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Yuzuru Hanyu: 2016-17 Season

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hamaguri said:
It is today's latest interview (next day of FP)
https://sports.yahoo.co.jp/column/detail/201704220005-spnavi?platform=hootsuite
I think it's interesting and made a partial translation. If you have something to know more and confirm, please comment．I or other members who can understand Japanese will help you.

Q. About this season,

Thinking back this season, I had the two months period when I could do nothing. But finally at the free program of this competition I was able to get the performance which I had been aiming for. As an achievement of this competition, I tried the very difficult thing, and I was able to do what I wanted to here. It was a success before Olympics.

Q.About the layout of next season

I have no plan to make a drastic change. Still I can’t get two clean programs both with SP and FP. While I must get more quads or add something creative to combo, aside them, I would love to focus on GOE and the perfection of program, what’s more, expressing the program which I want to. This season I had done some challenges. I want to improve myself more with them.

Q.Before, you said you wanted to turn a professional skater while you could get the best performance. Now the level of competitions is getting higher so much and dramatic. How’s the change of your mind?

This time it was just tough, I felt (lol). This was different from Worlds. Time time was like “Why did my works so far pay off?”. All skaters are doing the difficult things, besides doing that, we must make a complete program in itself and the necessary level is very high. That’s why I enjoy practices very much and my motivation is getting bigger. Now I’m enjoying skate regardless of retirement or something.

Q.bout triple axel and quad.

About quad, when I broke the record of SP, the focal points were the high GOE of 4T and the perfection of 3A. Considering them, 4T has helped me a lot so far. Thus it is important to get GOE with 4t and excuse a clean 4t. This time the second 4T at the latter half was a bit hard, but the first had about the same quality as the first (in the first half) and I got a response of GOE of from 2 to 3 with it although the entry was not so complicated.
In that sense, I doesn’t feel the necessity to focus on 3A only.

However, my enthusiasm with axel is the one beyond your imagination provably. More than else, the reason why I came to love skate to such an extent is thanks to axel. Without axel, I may not have won at National Novice and not have been able to skate with a confidence like this. That’s why I have the feelings that I don’t exclude axel. (note: In another source, he said he wanted to get 4A at the same interview.)

Q. Are you aiming for more difficult layout in the future, or you will make a realistic choice to win?

I had a thought about it also before FP at Worlds. I myself had started 4lo and needed more difficult layout. That’s why I had decided this current layout after the discussion with Brian. However considering the past, I was not a type of skater who got difficult jumps, but the one who achieved a program, getting the stable and clean jumps and the expressions together. True I practiced 4ltz today, but now I feel that it’s better to add what I want to express or jumps which I can get comfortably, not trying hard with such as 4ltz.

Of course, I love what’s difficult, and I know the risk of injury with it. However, the reason why I got to love skate is skate is the extraordinary and there’s something which I can experience with skate only and one of the factors is a jump. The difficulty and the sense of achievement with jumps had attracted me gradually. Thus doing the practice of 4ltz or 4f is fun!
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thanks for posting this!!! :love:
 
also, according to the interview hamaguri kindly posted, it seems yuzu wants to turn professional after retiring from competition...?

and i can't but smile at reading about how much yuzu loves the axel :)
 
That interview is pretty interesting, in so far as he wants to focus a lot on his GOEs and giving clean performances. I think if he'd gone clean more often this season, he would be more willing to consider the 4Lz but as things have gone, I'm starting to doubt he wants to risk it.

Then again, it's Yuzu. You never know.
 
It's hard for me to imagine him as a clean-type skater instead of a battling one. Challenging himself to the utmost and making one or two mistakes is fine with me. He totally psyched himself out in the SP trying to go clean. I would almost rather he be insane and go for 4Lz.
 
I can't deal with the fact that we have photos(?) but no videos of his 4Lz attempts... What I wouldn't do for some footage of that one 4Lz he landed :drama:
 
hamaguri said:
I had a thought about it also before FP at Worlds. I myself had started 4lo and needed more difficult layout. That’s why I had decided this current layout after the discussion with Brian. However considering the past, I was not a type of skater who got difficult jumps, but the one who achieved a program, getting the stable and clean jumps and the expressions together. True I practiced 4ltz today, but now I feel that it’s better to add what I want to express or jumps which I can get comfortably, not trying hard with such as 4ltz.
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Uh uh uh. I am not sure what to think about this part. I really do not think it's wise to do this, considering his GOEs which really aren't a problem on his side and what everyone else is doing and is going to do.
Well, fingers crossed in any case.
 
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