Sawdust in the grip-pouch

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texture · 20 Nov YDAU — pre-Fundraiser

When: 20 November YDAU, immediately before the Fundraiser exhibition against the Quebec junior squads, in the locker room
What: In the ritualized pre-exhibition dressing-and-stretching scene, Chu surfaces once, in the catalogue of grip-prep habits: he fills his pouch with sawdust (grouped with Wagenknecht) rather than fuller's earth. An incidental, crowd-level sighting — the book's last look at him, back in the machine, prepping like everyone else. (His two other 20-Nov traces are passing mentions only — see Dating notes.)