Yuzuru Hanyu: 2013-14 Season

msteach3 said:

Wow the documentary is so much more enjoyable when you know what they are saying! Thanks a second time zydeco88 for sharing.

Has anyone seen or read an interview with Yuzu after his skate in Canada? One in which he talks about how he was feeling, thoughts on the program, etc.?

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msteach3 said:

Have there been any interviews with Yuzu after the competition? I haven't seen any in the English press. Are there any Japanese fans that can share what has been printed in Japanese media?

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SuzyQ said:

..... it was a bit shock for him that his toe jump became "panku" (meaning flat tire in Japanese, and Japanese skaters call jumps released in the air. I don't know what it is called in English.

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zydeco88 said:

SuzyQ, "panku" in Japanese figure skating vocabulary refers to when a skater forsakes their rotational position mid-air which causes them to make fewer rotations than desired. The English equivalent of the word is "to pop a jump".

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gardenernaga said:

Yesterday's documentary: "What Yuzuru learned from Patrick at Skate Canada"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmvdCU_OcNI

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Adeliza said:

I was veeeery impressed about Yuzuru's skating in TEB! His SP was great, no mistakes whatsoever (personally I thought it was a bit unfair from the judges to give him less points than Patrick, since I thought their performances were equal this time - no offence to Patrick, who was magnificent in TEB). And the FS - he made his SB even though he failed miserably the opening 4S and fell the 4T, and that's quite something.

A lot of people in this thread have been talking about Yuzuru's mental strength, and in my opinion his FS showed that he has loads and loads of that - it seems to me that nowadays he's more determined, sometimes in the past he has seemed to give up after failing the first jumps, at least when it comes to performing and the artistic level. This time was different, and I was very proud of him, although he was probably not very happy himself. Good luck to the GPF! :agree:

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Poice said:

Can't wait to see his exhibition program (again Étude in D minor, op. 8 no. 12?)

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Poice said:

(again Étude in D minor, op. 8 no. 12?)

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zydeco88 said:

Yes. Here's the line-up.
http://distilleryimage6.ak.instagram.com/cef11e924f8711e3928a0e05f3709127_8.jpg

https://twitter.com/figureskate5ch/status/401990932851347456
He might go for a quad in the gala exhibition. He said this jokingly, but I think he's looking to get even with his failed quad attempts in the FS.

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Adeliza said:

I was veeeery impressed about Yuzuru's skating in TEB! His SP was great, no mistakes whatsoever (personally I thought it was a bit unfair from the judges to give him less points than Patrick, since I thought their performances were equal this time - no offence to Patrick, who was magnificent in TEB). And the FS - he made his SB even though he failed miserably the opening 4S and fell the 4T, and that's quite something.

A lot of people in this thread have been talking about Yuzuru's mental strength, and in my opinion his FS showed that he has loads and loads of that - it seems to me that nowadays he's more determined, sometimes in the past he has seemed to give up after failing the first jumps, at least when it comes to performing and the artistic level. This time was different, and I was very proud of him, although he was probably not very happy himself. Good luck to the GPF! :agree:

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phaeljones said:

So bang on!!!!!!!


Yuzu does have a mental toughness and tenacity that many people underestimate.

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gardenernaga said:

Yesterday's documentary: "What Yuzuru learned from Patrick at Skate Canada"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmvdCU_OcNI

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04:09
Interviewer: Are you concerned about Patrick Chan?
Yuzuru: In order to qualify for the Grand Prix Final, I have to win once against him might and main.

04:27
Patrick: Yuzuru of course is able to do a lot of quads, quad sal and quad toe very easily. He has a lot of spring. He's very small and skinny, so he can rotate very fast..
Orser: Really, the main thing is that it's the Olympic season and it's the first competition and I think all the gentlemen... he was nervous as all the gentlemen were...

(Video showing the comparison between Yuzuru and Patrick's quads during the free-skate 6-min warm-up and the actual performance. Yuzuru landed his quad in the 6-min warm-up while Patrick Chan did not. But when it mattered the most, the opposite happened.)

07:05 - Post-Competition
Yuzuru: Listening to Patrick's comments at the press conference, a lot of things really hit home. In any case, I'd like to embrace everything and do my best.

(Narrator: Hanyu landed a great find from Patrick's comments at the post-competition press conference)
07:27
Patrick: I really treated the competition as much as I could the practice, you know, at home I have a 35-minute break between some of my sessions, so I was like "Oh, perfect, it's the same thing as my 6-minute warm-up and then 35 minutes to the long.

(Narrator: There's about a 35-min interval from the 6-min warm-up to the final skate. In his daily practices, Chan makes sure that he routinely keeps that time interval in mind and as much as possible, accustoms himself to doing something that relaxes his mind in the interim.)
(There's another thing Hanyu learned from Patrick's comments [wrt to quads]. Both Hanyu and Chan incorporated two quads in their free programs)

08:31
Patrick Chan: The best in training, when I'm in Detroit, I do a long program run-through, and do the first quad, most of the time the second quad, and the rest of the program unfolds quite well

08:44
Yuzuru: Ultimately, he, irregardless of what has happened to the first quad toe, always goes for the second one. Without throwing the relationship [between the two elements] off balance, at all times, he relaxes and frees himself of the tension and it allows him to nail everything down. He's been doing that kind of practice, and it really got me thinking "Oh, I see, those things are indeed important."

(Narration: Even if he [Patrick] falls during practices, his routine remains unperturbed, and he carries on with his performance. In other words, he trains while being subjected to the same situation as the actual competition where mistakes are irreversible. On the other hand, Hanyu...)
09:27
Yuzuru: In practices, if I miss the opening quad sal, most of the time I start all over again from the beginning until the two quads are brought together. I didn't really take into account the situation in which I miss the quad sal and have to carry on with my performance.

(Narrator: Looking at Hanyu's practice, when he falls on the opening quad salchow, he aborts his performance as it is. In other words, even though he does practices in which he succeeds on landing both quads in succession, he doesn't plan on how to recover from an unsuccessful attempt on the first quad)

10:23
Yuzuru: By competing against Patrick, I was able to strongly sense the good things about him. It makes me realize whether I'm making any progress or not. I'd like to set my objective higher and higher. Even if it's difficult or tough, I'd like to keep on aiming for greater heights.

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Male single skater, Yuzuru Hanyu, the only Japanese athlete competing at Trophée Eric Bompard, the fifth event in the GP series of Figure Skating, was present at the official practice held in Paris, on November 14, a day before the curtain is raised on the competition, and spoke enthusiastically of the event which, provided that he finishes second or higher, will ascertain his advancement to the Final (held in December, Fukuoka), "I'm in good shape. I'd like to properly show the accumulation of practices I've been working so hard for. I'm just gonna go out there and be confident."

With regards to the huge point-getter, quad jumps, his toe-loops were mostly perfect, however, he kept on missing the rotation on quad salchows and did not have any success with them. Nevertheless, his response towards what had been his subject of concern at the second GP event, Skate Canada where he came in second, was "For the most part, it's no longer an issue. I'm not concerned." He said that with a cheerful expression on his face.

World-reigning champion, Patrick Chan, who dominated in the second event and the winner of the third event, Han Yan landed their quad toes like it was a walk in the park and were in good form. In the face of a competition abound with formidable competitors, he heightened his concentration and commented, "I'd like to do things in my own way."

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4T was fully rotated, landed a bit off balance, but he held on. 3A and 3Lz-3T were clean. Immediately after that, he successfully and beautifully landed 4T. Compared to his 4T at SC, it was clearly more stable. He rounded up his practice a bit earlier and exchanged a firm handshake with Orser.

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Hanyu LP practice 3S, 4, 1A, 1A, 3+3T, 3T+2Trippon, 4T

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Hanyu SP practice 3Lz+3T, 2A, 2T, 4T, 4T not clean, 3A, 3Lz+3T

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Yuzuru Hanyu: "I don't think about breaking records. I'm not thinking about Sochi Olympics. I just want to try and do what I do every day in the rink"

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Hanyu LP practice A, 4S, 4S, 4T, 3A+3T, A, 3F+1Lo+3S, 1Lz

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15 minutes into the official practice, he succeeded on his first 4T attempt, immediately after which he succeeded on landing his first 4S! Not only that, when his music was playing, he beautifully landed another 4T and 4S! He popped his Axel and Lutz but once the music ended, he rectified those mistakes right away.

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Yuzuru Hanyu: "There was a little bit too much strength and power in my body. I was thinking about the quad miss too much, so the toeloop didn’t go so well. But after that, it was a nice performance."

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