Fay, Fay, Fay Exchange time...:luv17:
A little fanboying fluff by photographer uncle Ryousuke Menjyu for
Figure Skate Magazine, 2016-2017 Season Climax. As you can see, excessive use of "cool"
More photographer uncle gushing coming along, because that's how I deal with WC-induced nerves!
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The moment when the switch turned on.
I was sent on assignment to cover the Four Continents Championship. In the plane headed out from Kansai International Airport, seated in front of me and behind were ladies headed to Gangneung in support of Hanyu-senshu. Even though Gangneung is quite close to Japan,
what extravagant lives do these people lead, following him abroad like that…? As I pondered about these things, the plane arrived at Gimpo Airport and from there, I travelled to Gangneung by bus.
Men's SP is on February 17th, which is the second day of the competition. Days before the opening, cameras have already been set up at both main and practice rinks, attentively following Hanyu-senshu’s each and every move during the practice sessions. But at the OP before the evening's SP competition, the atmosphere surrounding him was clearly different. Perhaps he was listening to Let's Go Crazy, or some other hard rock music? Completely engrossed and shaking his head to the beat of whatever he’s listening to, he looked more like a rock artist rather than a skater.
(The photo that went with the story: http://imgur.com/a/gASRV)
Aahh, so Hanyu-senshu makes such a face... I've been photographer at many figure skating events thus far, but this was the first time I’ve covered a competition with Hanyu-senshu. My impression of what “figure skating” was and my mental image of figure skaters were completely rewritten at that very moment. Figure skating until then had always been “beautiful" and “serene." However, the air that Hanyu-senshu created was quite different, very manly and fierce.
And then, when I saw the SP performance that night, these thoughts became something decisive for me.
The form of Hanyu-senshu skating, jumping and dancing to Prince’s song was, even from a guy’s perspective,
extremely cool. I am not exaggerating, I was shaking as I watched him. Energetic, but at the same time, majestic. As my shutter clicked away, I was muttering to myself, “Hanyu-kun,
so cool, man..." I felt I understood the feelings of all those fans who traveled abroad just so they could support him.
In this competition, I would like to do my best to cover Hanyu-senshu. But, my photos don’t do justice to Hanyu-senshu’s full extent of
coolness yet. One day, I’ll shoot and show pictures that are
just as cool as Hanyu-senshu. My feelings as a photographer has been ignited!
? I doubt you could scare anyone here 
That's why the quality of my videos are that low. But I enjoy making translations and subtitles to the videos so I guess I'll record Yuzuru's performances at Worlds too in this way (probably with two different commentaries, Eurosport and an other Hungarian sports channel too).
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