 7 

 

The other two pictures..... Well...

Looks like his human disguise device is failing  I even tried to straighten the picture, see if that'll help recognise his face, no luck 

 

Yuzu the alien broke that MS app again  Also poor Keiji being ID-ed as a 30 y.o. lady... 

[Xen]

I'm kind of curious what kind of cake he's getting for his birthday this time. Or is Ghana going to magically fly one over from Japan? First time in a while that he's not competing on his Birthday. Maybe a proper party for once? Or does mister Training demon decide to ditch that too? 

[KatjaThera]

1 minute ago, Xen said:

I'm kind of curious what kind of cake he's getting for his birthday this time. Or is Ghana going to magically fly one over from Japan? First time in a while that he's not competing on his Birthday. Maybe a proper party for once? Or does mister Training demon decide to ditch that too? 

I think if he'll stay in Toronto, they'll definitely do something for him, there, with all of their family atmosphere... Might be awkward for him, as he wouldn't be used to it But it'd be cute...

[micaelis]

Will he go to Nationals?  My betting is he will.  I'm sure he wants to measure himself vis-a-vis Shoma before the showdown in PC.  In France Shoma showed he was not invincible and Javi showed he was feeling like a two-time World Champion again, although he was saved from the seemingly invincible Shoma after a flawed FS by a SP that was skated better than clean.  My current run-down of major threats to Yuzu at the Winter Games is Shoma still the biggest, with Javi now back in contention after his disaster in China, Boyang needs to raise his PCS up significantly or hope his quads pull maximum GOEs.  We'll find out about Nathan this week at Skate America.  Patrick Chan?  I'm afraid he's by and large yesterday's news.  He just doesn't have the jumps the others do.  I'm not even seeing him as a major contender for a podium position.  The joker in the deck is Mikhail Kolyada who showed in China he has the ability to gain the gold in a strong field.  If Kolyada is at his best in PC he would probably gain a podium position, maybe even gold if everybody else is off their best.  I think he's the Russian's main chance for recapturing some of the glory days of Plushenko, though Kolyada is not the skater Pushy was.  The thing is that Kolyada has a certain boyish charisma that will get him a fan-base and when you have a good fan-base you have more incentive to compete well.  Just ask Yuzu, who has probably set unofficial records for the largeness and intensity of his fan-base and who certainly holds probably unbreakable records as to the tonnage of stuff thrown onto the ice after his skates.  Yuzu standing in wait to start at center-ice simply commands everyone in the stands to pay attention.  Like one commentator said, Yuzu gets more attention on the ice when he's just standing still than most skaters have when they're skating at their max.  As for Nationals, like I said above, Yuzu wants a chance to measure himself head to head against Shoma and probably also to regain the title he forfeited last year due to the flu bug.  His ankle cost him his GPF streak.  I don't think he is ready to contribute to a Shoma streak at Nationals.

[Murieleirum]

39 minutes ago, Xen said:

I'm kind of curious what kind of cake he's getting for his birthday this time. Or is Ghana going to magically fly one over from Japan? First time in a while that he's not competing on his Birthday. Maybe a proper party for once? Or does mister Training demon decide to ditch that too? 

Knowing him, the best present for his birthday would be to be physically completely recovered  and practice all day and close all the quads. But there has to be cake! 

[Mastyaeva]

4 минуты назад, Murieleirum сказал:

But there has to be cake! 

To take a cool selfie which nobody could see. 

 

[fireovertheice]

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@micaelis wrote: My current run-down of major threats to Yuzu at the Winter Games is Shoma still the biggest, with Javi now back in conention after his disaster in China, Boyang needs to his PCS up significantly or hope his quads pull maximum GOEs.  We'll find out about Nathan this week at Skate America.  Patrick Chan?  I'm afraid he's by and large yesterday's news.

 

At the moment - unless major meltdowns in the next competitions or injuries (i hope not) - the major threats for Yuzuru's gold at OGM are Nathan and Shoma. I think that Javier and Mikhail could be a threat for the other podium positions and I think that honestly this is also their realistic goal, unless disastrous skate from the others (for Javier Brian said: a medal of any color...).

For Boyang we will see better in this weekend. I doubt also very much that Chan will be a podium contender...it depends on what he will be able to produce from Nationals on.

[Forcefield]

On the Nathan v Shoma v Hanyu narrative, GPF is so important because if Nathan wins there, he would have won over his two biggest competitors for the season going to Olympics. But if Shoma wins GPF and Nats, it'll be his momentum and story as the front-runner. But I don't want to get ahead of myself. I did for GPS for the top 6 and we're currently at 3 of them out so.

 

Also, with Nathan he has USFS on his side too and it's media for being the front-runner for the U.S. so Shoma actually needs all the help he can get. (With Skate Am coming, I saw an article about Nathan as if he singlehandedly brought the current state of Men's fs to where it is today with his quads and ballet background.  I may be exaggerating because I couldn't stomach the unnecessary stuff despite the good fluff. But really, you can't get any more hype than that.)