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I would like to tell something about the Quadruple Axel jump (4A).
I believe that there is a reason why only Yuzuru Hanyu's 4As have got such motion pictures: they are huge, beautiful, astounding. Really something wholly new. Because jumps with very little less than 4 full rotations (such as an underrotated 4A with a skid takeoff), have already been jumped since a number of years, with Boyang Jin's, Misha Kolyada's or Yuzuru Hanyu's gorgeous 4Lz, the only really conquered (but by so few; of course there are a few others who have or have had correct 4Lz, but they're irrelevant to this because they rather have 3¾ rotations, something the best other quadruple jumps already had) Queen of Jumps. In order to conquer the 4A, Yuzuru Hanyu has gone through the only way he's ever known, the most perfect one. With little or no prerotation: at ¼ of the first rotation, he's already high in the air, something only edge technique can get: an Axel jump with skid take off will always be still on the ice at that moment; even if there's still an underrotation, which he doesn't try to hide under the carpet, unlike those who are score as if they had fully rotated a jump.
Here it is, I believe that it deserves to be reminded as the model:
https://twitter.com/SportsHochi/status/1474138688808370191
https://mainichi.jp/articles/20211227/k00/00m/050/004000c
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https://twitter.com/tshashin/status/1491738921989926913
I don't think that attempts by other skaters have got motion picture...
I have never seen a fully rotated one, except one at practice by a Russian(?) skater, which was also heavily prerotated (yet not a full Backxel, so in a competitive program it would retain its full base value and get a lesser Grade of execution, unlike an underrotated one, which base value is, for Yuzuru Hanyu, and ought to, for all, reduced by 20% as per the rules). (It goes without saying that the official ratification was fraudulent, erroneous at best, with an underrotation of about 100°.)
Here it is, I believe that it deserves to be reminded as the model:
https://twitter.com/SportsHochi/status/1474138688808370191
https://mainichi.jp/articles/20211227/k00/00m/050/004000c
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https://twitter.com/tshashin/status/1491738921989926913
I don't think that attempts by other skaters have got motion picture...
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