And even compared to the other skaters, who seem to be experiencing minimal anxiety, Yuri seems on the far end. We don’t haven a lot of experience with Yuri pre-victor, so we don’t know what his anxiety levels were back then, other than what we had been told in the last episode and by Yuri himself. But I can kinda see where Victor was going with it. Adding more pressure may help some people, but When you are someone as a mentor, coach, idol, and possible love interest, you don’t purposefully break their spirit. Even before, as he was monologuing I knew it would be a bad idea, for Yuri, or anyone feeling the pressure. Victor, he had good intentions, and as a coach he is trying, but trying to break someone out of their funk by breaking their spirit. He has not had a good track record when it comes to the spotlight, and multiple people pointed it out in episode 6. He was panicking, sweating, not sleeping, and pacing nervously. So much like we assumed, Yuri was breaking a little under the pressure of the competition.

Yuri’s handling the stress of the competitions differently now.

Yuri on ice yuri crying