General Yuzuru Chat

[Lunna]

  On 11/29/2017 at 10:32 AM, SparkleSalad said:

(I kept getting ambushed by school kids doing English homework on their excursions.)

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I was the same in Kyoto - but kids were cute

[asahi]

  On 11/29/2017 at 1:35 PM, PapiandPooh421 said:

I remember him saying that whenever he tries his body just full out sinks. 

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Too much muscle, not enough ability to actually use upper body

[SparkleSalad]

  On 11/29/2017 at 1:35 PM, Lunna said:

I was the same in Kyoto - but kids were cute

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Kyoto is 50% tourists, 45% kids on school excursions, 5% local population. And they asked me the exact same questions the kids 7 years ago did! 

[Lunna]

  On 11/29/2017 at 1:37 PM, SparkleSalad said:

 

Kyoto is 50% tourists, 45% kids on school excursions, 5% local population. And they asked me the exact same questions the kids 7 years ago did! 

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I just had 5-minute long report about Kiyomizu-dera - it was really hard to understand the pronunciation but I gave good marks anyway (but to my surprise a lot of people had good/decent English in Tokyo and Kyoto, I used my awful Japanese only a couple of times))

[Sammie]

  On 11/29/2017 at 1:23 PM, Floria said:

He does not know how to swim 

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He doesn’t know how to swim, he sleep with one eye open... What else I don’t know about Yuzu? Lol. Being a newbie fan is hard and fun at the same time.  

[Xen]

  On 11/29/2017 at 1:36 PM, asahi said:

Too much muscle, not enough ability to actually use upper body

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He could try butterfly, that's a lot of waist and hip action, and he has plenty flexiblity and strength there. 

 

He has barely been back a week, cmon, give him some time.

[xeyra]

  On 11/29/2017 at 1:47 PM, Xen said:

He could try butterfly, that's a lot of waist and hip action, and he has plenty flexiblity and strength there. 

 

He has barely been back a week, cmon, give him some time.

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Honestly, I want the first thing we hear about him to be him jumping quads again because that means he's recovered.

[Floria]

  On 11/29/2017 at 1:54 PM, xeyra said:

 

Honestly, I want the first thing we hear about him to be him jumping quads again because that means he's recovered.

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Between no news and bad news I prefer the first option of course.

[KatjaThera]

  On 11/29/2017 at 1:47 PM, Xen said:

He could try butterfly, that's a lot of waist and hip action, and he has plenty flexiblity and strength there. 

 

He has barely been back a week, cmon, give him some time.

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I think the actual problem is he doesn't have enough body fat to float? He could probably make up for it, normally, through sheer physical exercise, working harder to tread water etc. but add to it his asthma and I think it might just not be worth the struggle...

[SparkleSalad]

 

 

[katonice]

  On 11/29/2017 at 2:05 PM, KatjaThera said:

I think the actual problem is he doesn't have enough body fat to float? He could probably make up for it, normally, through sheer physical exercise, working harder to tread water etc. but add to it his asthma and I think it might just not be worth the struggle...

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I'm just curious though. I thought all Japanese school kids were required to learn to swim. I thought it was a default part of their curriculum. But maybe I just have the wrong idea about this. 

[SparkleSalad]

  On 11/29/2017 at 2:12 PM, katonice said:

I'm just curious though. I thought all Japanese school kids were required to learn to swim. I thought it was a default part of their curriculum. But maybe I just have the wrong idea about this. 

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I found this:

 

http://www.worldconferenceondrowningprevention2011.org/SiteMedia/w3svc1092/Uploads/Documents/WCDP2011_Swim&WS_Matsui_p230_Abstract.pdf

[KatjaThera]

  On 11/29/2017 at 2:05 PM, SparkleSalad said:

 

 

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(Seriously, your timing with this, when I'm struggling with how to approach the exam on Sunday... )

 

  On 11/29/2017 at 2:12 PM, katonice said:

I'm just curious though. I thought all Japanese school kids were required to learn to swim. I thought it was a default part of their curriculum. But maybe I just have the wrong idea about this. 

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I have no idea, actually... now, I imagine it's low body fat, but as a kid... maybe asthma actually excused him from stuff like that? I imagine weak lungs and swimming don't go so well together. But I actually can't swim either, so I'm not the best person to comment lol

[SparkleSalad]

I used to get a pass from swimming classes because of a reaction to chlorine (and because I didn't wanna!) so maybe something like that? Though I learnt to swim at very young age I haven't been swimming in... I don't remember, it's so long ago. I'm sure I can propel myself forward and not drown but apart from breaststroke I wouldn't really say I could swim. 

[SparkleSalad]

  On 11/29/2017 at 2:18 PM, KatjaThera said:

(Seriously, your timing with this, when I'm struggling with how to approach the exam on Sunday... )

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I will take full responsibility if you fail. Worth it. (I'm sure you'll pass with flying colours!)