Sota Yamamoto also got two, and one of them IS NHK... the kid gets to compete against his idol there, it's gonna be great.
Yuzuru is going to skate canada and NHK same as last year.
I just got all event tickets to Skate Canada, and I'm in sixth row! I saw Yuzuru at Worlds, and I'm so excited to see him again, even though he generally has a rough start to the season. It should be interesting to see Chan and Hanyu again at SC. I predict that Yuzuru will not win, but regardless I cannot wait to see him skate live again :hap85:
Ok, I got my predictions right. Seriously this time he wont loose to Chiddy, I think so. On the other hand whenever he looses to Chiddy he wins Major titles and brakes records, so... xDDD
Chan has got a beautiful melody written and recorded by Eric Radford this time and the little snippets of his program look just... very Patrick, lots of steps and turns and little jumps of delight. So... ehm... Yuzu competing in CHANada... He's a Braveheart. Tiny Braveheart.
I actually don't mind if he lose to Chan, since it is early season and he usually never really do that well so early (but please be at least silver, boy). The problem is if he loses to Chan (again) I hope he won't "train until he bleeds" like he did last season. So, I hope he will win . I know it is a bit naive to think that he will be injury-free the entire season, but one can hope
I don't think there's any reason to believe Yuzu/Brian would make the same mistakes as last year. Neither of them are stupid and they've had plenty of time in Toronto together to plot strategy.
My only concern is the state of Yuzu's health. How serious were his injuries? Is he completely recovered now? What are the chances of re-injury?
So Yuzu will compete in SC and NHK but Fernandez will compete in Europe in both cases , in just one week. It seems the team chose two very different strategies.
I actually don't mind if he lose to Chan, since it is early season and he usually never really do that well so early (but please be at least silver, boy). The problem is if he loses to Chan (again) I hope he won't "train until he bleeds" like he did last season. So, I hope he will win . I know it is a bit naive to think that he will be injury-free the entire season, but one can hope
I think Yuzuru got SC because Javier really wants to avoid SC. Javier would rather do two GP back to back than to do SC even when SC is really close to him. Most skaters would not do two GP back to back. I guess Javier is rejected by SA again. SA did not invite any strong skaters. SA has the weakest men's field. I guess they really want Jason to medal or win.
No need to bleed this season. Last season when they've met at SC they both were so nervous they could hardly skate through their SP's. Both had quite desastrous skates and Zayaked like it was first time in their life. Now... There's no Boyang at NHK, right? Sure he has some young and hungry rivals who will try to over jump him but it's NHK and he's all round and everything. No need to bleed. Just go slowly, building stamina, getting ready to an extra event (hopefully) and peaking at Worlds. Let's keep "bleeding" for where it matters really.:dev3: