Forum - View topicYURI!!! On Ice, Nagoya and the Winter Olympics
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Songster01
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It's fantastic you got a chance to see the GPF Final! So lucky! I share some of your experiences (I took ballet as a child and watched some fs in Olympics years): most importantly that YOI inspired me to follow a full season of fs for the first time ever. My impression was similar; YOI went out of its way to provide a very accurate depiction of the competitive fs world. Moreover, I learned of all the drama that can happen in one competition, let alone a season (and boy has this one been crazy fro the men I have been told over and over). I followed several skaters and journalists and began to learn about the community that is the fs world.
You and I are not the only ones; many fellow YOI fans either already loved fs or turned to following it afterwards and we are on pins and needles for the Olympics. Since the BDs and DVDs for North America are appearing not long before the team event, some of us will marathoning them to further the excitement and tide us over until the fs skating side of the Olympics begins. What's fun too is how skaters continue to acknowledge the show because they loved it. Jason (I adore his artistic skating) put up a pic that he took with the near life-size standees of Victor, Yuuri, and Yuri at the GPF. Adam Rippon (also love his fun and beautiful programs) selected a Christophe pillow to flash at the camera in the Kiss & Cry after his SP at the US Nationals. Just two of the most recent examples of YOI being referenced by actual competitive skaters. Thank you again for sharing your experiences! |
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Crisha
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I am soooooooo damn jealous! I want to see a live fs event!
Yeah, Yuri!!! on Ice is what sparked me to start following figure skating this past year. I always had a fascination for the sport and watched it whenever the winter Olympics came around, but I don't normally follow sports so that was the only experience I had prior to YOI. In this past year, I've researched so much on the sport and kept up with blogs in the ice skating fandom, and have done my best to watch the events (not often live, unfortunately). I have so much more respect for the sport and I'm enjoying keeping up with it. This has definitely been an exciting season, and it's an amazing time to start following the sport. Thank you very much for sharing your experience, Yaya. I really appreciate being able to read about it. (Also, yes, yes, and yes for every positive thing you mentioned about YOI - I agree 100%.) |
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yuna49
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Many of the Grand Prix Final events are on YouTube. Here's Nathan Chen's free skate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfi8ZN3c7i0
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Oggers
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Like a lot of other people, I'd always been a pretty casual fan of figure skating, but watching Yuri on Ice inspired me to get more invested in it. This was the first Grand Prix Final I'd ever bothered to sit down and watch, and it was definitely a fun ride.
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