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CanadianSkaterGuy said:It's a bit up for grabs if Hanyu is a better jumper. Certainly his axels are much better but Chan's quad and ability to do quad triples gives him an edge.
I agree it's hard to say who the better jumper of these two is, but it's definitly not the quad that gives Chan an edge. Hanyus 4T is of similar quality and his consistency is actually a little better (at tumblr, a user named magicaleggplant was so nice to post some quad success statistics: out of 14 attempts, Hanyu landed 11 4T's with +GOE, which is a success rate of 79%. Chan landed 6 out of 10 attempts of solo 4T and 6 out of 10 4T combinations with +GOE - so he has a success rate of 60%). Besides that, I'm pretty sure Hanyu can do 4T-3T too (he's practicing it, and if he's capable of something like a 4T-3A-3A-3A...), he just doesn't need to because he does the 4S too. As of now, he still has huge troubles with that jump, but once he gets that more consistent, he'll have an additional quad jump over Chan too...