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Yuzuru Hanyu: 2014-15 Season

Maria Victoria said:
I do want a translation as I don't think I have ever read any Dutch FS commentary. But after your wisdom tooth extraction which I hope goes well for you. Thanks.
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Tooth wasn't extracted so much as surgically removed in a thousand pieces, I think, *LOL*. But I'm happy on the Good painkillers, so right now I'm okay.

Will work on the translations later today, I hope.
 
leolion11 said:
Actually, I would like to see him make an acceptance speech video
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I want to thank God and my parents and all my friends and I really do want world peace............ woops, mixing up the Oscars and Miss Congeniality again :biggrin: my bad



ysy94 said:
Look closer, this poll not only for young women, it has the participation of 40s women. 47-year-old women said that she want to teach Yuzu some technique
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:laugh: I can't be the only one who remembers this from some news report after one of the ice shows:
SuzushinaYuriko said:
Some of the fan comments I heard were:

"Yuzuru-kun is my lover ♥. Just kidding." (from an old lady, haha)
"Isn't he cute~" (from another old lady!!)
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Winnie_20 said:
Tooth wasn't extracted so much as surgically removed in a thousand pieces, I think, *LOL*. But I'm happy on the Good painkillers, so right now I'm okay.

Will work on the translations later today, I hope.
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Been there, look at te bright side, you´ll loose weight...
 
cruzceleste said:
Been there, look at te bright side, you´ll loose weight...
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While that's not a bad thing during Christmas-time, I could think of a much nicer way to do that... what was that conversation about stamina again?
*smiles sweetly*

Okay, 'nuff work for the Friday, time for some translation work!
 
cruzceleste said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgxAYN_B-WU#t=304 Red hat scene in a fan cam
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That's awesome, I'm glad someone caught it on video.
It totally freaked me out to hear my own voice on there, though. Whoever recorded it must've been sitting really close to me. Yikes.
Reminds me that I have a bunch of videos, too, but I haven't even properly looked at them yet. Nowhere near as good as this stuff, I'm sure. ;-)


Anyway, as promised, SP with Dutch commentary version 1. I forgot who the guy is, so I just called him g for guy (*grin*).


g: So we’re starting with the Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu, who made the GPF by the bare minimum (scraped through), but nobody doubts his qualities as figure skater. The only one who ever scored in the 100s, 101.45 at the Olympics, then you’re not putting a single foot wrong. It’ll be very strange if we’re going to see that level today, but what would it be good for the competition and for Yuzuru Hanyu if he showed here that he’s completely back. Last year, not the exact same scenario, but then he let himself be caught off guard twice during the regular GP, but when it really mattered, he was there and won the GPF in Fukuoka, and finally that would result in a terrific season with the Olympic and the world title; a season cannot get much better than that. And he’s starting here first with his short program. Let’s hope we can catch some glimpses of the Hanyu of last season. Five days ago he turned twenty.

K, [I think Karen Venhuizen, she’s a former singles skater, 9-time Dutch champion] We are of course curious to see how he has recovered from all the pain [‘leed’] and injuries, concussions [yes, plural! Pretty sure he didn’t even have 1], let’s see how he’s going to fare. He opens with a 4T, at least that was planned, yes! Flawless, combination spin with foot change, flying camel spin. He’s going for the difficult triple axel and the combination in the second half of the program what will give him a lot of bonus points. Triple axel, yes, without any problem. Ho! Triple lutz, triple toeloop, you could already see with the triple lutz that he wasn’t standing correctly. He thought, I’m still going for it, the toe loop, but no. Step sequence, lots of speed, deep edges.

G: Well, that’s a bit of the Hanyu like we [saw] him the last season, or rather the last couple of seasons, since he’s been a Senior, and in spite of the fall, K, I did notice that by the earlier competitions he opened all the jumps, quads became triples, triples doubles, and look at that technical score, and the fact that he still went for it in spite of the fact that the triple lutz was not ideal.
K: He’s totally happy, in spite of the fall, I think. He also looked different than at the two GPs, like “Guys, I’m back.” And those quad toeloop and triple axel, those were by the book, and I already had a sense of “this isn’t going to go well” with the lutz, and when I saw the take-off, I thought “No.” And still attempting that second triple.
G: Yes, nice. He’s completely back, and saves his for the moment best performance for the so far most important competition of the season. Last year the road to the GPF was a lot better, losing to Patrick Chan in the GP can happen to the best of us, he put things right [stelde orde op zaken] in Fukuoka. It’s getting a bit ahead of the game to say that this is the best SP of this competition, but it will certainly have a large role to play.
K: Yeah, he won’t be placed sixth anymore.
G: Absolutely.
K: He did make a big mistake, so you never know, if the others go clean.
G; but 51 points in the technical score alone, that is---
K: Yeah, you have to wonder how he got those together with a fall. +3 in the quad—
G: that must be it, right? Yeah, the [technical] score will undoubtedly be lowered.
K: surely.
G: here we see it. [the fall]
K: he doesn’t land correctly on his foot.
G: it was round, so he won’t get a deduction for that.
K: I think he had to smile.
G: The confidence was there to jump, even though the first jump wasn’t straight. Yes, nice.
K: yes, he seems to be feeling better again.
G: that is pretty impressive, because he hasn’t had that much time since Osaka, two weeks. The fact he even started in Osaka was extremely “dubious” [dubious, strange choice of words, this, in Dutch, it indicates that the speaker thinks the situation wasn’t entirely correct, in the sense of suspect, instead of, what I’m guessing/hoping the speaker meant, “twijfelachtig” that he felt it was doubtful whether he would be capable of starting due to his health]. If we may believe the interviews, Orser let Hanyu decide whether or not he’d start. And those 51 points are still in the screen, after all, and we’ll already get to see a ‘fat’ 90s mark on the scoring board. Nice, well, Fernandez will probably be annoyed, although they are training buddies, and he’ll probably prefer winning from a good Hanyu than a Hanyu who had completely lost his way. But it’s also quite good (impressive) when you can show such mental strength to bounce back, because it really was awfully bad what we’ve seen of him in the two competitions. Well, the points indeed remain and 94.08 is indeed, in spite of the fall, the highest score we’ve seen so far [from Hanyu this season, I’m guessing he meant]. Yeah, he’s totally back, the mannerisms [???], the confidence, and it’ll be a terrific FS competition tomorrow.


I think it's safe to say the Dutch commentators aren't the biggest Yuzuru Hanyu fans in the world... They're usually more European-focused. :scowl:
 
Winnie_20 said:
That's awesome, I'm glad someone caught it on video.
It totally freaked me out to hear my own voice on there, though. Whoever recorded it must've been sitting really close to me. Yikes.
Reminds me that I have a bunch of videos, too, but I haven't even properly looked at them yet. Nowhere near as good as this stuff, I'm sure. ;-)


Anyway, as promised, SP with Dutch commentary version 1. I forgot who the guy is, so I just called him g for guy (*grin*).


g: So we’re starting with the Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu, who made the GPF by the bare minimum (scraped through), but nobody doubts his qualities as figure skater. The only one who ever scored in the 100s, 101.45 at the Olympics, then you’re not putting a single foot wrong. It’ll be very strange if we’re going to see that level today, but what would it be good for the competition and for Yuzuru Hanyu if he showed here that he’s completely back. Last year, not the exact same scenario, but then he let himself be caught off guard twice during the regular GP, but when it really mattered, he was there and won the GPF in Fukuoka, and finally that would result in a terrific season with the Olympic and the world title; a season cannot get much better than that. And he’s starting here first with his short program. Let’s hope we can catch some glimpses of the Hanyu of last season. Five days ago he turned twenty.

K, [I think Karen Venhuizen, she’s a former singles skater, 9-time Dutch champion] We are of course curious to see how he has recovered from all the pain [‘leed’] and injuries, concussions [yes, plural! Pretty sure he didn’t even have 1], let’s see how he’s going to fare. He opens with a 4T, at least that was planned, yes! Flawless, combination spin with foot change, flying camel spin. He’s going for the difficult triple axel and the combination in the second half of the program what will give him a lot of bonus points. Triple axel, yes, without any problem. Ho! Triple lutz, triple toeloop, you could already see with the triple lutz that he wasn’t standing correctly. He thought, I’m still going for it, the toe loop, but no. Step sequence, lots of speed, deep edges.

G: Well, that’s a bit of the Hanyu like we [saw] him the last season, or rather the last couple of seasons, since he’s been a Senior, and in spite of the fall, K, I did notice that by the earlier competitions he opened all the jumps, quads became triples, triples doubles, and look at that technical score, and the fact that he still went for it in spite of the fact that the triple lutz was not ideal.
K: He’s totally happy, in spite of the fall, I think. He also looked different than at the two GPs, like “Guys, I’m back.” And those quad toeloop and triple axel, those were by the book, and I already had a sense of “this isn’t going to go well” with the lutz, and when I saw the take-off, I thought “No.” And still attempting that second triple.
G: Yes, nice. He’s completely back, and saves his for the moment best performance for the so far most important competition of the season. Last year the road to the GPF was a lot better, losing to Patrick Chan in the GP can happen to the best of us, he put things right [stelde orde op zaken] in Fukuoka. It’s getting a bit ahead of the game to say that this is the best SP of this competition, but it will certainly have a large role to play.
K: Yeah, he won’t be placed sixth anymore.
G: Absolutely.
K: He did make a big mistake, so you never know, if the others go clean.
G; but 51 points in the technical score alone, that is---
K: Yeah, you have to wonder how he got those together with a fall. +3 in the quad—
G: that must be it, right? Yeah, the [technical] score will undoubtedly be lowered.
K: surely.
G: here we see it. [the fall]
K: he doesn’t land correctly on his foot.
G: it was round, so he won’t get a deduction for that.
K: I think he had to smile.
G: The confidence was there to jump, even though the first jump wasn’t straight. Yes, nice.
K: yes, he seems to be feeling better again.
G: that is pretty impressive, because he hasn’t had that much time since Osaka, two weeks. The fact he even started in Osaka was extremely “dubious” [dubious, strange choice of words, this, in Dutch, it indicates that the speaker thinks the situation wasn’t entirely correct, in the sense of suspect, instead of, what I’m guessing/hoping the speaker meant, “twijfelachtig” that he felt it was doubtful whether he would be capable of starting due to his health]. If we may believe the interviews, Orser let Hanyu decide whether or not he’d start. And those 51 points are still in the screen, after all, and we’ll already get to see a ‘fat’ 90s mark on the scoring board. Nice, well, Fernandez will probably be annoyed, although they are training buddies, and he’ll probably prefer winning from a good Hanyu than a Hanyu who had completely lost his way. But it’s also quite good (impressive) when you can show such mental strength to bounce back, because it really was awfully bad what we’ve seen of him in the two competitions. Well, the points indeed remain and 94.08 is indeed, in spite of the fall, the highest score we’ve seen so far [from Hanyu this season, I’m guessing he meant]. Yeah, he’s totally back, the mannerisms [???], the confidence, and it’ll be a terrific FS competition tomorrow.


I think it's safe to say the Dutch commentators aren't the biggest Yuzuru Hanyu fans in the world... They're usually more European-focused. :scowl:
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Thanks Winnie for the translation. May I ask how many languages do you speak? English, Spanish, Dutch, and what else? I am amazed.

Gosh I wish I knew a second foreign language (on top of English) just for the sake to be a Yuzu fan. I took Japanese for one semester in my senior year in college (long time ago), then was sent to some internship program, so I barely learned anything. Btw, we were offered Russian too, but all my fellow students quit after the second week coz it was toooooo darn hard!
 
sonora said:
Thanks Winnie for the translation. May I ask how many languages do you speak? English, Spanish, Dutch, and what else? I am amazed.
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Dutch is my native language. In the Netherlands, a lot of attention is given to teaching/learning foreign languages, because our own language is so useless outside the country, and since the country is so small, you're outside it very easily. (and we have a long history of international trading, so it was always important to be able to speak different languages) :laugh:

There is a big difference between speaking and understanding a language, though. I am fluent in Dutch and English, speak/write French and German (not as fluent as it used to be, even though I live only a few kilometers away from Germany and go there regularly), and can understand written Spanish, Catalan, Italian, ancient Greek and Latin... and on a good day, I can understand some modern Greek and a couple of Scandinavian languages, but only if they speak very slowly; written is easier. My Japanese, alas, only consists of a few standard words and phrases and whatever I picked up from videogames. :ohwell:


SP version 2, these people clearly didn't feel like talking through the program itself. I think they're Jeroen Prins (he's also an ISU judge/referee and former skater) and Haya Leenards (not sure if she ever skated, probably).

H: Here we see Yuzuru Hanyu, starting first! He had to skate the SP first, because the Olympic champion kind of failed at the two GPs he skated at, not in good form, barely managed to qualify (hakken over de sloot), managed to qualify as sixth for this GPF, actually I’d have preferred to see that differently, I felt a bit sorry for him in the NHK Trophy where he ended as the third Japanese skater, in his own GP, I thought, Well, it will be difficult for him to start here 1.5 weeks after that disastrous NHK, but he is here [note how she never even mentions his collision, the reason for all the problems! Pffft]. We’re going to watch what he’s managed to do in those 1.5 weeks.
J: opens with a quad toeloop. Triple axel. Combo triple luts, triple toeloop, but there it goes wrong. It makes him laugh.
Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu, with a mistake in the combination, but he is back again, gorgeous quad toeloop, beautiful trple axel, but especially that program {kur] , so well timed to the music, with all those difficult transitions, extraordinarily beautiful (fraai).
H: Yes, for him it is, at least, a victory to at least land that quad toeloop, because that totally didn’t work for him anymore, and he knows that the combo lutz-toeloop, well, that’ll work out another time again, he really did have to laugh about it, like you said, he has refound himself.
J: at that final jump element, it was already less important because the large two jumps, the quad and the triple axel had already been completed, but still, some points he wasted there, also one for the fall, but it didn’t really have an impact on the performance of the program, not like in Japan where he skated so [badly] (“miserabel”, in the sense of almost catastrophically bad). There is the quad toeloop. Gorgeous.
H: Beautiful, isn’t it? Beautifully landed.
J: Yeah, what a landing. In training he jumps three quad toeloops after another. [cue me ??? ]
H: Really?
J: Yes, I have seen clips (I think he says clips, as in recordings)
H: in combination?!
J: it’s unbelievable, yes, in combination--
H: *three* jumps?!
J: three after another.
Triple axel and then a transition, he immediately steps into the spread eagle. Here he couldn’t properly take off from the triple lutz, it’s a miracle he landed that, but he couldn’t hold the toeloop which he already entered entirely askew (lopsided?). Probably any other skater would’ve already fallen at the lutz. Hanyu’s spins and footwork as always impressive.
 
:bow::bow:
Winnie_20 said:
Dutch is my native language. In the Netherlands, a lot of attention is given to teaching/learning foreign languages, because our own language is so useless outside the country, and since the country is so small, you're outside it very easily. (and we have a long history of international trading, so it was always important to be able to speak different languages) :laugh:

There is a big difference between speaking and understanding a language, though. I am fluent in Dutch and English, speak/write French and German (not as fluent as it used to be, even though I live only a few kilometers away from Germany and go there regularly), and can understand written Spanish, Catalan, Italian, ancient Greek and Latin... and on a good day, I can understand some modern Greek and a couple of Scandinavian languages, but only if they speak very slowly; written is easier. My Japanese, alas, only consists of a few standard words and phrases and whatever I picked up from videogames. :ohwell:

:bow:
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Winnie_20 said:
J: Yeah, what a landing. In training he jumps three quad toeloops after another. [cue me ??? ]
H: Really?
J: Yes, I have seen clips (I think he says clips, as in recordings)
H: in combination?!
J: it’s unbelievable, yes, in combination--
H: *three* jumps?!
J: three after another.
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This is insane...what he is capable of is beyond imagination. Anyone has posted these clips?
 
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