Peaking comes soon for Yuzuru (Chapter 5, part 9 to Team Brian II)
－skipping some general comments about peaking and Javi’s part —
As for Yuzuru, we're still at the stage of figuring out his peaking plan. General theories about peaking don't apply well to Yuzuru. Yuzuru takes a very short time to go from adjustment to peak, so if he is even a little more motivated or tries a little bit harder, he will reach a peak really quickly. (In another section, Brian mentioned that Yuzuru had trained without him for two weeks before NHK while he was accompanying other skaters to GP series. Upon return, he was surprised at how good Yuzuru’s condition was and took note of Yuzu’s ability to bring himself to peak very quickly.) Many skaters aim to peak in the second half of the season and gradually get themselves there, so they haven’t yet peaked in December. However, in the last three years, Yuzuru's peak had come in the Grand Prix final in December of the first half of the season. Based on Yuzuru’s physical predisposition and personality, he'll will probably need to peak twice or thrice each year. After December, we have to test how to recreate the peak again in the season.
Considering Yuzuru's pace these two years, the first peak in the Grand Prix final is fine. After that, it was also fine to let himself dip a bit at the All Japan Championship at the end of December. However, although we’d wanted to peak again in March, we had had to go into World Championship without conditioning going up. We talked about peaking so many times, and Yuzuru also understands its importance. But he wanted to live up to the expectations that surround him--to always perform well and win. When the Grand Prix Final comes up, he goes all the way there and burns out. By the time March comes around, although he has both the physical strength and the ability to peak again, he wasn’t able to do so.
One of the reasons that I can think of is that there is no match between Japanese Nationals in December and World Championships in March and it's too long to go without a single competition. Javier has the European Championship at the end of January and both American and Canadian nationals are in January. Only Yuzuru has this giant 3-month gap in the middle of the season. Competitive instincts and tension could have dulled, and the body feels like it’s in a different season. In that way, his condition may have dropped. So, we think that 4CC to be held in February will be an important timing for peaking this season.
There is yet another advantage of bringing a peak in February. After Yuzuru gave perfect performances at the NHK Trophy and the Grand Prix final last year. There were two weeks in between the two competitions. Yuzuru was able to maintain his peak for that long. It's about a month from 4CC to world championships, so we can see what happens with this interval. If he ends up participating again in the Olympic team competition, it will be a short period of about a week from team to singles. What happens this February will also become a hint for us to find out if he should drop the peak or try to maintain it.
In this way, this February will give us opportunity to figure out what kind of competitive pace at which Yuzuru’s condition goes up/ is maintained. And when this season is over, I'd like to discuss all this thoroughly with Yuzuru so he has a good idea about the timing of his peak and physical condition, and we can maintain a good conditioning plan for the Olympic season.
This is one of them... Mostly confirmation of things that we already know. News article from Asahi Shinbun
Oh well, double-edged sword. 
This is true somewhat. He went from disastrous to awesome in a short time quite often. SC to NHK 15, NHK 14 to GPF 14, Even this year's SC to NHK. I don't think it is simply because general peaking theory does not apply to Yuzuru though. He is always burdened with injuries and sickness season by season, so it is really difficult to recognize and adjust his peaking pattern. I find the part where Yuzu is aware that in case his + his team's plan on shifting his peaking does not work, he could still deliver a good performance, satisfying for me. 
But wow, that's a huge crowd 
I can't wait to watch him again, these two months were too long...
