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Yuzuru Hanyu: 2016-17 Season

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Few more selfies from the banquet/4CC. Team Japan photo.

Another picture of the C-fan meet up during 4CC. The banners are :luv17:

LGC 1.0 Bear~

In recent news: Sendai will be building a monument to honor Yuzu and Shizuka for their OGM's. The ceremony will be held on April 16 and both Yuzu and Shizuka will be there. :)

Have you guys noticed how tall Yuzu looks? Like even next to Nathan, who is supposedly 5'6", he's like half a head taller...

Also, that bear is cute, but it's not a pooh :laugh:
 
In recent news: Sendai will be building a monument to honor Yuzu and Shizuka for their OGM's. The ceremony will be held on April 16 and both Yuzu and Shizuka will be there. :)

Yuzu in Japan and World Team Trophy starts in Tokyo 4 days later. Outlook looking very good that he might participate there. Trying to temper my excitement and failing miserably.
 
Max and Angelo (ESP ITA) did a digest of all the medalists at 4CC. Yuzu's part :)
I don't.... think it's been posted....yet?

Japanese translations by Nymphea

http://ww2.sinaimg.cn/mw1024/69c22484gw1eqty0x0va1g20cc06y7wh.gif
Let's try this Italian --> Japanese --> English translation thing again. Also ^ this gif is gold.

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M: Yuzuru Hanyu getting onto the ice after Shoma Uno. He was aiming for his first 4CC gold here. He was behind a skater from the same country by a few points, but he also intended to go all guns blazing.

A: A skater who exhausts all adjectives

(During performance)

A: Like Uno, he starts the program with the 4L. As in the short program, this was also exquisitely done. Uno might have had a bit more flow coming out of the landing, but Hanyu had more height in his jump.

M: From an extremely difficult entry, with short setup.

A: Yes, the setup was shorter. The 4S was also good. If I had to be picky, the landing was a little heavier than his usual (laughs). Hanyu not only has difficult jumps, he's also the rare skater who puts quality into everything he does. No, you might even say unparalleled.

Another positive point for Yuzuru is that he finally got a level 4 step sequence. And I want you to watch this 3F that is perfectly incorporated in the choreography. A wonderful jump coming out of difficult steps.

The next scene became the key in Hanyu’s program. The element that has so far eluded him this season. The second salchow. This salchow betrayed him in the short, he landed the first one here beautifully, but the second one was doubled again. He added a single loop and left it at that.

M: He had said that he intended to do a -lo-4S as it often happened in practice.

A: I wonder what kept him from doing it?

M: He didn’t have enough speed going into the salchow.

A: So how did he recover? First he did an extraordinary solitary 4T. Then quite a while into the second half, a 3A3T so natural it makes you lose your will to fight. And, here he had originally planned 3A-lo-3S, but suddenly he did a 4T2T combo instead. It’s amazing.

M: And landed with a spread eagle!

A: In order to make it an even nicer jump. But the surprise wasn’t over yet. Here’s the chore sequence. He always does a 3Lz at the end of it.

M: Especially without any setup.

A: That’s right (laughs). I want you to see, after this Ina Bauer that almost spans from one end of the rink to the other, what he does. After the Ina Bauer, “You think I’m going to skate a free program without two triple axels? No way.” Ha ha ha.

M: Exactly 4 minutes 10 seconds had passed since the start of the program.

A: Moreover, it was wonderful, textbook quality!

M: There was a judge who gave it 0 GOE.

A: I saw.

M: Please explain.

A: You can’t explain. That had to have been at least +2, many judges gave it +3. And then there were judges who gave 0 and +1 to a triple axel without any setup, coming straight out of an Ina Bauer.

In any case, with a 2S he got 112 in TES. By changing his layout, he drastically made up his loss and ended up landing three types of quads, four times. Two quad toes and two triple axels in the second half.

M: In other words, positively speaking, this indicates great physical condition. Because you have to be in tip-top condition in order to land a triple axel 4 minutes 10 seconds into the program. Same is true for the last two quad toes. Negatively speaking, he was struggling with the quad sal. For sure he was practicing the new quad, 4Lz, already he was at 60% success rate. Let’s see if there will be a surprise at Helsinki. Some people say there isn’t. But with this performance, there’s a lot that Hanyu and Brian Orser will be able to think about.

A: Yes, I agree. He’s proven that he has the ability to pull off other jumps in different locations in the program. Like the last 3A and the second half 4T2T. But it’s also hard to say for sure. Because early in the season, on quite a few occasions the quad sal had been more stable than the quad loop. Although the situation flipped in this competition, the stability of the jump is probably better seen during training. Not having seen him at practice, it’s hard for us to judge.

M: Plus, by trying more difficult things in practice, he can prepare physically and mentally to do different things in competition. With an extra quad lutz in his free program during practice, the second half becomes kind of an experimental laboratory. So to be honest, I don’t know what to expect at Helsinki.

If, he skates the kind of extreme program he has in his head, and puts in all the elements, he’ll reach a cosmic score. Of course, that depends on physical condition and the possibility that he is human.

A: That’s right (laughs) Here’s the 2S-lo. He gave up on 4S when he decided he didn’t have the speed going in. Although it’s easy to sit here and say, if only he had attached a 3S here. He had the speed for a triple jump. Had he done that, he could have added even more points, these several points that could have changed the result.

M: Even with the recovery, he’s lost close to 10 points. Both 3S and 3Lz were taken out, so it’s about the amount of a 4T or a 4S.
 
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Max and Angelo (ESP ITA) did a digest of all the medalists at 4CC. Yuzu's part :)
I don't.... think it's been posted....yet?

Japanese translations by Nymphea

http://ww2.sinaimg.cn/mw1024/69c22484gw1eqty0x0va1g20cc06y7wh.gif
Let's try this Italian --> Japanese --> English translation thing again. Also ^ this gif is gold.

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M: There was a judge who gave it 0 GOE.

A: I saw.

M: Please explain.

A: You can’t explain.

gotta love Max and Angelo, always great commentary! And hard fanboying over Yuzuru :laugh:
 
A video of H&L step sequence is out
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5cx8jn



Ah thank you, always a pleasure to hear more from these two.
So they've confirmed again the number for the 4Lz they used at Europeans, that's not bad at all. Three out of five, which presumably in all the time passing may go up. In any case, with the performance he gave Yuzuru must have gotten new ideas, realized the excellent physical state he's in, plus as we've said before there are other means to up the BV if he feels it's necessary. The "I don’t know what to expect at Helsinki." could not be more true :laugh:

I do appreciate making people aware of the scoring mess, for both the PCS and now the GOEs. They say everything when the answer is 'I can't explain'.

gotta love Max and Angelo, always great commentary! And hard fanboying over Yuzuru :laugh:

What I really like about those two and a few others who are complimentary towards Yuzuru is that they're not really distorting what's going on. They're enthusiastic but they do call it like it is. It's a balance I appreciate.
 
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US, but I also checked the Canadian website, seems like they're sold out :'(

Canada CoSport? It no longer carries Olympic tickets in Canada. ATPI managed to settle a long-term contract for next 8 years I think and yes, men's tickets were gone like-a-wind fast, as well as for ice dance:cool14:You know our preference
 
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