According to reports he performed 3T, 3Lz, 3Lo, 3F and 3S cleanly and he looks in great shape. Maybe we will get a high quality video since they're broadcasting it in Toyama.
Dai posted these pics with Akiko and Kenji on his instagram
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Plus, a couple of reports from Yuzuru fans that attended the show (source)
" I went there to watch Hanyu. I am a Hanyu fan. He is so popular and I thought his program was wonderful. However. the level Takahashi skated was well beyond that. He is just in the different class.
I cried."
" I thought Hanyu was great, but I shed tears before even thinking how Takahashi was skating!."
Even if Dai is close to retirement, it's good to see he is still getting fans.
The reports are very good indeed. It would be incredible if he gets his 3A back too by the time Friends On Ice starts.As for "close to retirement" one never knows. I wouldn't count Daisuke out, just yet, because if his body can hold out there's no stopping him because he's one of a kind.
His knees are doing much better. And speaking of his knees, Takeshi Honda held a conference in Osaka recently and he said something that may change the whole Sochi story we know so far.^How are his knees doing? There seems to be no evidence of the injury from the show reports, but is it wise to start the 3A so soon? (I welcome him 100% if he wants to continue skating, but since he's not coming back next season, there's no need to rush. ).
Dai left to Moscow and worked with Morozov there, I suppose? :think: and he fell ill in Moscow?His knees are doing much better. And speaking of his knees, Takeshi Honda held a conference in Osaka and he said something that may change the whole Sochi story we know so far.
According to Takeshi, Dai was already doing much better by late January and he even got his quad back. However when Dai left to Moscow for his last training before Sochi (he was still in Moscow by the time the team event started) Nagamitsu sensei called Takeshi and told him Dai fell ill and lost his jumps all over again. Takeshi further said he was moved to watch Dai skate the way he did, feeling sick with a knee that was not 100% recovered.
I was very surprised to read the new info since I thought his knee injury was the only thing that was bothering him, but apparently he was already doing much better before leaving Japan hwell:
Yes, I believe he went to train with Morozov. In Moscow he started feeling sick and was very weak.Dai left to Moscow and worked with Morozov there, I suppose? :think: and he fell ill in Moscow?
Woah, what kind of illness is this--to cause him to lose all his jumps? Or, another possibility, though Dai had "recovered" his jumps, he was still in an iffy state, and the illness was kinda the straw that broke the camel's back?According to Takeshi, Dai was already doing much better by late January and he even got his quad back. However when Dai left to Moscow for his last training before Sochi (he was still in Moscow by the time the team event started) Nagamitsu sensei called Takeshi and told him Dai fell ill and lost his jumps all over again. Takeshi further said he was moved to watch Dai skate the way he did, feeling sick with a knee that was not 100% recovered.
Woah, what kind of illness is this--to cause him to lose all his jumps? Or, another possibility, though Dai had "recovered" his jumps, he was still in an iffy state, and the illness was kinda the straw that broke the camel's back?
He did not specify, but he did say he was moved to see him skate both sick and injured.Did Honda specify whether he was still sick during the men's SP/LP, or if he'd simply lost too much training time while having been sick?
This is the first time I'm seeing that bandage. He did not have it in the news report, nor the rest of the pics :think:Speaking of injuries, here's a pic of Dai, Luca Lanotte, and a Russian skater from FaOI http://instagram.com/p/qGsLPesOCX/
Dai has a bandage on his right knee.
Those were really painful images to see and I was always wishing they stopped filming that whenever I saw glimpses in other documentaries. He was moaning and crying out in pain as the doctor put pressure on his leg, they shouldn't have filmed that.(I watched one of the post-Sochi documentaries they did of Dai the other day and they showed some clips of him from his 2008 injury where he was in serious pain. I thought about it a lot afterwards)
The Beatles medley still holds bittersweet memories for him I see.I google translated some more tweet reports:
- Dai burst into tears during Beatles medley
- I think he slipped a bit after the ChSq and laughed
Those were really painful images to see and I was always wishing they stopped filming that whenever I saw glimpses in other documentaries. He was moaning and crying out in pain as the doctor put pressure on his leg, they shouldn't have filmed that.
Some reporters have generally been a little insensitive with him. In the latest Fuji TV documentary they made him watch his post Nationals interview where he was crying and incapable of talking and it was obvious he was feeling a little uncomfortable to see that.Right? And it broke my heart.
I google translated some more tweet reports:
- Dai burst into tears during Beatles medley
- I think he slipped a bit after the ChSq and laughed