YAAAAAAAS.
Even if Yuzuru's is at core unpredictable some patterns always repeat, slow start of the season but still a much better showing at the FS than previous years. If this is his first then I guess it can only get better by GPF and Worlds, just compare his skate here with
Skate Canada 2013. He improved so much within those 2 years and it's impossible to not acknowledge that
even if some people still do When I saw previous comments about his performance before I watched it I was thinking that it was a complete jumpfest and "lol which choreo" plus a complete death at the end but he actually handled way better than what I expected
I swear some people makes it seem like Yuzuru is some Kovtun sometimes, I can't. Of course not top quality on the elements but I enjoyed a lot. Even If I'm still bummed about the changes at the step sequence, the stare at the judges at the end of it is my everything, I live for his fierce.
I had slight a feeling that he was ready to kill a man when I saw his face at the K&C and him pissed of at the practice. I feel quite stupid for worrying a bit, he always sort himself out.
So let's list the amount of patterns that repeated :
1) Slow start at the season, hopefully enough for a GPF spot thus far
2)
THE LUTZ, WHY. I can't. Someone fix his lutz asap.
3) Chiddy winning his first GP
4) Fierce comeback from the ashes from Yuzuru
5) A bit dead by the end of FS, diva-esque ending with hair flip and serial killer eyes.
Now my wish is that he could show the same amount of quality that he can show on practices, it's quite frustrating that the best of him can only be seen outside of the spotlights, while his FS performance are most of the times quite labored, even though he did a really great job. The real ease and brilliance of his skating can only be seen at his SP and at practices for now, the day that Yuzuru will be able to translate that to a FS it will make all the difference. If he wants the most ambitious program of the world he needs to
own it, and I don't want to see it only at his face (he clearly is great in this aspect) I want to see the control coming from
his body. This is Patrick's clear advantage over him. Competitions are a beast
I don't get why some fans think that Yuzuru was underscored, how could he deserve 9s at PCS when he was clearly losing steam at the end and didn't perform to his maximum yet? I love Yuzuru but I think it was fair. Patrick won in some serious Yuna-esque fashion, with a GOE/PCS shower and less difficulty and I'm ok with that. Even if i'm not the biggest fan of him as a skater it's crystal clear that his quality is what gave him the win and I think that his presence will serve extremely well for Yuzuru's mentality. Yuzuru will grasp that even with his technical advantage on paper, Patrick will always have the PCS advantage and quality will always win over quantity, it doesn't matter how much points you have on paper. This will force Yuzuru to strive for more clean performances and polish even more his skating, as well as Yuzuru's TES poweress will push Patrick to increase his 3A consistency and implement permanently the 2nd quad at the free.
I'm heartbroken for Dice though, it must be hard to know that even skating pratically 2 clean programs you can't even touch a flawed Patrick and Yuzuru. But it's life, I get his scores, still heartbreaking.
And the mic at the K&C is fascinating, it should be there in every competition.
