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Yuzuru Hanyu || Seimei + Drawings

figureskating-in-color

So cool.

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Jumps, Explained

So, going by the tags on my recent jump gifsets, the difference between jumps is apparently still a source of great bewilderment for some people. Now I could link you to some excellent posts on the topic, but since I am, as usual, an extra lil piece of dirt with too much work to do and a lifetime’s worth of procrastination, I’ve decided to put together my own layman’s guide to identifying figure skating jumps (stressed on the layman part).

First, here be a flowchart, since everybody loves flowcharts, right?

If the flowchart works as intended and you can now tell the jumps apart, great! If you need a bit more explanation and illustration, read on.

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introducing the saltiest skater to ever grace this earth (x)

bonus: zuzu gets REKT

yuzuruspoohsan

I’m dead. This is my kind of humor. But only if the user can look over their grammar and spelling….. Otherwise, skate canada and pooh, everybody.

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170217 Yuzuru in the short program! | Photos by sankei

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“Efforts will lie, but will never be in vain.”

“If efforts never lied, the one who practices the most would win time after time. But, as of course, no matter how hard a person works, if they can’t win, they can’t win. And conversely, much younger athletes may overtake them forcefully. Therefore, efforts do lie. But that doesn’t mean efforts are in vain. It is precisely because efforts lie that we are prompted to think about how to work hard in a different way, and find the correct direction in which to expend our efforts. Isn’t that the most important thing?”