Yuzuru Hanyu: 2013-14 Season

[umeko_yur1tasukee]

Hello! I think, this is my first post in the forum xD but i read everyday .. It took me a long while to post since I read the thread(s) from the first page haha ~ it's worth it

I'm new to FS (2013 newbie) but i'm learning alot here. So, thank you guys!

26mins26secs ~
Narrator: There is something that Hanyu Yuzuru can’t be separated from….That thing is music.
AS: More than piano I have an image of you with violins.
Y: I guess that’s about right.
AS: I’m talking about with your skating style.
Y: Well as part of the kanji character in my name is the symbol “gen - 弦” which means “string”.
AS: Yeah, so it does.
Y: I really like violin music.
AS: When your parents gave you that name was there any special connection there?
Y: No, I don’t think so. My mother really likes music but my father is more into sports.

I agree with Arakawa-san. I'm not really into music, but there's this one song (violin version) that make me always think of Yuzuru. I really like his JWC choreo too.

 

[Maria Victoria]

^Welcome umeko_yur1tasukee! I see your location is in the Philippines, my native land.

Thanks channah for the great translation work! :thumbsup: First time for me to learn about Yuzuru's spine condition. So for all of Yuzuru's obvious natural talent, on the other side of the ledger there is his asthma and that curvature of the spine. Yet he is now Olympic and world champion. He's really a miracle on ice!

This may have been posted before, but here's a link of the video of a young Yuzuru showing off his Ina Bauer and Biellmann spin to Shizuka, a moment alluded to in the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3HeqwCPq7c. I must say the local television keeps a pretty good collection of videos of their sporting heroes/heroines growing up. You can also see footage of a young Shizuka in the video.

 

[Yuzusan]

Thx Channah ! Is it the next interview of the previous video that I gave you to translate ?

 

[Yuzusan]

Oh my mind, the interview is long !

For people who are lost, I posted on the media topic the channah's translation of the first interview's part : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1tm7q3_荒川-羽生-前半_sport

And as Channah is fulfill with passion and greatness, does a translation of the second part of the interview : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1tm7si_荒川-羽生-後半_sport
Channah give the translation from the begining of the video to 8:38. I suppose you will translate the next ? When all will be finished I will post the rest on the media topic.

 

[channah]

悔い
This is the rest if the interview:
Part 2 of the Continuation of the interview between Arakawa Shizuka and Yuzuru Hanyu
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTg5NjcyNDMy.html?from=y1.2-1-98.3.9-1.1-1-1-8
35mins00secs~
Narrator: This young boy, who started skating when he was 4 years old, always carried the Olympic dream in his heart.
AS: You were born in 1994, right?
Y: Yes:
As: So I guess the first Olympics that you were really aware of when you were watching were the Salt Lake City Olympics?
Y: Yes, that’s right.
AS: When did you start to really think that you would like to take part in the Olympics?
Y: At that time there was the Super Final, wasn’t there? There was a short program and a free program in the heats and then another free program.
AS: In the final the athletes had to do the free program.
Y: When I saw that I thought that I really wanted to take part in that. From then on that feeling stayed with me. After watching the Salt Lake City games I really thought I definitely want to compete on that stage. The Olympic stage is different from any other. Now the number of performances is fewer than before but the weight of feeling that has to go into just those two programs is something that I felt very strongly, so I have been thinking since then that I definitely want to compete in the Olympics.
AS: In the run up to the Olympics what kind or feelings or things do you find fascinating?
Y: All of the athletes are putting four years of effort on the line. They are actually putting their athletic life on the line. In other competitions, all of the athletes are always trying their best, but as for the Olympics, the weight of the event is much heavier. I certainly get that feeling from the athletes around me.
AS: You are about half a year out from your first Olympics, what this is your number 1 goal in the Sochi games?
Y: Well, as for myself, I feel the Olympics like it is just another competition and that there is an Olympic season every 4 years. The Olympics isn’t the only competition in the season and as it is just a competition I want to do my best in it. However, on the other hand, the four years before the Olympics are all in preparation for the event and this is something I think about, too. Especially, now in this season, it is getting closer and it feels important, like it is an important period of time so I want to spend that time carefully. I don’t know when I will leave the sport; I don’t know when I could be injured so the Olympics are an event with a lot of drama. I want to keep my spirit up, work methodically, train properly and clear the goals I have set. If I do that and feel like I have done the best preparation possible for me, in the end, I don’t know how the actual performance will go, but I think I will probably think I have done enough.
AS: Now you are 18, you will be 19 when you take part in the Olympics. Most of the athletes, when they are in their teens they are just aiming to participate. How do you feel about it? Where does it figure in the span of your skating career? Are you past the halfway point? Generally, how do you feel about it?
Y: I just want to give my all. I know this won’t be the end for me. It isn’t the end of my life either; I will be able to continue on. The Olympics, the Sochi Olympics will only happen once, so I want to treasure the Sochi Olympics and compete with all my might. For example, if I participate in the Peyongchan Olympics or even the one after that, in terms of age it would still be possible I don’t want to have any regrets. I want the Sochi Olympics to be an event where I truly give my all. That is if I am selected for the team.
Narrator: The charm point of Hanyu Yuzuru’s skating.
AS: It is the way he gets people to see him. The way he is able to show himself and have people react to him is amazing, given his young age. I think most people will gather around the fact that he jumps so well but even when I saw him when he was a small boy I thought that his spins were really good. That's one of the strongest impressions I have of him as a skater.
43mins20secs~
Narrator: Things that cause Hanyu Yuzuru to shed tears.
Y: There are a lot of things that make me cry. I am a bit of a cry-baby. I cry if I am lonely, I cry if I am happy, I cry if I’m frustrated. I also cry if I feel moved. For example, after the big disaster, I was invited to skate in a charity show in Kobe and lots of people stood up and clapped for me. That was very moving and even now that is an emotional memory for me.
Narrator: Before he begins his challenge for the Olympic games….
Y: I have a lot of questions I want to ask you.
AS: Really? You have questions?
Y: Is it ok to ask you?
AS: Yes, ask me anything.
Y: I have never competed in an Olympics, so I’m anxious about what kind of event it is. When I am practicing, I kind of have an awareness of the Olympics in my mind, that this is the Olympic season and I feel like I am being pulled into thinking about it.
AS: So you feel you are being forced to think about it too much?
Y: Yes. So I think that will make me tired. If even when I am practicing, I think too much about the Olympics what should I do?
AS: I made an effort not to think about it too much. I also tried to focus, at the beginning of the season, about when I wanted to peak. Of course I wanted to peak at the Olympics but before that there are few other competitions that I needed to compete in. Japanese Nationals for example, it was not a competition that I could not participate in so finding that balance was a really difficult thing. I entered the season making an effort to push down feelings about the Olympics and I didn’t do well in some competitions. I knew I had to be first or second to make it to the GP Finals and I was really nervous about that. So even though I was desperately trying to fight to keep myself calm my feelings kind of got the better of me and I didn’t want to peak at the Japanese Nationals That was a real struggle within myself. Maintaining that just under the peak performance through the season was really difficult. When I actually got to the Olympic competition then it was easy for me as I knew I just had to peak. But in the preparation to peak at just the right time was really difficult for me and it didn’t go so well. It is hard to control the pitch of things.
Y: What I find difficult is that the Japanese Nationals are really hard. Of course I have the feeling that I want to get to the Olympics but to do that I need to win Nationals. Between the Nationals and the Olympics these is a gap of about 2 months and it isn’t possible to maintain peak condition for that long. I know I will definitely need to reduce the pitch of …
AS: Yes, the way to live through the season is really difficult. I have always thought so and it was particularly true in the Olympic season. At that time, Mao-chan (Asada Mao) was just coming out and the juniors are moving up into senior competition. Around September, the juniors start to prepare for the GP finals and in October and November they are just about ready. I knew I was going to compete against them but I also knew I had to place well in terms of results and so I probably was trying too hard and kept thinking I need to calm down a bit. That internal struggle of having to do well and of not peaking too early was tough. Also, the people around me had to react to my not so good competition results and deal with my mental condition. And that was something that I became aware of and started to understand. There are a lot of things that happen but you just need to stick to your plan and not panic when things do go exactly the way you want them to.
Y: The feeling of pushing down feelings to stay calm is always there, but I find that I just tend to try to keep doing my best all of the time and in the end I get injured. When my general condition drops I get frustrated and think that I just need to practice even harder. So when I think about when I want to peak should I let my condition drop in between times?
AS: In the period before the season starts you should just let yourself go. At the start of the season I was overweight when I started to practice and once the season started I dropped weight little by little in a controlled way and that made practice easier. In the off time before the Olympic season I was quite chubby. It felt like I was practicing while carrying weights. Even now when I think about how to control getting oneself into peak condition at the right times is really difficult. That is the eternal problem all athletes need to work on. I would say though, after Nationals, you have about a month and a half when you can just let yourself go a little bit. Just after the nationals there is time to relax a bit and then get ready to go again.
Y: I should try to “reset” after Nationals. I feel very privileged to have listened to your words.
Narrator: Moments that Hanyu Yuzuru feels are important.
Y: When I choose earphones. I really like looking at earphones and headphones, I think that is now the thing I really enjoy most. Also, now I am living in Canada. My mother is there with me but my whole family isn’t together so we don’t have so many chances to meet. So when we come back to Japan and all four of us can have dinner together, or lunch together, just eating together is something that I really enjoy.
Narrator: Where is the skate who was born in Sendai going next?
AS: So this is the end of your teen years and it will be a season in which you challenge for the Olympics, is there anything you want to do before you are out of your teens?
Y: Ehhhhh What would that be???? I never really think about what I want to do by a certain age. I haven’t thought about what age I want to retire at or at what age I would like to turn pro I can’t really decide things like that when it comes to skating or I don’t want to think about it.
AS: What is your ultimate goal as a skater?
Y: As an athlete I want to keep giving my all to the very end. I don’t want to lose my passion for skating and my skating core and as long as I have that I want to keep skating. So even though this will be the last Olympics of my teenage years I want to give my all, even if I get burnt out due to the effort, or even if I give an embarrassingly bad performance by falling, that will be ok.
AS: You think you will be ok with that. I think you will hate it if that happens.
Y: Even if I flub my steps….
AS: You sound like you want to make the challenge really difficult for yourself
Y: If I do that then even in the next Olympics I won’t regret not having made a big enough effort for this one. If I give my all in the Sochi Olympics I will learn many things.
AS: Without trying to protect yourself from the future you approach it like it is your only Olympics. I really want to see you doing your best. I am waiting to cheer for you and support you.
Y: I don’t yet know about the Olympics I just want to do what I can at this age.
AS: Now you are involved with a lot of things it is not your last year and not the season you need to feel protective of.
Y: I want to end the season with no regrets.
AS: Do your best, please.
Y: Yes.
52mins 55secs=
Final message
Y: There are a lot of things going on in this season and a need to try even harder that I have been so far. But I know I will do my best from now on. This means in each of the competitions, not just at the Olympics. I want to return in my performances all of the help and support that I have been given by the many people around me. I really want to do my best. Please cheer for me from now on. Thank you very much.
Narrator: As he said himself, he has experienced the natural disaster, he knows that there are many things that still can do. The Skater Hanyu Yuzuru, even under the weight of expectation from so many people he looks like he is enjoying himself. With this big competition that only comes around once in four years, we can see that he has twinkles in his eyes.
AS : We didn’t really talk about so many things…
Y:I got to ask you the things I wanted to ask you so I am very satisfied.
As: Really?
Y: Yes.
The End

 

[channah]

Hi Yuzu san
Yes, it is The whole interview is 54 minutes long so I had to do it in stages.
Is it worthwhile putting it all together in one single post, or would that be a) too long or B) overkill?
Channah.
P.S. I really enjoed doing it, trying to capture what they were saying without putting words into their mouths.

 

[Pamigena]

and one more big big thank you to you channah, for all those uber-long translations. you put in a lot of work, it's greatly appreciated!
And I think it would be very good to put it all in one post in the media thread it's good to have things like your translations in one spot so they don't get lost between the pages here in the regular thread.

AS: But even now you are still doing it and I think that’s amazing.
Y: Yes, I am.

Yes, you are.
(I just declared today 'take things out of context'-day)

and those earphone discussions are hilarious. So far, whenever I've read or seen an interview where that topic is mentioned, people go "earphones? seriously?" and he gets all excited about them too cute

edit:

Narrator: Moments that Hanyu Yuzuru feels are important.
Y: When I choose earphones.[...]

I only just read that last translation thanks to this kid I will never again be able to look at earphones without snickering.

 

[Meoima]

Thank you so much Channah, you are so wonderful. Such an effort, I would love to give you a gold medal!

And now we all know our kiddo is a cry baby, so cute, he's truly an emotional skater:

Narrator: Things that cause Hanyu Yuzuru to shed tears.
Y: There are a lot of things that make me cry. I am a bit of a cry-baby. I cry if I am lonely, I cry if I am happy, I cry if I’m frustrated. I also cry if I feel moved. For example, after the big disaster, I was invited to skate in a charity show in Kobe and lots of people stood up and clapped for me. That was very moving and even now that is an emotional memory for me.

 

[Yuzusan]

I think this the most precise interview of Hanyu. It would be great to have the same interview but in 2 or 3 years, for seeing his evolution.
Channah no problem for the longer, it is perfect ! I regroup in an second post next to the first.

Thx again.

 

[Yuzusan]

Here the other part of the interview Hanyu/Arakawa

Again big thanks to Channah,fulfill with passion, who also has also translated the next.

Narrator: There is something that Hanyu Yuzuru can’t be separated from….That thing is music.

AS: More than piano I have an image of you with violins.

Y: I guess that’s about right.

AS: I’m talking about with your skating style.

Y: Well as part of the kanji character in my name is the symbol “gen - 弦” which means “string”.

AS: Yeah, so it does.

Y: I really like violin music.

AS: When your parents gave you that name was there any special connection there?

Y: No, I don’t think so. My mother really likes music but my father is more into sports.

AS: Ah, he’s a sportsman…What sport does your father like?

Y: Baseball. He used to play baseball. When I was small I used to play baseball with a plastic ball. It was when I was really small, I couldn’t even walk properly yet but we played baseball.

AS: Wow, you really were young.

Y: It was even before I started skating, and he would play baseball with me. I think he wanted me to become a professional baseball player in the future.

AS: But you turned into a completely different type of athlete, didn’t you.

Y: Yes, I did. Basically, even from when I was a small kid, I always wanted to do what my older sister was doing and try to copy her.

AS: Why did your sister start skating?

Y: I think it was because the rink was really close to our house. She would join the summer short training courses and when she went to things like that I always wanted to do the same.
I would keep saying “ I want to do it, too. I want to do it, too.”

AS: That was during my last years in Sendai when your sister started to skate.

Y: I was barely able but I followed my sister to the rink.

AS: I guess it was a case of you were entering and I was leaving. The thing I remember was you coming in were wearing your kindergarten uniform and that you had a really cute hairstyle.

Y: It was like this. (gestures the style around his face)

AS: It was really cute and was always well cut.


Narrator: What does “family” mean to Yuzuru Hanyu?

Y: This will probably sound like a bit of a cliché but family are a really important thing for me. I really feel that from the bottom of my heart.
The reason I am able to skate the way I do is because my father worked hard and used the money to pay for lessons and mother supported me and my sister cheered me on.
If I didn’t have those people in my life I would never be in this position now.
To get this far, I can I know how much I have struggled but when I think about it, I realise that they probably struggled much more that I ever did.
I practiced skating hard; I trained really hard, I would eat and sleep and that daily routine continued for a long time but my mother and father did a lot of things to make sure I would be able to do that.
When I think about it, I know I should be very thankful for their efforts. I need to be more thankful than I am.

Narrator: Hanyu Yuzuru’s Ina Bauer was born when he performed it in front of the Torino gold medallist and now for him it is a sentimental memory.

AS: I remember you put your hand up and said “I can do an Ina Bauer.” I thought there is a really great child here.

Y: At that time I was totally excited about trying to go to the Olympics. It is a really nice time to think back on.

AS: It was quite unusual. Whenever I was helping kids (especially boys) to skate and I would ask the question, “Can anyone do any moves?” most of the time nobody would put up their hand to volunteer.
But you you put up your hand and said, “I can do something. I can also do a Beilman spin.” And I remember thinking “Ohhhhh”

Y: At that time I was thinking I can do an Ina Bauer but I can’t do the Beilman spin. At that time, I was growing and doing the Beilman spin felt bad. It was the one move I never wanted to do.

AS: But even now you are still doing it and I think that’s amazing.

Y: Yes, I am.

AS: When male skates start to get muscles their bodies become stiff and rather than flexibility, strength is the thing they have.

Y: When you do a quad jump, I think there is a difference. When I started doing quads I felt that my body became hard/stiff.

AS: When you get muscles in your back, that weren’t there before you aren’t able to move in the same way as before.

Y: I have always been on the physically flexible side, just like you.

AS: Actually, I didn’t use to be so flexible.

Y: Really?

AS: Yes, really. I would try to do moves that not many other people did so from that it looked like I was more flexible than I really was.
I could do the Ina Bauer very well and from that move it made it look like I could do other moves with the same flexibility but it was only really that one. I would try to do some stretches.
I would be doing them in from of the TV and Dai-chan (Takahashi Daisuke) would ask, “What are you doing?” This was when we were having training camps together, “What are you doing?” and I told him I was stretching.
He said you are lying as he was surprised at how stiff I was.

Y: Now I am not doing any flexibility training.

AS: I guess that is normal for male skaters. There aren’t so many flexible skaters, and nobody was as flexible as Sasha Cohen.

Y: I don’t think I need to be as flexible as that as that would mean I would lose some muscle and I would be afraid of that but I do think that now I have a good balance between muscles and flexibility.

AS: What body part do you want most? Is there any part that you want to alter?

Y: I thought you were going to ask me which type of earphones I want most?

AS: The earphone conversation is over. If ended a while ago.

Y: What body part do I want?......A spine. I want to have a new spine.

AS: A spine.

Y: My spine is curved like a cat’s so I want to be able to have it changed.

AS: I don’t really have an image of you as a cat.

Y: When I jump a lot and I start to get tired like all humans I start to bend over. But I probably get more bent over than most people.
In that condition people tend to bend from the waist, but I bend from the shoulders (translation based on the gestures he made with his fingers). When I get like that I am unable to land my jumps.
On self reflection, at the World Championships, the short program in the last World Championships, I fell on the quad jump and it was for the reason I mentioned before.
When I go into competition mode it is often like that.

AS: I understand what you are saying. So the toe loop gets loose.

Y: And I land with a thud. It is a very embarrassing memory.

AS: Really?

Y: Yes, when I fall like that.

AS: Friends plus.

Narrator: The decision to skate competitively for the last time was in the Torino Olympics.

AS: When I decided to end my amateur career at the end of my last season I had goals I had set for myself and I wanted to end with no regrets.
So at the start of the season I wanted to live everyday deliberately and with purpose. But in saying that, if you don’t have enough space in your life then you won’t be able to do what you need to do.
Still, it was a stoic time for me. But I remember that every day felt significant and important. It didn’t matter what I was doing, I remember trying to do everything to the best of my ability during that season.
When I think about it, the way I felt six months before my first Olympics and the way I approached my second Olympics in Torino, and the way I lived everyday was completely different.
I think everybody who is preparing for an Olympic run approaches it differently at the six months out mark.

Narrator: As he aims for his first Olympics, what is Hanyu thinking?

Y: It is kind of a subtle thing. There are two things that I am feeling simultaneously. I am really looking forward to it and I am also feeling quite anxious.
As it is my first time, I am really looking forward to it a lot. This season, as it is an Olympic season, which is a big event, makes me feel anxious.
So those two feelings are mixed together, but I have a good balance between them I think, but it is difficult to portray both of those things at the same time.
So it is subtle. (The Japanese often use this word to mean something kind of “in-between”.)

8:38

Narrator: This young boy, who started skating when he was 4 years old, always carried the Olympic dream in his heart.

AS: You were born in 1994, right?

Y: Yes:

As: So I guess the first Olympics that you were really aware of when you were watching were the Salt Lake City Olympics?

Y: Yes, that’s right.

AS: When did you start to really think that you would like to take part in the Olympics?

Y: At that time there was the Super Final, wasn’t there? There was a short program and a free program in the heats and then another free program.

AS: In the final the athletes had to do the free program.

Y: When I saw that I thought that I really wanted to take part in that. From then on that feeling stayed with me.
After watching the Salt Lake City games I really thought I definitely want to compete on that stage.
The Olympic stage is different from any other.
Now the number of performances is fewer than before but the weight of feeling that has to go into just those two programs is something that I felt very strongly, so I have been thinking since then that I definitely want to compete in the Olympics.

AS: In the run up to the Olympics what kind or feelings or things do you find fascinating?

Y: All of the athletes are putting four years of effort on the line.
They are actually putting their athletic life on the line. In other competitions, all of the athletes are always trying their best, but as for the Olympics, the weight of the event is much heavier.
I certainly get that feeling from the athletes around me.

AS: You are about half a year out from your first Olympics, what this is your number 1 goal in the Sochi games?

Y: Well, as for myself, I feel the Olympics like it is just another competition and that there is an Olympic season every 4 years.
The Olympics isn’t the only competition in the season and as it is just a competition I want to do my best in it.
However, on the other hand, the four years before the Olympics are all in preparation for the event and this is something I think about, too.
Especially, now in this season, it is getting closer and it feels important, like it is an important period of time so I want to spend that time carefully.
I don’t know when I will leave the sport; I don’t know when I could be injured so the Olympics are an event with a lot of drama.
I want to keep my spirit up, work methodically, train properly and clear the goals I have set.
If I do that and feel like I have done the best preparation possible for me, in the end, I don’t know how the actual performance will go, but I think I will probably think I have done enough.

AS: Now you are 18, you will be 19 when you take part in the Olympics. Most of the athletes, when they are in their teens they are just aiming to participate. How do you feel about it?
Where does it figure in the span of your skating career? Are you past the halfway point? Generally, how do you feel about it?

Y: I just want to give my all. I know this won’t be the end for me. It isn’t the end of my life either; I will be able to continue on.
The Olympics, the Sochi Olympics will only happen once, so I want to treasure the Sochi Olympics and compete with all my might.
For example, if I participate in the Peyongchan Olympics or even the one after that, in terms of age it would still be possible I don’t want to have any regrets.
I want the Sochi Olympics to be an event where I truly give my all. That is if I am selected for the team.

Narrator: The charm point of Hanyu Yuzuru’s skating.

AS: It is the way he gets people to see him. The way he is able to show himself and have people react to him is amazing, given his young age.
I think most people will gather around the fact that he jumps so well but even when I saw him when he was a small boy I thought that his spins were really good.
That's one of the strongest impressions I have of him as a skater.


16:54

Narrator: Things that cause Hanyu Yuzuru to shed tears.

Y: There are a lot of things that make me cry. I am a bit of a cry-baby. I cry if I am lonely, I cry if I am happy, I cry if I’m frustrated. I also cry if I feel moved.
For example, after the big disaster, I was invited to skate in a charity show in Kobe and lots of people stood up and clapped for me. That was very moving and even now that is an emotional memory for me.


Narrator: Before he begins his challenge for the Olympic games….

Y: I have a lot of questions I want to ask you.

AS: Really? You have questions?

Y: Is it ok to ask you?

AS: Yes, ask me anything.

Y: I have never competed in an Olympics, so I’m anxious about what kind of event it is. When I am practicing, I kind of have an awareness of the Olympics in my mind, that this is the Olympic season and I feel like I am being pulled into thinking about it.

AS: So you feel you are being forced to think about it too much?

Y: Yes. So I think that will make me tired. If even when I am practicing, I think too much about the Olympics what should I do?

AS: I made an effort not to think about it too much. I also tried to focus, at the beginning of the season, about when I wanted to peak.
Of course I wanted to peak at the Olympics but before that there are few other competitions that I needed to compete in.
Japanese Nationals for example, it was not a competition that I could not participate in so finding that balance was a really difficult thing.
I entered the season making an effort to push down feelings about the Olympics and I didn’t do well in some competitions.
I knew I had to be first or second to make it to the GP Finals and I was really nervous about that.
So even though I was desperately trying to fight to keep myself calm my feelings kind of got the better of me and I didn’t want to peak at the Japanese Nationals That was a real struggle within myself.
Maintaining that just under the peak performance through the season was really difficult. When I actually got to the Olympic competition then it was easy for me as I knew I just had to peak. But in t
he preparation to peak at just the right time was really difficult for me and it didn’t go so well. It is hard to control the pitch of things.

Y: What I find difficult is that the Japanese Nationals are really hard. Of course I have the feeling that I want to get to the Olympics but to do that I need to win Nationals.
Between the Nationals and the Olympics these is a gap of about 2 months and it isn’t possible to maintain peak condition for that long. I know I will definitely need to reduce the pitch of …

AS: Yes, the way to live through the season is really difficult. I have always thought so and it was particularly true in the Olympic season.
At that time, Mao-chan (Asada Mao) was just coming out and the juniors are moving up into senior competition.
Around September, the juniors start to prepare for the GP finals and in October and November they are just about ready.
I knew I was going to compete against them but I also knew I had to place well in terms of results and so I probably was trying too hard and kept thinking I need to calm down a bit.
That internal struggle of having to do well and of not peaking too early was tough. Also, the people around me had to react to my not so good competition results and deal with my mental condition.
And that was something that I became aware of and started to understand.
There are a lot of things that happen but you just need to stick to your plan and not panic when things do go exactly the way you want them to.

Y: The feeling of pushing down feelings to stay calm is always there, but I find that I just tend to try to keep doing my best all of the time and in the end I get injured.
When my general condition drops I get frustrated and think that I just need to practice even harder. So when I think about when I want to peak should I let my condition drop in between times?

AS: In the period before the season starts you should just let yourself go.
At the start of the season I was overweight when I started to practice and once the season started I dropped weight little by little in a controlled way and that made practice easier.
In the off time before the Olympic season I was quite chubby. It felt like I was practicing while carrying weights.
Even now when I think about how to control getting oneself into peak condition at the right times is really difficult.
That is the eternal problem all athletes need to work on. I would say though, after Nationals, you have about a month and a half when you can just let yourself go a little bit.
Just after the nationals there is time to relax a bit and then get ready to go again.

Y: I should try to “reset” after Nationals. I feel very privileged to have listened to your words.

23:02

Narrator: Moments that Hanyu Yuzuru feels are important.

Y: When I choose earphones. I really like looking at earphones and headphones, I think that is now the thing I really enjoy most. Also, now I am living in Canada.
My mother is there with me but my whole family isn’t together so we don’t have so many chances to meet.
So when we come back to Japan and all four of us can have dinner together, or lunch together, just eating together is something that I really enjoy.

Narrator: Where is the skate who was born in Sendai going next?

AS: So this is the end of your teen years and it will be a season in which you challenge for the Olympics, is there anything you want to do before you are out of your teens?

Y: Ehhhhh What would that be???? I never really think about what I want to do by a certain age.
I haven’t thought about what age I want to retire at or at what age I would like to turn pro I can’t really decide things like that when it comes to skating or I don’t want to think about it.

AS: What is your ultimate goal as a skater?

Y: As an athlete I want to keep giving my all to the very end. I don’t want to lose my passion for skating and my skating core and as long as I have that I want to keep skating.
So even though this will be the last Olympics of my teenage years I want to give my all, even if I get burnt out due to the effort, or even if I give an embarrassingly bad performance by falling, that will be ok.

AS: You think you will be ok with that. I think you will hate it if that happens.

Y: Even if I flub my steps….

AS: You sound like you want to make the challenge really difficult for yourself

Y: If I do that then even in the next Olympics I won’t regret not having made a big enough effort for this one. If I give my all in the Sochi Olympics I will learn many things.

AS: Without trying to protect yourself from the future you approach it like it is your only Olympics. I really want to see you doing your best. I am waiting to cheer for you and support you.

Y: I don’t yet know about the Olympics I just want to do what I can at this age.

AS: Now you are involved with a lot of things it is not your last year and not the season you need to feel protective of.

Y: I want to end the season with no regrets.

AS: Do your best, please.

Y: Yes.

25:57

Final message
Y: There are a lot of things going on in this season and a need to try even harder that I have been so far. But I know I will do my best from now on.
This means in each of the competitions, not just at the Olympics. I want to return in my performances all of the help and support that I have been given by the many people around me.
I really want to do my best. Please cheer for me from now on. Thank you very much.

Narrator: As he said himself, he has experienced the natural disaster, he knows that there are many things that still can do.
The Skater Hanyu Yuzuru, even under the weight of expectation from so many people he looks like he is enjoying himself.
With this big competition that only comes around once in four years, we can see that he has twinkles in his eyes.

AS : We didn’t really talk about so many things…

Y:I got to ask you the things I wanted to ask you so I am very satisfied.

As: Really?

Y: Yes.

The End

 

[channah]

Hi Yuzusan
Thanks for putting all of the parts of the interview together. I'll leave it to your expertise.

 

[Yuzusan]

Ok and I catch up the other link of dailymotion for the second video. Because Youku doesn't work in many countries, for example in France, it works rarely.

For the first video, at the end, i didn't understand what Hanyu said, and finally thanks to your translation I understood "Friends +"^^ Really, it is not evident to understand japanese accent ^^

 

[Esopian]

Thank you for your wonderful translations! That must've taken quite a while to translate, thank you again.

 

[cruzceleste]

Article about the video of Oda saying Yuzuru is a sadistic
Translation http://yuzuristxoxo.tumblr.com/post/86024505746/s-nobunari-oda-says
Article http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/8832976/

Oda says that Hanyu has an opposite side of the prince-like character he has. “Hanyu-kun is a little sadistic,” he says, “I’m more like a masochist , so we have great chemistry together. We have an interesting fun talk.” He didn’t tell any episodes of Hanyu’s sadism, but followed with “But he’s a gentleman to girls.

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Wonder why Oda think Yuzuru is sadistic?

 

[Maria Victoria]

悔い
This is the rest if the interview:
Part 2 of the Continuation of the interview between Arakawa Shizuka and Yuzuru Hanyu
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTg5NjcyNDMy.html?from=y1.2-1-98.3.9-1.1-1-1-8
35mins00secs~

Thanks so much channah! We are so blessed in this thread to be beneficiaries of your hard work. That was a great interview by an Olympic gold medalist with a young skater wanting to follow her footsteps so kudos also to yuzusan for the translation request.

I like how Shizuka puts her finger on what makes Yuzuru's skating so special (its "charm"): "It is the way he gets people to see him. The way he is able to show himself and have people react to him is amazing, given his young age." So true!

And the description of Yuzuru as having "twinkles in his eyes" and "enjoying himself" despite the weight of expectations in competing in the Olympics I think indicates the key to his success.

In retrospect, there are also things in the interview that are striking, most notably Yuzuru saying that "even though [the Sochi Olympics] will be the last Olympics of my teenage years I want to give my all, even if I get burnt out due to the effort, or even if I give an embarrassingly bad performance by falling, that will be ok." As we all know, he did fall (twice), but he fought and gave it his all until the very end. And that was enough to win him the Olympic gold medal.

 

[Hanmgse]

Woow channah you are so amazing thank you for your hard work ^^. Also thanks Yuzusan for posting all the interview together

 

[echotpe]

According a view rates ranking of commercials in Japan, Yuzu occupied the top 8 today.
http://www.bb-navi.com/cm-douga/index_ranking.html

Click the rank links, we can recall the videos that might have watched hundred times.


@channah,
Thank your great patience in translation work!

I always keep thinking one of greatest contributions that S. Arakawa made to Japan (even more to world) figure skating should be her speaking in press conference after gold medal in Torino Olympics.

She mentioned the close of Sendai ice rink had resulted in difficulty for young skaters practice locally. Thus, Sendai government and enterprises would work together to raise fund for reopen the ice rink. And as we know, Yuzu had a chance to continue his amazing journey.

Thank you, Ms. Arakawa!

 

[cruzceleste]

According a view rates ranking of commercials in Japan, Yuzu occupied the top 8 today.
http://www.bb-navi.com/cm-douga/index_ranking.html

Click the rank links, we can recall the videos that might have watched hundred times.

Come on other sponsors, the kid is a magnet, get in there.

I want him to be sponsor by:
Nissan--- he can´t drive in Japan, but he can in Canada
Nestlé--- Chocolate
Sony- earphones
PSP- GAMES
Puma/ Adidas/ Under Armor--- clothes
COca Cola/ Powerade--- since he can´t drink colas

 

[Hanmgse]

Come on other sponsors, the kid is a magnet, get in there.

I want him to be sponsor by:
Nissan--- he can´t drive in Japan, but he can in Canada
Nestlé--- Chocolate
Sony- earphones
PSP- GAMES
Puma/ Adidas/ Under Armor--- clothes
COca Cola/ Powerade--- since he can´t drink colas

maybe also an advertisement about soup, o a skin product ^^. My favorite would be the earphones one hahaha

 

[foruiz]

maybe also an advertisement about soup, o a skin product ^^. My favorite would be the earphones one hahaha

Shu Uemura or Shiseido for their skin line!!!