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Yuzuru Hanyu: 2014-15 Season

Glad to hear he's out of the hospital and at home now. Thank you for the updates everyone.

And doesn't this remind you of a female version of Yuzuru's Hana ni Nare costume? :p
 
^ I don't think that would be a mere coincidence, looks too similar to Yuzuru's costume to me. It must've been inspired by the "Hana ni Nare" costume :yes:
 
Was it Yuzuru who chose to skate to Romeo&Juliet last season or Brian and David chose it for him? Some people say he wanted to skate POTO in Olympic season but I don't remember any source of that info. I have always thought he wanted to use R&J specially for Olympics.

I think you're right.
He said about it on the radio (before Sochi), that he has had strong feelings about R&J because R&J#1 was the one he performed in the year of the earthquake disaster and also at the worlds where he won the bronze medal. And he has thought the Olympic as a huge event of his skating life such as his compilation and the chapter of 4 years.
So He wanted to use the music for the Olympic as to bring his feelings altogether to there.

It's a list of performers/entertainers you would want to give chocolates to since Valentine's Day is around the corner. A survey was conducted on COOKPAD with 2,542 respondents and this was the result

1. Fukuyama Masaharu (he's the sang Kazoku ni Narou yo, one of my favorite actors)
2. Fukushi Sota (Yuzu thinks he can be him if his life will be made into a movie, cute kid)
3. Mukai Osamu
4. Yuzu - he sparked maternal instinct among women
4. Saito Takumi

A bit off topic: I agree with Masaharu Fukuyama but Sota Fukushi was ranked higher than Yuzu??
Osamu Mukai is not bad, but where are Haruma Miura, Masaki Okada?? …..Takumi Saito? instead of them?? :sarcasm:

and maybe those actors are too tall to act a skater, they will be over 1.90m with skating boots XD

And doesn't this remind you of a female version of Yuzuru's Hana ni Nare costume? :p

Cute! ;)
 
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His TEB EX of Notre Dame de Paris was sublime and made me see what I thought was a completely underwhelming program in a new light. It wasn't the full thing, it cut out the dreary and tedious middle section, and the condensed result is wonderful. His posture was noticeably better than the previous season. Complete with a quad toe so light that Nicky Slater thought it was a triple, but I forgive him, he is an ice dancer after all ;) If he were to ever do POTO as an EX in the future it might be interesting, but most likely not the entire program.

I have thought that the his EX at TEB is one of his bests skating ever, which is as Perfect as Mao’s EX at worlds 2010 to me :yay:
 
Was it Yuzuru who chose to skate to Romeo&Juliet last season or Brian and David chose it for him? Some people say he wanted to skate POTO in Olympic season but I don't remember any source of that info. I have always thought he wanted to use R&J specially for Olympics.

I remember that he wanted POTO for 12-13 but Brian persuaded him to use notre dame de Paris. And then for 13-14, he proposed POTO again but then Brian didn't agree. Brian emailed him asking how about RJ, he immediately replied I LOVE IT! Brian said his heart beat raced a bit when he saw Yuzu's reply. This is from Brian's latest book.
 
I remember that he wanted POTO for 12-13 but Brian persuaded him to use notre dame de Paris. And then for 13-14, he proposed POTO again but then Brian didn't agree. Brian emailed him asking how about RJ, he immediately replied I LOVE IT! Brian said his heart beat raced a bit when he saw Yuzu's reply. This is from Brian's latest book.

So I guess for next season it will be

Yuzuru: I want to keep POTO !
Brian: Nope. You did POTO already, we will do something new.
Yuzuru: : (
Brian: R&J 3 ?
Yuzur: Love it !

:laugh2:
 
Just dropping a note to say I'm still following this thread, trying to read as often as possible, but real life is taking up most of my time and energy at the moment.

I didn't see the original message, but did I read right that our beloved figure skater is finally home from hospital? Good for him. :)
 
So I guess for next season it will be

Yuzuru: I want to keep POTO !
Brian: Nope. You did POTO already, we will do something new.
Yuzuru: : (
Brian: R&J 3 ?
Yuzur: Love it !

:laugh2:

It is "I LOVE IT". Brian said Yuzu not only replied him immediately but also use all capitalized letters as in I LOVE IT! That is what made his heart race. :biggrin:
 
Just dropping a note to say I'm still following this thread, trying to read as often as possible, but real life is taking up most of my time and energy at the moment.

I didn't see the original message, but did I read right that our beloved figure skater is finally home from hospital? Good for him. :)

Yes he's out ;)
 
It's a list of performers/entertainers you would want to give chocolates to since Valentine's Day is around the corner. A survey was conducted on COOKPAD with 2,542 respondents and this was the result

1. Fukuyama Masaharu (he's the sang Kazoku ni Narou yo, one of my favorite actors)
2. Fukushi Sota (Yuzu thinks he can be him if his life will be made into a movie, cute kid)
3. Mukai Osamu
4. Yuzu - he sparked maternal instinct among women
4. Saito Takumi

:love:
 
No they're not. Worlds 2012 were commented by the commentators from France 2 and France 3 channels (Nelson Monfort who's the guy commenting on EVERY sports in France and who doesn't know much about the technical side, so that's why he is assisted by Philippe Candeloro who is quite fun to listen to and Annick Dumont).

I think that among the other guys (the ones from Eurosport) you find Alban Préaubert (a former French figure skater) but I'm not sure about the other two.

EDIT: I found it. The guys from Eurosport are Géraldine Pons, Philippe Pelissier and Alban Préaubert. (so now I know the guy who mostly gets on my nerves is Philippe Pelissier ^^). Apparently he is a former figure skater and a coach.

French commentators are popular on Niconico video in Japan as "お茶の間フランス実況シリーズ", meaning French Commentators in Livingroom Series (very direct translation) :laugh:
Usually volunteer translation is attached under the screen some time later.

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm23073935/videoExplorer

These are Worlds 2012, with full of Japanese comments :biggrin:

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17426171

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17433772

Sometimes Nelson's voice could be heard in the live coverage of other country's video (Maybe their booths were close), and Viewers laughed and commented "Tone down, Nelson !" :laugh2:

Anyway, Japanese fans are enjoying their coverage very much.
 
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I am reading Yuzu’s Blue Flame Chapter 9 again (many thanks to千回百慕生who translated it into Chinese http://tieba.baidu.com/p/1527869353 she also put on Chinese subtitle for many of Yuzu’s videos). In this chapter Yuzu talked about many skates he competed at junior level.

Something interesting between him and Han Yan. Yuzu said (almost bragged) that he knew a lot about Han. It was the first year of their novice competition (when Yuzu won the Japanese Novice, so it was 2004?), and Han was the youngest skater (he is about one year younger than Yuzu). Yuzu felt great about his spinning, and Han was good as well. When they were in the open practice they already started competing - If Han did a biellmann, he would do it immediately. They did not talk but looked at each other and passed the messages like “I absolutely can do better!” At the end Han was placed 2nd and Yuzu 4th. Of course, he “regretted”, and he considered Han his first rival and the first one made him “regret”. So when it comes to Han, he had the especially strong feeling “I must not lose to him”. (:) this is so Yuzu)

My memory flashed back to crash between them back in CoC. Yuzu kept asking about Han when he came out with bandage on his hand, and later Han went shake his hands before the competition. Also days ago Han wrote a message on his Weibo about the costumes they prefer since they were kids. Han joked that he has been in vests and shirts since he was little, while Yuzu always likes things frilling. They also had very silly pictures taken together.

Just feeling sweet about the boys. Yuzu is at a complete different level now, and I hope Han will improve and get closer. He is my favorite Chinese skater in the men’s single discipline.
 
I also read some translation of Team Brain (credit to http://www.weibo.com/YuzuruInfoStation#_rnd1422036365310)

Just would like to share a little detail here… LP at Sochi, Javi was the first to skate in the last group while Yuzu was the third in the same group. When Javi finished, Brian did not have time to wait for his score. He rushed to change his Spanish Jacket to Japanese and ran to find Yuzu. When he saw Yuzu at the other end of the hallway, he immediately slowed down, walked over to him instead of running. He tried to act very relax and calm to make Yuzu easy (Yuzu mentioned he only slept 4 hours after the SP, and he felt his body was very heavy during the next morning’s practice for LP).

Many of us may have seen the video where Brian gently wiped away tears from Yuzu’s face after he had a terrible SP at 2013 WC (he was placed 9th). Brian is a great coach who deeply cares about his skaters.
 
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