Yuzuru Hanyu: 2015-16 Season

[hamaguri]

Thanks @alia, for precious videos! I always find his interview admirable. And even after he achieved his goal, he is still aiming for another gold and keeps showing us his sprit. Isn’t it wonderful? But what’s crucial is his health. Yuzu, take enough rest!

We were there, too! Me and my 9-year-old daughter who just started to take figure skating lessons in Taipei, Taiwan.

It was a night the both of us will cherish forever. Thank you KansaiPJ and Hamaguri for the wonderful and detailed reports on the event.

My daughter and I stayed at Nagaoka after the show for one night, and then took a two-day trip to Sendai and Mazujima. It was quite fun to visit the two places and to skate at the Sandai Ice Rink the day right after we saw Yuzu's performances! Sendai is neat for visitors for its convenient traffic accessibility and exotic local food choices. (yeah the food there was exotic even for us who eat stinky tofu and chicken claws ~~~ We even had a beef tongue lunch box with a mysterious string underneath which was meant to be pulled right out and produce heat so that the meal can turn steamy and warm.)

Mazujima was once affected by the tsunami. We could still see the impact from the torn building of their local aquarium. Some shops along the shore had the tsunami flooded mark on their walls specified. The sea-side town was both cute and gorgeous so much that we decided to visit again for we only stayed there for a few hours.

I’m glad you had good time in Japan and saw him live! Public transportation is well organized, so it’s convenient for visitors. Sendai is the city appeals to your appetite, full of products from the sea and mountains. A beaf tongue is special food for Sendai, so they are thinking outside the box to offer it as delicious as possible. Matsushima (We usually pronounce Matsushima as Mazujima. Interesting to see the difference!) has truly beautiful scenery. It was nice the pretty skater from Taipei could go to Ice Rink Sendai!

By the way, the following is the song "Aoba-jo-koiuta" (Aoba capital love song?), which sings for Sendai and is most popular there. I find it lyrical and beautiful. This video includes a lot of photos describing Sendai. To see it, you can understand well how his hometown is lovely. Please take is as a memory of your trip!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VlOygdxoI4

 

[Lindacrow]

Yea it is amazing, I remember when I first watched him without any technical knowledge at all, I was wondering why his jumps are so easy (no offense, and pardon me for my utter ignorance at that time), it was a little later when I looked up about jumps to realise that his jumps and entries into them are so so so difficult!!! But made them look so easy!!

I remember Kanjani8 had a variety special where they were talking about why Yuzu's 3A scores so high and his secret to his world records. Other than the jump being flawless, the band members couldn't figure out what about the jump was so different and hard until Nobu explained that difficult entry. He really does make it look so easy and effortless!

 

[serafine]

Yuzu is not the first to do a back-counter or spread eagle on a 3A, however, I do think he is the first to do a SE-3A-SE. Although he is not the first to do these things, he makes the jump look so easy, and the 3A its self is not an easy jump, so to be able to do that and have such a difficult entry is amazing! And don't forget his consistantcy! I cant think of anyone who did a counter 3A though, I cant remember everyone who did a spread eagle 3A but off the top of my head I know Kulik, Honda, and if I remember correctly, Shoma did one too

thanks very much for your reply oh i see! can you name me few skaters who already did counter 3A? i like it a lot and i want to see more of it. yes, i agree with how he makes difficult moves look easy. it took me a while to understand all these counter 3A entries when i first got into figure skating (which is not that long. i follow the sport since 2014 Sochi thanks to Yuzu!). as time goes by, i really appreciate and love his counter 3A not many skaters can do that. and yeah, my bf also has a hard time understanding how difficult this entry is. since he still new to figure skating, he can't see it. but he can see how airy and light yuzu position in the air compare to many skaters :agree:

and hopefully, we will see that spread eagle-3A-spread eagle back.

 

[alia jackson]

Yuzuru is the first skater to do a spread eagle-3A-spread eagle, it was posted on historical first 2014-15 thread .


Per "Skaters and Their Signature Moves, Elements & Programs" thread, majority agreed that the difficult entry 3A is owned by Yuzuru. There were other entry variations being posted but the most difficult is Yuzu's entry. So far I have not seen anyone posted a skater that does the exact same entry as Yuzu, maybe Yuzu is the first to do the one-footed back counter to 3A :think:?

Some posts from the thread:

Originally posted by arcticwolf

For the current skaters, I think I've never seen anyone do a one-foot entry to a double axel much less a triple axel so I can say that Hanyu really owned that move.

Originally posted by makaihime

Hanyu. He's also done a spread eagle into a one footed back counter entry to a 3A+2T hands over head (into the second half of the program). I'd say Hanyu's signature moves are his 3A's in general. Difficult entries, insane combos, and its all into the second half of his programs.

Originally posted by CanadianSkaterGuy , post #74
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Of course, none of these are as difficult as Hanyu's counter obviously, since he goes directly off the turn up into the axel with no change of edge or stepping from his right foot to his left foot.

 

[Jo de Souza]

We were there, too! Me and my 9-year-old daughter who just started to take figure skating lessons in Taipei, Taiwan.

It was a night the both of us will cherish forever. Thank you KansaiPJ and Hamaguri for the wonderful and detailed reports on the event.

My daughter and I stayed at Nagaoka after the show for one night, and then took a two-day trip to Sendai and Mazujima. It was quite fun to visit the two places and to skate at the Sandai Ice Rink the day right after we saw Yuzu's performances! Sendai is neat for visitors for its convenient traffic accessibility and exotic local food choices. (yeah the food there was exotic even for us who eat stinky tofu and chicken claws ~~~ We even had a beef tongue lunch box with a mysterious string underneath which was meant to be pulled right out and produce heat so that the meal can turn steamy and warm.)

Mazujima was once affected by the tsunami. We could still see the impact from the torn building of their local aquarium. Some shops along the shore had the tsunami flooded mark on their walls specified. The sea-side town was both cute and gorgeous so much that we decided to visit again for we only stayed there for a few hours.

that great whether you saw the show with his daughter and was even visit the city of Yuzuru .. I would love to have that opportunity
But I'm happy to read descriçõesdos shows made ppor Hamaguri and KansaiPJ

 

[Jo de Souza]

very good to come here and learn a little more about Yuzuru, Japan and on skating

 

[margarethuililin]

@Margaret, so happy that you and daughter enjoy the show especially watching Yuzu live and also visiting his hometown and Mazujima .





Here are the interview clips
- 11year old Yuzuru talking about his Olympic dream.......the translation gif
- And the reply on his age at his dream Olympic after first talking about producing both men & ladies Oly champion from Miyagi. (screen capture)

Despite the challenges of Sendai rink closure for a period of time and the earthquake his dream did come through. Also at a very young age Yuzu already has an amazing interview skills with articulate and well thought answers

Thank you!

 

[margarethuililin]

Thanks @alia, for precious videos! I always find his interview admirable. And even after he achieved his goal, he is still aiming for another gold and keeps showing us his sprit. Isn’t it wonderful? But what’s crucial is his health. Yuzu, take enough rest!



I’m glad you had good time in Japan and saw him live! Public transportation is well organized, so it’s convenient for visitors. Sendai is the city appeals to your appetite, full of products from the sea and mountains. A beaf tongue is special food for Sendai, so they are thinking outside the box to offer it as delicious as possible. Matsushima (We usually pronounce Matsushima as Mazujima. Interesting to see the difference!) has truly beautiful scenery. It was nice the pretty skater from Taipei could go to Ice Rink Sendai!

By the way, the following is the song "Aoba-jo-koiuta" (Aoba capital love song?), which sings for Sendai and is most popular there. I find it lyrical and beautiful. This video includes a lot of photos describing Sendai. To see it, you can understand well how his hometown is lovely. Please take is as a memory of your trip!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VlOygdxoI4

Thanks for posting the song. It is beautiful. We will revisit Sendai in the future for sure.

And Thanks to Yuzu for introducing his hometown to us!

GO YUZU!

 

[MaxSwagg]

I remember Kanjani8 had a variety special where they were talking about why Yuzu's 3A scores so high and his secret to his world records. Other than the jump being flawless, the band members couldn't figure out what about the jump was so different and hard until Nobu explained that difficult entry. He really does make it look so easy and effortless!

Is this video somewhere? Lol

 

[Lindacrow]

Is this video somewhere? Lol

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2asyc0_仕分け-羽生選手部分_sport

 

[Sam-Skwantch]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2asyc0_仕分け-羽生選手部分_sport

Yes!!! Love all the Mushy footage around the 7min mark.

 

[ahkeekee]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2asyc0_仕分け-羽生選手部分_sport

Its funny that I saw this entrance to 3A and thought that triple axel jump is insane coz you jump off with only one leg, since that time i thought everyone is supposed to enter it like that (coz the first triple axel I saw in my life was the counter one, so I basically assumed that everyone's doing it in the same way) [emoji28] [emoji28] until I saw some other triple axels then I realise that it's not the case!! Lols!!!

sorry my brain isn't working in top form today so my English could be hard to understand today.....

 

[hamaguri]

Its funny that I saw this entrance to 3A and thought that triple axel jump is insane coz you jump off with only one leg, since that time i thought everyone is supposed to enter it like that (coz the first triple axel I saw in my life was the counter one, so I basically assumed that everyone's doing it in the same way) [emoji28] [emoji28] until I saw some other triple axels then I realise that it's not the case!! Lols!!!

sorry my brain isn't working in top form today so my English could be hard to understand today.....

Are you all right? For heat? (Tokyo is terribly hot these days:sarcasm:…)

You’d seen yuzu’s counter 3A at PW for the first time and thought it was a normal way in 3A? How funny! At Olympic? Or another competition or video? His 3A looks sooooo easy.

 

[Hanmgse]

We were there, too! Me and my 9-year-old daughter who just started to take figure skating lessons in Taipei, Taiwan.

It was a night the both of us will cherish forever. Thank you KansaiPJ and Hamaguri for the wonderful and detailed reports on the event.

My daughter and I stayed at Nagaoka after the show for one night, and then took a two-day trip to Sendai and Mazujima. It was quite fun to visit the two places and to skate at the Sandai Ice Rink the day right after we saw Yuzu's performances! Sendai is neat for visitors for its convenient traffic accessibility and exotic local food choices. (yeah the food there was exotic even for us who eat stinky tofu and chicken claws ~~~ We even had a beef tongue lunch box with a mysterious string underneath which was meant to be pulled right out and produce heat so that the meal can turn steamy and warm.)

Mazujima was once affected by the tsunami. We could still see the impact from the torn building of their local aquarium. Some shops along the shore had the tsunami flooded mark on their walls specified. The sea-side town was both cute and gorgeous so much that we decided to visit again for we only stayed there for a few hours.

Thank you for sharing your sweet story ^-^

 

[hamaguri]

Absolute skating

Dreams on Ice 2015, articles and photos

http://absoluteskating.com/index.php?cat=reports&id=2015dreamsonice

 

[ahkeekee]

Are you all right? For heat?[emoji3] (Tokyo is pretty much hot these days:sarcasm:…)

You’d seen yuzu’s 3A at PW for the first time and thought it was a normal way in 3A? How funny![emoji23] At Olympic? Or another competition or video? His 3A looks sooooo easy.

Hahas!!!! no particular reason, just feeling sleepy, it's raining badly here in hk, so it's not really heat hahas!!!

Yea!!! I couldn't watch the live broadcast of the Olympics (and you know you basically cannot find videos of competitions on YouTube etc until like a year later) so I watched his gpf 2013 pw performance first!! Lols!!!

 

[hamaguri]

Hahas!!!! no particular reason, just feeling sleepy, it's raining badly here in hk, so it's not really heat hahas!!!

Yea!!! I couldn't watch the live broadcast of the Olympics (and you know you basically cannot find videos of competitions on YouTube etc until like a year later) so I watched his gpf 2013 pw performance first!! Lols!!!

His performance at that time was wonderful! He did it easily (of course, it's technically so difficult!). No wonder you thought counter 3a was usual and others could do it!

 

[ahkeekee]

His performance at that time was wonderful! He did it easily (of course, it's technically so difficult!). No wonder you thought counter 3a was usual and everyone could it![emoji23]

Hahas!!! Yea, he did it like it was so natural!!! his triple axel gave me a first impression that anyone who is an elite skater could do it, but actually it's not!! It is a very difficult entry!!

 

[owl]

The discussion of Yuzuru's 3A made me kind of curious, so I looked back at the protocols to see the GOE's on all his axels in competition:

2009 Japanese Nats SP -2.50 on 3A
2010 NHK FS -0.71 on 3A
2010 Japanese Nats FS -3.00 on 3A
2011 CoC FS -3.00 on 3A+2T
2013 4CC FS -0.14 on 3A+2T
2013 Finlandia SP -0.60 on 1A
2013 Finlandia FS -1.00 on 3A

Excluding this past season's CoC (because that was just a complete disaster), Yuzuru has gotten negative GOE on only 7 out of the nearly 100 solo or in-combination axels that he's executed in his senior career so far. Not only that, but 2 of those 7 were at a senior B competition (Finlandia), and another 2 were at nationals (aka not an international competition). Also, only 3 were falls; the other 4 were either underrotated or had minor flaws (lack of flow out of the jump, poor air position, etc.), and he only popped an axel once. Of the 90 or so well-executed axels, Yuzuru received +2 or higher GOE for roughly a third of them (I'm just estimating here), and +1 or higher for about 80-90% of them. And from a broader perspective, he hasn't received negative GOE for a 3A or 3A combination since the beginning of the 2013-2014 season, which is a good sign. All in all, it's an amazing record. There's consistency, and then there's Yuzuru-and-his-3A consistency

 

[cruzceleste]

The discussion of Yuzuru's 3A made me kind of curious, so I looked back at the protocols to see the GOE's on all his axels in competition:

2009 Japanese Nats SP -2.50 on 3A
2010 NHK FS -0.71 on 3A
2010 Japanese Nats FS -3.00 on 3A
2011 CoC FS -3.00 on 3A+2T
2013 4CC FS -0.14 on 3A+2T
2013 Finlandia SP -0.60 on 1A
2013 Finlandia FS -1.00 on 3A

Excluding this past season's CoC (because that was just a complete disaster), Yuzuru has gotten negative GOE on only 7 out of the nearly 100 solo or in-combination axels that he's executed in his senior career so far. Not only that, but 2 of those 7 were at a senior B competition (Finlandia), and another 2 were at nationals (aka not an international competition). Also, only 3 were falls; the other 4 were either underrotated or had minor flaws (lack of flow out of the jump, poor air position, etc.), and he only popped an axel once. Of the 90 or so well-executed axels, Yuzuru received +2 or higher GOE for roughly a third of them (I'm just estimating here), and +1 or higher for about 80-90% of them. And from a broader perspective, he hasn't received negative GOE for a 3A or 3A combination since the beginning of the 2013-2014 season, which is a good sign. All in all, it's an amazing record. There's consistency, and then there's Yuzuru-and-his-3A consistency

Wow nice job