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news about his condition

now figure skate tv is aired with his long interview after boston and im watching it.
http://www.bsfuji.tv/pub/figuretv/index.html

apart from the interview, announcer said about his latest condition.
"he is going to start practice around the middle of this month after his pain heals."
 
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Meoima said:
After 2018, I might send you my bank account because I am not sure I might last until 2022.
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oh...be strong!

BTW, i found this chinese interview feels nicer than by Japanese. i cant say well , but he seems milder and talked relaxed(i may feel so since i was watching his interview by fuji tv just now.)
 
hamaguri said:
oh...be strong!
BTW, i found this chinese interview feels nicer than by Japanese. i cant say well , but he seems milder and talked relaxed(i may feel so since i was watching his interview by fuji tv just now.)
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Do you mind sharing something you find it news from the Fuji Tivi interview?
 
Marin said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjxMgmNEBGI
CCTV has realised Yuzu's interview in Boston. He said that he may keep skating till 2022 Olymic Games. ( Not sure if I am ready for 4 years more) :drama:
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Translation by Jessie Kok @YHIFG FB

Q1: How are you feeling now after the competition?
Yuzu: Regrettable. (or using what Yuzu’s usually says in English will be “really regret my performance”) But at the same time I feel good to be skating with so much support from the audience. Although I feel regrettable, I am glad to have skated SEIMEI in front of the audience.

Q2: You did great in SP but your FS’ performance was a surprise to all. What would you think is the reason?
Yuzu: Well, I don’t think my condition is not good. It could be that I’m nervous and at the same time excited, so it caused my emotions to fluctuate. Although it will be another one tough/hard year ahead, I will transform this regret to hard work towards the next season.

Q3: There were reports that say that you are injured before the WC and you were not able to do 4T for 7 weeks. Does this affect your performance in this competition?
Yuzu: Of course this made me change my FS’ Quad jumps for the 2nd half. However, I feel comfortable after skating my program. I almost do not feel that my injury is affecting me. In any case, I just feel regrettable. I would like to thank all of you and please look forward to the next season.

Q4: You mentioned that it's going to be a tough/hard year into next season. So what are your plans now?
Yuzu: I want to do a lot of practices. And I will do more difficult things and to perform more programs that will be able to touch all your hearts. Also, I would like to consider what kind of programs I would really like to perform. At the same time, I will work hard towards the next season.

Q5: Last question. There were reports that say that you will retire from competition after the 2018 Pyeong Chang Olympics. Beijing will be hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics, so could you please predict what you will be doing then?
Yuzu: I am still not sure about the retirement now so I can’t comment much. I will just work hard towards the Pyeong Chang. And until Beijing’s, there maybe possibilities that I may still be skating. Seriously, I can’t really imagine things that are so far away from now, so I just hope that by then I will be performing my best through all my hard work. Thank you.
 
Yuzu is certainly a man of principle. He never seem want to talk about his injuries or explain in details about them or publicize in social media (glad that he doesn't have one).

Some commented as below:
"He is so admirable to downplay his injury so much. I really think the injury did affect his performance.. It may not have been injured during the competition but he lost a lot of time practicing and had to change his jumps."

"I just hope that he can choose things freely and from his own decision, not being pushed to. And hope that everyone doesnt think that "if he says he doesnt feel any injury, it's okay then"..you know, this boy doesn't want to publicize and dramatize his hardship"
 
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Marin said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjxMgmNEBGI
CCTV has realised Yuzu's interview in Boston. He said that he may keep skating till 2022 Olymic Games. ( Not sure if I am ready for 4 years more) :drama:
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It is so good to hear! Of course I assume this will still depend on how his physical and health condition would be and his result in Pyeongchang Olympics. However it is good to know that he at least keeps the door open and thinks about the possibility of continuing skating competitively post-2018 (since I am pretty sure he will still do shows though he retired). Possibly seeing how Patrick and Javi still competing and improving even past 23 years old make him see that he can still do more after Pyeongchang. :cheer:

hamaguri said:
news about his condition

now figure skate tv is aired with his long interview after boston and im watching it.
http://www.bsfuji.tv/pub/figuretv/index.html

apart from the interview, announcer said about his latest condition.
"he is going to start practice around the middle of this month after his pain heals."
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Glad to hear his recovery process seems to be okay. Start practicing in the middle of May is actually faster than I expected since it was said he need 2 full months, hope he is healed completely by now. Will still wait for ANA/JSF official statement though :biggrin:
 
Meoima said:
Do you mind sharing something you find it news from the Fuji Tivi interview?
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a part of the interview was already aired.
this time the former is aired newly.
my impression was he just talked carmly and analyzed his mental conditions mentioning to his past statements and feelings. hes really bright guy.
he entered worlds and kept good condition and went bad. he comtemplated why that had happened.
further, he says he was obsessed with the past performances. it was so difficult to aim for the better performance than the ones which got best scores middle of the season.. he just repeated the word perfection, perfect performance.
further, about peaking, he says he may have been unable to do as tracy and oser had advised.
other than those he talked about javi respectively many.
 
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Thank you so much for posting the interview Marin and the translation alia!
Yuzuru never uses injuries as an excuse for poor performances, he is a bit too hard on himself sometimes but it's a basic part of who he is. If he didn't strive so much for perfection we wouldn't have had NHK and the GPF. Even though it can be a double-edged sword.
I'm glad he is not thinking that far ahead into the future atm, he needs to take one season at a time and pace himself for 2018. However, if he keeps skating until 2022 it will be a delight to still see him in competitions and I will cheer for him like crazy while setting an appointment with my cardiologist :laugh:
 
mcq said:
Glad to hear his recovery process seems to be okay. Start practicing in the middle of May is actually faster than I expected since it was said he need 2 full months, hope he is healed completely by now. Will still wait for ANA/JSF official statement though :biggrin:
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oh yes. further the announcer said he starts practice after the heal and prepares for new programs. its earlier than the prediction before.
 
Thank you very much alia for posting here the translation of Jessie Kok of the CCTV interview (I am not on Fb, so ...).

Any more detailed news from the FujiTV interview? Or It is quite the same? Thank you to all for all the translations so useful for us European fans.
 
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hamaguri said:
oh yes. further the announcer said he starts practice after the heal and prepares for new programs. its earlier than the prediction before.
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Thank you :agree:
Hopefully we can get a glimpse of news about his music/program soon. :biggrin:
 
fireovertheice said:
Thank you very much alia for posting here the translation of Jessie Kok of the CCTV interview (I am not on Fb, so ...).

Any more detailed news from the FujiTV interview? Or It is quite the same? Thank you to all for all the translations so useful for us European fans.
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Fuji interview aired 2 hours ago was the whole of this interview aired one month ago.
https://youtu.be/yPLi34hDxQU

someone will upload the video of the long version soon!.

it was a part of the program "figure skate tv" and at the last of yuzu part the announcer told about his latest condition.

alia jackson said:
Yuzu is certainly a man of principle. He never seem want to talk about his injuries or explain in details about them or publicize in social media (glad that he doesn't have one).

Some commented as below:
"He is so admirable to downplay his injury so much. I really think the injury did affect his performance.. It may not have been injured during the competition but he lost a lot of time practicing and had to change his jumps."

"I just hope that he can choose things freely and from his own decision, not being pushed to. And hope that everyone doesnt think that "if he says he doesnt feel any injury, it's okay then"..you know, this boy doesn't want to publicize and dramatize his hardship"
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he never talked about his injury and never found fault with any other surroundings. he just tried to make the cause clear analyzing himself.
 
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I guess I'm in a translation kind of a mood today. This was hard! Please read is as my take on what he wanted to say and refer to other translations as well. Japanese speakers, please feel free to correct me. I also abbreviated some parts that seemed less important.

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What kind of a competition was this World Championships?
Regrettable. There were lots of issues found especially in the FS. I'm more optimistic than I thought I'd be and more frustrated than everyone might imagine. There's still some time until the next season starts but I want to do many things before the it starts and become stronger.

How frustrating is it now compared to Worlds last year?
Placing 1st in the SP last year and placing 1st in then SP this year is of a different quality. If we look at the scores alone, everybody's levels went up so it's regrettable but compared to last season, my placement in the FS went up by one so I think I grew a little bit.

Your FS didn't go as you hoped for. From the time I interviewed you in Toronto and your perfect SP, I thought things were looking good so I was surprised at your FS. Did something change in between?
Maybe I couldn't control the peaking time even though Brian, Tracy and I talked about it a lot so that's regrettable. I didn't think my SP was ready but when I arrived here and was interviewed at the airport, I realized that I was prepared for the competition in regards to how I'd been training, how I've been building my condition and my mental state, etc. In that sense, I thought I was in a perfect state but with this as the result, I need to rethink about a lot of things.

Nobody know what's going to happen on the ice so mistakes will happen. You mentioned at the press conference that you started to feel nervous.
This might be just my analysis, but I was able to perform 2 good skates consecutively and had good results and broke records. I was able to do more run-throughs without mistakes and my feelings towards winning increased too. But as a result, my feelings towards how to perfect the program, how I perform, how I jump, how I feel towards the program grew after every competition. When you interviewed me in Toronto, I said that there is no limit and there'll never be "perfection" for me but the scores I received told me that I was close to perfection so I think I got too caught up in that. This is the conclusion I came up with as I thought about this yesterday. I felt that I had to aim for perfection, and aiming for perfection leads to motivation and focusing but it also leads to feeling pressure and I felt I was chasing after something I'd already achieved. I think I was feeling this way at GPF also but I felt like I had to outperform myself from the previous competition. My analysis is that I trapped myself. What I said at the press conference is that "the quality of nervousness was different". I read various articles about myself when I try to clarify what happened and I noticed that I mentioned "perfection" and the "different quality of nervousness". These are the 2 key words for me here. "Perfection" didn't mean "performing the best that I can do now" but "outperforming the perfect skates I already had" and that brought out the different type of nervousness.

Last season, you weren't able to be where you wanted to be. This season was a season of progress, not just for you, but for the other skaters as well. How do you evaluate this season?
Javi included 2 quads in his SP and the 3A int he 2nd half of his FS. Shoma moved the 3A in the 2nd half. So there were a lot of evolutions going on during the season. Especially regarding Javi including 2 quads in the SP, this happened while I was away from the Cricket Club so when I found that out, I didn't think of him a rink mate or a team mate but a rival and a scary existence. So when I lost to him, I felt frustrated. It was the same as last season where I placed 1st in the SP and made mistakes in the FS and watched Javi's FS thinking "I'm going to lose to him again this year". But the quality of frustration is totally different. Of course I'm frustrated at myself but I look at Javi with more familiarity as well as more of a rival.

Did you sense his seriousness?
He changed a lot. I won 2 years in a row at the GPF at his home and he must have felt frustrated about that as well as missing the podium at Sochi. I think these experiences have transformed him. He is a scary existence but I admire him, have always admired him so I admire him even more.

Thoughts about next season?
One thing that is clear is to increase the level of difficulty. Now that the season has ended, my thought is that I can't remain at this level. About the quality of nervousness I was talking about, I'm extremely mad at myself for thinking that I was perfect. I received the maximum score with a layout of the most technical difficulty that I'm currently able to deliver so I think I was satisfied with myself in a way. So I need to aim higher and I want to be stronger.

Is it hard to escape from the past?
Yes, I could use it as a stepping stone like with the feelings of regrets from the past and present. These feeling have made me stronger in the past and will continue to make me strong. But past successes can't necessarily be usable as a stepping stone. Only I can make it become that. No matter what kind of an environment I'm in or no matter what anyone says, this is the dream I've been chasing after so it's only myself who can think and continue with the dream so I have to challenge my limit and go beyond my limit.

By "raising the difficulty," does it mean you'll be adding different types of quads?
I'm thinking about that too but if possible, doing 2 in the 2nd half. I want to keep on challenging myself. But on top of that, I want to increase the level of perfection of the program with the way I'm able to show, interpret, express and feel so I want to show that as well as deliver the utmost technically difficult program even if I have to fumble along the way.

What kind of a program would you like to do? SEIMEI was a great challenge so I'm really looking forward to what you'll choose next.
I'm still thinking about the music, even more than last season. I can't give a decisive answer in regards to what kind of music I'll choose but I think when the time comes, I'll think "this is it" or "I want to challenge this" or "I want to add depth to this type". Expression has so many directionality, not only in its breadth but also in depth and perfecting it. Reception is different for everyone so I want to think about how I feel, what I want to do and how I want to perform.

People will have high expectations now so it'll be difficult to satisfy them.
But people's expectations make me happy. It means that what I've been doing since I was a child is paying off. Since I was little, I skated to improve for a sense of accomplishment but also because I wanted to be praised. I want to do a program where I can move people as well as lay importance on how I want to perform. So I hope everyone looks forward to what I decide to do and I'll also enjoy feeling people's expectations as I prepare for next season.

Is there anything you want to do now that the season is over?
My head is full of things regarding skating. I want to do something that'll have good influences on my skating. I have fantastic earphones, headphones, and music players so I hope to use them to think about the next programs and absorb myself into music. There is nothing I'm thinking about that isn't related to skating.
I think this season where I achieved most of what I wanted mid-season, and having disappointing skates for the last 2 competitions is an ordeal from god. I think I'm being told to think about skating and about what I can do for my body and mind.

What do you want to eat when you go back to Japan. You said sushi before but what is it now?
I guess you're telling me to relax but I can't think about anything but skating. It's inevitable, I can't change my personality even if I wanted to so I'll cherish it and face up to skating.
 
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