General Yuzuru Chat

[VyVy99]

18 minutes ago, ralucutzagy said:

New Yuzu content again!!  I love this off season!!!   And I want the T shirts, the bracelet and everything else! Ofc, the t-shirts are sold out, everything else will be sold out in no time! haha

And the new photo is lovely!!!  BUT Zu, honey, you need a haircut! Like , now! 

 

Don't let this goodness end. Keep them comin 

When wil we get to see this perfectly cut hair again??? One of my favs 

And I wouldn't be too comfortable seeing him in a too... outstanding hair style like Jason or Daisuke really  I think a casual polite but well styled hair will do him good. But if we get to see him do a small bun on top of his head like an onion while practicing it'll be so cute hahaha~

[OonsieHui]

1 hour ago, micaelis said:

PC was yet another example of when Yuzu is at his best.  He does his best when his back is to the wall and it's a do or die situation.  Think back to Helsinki.  Remember GPF 2014.  The FS there is in my opinion his greatest skate ever, even though he fell once late in the skate.  He missed setting a FS record then by just a sliver but salvaged a season that up to that time had been a disaster.  There have been other times though when he was just simply on top going into the skate and was even more on top coming out of it.  I'm thinking now of those supreme two weeks back in 2015 when Yuzu made it impossible for any responsible skating fan not to think of him as a potential GOAT.  I do remember one remark, and I think it was CBC.  One of the commentators remarked that Yuzu was moving to become the GOAT at which point Kurt Browning(?) said, "Guess what.  You're too late."  I've tried to analyze the situations which result in Yuzu turning in a perfect (or near-perfect) skate and those where he just makes too many mistakes to take the gold.  I could be wrong but it seems to me his best skates come in those situations where he's so far ahead he can skate without any pressure and then there are those like I've just mentioned, where his back is to the wall, and where his only recourse is to just go out and forget the pressure and just skate the program.  The problematic ones seem to be where his lead is such that he can be overtaken.  I'm thinking here of his two World Championship losses to Javi.  Those are the times where the other skater doesn't so much win as Yuzu loses. 

 

As for the lessons of this season, I think for the first time Yuzu realizes that he is not physically invulnerable.  In the past he's always surmounted his injuries but, as he observed in the interview, this is the fist time his actual career was threatened by an injury (It was threatened way back by the earthquake but the situation there was wholly different.).  If anything, I think this enforced time off the ice has given Yuzu a lot of time to look at things very long term, and by that I mean not just next season, not just next Olympics, but basically what is he going to do the rest of his life and when is he going to do it.  He's already made known he wants to coach someday.  But that is more what one does after one's passed those times when one can skate competetively and when the ice shows become a grind.  I do think, though, that Yuzu might be tipping his hand with HIS ice show this summer.  Is he thinking of putting together his own 'Fantasy on Ice' type show?  His name behind it seems already to be drawing a number of legends his way and with these big names coming forward I think there might come a point fairly soon when a number of today's prominent skaters decide they can't afford NOT to be in the show.  The point though is that Yuzu is showing any potential backers that he has the skill and the influence to put together an ice show that is just packed with talent and one that could, because of the worldwide nature of Yuzu's celebrity, actually tour internationally.

 

What we have right now, though, is a Yuzu who's scared enough by what's happened to him that he is going to follow doctor's orders to the letter.  He might not like it but he's realizing that there are a lot of things we have to do in life we don't like but they're necessary so that we can get to the times in our lives when we can do the things we want to do.  In these next few months I at least hope that the powers that be at TCC will keep things open enough that Yuzu's fans don't have to spend months agonizing over how things are going.  Keeping the lid on things as Yuzu and company were approaching PC was good strategy.  It kept the other skaters unsure of which Yuzuru they would be facing and hoping it would not be the Yuzu of NHK and GPF 2015.  With Yuzu's SP at PC we got a taste of 2015 and there was plenty of reason for all the other skaters to feel, going into the FS, that the Yuzu of the world record scores was facing them.  After all, he'd missed setting a new record in the short by just fractions of a point.  Right now, though, his fans need Yuzu's handlers to be more open with how things are progressing, at least in the weeks leading up to what everyone hopes will be a successful return to the ice with full powers restored.  Once Yuzu's fans have assurance that this coming season will see Yuzu competing I think they will be willing to go along with a renewed clampdown on news coming out of TCC.  At least I will.

 

What this season has meant for Yuzu's fans is something else.  What we've learned is that Yuzu is never short of keeping the suspense ratcheted up.  Life worshiping Yuzu is a life that is an alternating process of nail-biting agony one minute and mind-blowing ecstasy the next.  Yuzu's greatest consistency is his inconsistency.  We never know when something will not go as planned or go even better than planned.  Of course I think most of Yuzu's fans wouldn't have it any other way.  Yuzu's wins are always sweetest when we know what he has gone through getting to those wins.  Think about it.  Would you like an unending repeat of those two weeks in late 2015 when Yuzu rewrote the record books?  I wouldn't.  

 

I hear what you're saying, and I see where you're coming from, but I respectfully disagree. 

 

I personally feel it would be mentally healthier and thus actually produce better skates and results if Yuzu had a more stable mentality. Perfectionism is wonderful, and an absolutely necessary trait in the truly great athletes. But too much and he tenses up too much and it becomes a mental (and physical!) block. Brian Orser himself says that Javi is more relaxed, and hence competes better. And after H&L Worlds 17'? Brian and Tracy were telling him "You seemed calmer... less intense". If Yuzu was, to quote Brian Orser "less intense", my guess is he would be producing more consistently clean skates. Yuzu knows his stumbling block is purely mental. His team knows his stumbling block is mental. I just happen to agree with them. And to your point about his SP lead (or lack there of) determining his FS, more stable mentality would mean that it didn't matter what standing he was in after the SP. Up against the wall, or far in the lead, or just a minimal lead. 

 

I also think we know that he said he skated the last skate of Worlds 2016 Boston thinking that he might be his last? So not quite the first time he's felt like he had a career ending injury, but clearly he felt it again now. And in both cases he felt it was career ending and decided to power through anyway. The difference being in 2016 he choose to do it alone, hiding it from everyone even his team, but now he had his team with him every step of the way.  

 

Agree with the whole strategy at PC bit. 

 

I came across this tumblr post yesterday (after I wrote my piece)by our favourite realxmonster that sums up nicely my opinions which are different from your last paragraph: http://the-real-xmonster.tumblr.com/post/172540138619/because-i-dont-believe-in-perfection-what-flaws (the part about what she thinks her greatest flaw is). And personally speaking, I actually would love it if he was consistently rewriting the record books ala 2015 actually. 

 

But of course, Yuzuru is Yuzuru. He is a whole, growing, changing person. His personality and decisions are his own, and I will support and love him regardless of results or medals. 

 

 

[Hydroblade]

Just now, VyVy99 said:

Don't let this goodness end. Keep them comin 

When wil we get to see this perfectly cut hair again??? One of my favs 

And I wouldn't be too comfortable seeing him in a too... outstanding hair style like Jason or Daisuke really  I think a casual polite but well styled hair will do him good. But if we get to see him do a small bun on top of his head like an onion while practicing it'll be so cute hahaha~

I see his current hair and i feel like this:

[OonsieHui]

If Yuzu would just spend forever in LGC hairstyle, I would not be at all adverse.... 

 

[kaaaaaaat]

12 minutes ago, Hydroblade said:

shit i just checked and it's true, my country doesn't appear...

ETA: I checked the order details and it does appear there

Okay whew whew gahh thankssss

[Hydroblade]

2 minutes ago, OonsieHui said:

If Yuzu would just spend forever in LGC hairstyle, I would not be at all adverse.... 

 

No, he needs to keeps us alive. It's for the greater good

[VyVy99]

2 minutes ago, Hydroblade said:

I see his current hair and i feel like this:

I feel like such a personal business to get my hands down on creating an Onion Yuzu with all those resources of hair right now.

[OhYuzu]

3 minutes ago, OonsieHui said:

If Yuzu would just spend forever in LGC hairstyle, I would not be at all adverse.... 

 

I LOVE LGC HAIR

[yuzuuu]

am I the only one that loves his long-ish hair? 

[VyVy99]

3 minutes ago, OonsieHui said:

If Yuzu would just spend forever in LGC hairstyle, I would not be at all adverse.... 

 

No. That's too much to handle. Trust me we don't want to venture there..... Some glories should only appear once in a while. 

[Hydroblade]

1 minute ago, yuzuuu said:

am I the only one that loves his long-ish hair? 

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[KatjaThera]

I actually ordered a pair of tshirts, too... I'm paranoid about them being sold out when I get there lol The funny thing is they'll probably arrive after I get back... from the trip after Japan lol (the pick up at convenience store option wasn't available sadly)

[ralucutzagy]

6 minutes ago, Hydroblade said:

I see his current hair and i feel like this:

I don't remember seeing him with such long hair since he was a bby mushroom ... maybe he's trying to copy Plushy's hairdo! 

[VyVy99]

I mean can you picture a world where Yuzu's in THAT hairstyle whenever, where ever he shows up??? How to face this reality???

Ok now you've trapped me in a never-ending cycle of imagining Yuzu wil LGC hair in all types of scenes and clothes 

[ICeleste]

Hace 2 horas, micaelis said:

Think about it.  Would you like an unending repeat of those two weeks in late 2015 when Yuzu rewrote the record books?  I wouldn't.  

 

Really? Why would you not? That'd be incredible... Unrealistic, but amazing nonetheless