General Yuzuru Chat

[katonice]

  HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018 EVERYONE!! 

 

 Wishing all of us satellites a year filled with never-ending happiness, and hearts bursting with joy and cheer and smiles, overflowing to everyone and anyone around us 

And to Yuzu, nothing but happiness and good health and well-being  May 2018 be a wonderful year for you, and may you achieve all the dearest dreams and hopes you have in your heart  Happy New Year Dear Yuzu! 

 

 

[Smultron]

Happy New Year everyone! 

 

2017 was pretty crazy but I will actually remember it as the year when I graduated and lost my mind to figure skating (good thing I discovered Yuzuru when my thesis was almost finished, otherwise... who knows what would have happened with my graduation lol ) 

I am immensely grateful for this fantastic community that we have here, this place made my year so much better  

 

I was at my grandma's place yesterday to celebrate, and when she said she was bored I made her watch skating with me haha. We made it through my entire Yuzuru playlist and somewhere in the middle of Seimei she whispered "...god on ice..." and then: "...he feels every note in that music, doesn't he..." when we were at Notte Stellata...   Aaahhh, he is so special  

[micaelis]

11 hours ago, kaerb said:

We will, however, see a huge media tide shift depending on what happens at the SP. It'll definitely become a '#1 vs #2' thing at least via official channels and they'll drag in past comps, but you can bet that as long as their own skaters have a fighting chance, US/Canadian/JP media won't abandon their own either.

I can see your point about Yuzu vs Shoma going into PC.  However, and I didn't remark about that in my previous post, I do think the media will embrace the narrative of Yuzu defending his title if, for no other reason, than the fact that Yuzu from the day after he  won at Sochi he has been quite public about his determination to repeat the feat at PC.  He's handed the media that narrative on a silver platter, letting them know that he was engaged in a four-year long campaign to capture the gold again.  There is another factor that could mould the narrative, and that is how Yuzu does in the team competition (if he participates, which I think he should).  His SP in the team competition at Sochi was a strong indicator how he would do in the later SP in which he set a new record, breaking his own record he had set just a few weeks before.  If he does extraordinarily well in the team event he will definitely set himself up as the one to beat, if only based on his record through that four years long trek to PC.  Technically Yuzu is even now solidly ranked as number one in the world, on the strength of his holding both the current Olympic and World Championships, but that position is strengthened by his absolute domination of the record books, not only the three major ones of SP, FS and combined, but also his TES scores and the margins he set over the silver winners in some of the major competitions.  Look at GPF 2014, NHK 2015 and GPF 2015 there.  There have been closer events I'll grant but as more than one commentator remarked as he broke his own records at the 2015 GPF, if he skates like he was skating then, then 'nobody can touch him'.  That factor I think will be decisive in shaping the media narrative, that fact being that when, as Johnny Weir remarked, when Yuzu skates at his best there is nobody in the world that can beat him.  Right now Yuzu does not have the sustained dominance to put him in the same league with, for instance, Wayne Gretzky or Michael Jordan to lay a convincing claim to GOAT,  but the fact is there is no skater now skating who even comes close to making that claim.  If Yuzu should take the Olympics, the World Championship and then, in this coming December, reclaim his GPF crown, then you'll see  a lot of the commentariat looking at Yuzu in the light of GOAT, particularly if he resumes his habit of periodically resetting his record scores.  So Yuzu, while not having skated since Rostelecom in competition is basically both a dark horse and the obvious favorite.  The media have a bit of a dilemma here because both narrative approaches are valid.  The idea just came to me right now that they might create buzz by highlighting those two factors, Yuzu the missing and Yuzu the master.  In either case there is no doubt that this Olympics will find the men's single skate competition a source of major interest since it is not often one finds a credible candidate for GOAT in the competition.  That, I think, will make this year's men's singles competition an event that the sportscasters will frame as one of the major stories this time around.

 

PS - Because of Yuzu's prolonged absence this season I'm pretty confident that there will be on camera speculation as to how many Pooh bears might descend on the ice after Yuzu's skates.  After all there haven't been any opportunities for such since Rostelecom and for those at PC who had tickets to earlier events Yuzu missed, there are quite a few Poohs stashed away awaiting the opportunity to grace the ice with their presence.  What we will see will be an amber avalanche.

[Sammie]

Anyone know what they saying?  

[MrPudding]

was this really a coincidence hanyu-kun 

[Neenah]

38 minutes ago, micaelis said:

I can see your point about Yuzu vs Shoma going into PC.  However, and I didn't remark about that in my previous post, I do think the media will embrace the narrative of Yuzu defending his title if, for no other reason, than the fact that Yuzu from the day after he  won at Sochi he has been quite public about his determination to repeat the feat at PC.  He's handed the media that narrative on a silver platter, letting them know that he was engaged in a four-year long campaign to capture the gold again.  There is another factor that could mould the narrative, and that is how Yuzu does in the team competition (if he participates, which I think he should).  His SP in the team competition at Sochi was a strong indicator how he would do in the later SP in which he set a new record, breaking his own record he had set just a few weeks before.  If he does extraordinarily well in the team event he will definitely set himself up as the one to beat, if only based on his record through that four years long trek to PC.  Technically Yuzu is even now solidly ranked as number one in the world, on the strength of his holding both the current Olympic and World Championships, but that position is strengthened by his absolute domination of the record books, not only the three major ones of SP, FS and combined, but also his TES scores and the margins he set over the silver winners in some of the major competitions.  Look at GPF 2014, NHK 2015 and GPF 2015 there.  There have been closer events I'll grant but as more than one commentator remarked as he broke his own records at the 2015 GPF, if he skates like he was skating then, then 'nobody can touch him'.  That factor I think will be decisive in shaping the media narrative, that fact being that when, as Johnny Weir remarked, when Yuzu skates at his best there is nobody in the world that can beat him.  Right now Yuzu does not have the sustained dominance to put him in the same league with, for instance, Wayne Gretzky or Michael Jordan to lay a convincing claim to GOAT,  but the fact is there is no skater now skating who even comes close to making that claim.  If Yuzu should take the Olympics, the World Championship and then, in this coming December, reclaim his GPF crown, then you'll see  a lot of the commentariat looking at Yuzu in the light of GOAT, particularly if he resumes his habit of periodically resetting his record scores.  So Yuzu, while not having skated since Rostelecom in competition is basically both a dark horse and the obvious favorite.  The media have a bit of a dilemma here because both narrative approaches are valid.  The idea just came to me right now that they might create buzz by highlighting those two factors, Yuzu the missing and Yuzu the master.  In either case there is no doubt that this Olympics will find the men's single skate competition a source of major interest since it is not often one finds a credible candidate for GOAT in the competition.  That, I think, will make this year's men's singles competition an event that the sportscasters will frame as one of the major stories this time around.

 

PS - Because of Yuzu's prolonged absence this season I'm pretty confident that there will be on camera speculation as to how many Pooh bears might descend on the ice after Yuzu's skates.  After all there haven't been any opportunities for such since Rostelecom and for those at PC who had tickets to earlier events Yuzu missed, there are quite a few Poohs stashed away awaiting the opportunity to grace the ice with their presence.  What we will see will be an amber avalanche.

The media is fickle, always chasing ratings and clicks rather than providing an accurate picture of a situation. I don't really care what they say about Yuzuru or who they think is the GOAT because they will be changing their narrative the moment a new interesting angle presents itself. Yuzu's accomplishments cannot be erased by the short term memory of the media and his place in history is already cemented whether he wins the Olympics for the second time or not 

 

I do agree with you that it would be interesting and even fun to see how the different media outlets handle advertising their skaters and all the ignorant pieces we will see about the sport before the Olympics 

[SparkleSalad]

1 hour ago, Sammie said:

Anyone know what they saying?  

 

They asked a producer (not sure who they are) who the number one person they'd like to produce for is and they replied Hanyu, that they'd like to produce a show for him.

[Sammie]

2 minutes ago, SparkleSalad said:

 

They asked a producer (not sure who they are) who the number one person they'd like to produce for is and they replied Hanyu, that they'd like to produce a show for him.

Thank you! I really want to see him in one of Japan game shows. I always find them entertaining. How hilarious would his reactions be. When he have time of course.  

[kaeryth]

 

[MrPudding]

So.. how long till Olympics now? I'm so done with life that I want Olympics to be tomorrow just so that I can see him 

It's only the first day of 2018... why...

[Yatagarasu]

Ladies, and gents, the schedule for PyeongChang 2018 is now officially out.

 

The Men for Team Event have their first practice in exactly one month - Feb 1st! So ... here we go, here we go. Stock up on chocolate, cakes, alcohol and all of it! Party is about to start.

 

 

[Pammi]

might she mean Yuzu too??

[Danibellerika]

Gosh I really gotta start finalizing my schedule for PC.  I'm kind of glad the public can only see one practice session or else I wouldn't be touring anything. 

[liv]

5 minutes ago, Pamyu said:

might she mean Yuzu too??

 

We can only hope.... ah, the scraps we feast on...

[MrPudding]

16 minutes ago, Yatagarasu said:

Ladies, and gents, the schedule for PyeongChang 2018 is now officially out.

 

The Men for Team Event have their first practice in exactly one month - Feb 1st! So ... here we go, here we go. Stock up on chocolate, cakes, alcohol and all of it! Party is about to start.

 

 

1 month. Gosh I take back what I said about Olys being tomorrow. I'm not ready 

Will we have a clock countdown