- Joined
- Dec 15, 2014
After I read your post, I wanted to do something and I finally had some time this morning to work on some translations.
Lots of thoughts come to my mind as I watch this after his retirement. I think most parts come from the interview held in the beginning of the season, and the one in a hotel room was held 14/12 just after GPF. Japanese medias are so so over the top but somehow it kinda works well with Tatsuki.
---
Fuji TV feature before the Nats
Lady: Now, the National Figure Skating Championships is approaching. Today, we start from the feature on this event.
Man1: Tonight, we features Tatsuki Machida, the philosopher on ice.
Telop: The art named Tatsuki Machida shown at the supreme stage.
Man1: We've probed into his creation and its secret.
Telop: 6th at GPF
Man2: A night has passed after the thrashing at GPF.
Telop: Barcelona 14/12.
Man2: Looking at the Mediterranean, Machida made his declaration.
Tatsuki: People may say I was thrashed yesterday. But it never was so in my mind. It was just one event during the course toward the Nationals, the supreme stage.
Telop: Never was thrashed. A process on the way to the Nationals.
Man2: He aims for another masterpiece.
Telop: "The way I live" - Tatsuki Machida, 24 years old.
Man2: Tonight, Machida himself will reveal his strategy.
Tatsuki: There are many skaters who are better at jumps than me, there are many who are better at spins, and many who are better at steps. I do not have a technique or anything that I can claim as the best in the World, sadly.
Man2: The world top class skaters have their own technique that can overwhelm the others.
Telop: Silver at the World Championships 2014.
Man2: But Machida, who became the silver medalist at the Worlds, told us that he does not have such skill.
Telop: "I don't have the best technique in the world."
Man2: So, what is the weapon of this man?
Telop: What is the weapon of Tatsuki Machida…?
Tatsuki: My strength is, perhaps, that each performance has a clear concept and is filled with emotions. My works widen, or go beyond the idea of figure skating program.
Telop: A work that surpasses the idea of future skating.
Tatsuki: I compose my programs paying attention to how the audiences can get the best angle to watch it.
Man2: He always thinks about the audiences and sublimates a program into an art.
Telop: The way of Tatsuki Machida: Sublimate a program into an "art".
Man2: That is the strategy of Tatsuki Machida.
Telop: Short program: "Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra"
Man2: This season, Machida is to create another work of art. Inheriting the last year's masterpiece "The East of Eden", he created a new work with confidence.
Tatsuki: Tragic love is one of the theme. This program succeeds to the composition of "The East of Eden", so this is going to be a very dramatic piece. So far, I believe it is a piece engaging to everyone.
Telop: The music for FP is one that he has dreamed to perform.
Man2: The music for FP is Symphony No.9 by Beethoven which he has dreamed to perform.
Telop: Beethoven Symphony No.9
Tatsuki: These are the very words which I can give to myself who have sincerely worked on figure skating for 21 years: Symphiny No.9, I am the only one who can skate to this music.
Telop: Only I can do Symphony No.9.
Tatsuki: Really, this work is crammed with all the ideal visions of figure skating which I've been seeking for.
Telop: Culmination of Tatsuki Machida
Man2: This is exactly the culminating work of Tatsuki Machida. With such determination, his commitments to the work is out of ordinary. Even just in jumps, it is apparent.
Tatsuki: In this program, every placement of jumps, like layouts and the kinds of jumps, really has a meaning. Not just layouts but each kind of jumps are placed according to its meaning. Hmm, rather than squeezing a jump in to the second half, which doesn't go well with the music, I would reduce a jump to keep the world of the music. Well, it is something done by compromise as an athlete though. But I do not compromise as a figure skater at all.
Telop: Do not compromise as a figure skater at all.
Tatsuki: Above all, jumps are there for a program. It's not that a program is made for jumps. Jumps are there for the emotions I'd like to express.
Man2: Symphony No.9 crammed with outstanding thoughts. However, in GPF, while Hanyu winning his second title, Machida was unexpectedly defeated. The pieces are yet to be completed.
Tatsuki: People may say I was thrashed yesterday. But it never was so in my mind.
Telop: Never was thrashed.
Tatsuki: It was just one event during the course toward the Nationals, the supreme stage.
Tatsuki: As soon as a tiny gear, just tiny like this, engages somewhere, then everything will start to move grandly. That's the image I have.
Man2: That moment when the gear engages, we will see Symphony No.9 which Machida seeks for.
Telop: Symphony No.9 will be completed.
Tatsuki: I want to have a fierce competition like the last Worlds, and I think Hanyu is waiting for that, too. He's got such character.
Man2: At the supreme stage, where the strongest man waits, his best performance is to be shown. The curtain will rise at the Machida theater in two days.
I didn't translate the last part in which people are discussing at the studio as they just repeated what was said.
Last edited:
The highlighted bits makes it sound like he was actually planning to go to Worlds at that time... or was he talking about Nationals?
