Hello everybody, another lurker found courage to post

(warning: long post and poor english, sorry)
First of all I want to say thank you to all of you, for the translations, pictures, fancams, links, funny post, your opinions and really everything... Good job, guys

I've been following this forum for quite a long and had great time reading these posts.
I'm not a new Yuzu fan and definitely not new skating fan, I started following skating during Sasha Cohen period. I have a lot of favourite skaters male or female but for me, none of them is anywhere near to Yuzu. I saw him for the first time during OWG (like many of you) and immediately fell in love with his skating and personality. His performance was just something so unique, so special, so beautiful, so perfect, so effortless, so light, so natural, so much emotions in it... I had goosebumps all over my body.
I love all of his programms and all of his costumes (even requiem

) and I've watched all of his performances about 100 times (or even more, lol). And what I really love about his performances is that they are never the same. Never. There is always some little detail in his movement or expression or mood or something, that makes it look a little different and exiting to watch again and again. And he's so beautiful and cute and has such a charisma. You can't do nothing but love him :luv17:
But here is my story I'd like to share with you:
Watching his performances at OWG inspired me to start figure skating. I was already 17 at that time, too old to expect miracles but I suddenly wanted to try it so badly. First lessons were difficult and it really was a start from 0. But I enjoyed every second on the ice and after some weeks I started seeing little improvements and the fear of falls slowly disappeared as well. Now it's been 3 years since I started skating and I really can't imagine my life without it anymore. The more I skate, the more I love it. It's incredible, that 3 years ago I couldn't do even a simple damn crossover and now I started landing my first doubles. This is all thanks to Yuzu. Thanks to him I've found my passion for skating and courage to try it.
He's literally changed my life and I thank him every day for that. Not only I was able to find my love for skating, but I also find my boyfriend there at our club. And many new friends there as well, btw all of them looove Yuzu, and our coaches do as well, they used him as example when explaining rhythm of knee bend, etc

I'm always so proud to be his fan and grin so much, when they mention him

If any of you have ever consider to skate, just do it, it's never late and you will love it!
Unfortunately, I will probably never be able to see him skating live (as I'm a student and I just can't disappear in the middle of the semester :sad21: ) but I'm always ready to cheer for him in front of my pc no matter the daytime. But I'm happy for you guys who had (or will have) chance to see him live, it must be an incredible and unforgettable experience. So all of you who will be in Helsinki, please cheer for him loudly, throw him poohs, and show him how much we love him! He deserves it