Loopisation: I can't tell, if it's a habit of these three in particular (just watched the slomo of one or two jumps), but it could be.
I'm sorry to contradict you here but this is the first I'm hearing this about Yuzu's lutz? He's one of the very few who just toe-picks right away on the lutz... where are you seeing a full blade?
I always noticed his lutz landing is quite problematic but I can't make out what it was and why it looks like that. Thank you for your analysis. His other quad jumps falls look like typical fall but his 4lutz fall is scary even when he manages to save the landings. It looks like he's twisting his knee badly. I'm terrified everytime I see his landing at NHK and Olympics. Do you think it is possible for Yuzuru to do quad lutz next seasons ? Should he stop trying it ? From what I see last season, it doesn't seem possitive at all. Because with quad lutz, it's more difficult for him to manage to save the landing and fall correctly to avoid injuries than 3lutz.I tried to demonstrate Yuzu's axis problem with the Lutz here:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Henni147/status/989866483479203840
As you can see in the pictures, Nathan has a very clean left outside edge and he leans his full body to the left as well (naturally along the edge).
Yuzu enforces a left outside edge by twisting his ankle and leaning his body in the opposite direction - the same axis position as in the landing (a right back outside edge with natural leaning to the right). He's also twisting his hips and rising his left shoulder to create momemtum. That can't work, we remember his fall at NHK...
Another problem with Yuzu's Lutz take-off is that he's not using his right toe pick but the full blade to assist the take-off. That's technically wrong and should be counted as an (awkward) 4Lo by the technical panel. Nathan is only using his toe pick. Boyang dito.
The funny thing is: in his record freeskate in Barcelona Yuzu used the same correct take-off technique as Nathan and Boyang. This strange ankle twist comes and goes in Yuzu's Lutz attempts for whatever reason. I don't know why.
The flip jump has a nearly vertical take-off edge, so the flip requires a slight axis movement as well (not as much as the Lutz though). Yuzu could fix this problem quite well, since his current 3F looks very solid to me. His success rate on the flip over the last three years is remarkable.
Yuzu's 4T is decent as well, but sometimes he tends to slight underrotation in his landings, especially in the 4T+3T combo. His 4S might be less successful, but when it works, it's the best quad in the men's field.
Boyang has a brilliant jump technique and great control over his axis. Technically I would say, he's currently the best jumper in the world. In the overall quality including entrances/exits, soft landings and other features Yuzu is still unbeaten imo.
#Sidenote: I'm not a competitive skater and I wouldn't call myself an expert either. These are just my perceptions after watching countless jump slomos and animations from different angles
Thanks for the link! From this angle his toe assist looks correct indeed. I watched the jump from a disadvantgeous perspective I guess #MeaCulpa I'm sorry, Yuzu
Henni that person is constantly writing false facts about Yuzuru's jumps. Thanks for clarification for others to read. Yuzu using a full blade takeoff sounds ridiculous. Never heard anybody mentioning that ever.
I tried to demonstrate Yuzu's axis problem with the Lutz here:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Henni147/status/989866483479203840
As you can see in the pictures, Nathan has a very clean left outside edge and he leans his full body to the left as well (naturally along the edge).
Yuzu enforces a left outside edge by twisting his ankle and leaning his body in the opposite direction - the same axis position as in the landing (a right back outside edge with natural leaning to the right). He's also twisting his hips and rising his left shoulder to create momemtum. That can't work, we remember his fall at NHK...
Another problem with Yuzu's Lutz take-off is that he's not using his right toe pick but the full blade to assist the take-off. That's technically wrong and should be counted as an (awkward) 4Lo by the technical panel. Nathan is only using his toe pick. Boyang dito.
The funny thing is: in his record freeskate in Barcelona Yuzu used the same correct take-off technique as Nathan and Boyang. This strange ankle twist comes and goes in Yuzu's Lutz attempts for whatever reason. I don't know why.
The flip jump has a nearly vertical take-off edge, so the flip requires a slight axis movement as well (not as much as the Lutz though). Yuzu could fix this problem quite well, since his current 3F looks very solid to me. His success rate on the flip over the last three years is remarkable.
Yuzu's 4T is decent as well, but sometimes he tends to slight underrotation in his landings, especially in the 4T+3T combo. His 4S might be less successful, but when it works, it's the best quad in the men's field.
Boyang has a brilliant jump technique and great control over his axis. Technically I would say, he's currently the best jumper in the world. In the overall quality including entrances/exits, soft landings and other features Yuzu is still unbeaten imo.
#Sidenote: I'm not a competitive skater and I wouldn't call myself an expert either. These are just my perceptions after watching countless jump slomos and animations from different angles
And about that one injury causing 4Lz attempt in NHK, the guy was jet lagged and rushed to go into the jump when his body was not ready enough. It's not an attempt where we can talk about his technique. It's like you do some difficult physical activity when you are sleep driven
P.S. All this discussion made me to watch his Lz in Rostelcome in Youtube with slowmotion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmCXwXgYSfI&t=315s
Look at his body at 0:45 of this video, clear left outside edge, really really bent left knee and long reach with right toe. Then look at the left edge from 0:44 to 0:46 to see how it simply slides to go to air, there is not even 0.000000001 N/m^2 pressure on that blade. Definitely, there is no assist from his left blade to go into air. Again, it can be only my own take
I can't speak Japanese but I think it's about medal of honor. 紫綬褒章 means purple ribbon. I think that instead of getting a second medal he will get an additional bar. Here's an example of such bar.Google translator is horrible. Could you Japanese friends tell us which award this tweet is talking about?
https://twitter.com/BluecosmosH/status/989964454702940160
And a little bit more info about medals of honor: link and link.
