I am glad this season is over without major injury for Yuzu.
For emotional control, he can only learn from experience. Yes, he already had Sochi experience, but that time he did not have the pressure of being called as legend, or all time best skater. He probably felt he has to prove it. His overreaction to D10 incident was bit strange to me(Whoops! I brought this again:shame
. Thinking back, it reminds his pressure after winning Sochi gold and going into COC. He needs to find a good balance.
But good thing is he knows it already as he is so far talking to the media and pointing that his problem was mental.
Looking forward to see what programs he will do next year! He said he wants to do something like Javi's LP. Does that mean he wil go back to David:scard8:
On the topic of Coach, Yuzu said many times the reason he chose TCC for the place to train is all the skating environment and the whole coaching team, and above all Javi is there. He knows that he is most motivated when he is training with his best rival. He learned how to stabilize his 4 sal from Javi and how to do 4 combo in 2nd half from Javi. Javi is really special for him because of his kind character. I agree in most cases this kind of set up would not work, but Javi and Yuzu combination is really different from others. I think thaks mostly to Javi bieng so kind and grown up.
For mental support he relies more on his Mom and Kikuchi-san because of his language and they just know him all through his life. Is that unprofessional? I don't know. But Yuzu is smart kid and stuborn. I think he is the type of person he finds his own solution through talking. And for that he needs someone Japanese for now. He probalby listens to other's advice, but he does not follow that unless he believes that is the best.
I don't mean to undervalue the importance of Orser being the coach either, because I think he is like a producer in a movie who cordinates things strategically. But Yuzu's case, he is not any skater who will just follow the instructions of the coach. So having a coach dedicated only to him is not what he needs. I feel he is becoming more and more independet especially this season in his choice of programs and program layout and so on. If Brian says he will dedicate himself only to Yuzu, I think Yuzu will say no Thnak You:handw:
I haven't seen the conference report, but I am sure his mind is alerady set for next season and how to work on consistancy.
He tried quad sal combo in 2nd half for the first time. That is a big challenge. People forget easily the gravity of that decision, because he changed SP program so much in the middle of the season and succeded it as if it was nothing. Mental control does not stand alone. When you are used to the technical content, even if you mind is off somewhere, you body memory takes charge and lead its way, then you get your confidence back and you mind-set again gets proper focus. This time he probably did not have that body memory for 4sal combo. Next year his body memory will be ready. He knows all those things himself. He is probably talking through tonight with her mom figuring out how to deal with it.
Yes it is mental thing, but solution is not necessarity mental control training, but more technical and physical. That is something Orser said I think.
And for me I can go back to GPF again and again. His WR will stay unless he himself will break it.
