Mmm.
there's an old japanese saying about how even monkeys fall from trees. i was alerted about this youtube clip from my niece which featured kim yu-na practicing jumps on her compromised back condition. It made me think of the old proverb and i think if you watch it yourself, you'll understand what i mean.
Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG8IITrtJOc
I usulally lurked on this board, however, this time I have to show up because I uploaded this clip.
I uploaded the clip on youtube from compeletely different reason with you michaela77, though I don't exactly understand what you're saying, "even monkeys fall from trees." I uploaded it beacuse it shows Yu-Na's identity as a figure skater, what makes her, from the country where a figure skating is nothing, stand out as one of the best skaters in ther world. The clip is cut from a recently aired documentary "The Lark Ascending", dealing with Yu-Na's journey between TEB and GPF. As I explained on youtbue, it was 8 days before GPF, when she was about to feel back pain.(And I also explained her mom did suggest to stop the practice, but Yu-Na insisted to go on.)
Though many people seems to feel this scene depressing and horrible, it moves me more than any thing else throughout the documentary. I first knew Yu-Na as a little girl who practiced triple jumps in devesatingly empty rinks several years ago. It is heard that she persists on practicing even without wiping tears when she can't do jumps as she wants, and at such time she is so determined and concentrated on herself that even her mother or coach cannot intervene. While my heart really breaks seeing her tears, I see also her determination and pride as a figure skater- which I belive the momentum that brings her here without much support.
I'm not saying she must go on practcing with injury to win competitions. I want her skate healthy and long more than any thing else -that's why I welcome the news she is gonna move to Canada, which will provide her better environment. However, I just admire her strong-willed determination for improvement and her talent blossoms in such a poor envirioment. And that is what I want to see people from the clip. (Maybe I didn't explain too much.)
KBS,a Korean braodcasting station, made a special documentary film of Yu-Na Kim's winning,"KBS Special "The Lark Ascending". I also have watched this and it was planned at least a month before the Grand Prix Final. Do you see the subtitle "D-8" in the beginning? The D-Day was the Final. 
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