1 minute ago, golden said:

 

believe me, i know!!!! and his costumes even earlier than that had flair. sparkle and personality. and now all we have is ugly stripes, a wetsuit and broken dreams.  

 

He may be OGM in these. Cancel the Olympics. 

Ladies and gents - a landed 4Lz by one Mr. Rippon

 

 

6 minutes ago, Yatagarasu said:

Though admittedly, the 'no transitions' bit is something that amuses me as an attempt  on Zu 

 

Do you mean that's someone said that Zu has no transitions  ? Where ? Who? When?

5 minutes ago, Yatagarasu said:

Ladies and gents - a landed 4Lz by one Mr. Rippon

 

 

A fair bit of prerotation? 

Just now, fireovertheice said:

 

Do you mean that's someone said that Zu has no transitions  ? Where ? Who? When?

 

Ahah, no, no. That was the narrative back then when Lysacek was going for the gold. Plushenko has no transitions! It went so far that Inman, who is actually a judge here, during these Nationals, emailed other judges about transition scores. It was a bit of a scandal. I was reminded because of the 'Lysacek strategy in costumes' being extended to Nathan and it amuses me to expand that further because the rest would never work on Yuzuru. He is simply too good, and in general, that makes him an awful target for those kind of narratives.

3 minutes ago, Fay said:

A fair bit of prerotation? 

 

Yup but it won't matter with the current scoring, as long as he doesn't URs. And frankly, considering how they scored him for the short, they want him. I doubt they'd even call that.

1 minute ago, Yatagarasu said:

 

Ahah, no, no. That was the narrative back then when Lysacek was going for the gold. Plushenko has no transitions! It went so far that Inman, who is actually a judge here, during these Nationals, emailed other judges about transition scores. It was a bit of a scandal. I was reminded because of the 'Lysacek strategy in costumes' being extended to Nathan and it amuses me to expand that further because the rest would never work on Yuzuru. He is simply too good, and in general, that makes him an awful target for those kind of narratives.

 

Ah ok: thank you for the explanation. It seemed very strange to me, but I have read the most incredible things these last days also referred to Yuzu so...

The scuba diving costume! 

 

Just now, ralucutzagy said:

The scuba diving costume! 

 

I just choked on my tea!!  

an A+ for Jason tho!!

 

and Vincent sort of have a new costume/shirt, too 

 

 

2 minutes ago, ralucutzagy said:

and Vincent sort of have a new costume/shirt, too 

 

 

 

What on Earth... 

Just now, Yatagarasu said:

 

What on Earth... 

Hey, that’s better than what Nathan’s got on him! 

Maybe Nathan (or us) are being pranked with these costumes and we will be getting a fluff piece later about how poor Nathan had to skate in these ridiculous outfits,  then he is presented with the real beautiful costumes for the Olympics to everyone happiness and relive  

 

A girl can dream right 

43 minutes ago, Yatagarasu said:

 

As long as they don't try and replicate the whole narrative they had at the time of 'real men' skating.

I have a horrible suspicion that this is the thinking behind the 'sports gear' look

 

i wonder how much they're charging for these generic sports knock offs?