Is everyone excited as me for this competition? I already did my calculations and it seems that for the Men's SP starts around 10pm on thursday (Mexico City time) I still need to find a way to watch it since it's going to be broadcasted mainly for Japan, Taiwan and China

I don't know any japanese but I just saw these pictures from today's practice





In here you can find more pics

http://www.sanspo.com/sports/news/110216/spm1102161833003-n1.htm
http://www.sanspo.com/sports/news/110216/spm1102161242002-n1.htm

If someone can translate what it says would be great, google translate doesn't love japanese

Does anyone know where you can watch 4CC live on the internet?

I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!! Did that answer your question?

That picture of him on the ice is the best! Hopefully he got all the falls out in practice!

During my online research of how to watch 4CC, this is what I've found:
You can download KeyholeTV and watch the FujiTV broadcast or hope that someone streams a tv broadcast on Justin.tv
If my info is correct (if anyone knows differently, please let me know!), these are the times of the broadcast for FujiTV:

*Men SP Fri 2/18 21:00 (9pm) - 23:00 (11pm) Japan Time [7am-9am Eastern Time Zone USA]

*Men LP Sat 2/19 20:00 (8pm) - 24:00 (midnight) Japan Time [6am-10am Eastern Time Zone USA].

I'm sure other countries besides Japan will be broadcasting 4CC's but I figured FujiTV would be the best bet if we want to see Dai!

Yeah I also heard that someone from FS forum will try to stream on Justin.tv I guess we'll found out tomorrow so I will continually check twitter on this and well I'll cross my fingers that KeyholeTv works for me

I also found this video of Dai's practice..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hvMK--AGis

and this one when he arrived at Taipei
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtSDjEWWwDg&feature=related

according to some reports Dai couldn't land any quad at practice or Kozuka, but Hanyu was doing it. I don't know anything about the american boys, just that Adam got a haircut I dislike very much lol

hazelq, thank you very much for topic!
Some photos

http://i837.photobucket.com/albums/zz291/jejel/Dai-chan/view0462306.jpg
http://i837.photobucket.com/albums/zz291/jejel/Dai-chan/view0462304.jpg

KeyHoleTV don't work on my computer a long time ago
I'm upset

I hope for clean skate! Please, don`t fall!!!
I wish sometimes that Dai had as traditional hair as Jeremy Abbott or Nobu.
This moustasche scared me a lot.
Will ESPN show 4CC?

OK, I just needed to post this here.. I'm soooo happy
Dai just won the SP with 83.49
He skated a clean program with 3F3T 3A FUSp4 3Lz CCSp2 SlSt3 CCoSp4 all positve GOEs and no edge calls or under rotations.
You can see the judes scores here: http://www.isuresults.com/results/fc2011/fc2011_Men_SP_Scores.pdf

The stream I was using was really good and fast, I hope it works for tomorrows FS
Here's the link http://topic.pptv.com/2010/ynet/live.php?id=6905 it only works on PCs and Internet Explorer

Somebody already posted his SP on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMegjwWneT0 (SP & K&C)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-swEF_Or0yA (only SP but better resolution)

well time to go to bed

Thank you, hazelq

I'm happy too. Suppose that in a free program he will succeed.

Nice one! Thanks for the news! Good to see Daisuke skating well. Hope and pray he does well to in his LP!

I noticed the change in his spins too. I think thats a good call.

83.49 is not enough for this performance.
only one 9 in PCS & someone even gave 7.25!
Judges, you are in my blacklist.
2 spins of level 4!

But was that arena? It`s almost empty!
Though Dai`s fans were awesome. I hear their support. Just great.

Oh my gosh, that SP was HOT!!! Even my non-skating fan roommate was mesmerised - she said that Daisuke's dance and expression is in a completely different league to all other skaters! And Dai has added a donut spin! Sugoii!
Have to add that I personally think the facial hair is very attractive.