Ten days prior at Skate Detroit, Orser told me that during my planned visit on August 2nd, both Hanyu and Javier Fernandez would be there for training, plus many others of course.
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I could watch Yuzuru Hanyu and can confirm what Lutricia Bock and Lea Johanne Dastich said during Skate Detroit (see page 14). He tried a lot of quads (except axel and toe loop), he landed a lot of them, but he sometimes also landed on his butt. I hadn't planned an interview [with him] because that would only have been possible with prior approval by the Japanese federation, but he was happy about the cover picture of the last issue of Pirouette magazine.
Orser also told me about him: He had been in Canada the whole time and had cancelled shows in Japan. In April and May he had to take a break due to an injury of the left midfoot, which had burdened him since last autumn, especially when doing 4T. For the first time he hadn't been treated by doctors in Japan but in Toronto, and at the beginning of August he was still doing therapy with a Toronto-based Japanese specialist. The pain when doing 4T is the main reason why he trains the other quads so intensively but still doesn't want to do the 4T. However, 4Lo and 4S work about 70% of the time and he will probably show them in the free skate. Orser was informed by the Japanese federation that Pirouette is only allowed to publish his new music [they use the plural of the word, so they mean both SP and FS] after a press conference on September 13th, which is unfortunately shortly after this issue will be published. The small Autumn Classic event at the end of September in Pierrefonds, Montreal, is supposed to be his first competition. There are only about 600 seats for spectators, so, like last year in Barrie, we can expect things to get cramped.
Okay, hey, the SP is Let's Go Crazy, I'll suggest crazy things tonight.
