Yuzuru Hanyu: 2021-22

[DizzyFrenchie]

Rondò is definitely a monumental masterpiece which spreads Etude SP mystical vibes. So much Light and Energy , a trascendental experience.

This is certainly not something "doable" but he did it! All this while in labour from the complicated birth of 4A.
Butterfly jump into sit twizzles, had it ever been done?

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

I don't find in which interview, the interviewer reminded him that it was Christmas Eve and he had his charming laugh and said he had forgotten, and asked his fans to pray for him.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

In fact there are 6 crossovers (and 6 crossunders). They are so well disguised. Here's a comparison with his previous achievement, Ballade with only 13 crossovers. I believe all other skaters do 20+ crossovers in a Short Progam.
6 crossovers in a Short with two quads, so packed with beautiful, imaginative and high quality transitions (including as many speed variations as he's used to and there too I think he's the best), such a feast lets room for 10s in transitions too, yet this was his lowest component score with 9.58.

 

[shyne]

This is certainly not something "doable" but he did it! All this while in labour from the complicated birth of 4A.
Butterfly jump into sit twizzles, had it ever been done?

I just hope no judge will think of it as a failed spin, like last season

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

I just hope no judge will think of it as a failed spin, like last season

Last season wrongly invalidated spin was not about the sit twizzles after all, that was just an attempt at an explanation by viewers.
JSF communicated about it and declared that the spin was invalidated because he had failed to sit 2 full rotations. But videos showed that there were about 2¾ rotations, this would have justified a Level 3 instead of a Level 4 but not an invalidation. (And other skaters had failed to sit 2 rotations and had not been called.) So it was a pure ghost call and the technical controller was a well known anti, a fan of Daisuke Takahashi still resenting the fact that Yuzuru Hanyu had been better than their favourite at Sochi.
This year these same people are here with different objectives. Daisuke Takahashi will probably be part of the Olympic team and Japan has a good chance at a medal. They want a Team medal for him because he's unlikely to win an individual medal. And for this they are likely to assign Yuzuru Hanyu, at least to the Short Program for the Team Event. This is why this year they acknowledged a noticeable part of his merits in this program. The underscoring was unusually small: transitions deserved 10, 4S deserved +5 GOEs and one spin, but otherwise scores were right.
It is uncertain if this acknowledgement will continue with the Free because it is unknown if they want to send Yuzuru Hanyu to skate also the Free at the Team Event, or if Yuma Kagiyama's supports would push to get him a Team medal too.
This is ugly politicks but that's life.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

The last practice has passed, the ice was probably different, there were only two 4A attempts, both popped (into 2A, then into 1A in the run-through where 4S was also popped into 2S).
In the previous practice, yesterday, he had a number of attempts, all but one (<, 2ft) resulting in fall.
His layout for the Free is the same as last year, except that the first jump is a 4A instead of a 4Lo.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

He's warming up near the rink, his group should start the warm-up on ice in about half an hour and he's skating last, in about 1½h.
There were huge queues from 4am to watch open practice.

 

[Silvia451]

I'm a bit stressed now, I hope everything goes well for him in the FS. Good luck, please, please stay healthy!

 

[DiamondDust]

That was a breathtaking skate from Yuzu. Amazing!!!! And that 4A attempt is also not bad.

 

[Arigato]

I'd say you skated a bit better than just respectably.

 

[pianistliz]

I. Am. So. Proud. Of. Him!!!!!!!!!!

 

[TallyT]

Gorgeous and so, so brave with the 4A. The Beijing Olympic Committee and the Chinese fans will be ecstatic that he will be there and trying to land it for their Olympics.

 

[DiamondDust]

I am rather surprised when I checked the prediction games that only a few predicted Yuzu to win. But hella boy he proved them wrong

 

[invisiblespiral]

I am rather surprised when I checked the prediction games that only a few predicted Yuzu to win. But hella boy he proved them wrong

He never fails to amaze me.

Also, does anyone here know why there are no flips or lutzes in his FS? (injury?)

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

He never fails to amaze me.

Also, does anyone here know why there are no flips or lutzes in his FS? (injury?)

He explained that most of his program have a soft feeling where toe jumps don't have a place. The only toe jumps are the 4T combos.
As far as I know he's not injured and this summer he has reworked his 4F, never jumped by him in competition.

 

[pianistliz]

He explained that most of his program have a soft feeling where toe jumps don't have a place. The only toe jumps are the 4T combos.
As far as I know he's not injured and this summer he has reworked his 4F, never jumped by him in competition.

Yes, as an artist I love how he is chasing after the ideal programs over ideal scores (I mean, in an ideal world, the ideal scores would follow the ideal programs, but whatever)

 

[ankifeather]

He was nothing short of incredible yesterday

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

And I was wrong. He admitted to having been under painkillers, which I believe to mean that his injury is not fully healed (by fully healed I don't mean back to perfect shape, they will never, like many other skaters' injuries).
Honestly I don't know how he could skate two such terribly difficult wonders after so short and incomplete a recovery.

 

[Lamente Ariane]

I am rather surprised when I checked the prediction games that only a few predicted Yuzu to win. But hella boy he proved them wrong

I wanted to believe! But I don't always put in my predictions what I want most to happen