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Yuzuru Hanyu: 2015-16 Season
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Oh gosh. This literally made my day.
His poor students!
Yuzu is threatening those pesky jumps with 4Lo that they can be dropped off like flies before you can say, "Double Olympic Gold Medallist"
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thanks! his sincere eyes and words always inspire me!
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And now the big question, which EX number will we see? Will there be colloboration with Satoko?
Requiem? ex is the type of show. last year, final time traveller with Sarah's live song was scheduld, i've heard. this year, the composer as well as pianist may play the piano live.
at NHK gala , i was expecting satton and yuzu, like mao ane yuzu dance three years ago. but nothing was prepared. this time, if satoko wins, i want to see yuzu and satoko collaboration or somethng.
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Thanks for making another great blog post @won0066! Sometimes things go by so fast that we forget the what Yuzu accomplished month by month of 2015, you summed up every happening of 2015 very well. :agree:
Congrats to Yuzu winning the Japanese national title 4 years in a row! I also agree with you that he seems to be pressuring himself unnecessarily because of what he achieved in the NHK trophy and at the GPF. No one is perfect and we don't expect him to get 300+ points every time, so I hope Yuzu rests well until the gala and doesn't put himself down for this competition's mistakes.
Also, I can't seem to find videos of the men's medal ceremony, is there a link somewhere?
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Reading the updates just made me smile. (and laugh!) 
Hopefully the positive vibes here would transfer to Yuzu too.. as in he'd give in to his body, take it easy, and try to unwind. We all want him to have a good rest and recuperate well. I also hope he'd realize that it's not a failure, it's the sign that it's the time when he needs to listen and take care of his body (in fact he did say it in kiss & cry after the short so he's aware of it at least).
I think we don't have to be worried about him. I hope he isn't too. He just needs a moment. He'll be fine.
Also, can I just pat Brian on the back in appreciation of laying it flat out to Yuzu that he can't be perfect all the time and he doesn't need to.. and that he understands. :agree2:
On a side note.. looking forward to the gala!
Hopefully the positive vibes here would transfer to Yuzu too.. as in he'd give in to his body, take it easy, and try to unwind. We all want him to have a good rest and recuperate well. I also hope he'd realize that it's not a failure, it's the sign that it's the time when he needs to listen and take care of his body (in fact he did say it in kiss & cry after the short so he's aware of it at least).
I think we don't have to be worried about him. I hope he isn't too. He just needs a moment. He'll be fine.
Also, can I just pat Brian on the back in appreciation of laying it flat out to Yuzu that he can't be perfect all the time and he doesn't need to.. and that he understands. :agree2:
On a side note.. looking forward to the gala!
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The Japanese skating machine rolls on... :shocked:
I think fans should also chill and stop worrying about Yuzuru. That's just his way of expressing frustration at that moment. It's not like he is stuck on getting frustrated forever and unable to move on . He moves on very quickly (maybe the next day or even before the next day). He reflects on things he need to work on and uses the frustration as motivation. Fans don't need to take his reaction at that moment so seriously.
Given how demanding his layouts are, it's also unrealistic to expect him to be 100% healthy for the entire season. If you expect him to totally injury free and have no health issues at all, you will find yourself worry about him all the time. As long as he doesn't have major injuries that keep him off ice and away from training for a long period, he would be fine. He just needs a bit of rest and let his body recover before going back to hard training.
So his quota of back-to-back good competitions is 2. (I was hoping he could expand his quota. But his programs are so challenging, it's probably too hard to expand the quota.) After 2 good competitions, there will be a slump. In the past, the 2 good competitions are usually GPF and national. And the first competition after national will be a slump. After the slump, he will rise again. This season, he already used the quota of good competition at NHK. So by the time of national, he is physically exhausted and is in a slump. It's better to be in a slump at national than at the first major international competition after national, which is the Oympics.
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Brian said that it took Yuzuru like 5 or 10 minutes to get over his silver at Worlds last year and he was inmediately determined to get the title back.
Interesting analysis on his performance pattern. You are right, perhaps it has changed slightly, instead of having 2 so-so GPs, peak at the Final and Nats and then go down, he's had 1 so-so GP and peaked for NHK and GPF. He seems to do better in the second competition after Nats (Worlds 2012, 2014, WTT 2015) than the first so that gives me hope for this year at Worlds since Nats seemed to be his not so good competition
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Pffft. Made a mistake (accidental though) looking at the mens free thread :hslap: some people have so many times analyzing and (rather) complaining of the national inflation especially for Yuzu.. and enjoying it too much if I may say.
Maybe if they have that much time to spend, they should also do it to the Russian Nationals thread. (if they haven't yet)
Btw, does anyone know when the gala is supposed to be held?
Oh one more question.. few days ago I came across this short clip (I think on Twitter?) of Yuzu landing a quad (I guess) in practice (I'm pretty sure it's Jpn Nationals but my memory is fading away fast) and he landed it right to the bang of the piano music (idk whose music it was). Does anyone by any chance know which clip I'm talking about? Uh sorry it's so vague but somehow it popped into my head yesterday and I for the life of me can't remember where did I see it before. You know that feeling of when you sort of know what you're talking about but at the same time you don't really.. :hpull: and I thought I found that link posted here but I backtracked and I can't find it so now I'm not sure orz.
p.s. great. This tops the new page.
Maybe if they have that much time to spend, they should also do it to the Russian Nationals thread. (if they haven't yet)
Btw, does anyone know when the gala is supposed to be held?
Oh one more question.. few days ago I came across this short clip (I think on Twitter?) of Yuzu landing a quad (I guess) in practice (I'm pretty sure it's Jpn Nationals but my memory is fading away fast) and he landed it right to the bang of the piano music (idk whose music it was). Does anyone by any chance know which clip I'm talking about? Uh sorry it's so vague but somehow it popped into my head yesterday and I for the life of me can't remember where did I see it before. You know that feeling of when you sort of know what you're talking about but at the same time you don't really.. :hpull: and I thought I found that link posted here but I backtracked and I can't find it so now I'm not sure orz.
p.s. great. This tops the new page.
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Before he won the Olympics, he needed to skate well at national in order to earn a spot to the Olympics and worlds because he didn't have any major titles at that time. Now, he can win the national even without giving his best performance. I think maybe he can change his future performance pattern to peak at the 2nd gp and gpf, then go down at national so he can go up after national (I.e. Olympics and worlds). I'm not sure he can expand his quota of back-to-back good competitions to more than 2 due to the difficulty of his programs.
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I just came across a very well-written article summarizing the Men's event from this year's Japanese Nationals:
Hanyu wins fourth straight Japanese championship
Olympic champion comes back down to earth with 'human' performances
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What I caught my attention the most was the following quote: "Of course, I am always a human being," Hanyu responded when told of Orser's comment. "I think there is some exhaustion from the season, and although I don't want to say it, I always tend to peak at the Grand Prix Final and cool down at nationals."
Hanyu wins fourth straight Japanese championship
Olympic champion comes back down to earth with 'human' performances
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What I caught my attention the most was the following quote: "Of course, I am always a human being," Hanyu responded when told of Orser's comment. "I think there is some exhaustion from the season, and although I don't want to say it, I always tend to peak at the Grand Prix Final and cool down at nationals."
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It seems he is aware of everything we are talking about on this forum huh?!? Im glad he took this as a positive experience
and will move forwardI want Yuzuru to consider his conditions and peaks a bit more, but he said at the end of the interview after LP, "I definitely do not want to do this (level of) performance in the nationals next year."
Very very Yuzuru :giveup:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3jjn3s_yuzuru-hanyu-2015-japanese-nationals-fs_sport
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