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Yuzuru Hanyu: 2017-2018

http://www.hochi.co.jp/sports/winter/20171201-OHT1T50156.html

Renewal completion ceremony of "Ice rink Sendai" was held on December 1. Yuzuru was absent but it was reported that Yuzuru's advice was reflected in the "sound" of the rink and the quality of the sound and the speakers was improved. Yuzuru sent his message from Toronto, ""Ice rink Sendai is a place I had practiced very often since I was a child and it has taken care or me so much. I am looking forward to skating on the renewed Ice rink Sendai."

Pictures
https://twitter.com/Irene7minutes/status/936527013187166208
https://twitter.com/BluecosmosH/status/936519788653830145
 
won0066 said:
Celebrating Yuzu's 12 World Records with a Christmas Song!! Hoping to spread a little holiday cheer! Hopefully you know this iconic song and can sing along with my updated lyrics!! I hope you like it and have as much fun singing it as I did making it up!!

https://sportymags.wordpress.com/20...istmas-my-true-love-gave-to-me-world-records/
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This is my first time to listen to this song and it was very interesting! It's great that I can learn the things that I didn't know in the international forum :) I hope his record making will continue and 12 days won't be enough :biggrin:

I feel strange we won't see him in GPF which usually takes place on December 7, but I'm going to send him positive thoughts :thumbsup:
 
Nice column about a junior skater, Shingo Nishiyama.

https://www.daily.co.jp/opinion-d/2017/12/03/0010785020.shtml

There is a figure skater who crossed the sea pursuing the back of his admiration. A first grade high school student, Shingo Nishiyama. In January of this year, he moved his practice base to "Cricket Club" in Toronto, Canada.

The Cricket Club is a sports club where the world champion, Yuzuru Hanyu (ANA), has based on. It is also the rink the former world champion, Javier Fernandez (Spain) has been training. Nishiyama has been taught by the coaches as Brian Orser and Tracy Wilson who raised many top skaters like Hanyu, Fernandez, Yuna Kim, the gold medalist in the Vancouver Olympics.

Almost a year after crossing the ocean. Currently he has been gaining practices while he is living with a host family. "I think my language is gradually getting better, it might get smoother a little bit later.", Nishiyama said. "Since I have to do various things by myself, I feel now I was lucky before (supported by my family).", he laughed. He has a lot of anxiety, but his face showed more fulfilling color than that.

The skater he has been longing for since he was little is Yuzuru Hanyu. There was also a recommendation of a coach, Yutaka Higuchi, who gives him the guidance, and "I asked him, I want to go! I want to go!". He decided to transfer to Canada. Hanyu is just in the front of his sight. "I want to be like Hanyu-kun, I have been watching him all the time." Touching the ice before he enters the rink. Such the way he skates and his gestures, is it my imagination that something "Hanyu-ish" is oozing out...? He also asks Yuzuru questions in the interval of the practice.

In Japanese junor nationals, he ranked in the 8th in short program and 7th in free skating, finished in 9th overall. Although there were mistakes in the jump and it resulted in regret, he received the highest level(4) in the spin in both SP and FS and showed his potential. From the coaches, he has been told "You have good skating skills, let's improve it more. You have also the jumps you are able to do".

Crossing the ocean does not always mean that we will grow. However, I think to determine something has a big meaning. I hope he will show us skating that can only be done by Nishiyama, after chasing the back of his admiration.

(Daily Sports · Saki Kunishima)
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This is the video of Shingo when he was 11, I remember this boy! (you can also see Yuzuru in Nobeyama camp in the video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=g_vLMQqjg84
 
Interspectator said:
Let's go crazy would be a perfect Gala program. :thumbsup:
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well, for me 'Let's go crazy' was already a fab program in competition:laugh:, I feel that as EX Yuzuru would go even more 'pizzas' and 'bananas' with his rockstar soul and attitude:cool14:, and there's something to be said about a legendary already skater perform to the voice of legend Prince was:)
 
I read "Ice Jewels vol.7" in the bookstore today.

http://www.kazi.co.jp/icejewels/

There was Yuzuru's interview and it was separated into two parts, one was about ACI and the other was about CoR, and it is pretty sure that it was taken before NHK. Again, I didn't buy it so I can't translate, but here is a little summary.

・He wanted to do 4Lz from ACI and was preparing for it. It was not an easy decision to participate in ACI because he knew he couldn't worsen the pain in his knee (he talked about knee injury in the Worlds 2013 as an example, he couldn't walk after the competition and took 2 months to recover). He realized now the layout 4Lz, 4Lo, 3 quads in the latter half and 3As was burden on his body.

・After ACI, he felt like he was loosing the sense of jumping 4Lz because it was not the jump he had always used to do like other quads.

・He can't imagine "Chopin's Ballad no.1" without 4Lo. (note: I didn't remember in which part he said this in the interview, but the interview was taken before NHK either way.)

・About FS in CoR, He thinks it was good that he could tripled 4Lo (not popping) and hang on 4S. He couldn't do 4T because its timing didn't meet, but he had good impression on 4T3T and 3As.

・About his expressions in the performance, he thinks he has some North American aspects because he trains in Canada, but he has more like Russian type of aspects since he thinks his origin of expression was discovered when he practiced with Bobrin and Bestemianova in Russia. But at the same time, he is Asian and started skating in Japan and was coached by the Japanese, so he says he may have all kinds in being mixed.

・The best thing in CoR was that he could skate in the country of Russia and perform in front of Bobrin and Bestemianova, and Tarasova, even though he couldn't meet them there.

・When he performs "Notte Stellata" in the arena, he is glad when people appreciate his non jump elements.
 
Thank you Yude for summarizing what you read in Ice Jewels 7!

Lots of interesting tidbits, especially about the loop in the SP.

I also agree with assessment that he's got North American, Russian, and Japanese aspects to his skating - whatever it is I love it all :agree:
 
yude said:
I read "Ice Jewels vol.7" in the bookstore today.

http://www.kazi.co.jp/icejewels/

There was Yuzuru's interview and it was separated into two parts, one was about ACI and the other was about CoR, and it is pretty sure that it was taken before NHK. Again, I didn't buy it so I can't translate, but here is a little summary.

・He wanted to do 4Lz from ACI and was preparing for it. It was not an easy decision to participate in ACI because he knew he couldn't worsen the pain in his knee (he talked about knee injury in the Worlds 2013 as an example, he couldn't walk after the competition and took 2 months to recover). He realized now the layout 4Lz, 4Lo, 3 quads in the latter half and 3As was burden on his body.

・After ACI, he felt like he was loosing the sense of jumping 4Lz because it was not the jump he had always used to do like other quads.

・He can't imagine "Chopin's Ballad no.1" without 4Lo. (note: I didn't remember in which part he said this in the interview, but the interview was taken before NHK either way.)

・About FS in CoR, He thinks it was good that he could tripled 4Lo (not popping) and hang on 4S. He couldn't do 4T because its timing didn't meet, but he had good impression on 4T3T and 3As.

・About his expressions in the performance, he thinks he has some North American aspects because he trains in Canada, but he has more like Russian type of aspects since he thinks his origin of expression was discovered when he practiced with Bobrin and Bestemianova in Russia. But at the same time, he is Asian and started skating in Japan and was coached by the Japanese, so he says he may have all kinds in being mixed.

・The best thing in CoR was that he could skate in the country of Russia and perform in front of Bobrin and Bestemianova, and Tarasova, even though he couldn't meet them there.

・When he performs "Notte Stellata" in the arena, he is glad when people appreciate his non jump elements.
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Thanks! I have the magazine if you'd like the original text. I never really thought about this honestly. To me he's just Yuzu and he's amazing at being Yuzu.
 
yude said:
I read "Ice Jewels vol.7" in the bookstore today.

http://www.kazi.co.jp/icejewels/

There was Yuzuru's interview and it was separated into two parts, one was about ACI and the other was about CoR, and it is pretty sure that it was taken before NHK. Again, I didn't buy it so I can't translate, but here is a little summary.

・He wanted to do 4Lz from ACI and was preparing for it. It was not an easy decision to participate in ACI because he knew he couldn't worsen the pain in his knee (he talked about knee injury in the Worlds 2013 as an example, he couldn't walk after the competition and took 2 months to recover). He realized now the layout 4Lz, 4Lo, 3 quads in the latter half and 3As was burden on his body.

・After ACI, he felt like he was loosing the sense of jumping 4Lz because it was not the jump he had always used to do like other quads.

・He can't imagine "Chopin's Ballad no.1" without 4Lo. (note: I didn't remember in which part he said this in the interview, but the interview was taken before NHK either way.)

・About FS in CoR, He thinks it was good that he could tripled 4Lo (not popping) and hang on 4S. He couldn't do 4T because its timing didn't meet, but he had good impression on 4T3T and 3As.

・About his expressions in the performance, he thinks he has some North American aspects because he trains in Canada, but he has more like Russian type of aspects since he thinks his origin of expression was discovered when he practiced with Bobrin and Bestemianova in Russia. But at the same time, he is Asian and started skating in Japan and was coached by the Japanese, so he says he may have all kinds in being mixed.

・The best thing in CoR was that he could skate in the country of Russia and perform in front of Bobrin and Bestemianova, and Tarasova, even though he couldn't meet them there.

・When he performs "Notte Stellata" in the arena, he is glad when people appreciate his non jump elements.
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Thanks for this summary!
To me, I do see the mixture the countries that influenced him with their artistic visions, no other skater can blend them and make a unique art form like Yuzu does. It makes him stand out and be un-like any other skater or style that came before. :thumbsup:
 
Danibellerika said:
Thanks! I have the magazine if you'd like the original text. I never really thought about this honestly. To me he's just Yuzu and he's amazing at being Yuzu.
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Thank you for your offer! May I borrow the original text when you have time? Since my post was nothing but the summary, not the literal translation at all, and Yuzuru talked a lot in the actual interview (as usual :biggrin:). I work very slowly and the grammar is not good though :shock2:
 
yude said:
Thank you for your offer! May I borrow the original text when you have time? Since my post was nothing but the summary, not the literal translation at all, and Yuzuru talked a lot in the actual interview (as usual :biggrin:). I work very slowly and the grammar is not good though :shock2:
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As far as I know, gladi is working on a translation of the interview so we should have it soon!
 
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