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Yuzuru Hanyu: 2014-15 Season

Anyway, I am from Hong Kong but I study in England and a lot of less-acceptable-to-English-people Chinese food isn't available here either. Actually only such a small fraction is, even though there's a bustling Chinatown. So sad. :(

I feel for you. I am Cantonese, and there is no Chinatown near where I live. Every time we fly back to China, we connect our flight in Japan and land in HK, then we eat and eat...then catch the train to go back home.:)
 
All this talk about raw eggs... I will eat anything if it's been proven that other people can eat it, too; a very useful mindset when you are eating at traditional ryokans and other restaurants in Japan without English language menus.
I dare say more than half of what I was offered, I didn't know what it was.
That said, there was only one single thing I could not force myself to finish eating. Yeah, you guessed it. :-P If it had been heated somehow, maybe... But cold and raw? No. Just no.
The rice by itself, however, well, let's just say I should have been born in Japan. It's to die for. I still smile at Yuzuru's comment about crying when he was offered bread at breakfast. Poor guy. ;-)
 
I love natto. My daughter (Japanese/Scandinavian) loves natto too. When we visited Japan, we had natto every morning on rice.

Eggs taste different in Japan. I think they are much "cleaner" than what we get in the US (salmonella, anyone?).

Its a texture thing I think. Japanese people generally really enjoy that kind of texture but I'm not fond of the slimy texture....like natto. :hopelessness: But everything else I love :love:
 
Easy to see that someday Yuzuru may choose to write choreography. Would be very interesting to see.

:eek: I've never even considered what he'll do after he retires as a skater...now that I think about it, he could make a really good coach as well! ^^
 
:eek: I've never even considered what he'll do after he retires as a skater...now that I think about it, he could make a really good coach as well! ^^

Knowing the type of person he is, he'll succeed at whatever he decides to do after retirement... In fact, I believe he would've succeeded at whatever he decided to do even if he didn't get into figure skating...
 
I apologize for the long post but this thread moves so fast! o_o!

CBC interview with Yuzuru and Orser. Bravo Yuzu keep practicing, your English is getting better :clap:

I'm always surprised by how good his English is because he's so afraid to speak it. he's got a heavy accent, sure, but he's really good with the sentences! I also LOVED Orsers 'he just had time to do some old fashioned training' and then the shrug and sassy face. If Yuzu has time to train he can do wonders, Orser knows that!

It must be so frustrating for a talker like Hanyu to have to work with a small vocabulary in English. I can feel the effort he is making to get the words out.
My English tone is much lower than my Japanese tone. It's the opposite for him...maybe due to nervousness? Anyway, he is getting better. Machida surprises me with his good pronunciation whenever I hear him speak English.

I wonder is voices just go higher when speaking in a different language that you're not comfortable with. My voice sounds the same when I speak english or german - two languages I'm fluent in, but when I try Spanish or Japanese my voice goes higher. Like you said, I wonder if the nervousness makes voices go higher.

seems like noone posted this yet, yuzuru fs with cbc commentary
i loved everything they said , didnt know kurt has inner poet in him :laugh: said so many beautiful things

I love how the commentators are just gushing during his FS. They're either silent or they're saying wonderful things. Makes me very happy

NHK banquet. Thank you for the uploader. NHK broadcasted the special program at the weekend

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2d0ydj_n杯プレイバックよりバンケ_sport

Jumps/combinations that got the most points (base value+GOE) in the men's FS at the GPF.
1. Hanyu (3A-1Lo-3S)
2. Hanyu (3A-3T)
3. Mura (4T-3T)
4. Hanyu (4T)
5. Hanyu (4S)

:eek: He's just amazing!
 
We've missed the posting by nsaboten...thanks to both of you for posting this :agree:

Kurt Browning quotes:

"Jumps like that possibly are dropped from heaven and he is the right guy to catch it"

"He's got that Plushenko rockstar feeling etc where he can own a stadium..."

"...the thing that this kid got is the speed, the flow, the spin, and those jumps are ridiculous"

“On a personal level, he is a great kid, he is a good sportsman and a great representative of our sports”

“I don’t know how to try to explain how wonderful these jumps look to have the trajectory of a four revolution jump into the air perfectly. The right amount of height for the right amount of distance so that your body comes down like a float plane onto a smooth lake and no flow is lost. And I can’t get over how calm his upper body is when he jumps and lands”

“There is something so whimsical about the way he turns four revolution in the air….”

“And I don’t even mind hearing the Phantom of Opera again…” :laugh2:


Brenda quotes:

"You know, there are good skaters, there are great skaters, and then there is Yuzuru Hanyu who is on the whole other level"

“He is actually almost perfectly design figure skating machine…I don’t think I’ve seen anybody so naturally gifted on the ice…””

“This boy is absolutely incredible..”

Quotable quotes indeed. :) I think the quotes attributed to Brenda Irving actually come from Carol Lane (she's the one with the English accent.) After Carol said that she hasn't seen anyone as naturally gifted on the ice as Yuzuru, she paused and said "maybe Patrick Chan," whereupon Kurt declared that Patrick is the "bigger skater."

Kurt of course is entitled to his opinion, but I think no one can dispute that Yuzuru has made great strides in the area where Patrick is the acknowledged benchmark (speed, skating skills). During the FS warm-up, Carol in fact noted Yuzuru's stroking and how effortlessly he can build up speed. Kudos to Yuzuru and Tracy Wilson, his coach in this department.

As it's a very busy time for me right now, I really appreciate this thread as a place to be updated on all things Yuzuru. Thanks to everyone for generously sharing links, translations, insights.
 
Never mind the inability to pronounce the L properly, which very evidently Yuzuru Hanyu hasn't gotten the hang of yet, either.

Oh yes, that pesky L! :biggrin: When I was in college I worked in a high end department store where many Japanese tourists came to shop. When I asked if they needed help they always answered, "No, just rooking." :laugh: They were the nicest, sweetest customers.

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They don't have fresh food in Canada? I apologize if I sound stupid or ignorant but I just figured you'd have to find at least one or two chickens in every country. (maybe we should stop with the Pooh Bears and get the poor guy a chicken of his own. Won't get any fresher than that.)

:rofl::rofl: I'm sure there are plenty of fresh chickens in Canada just like here in the US. As another poster pointed out, we are told eating raw egg is a no-no because of the bacteria present before cooking. We are warned not to eat any batter containing raw egg (cookies, cakes) due to the possibility of getting sick. I think this is why so many of us cringe when thinking of eating raw egg over rice. Yuck! :slink:
 
I think Kurt meant that Patrick is a physically bigger skater, not better. He was responding to Carol's comment that Yuzuru was a "perfectly designed figure skating machine" with "natural talent".

Agree with everyone that Yuzuru's skating skills have improved. I found Carol's comment interesting - "economy of movement" meaning that Yuzuru looks like he is not wasting energy. Brian said that when Yuzuru started with him, he expended a lot of energy, especially on jumping. Looks like Brian's intensive training/recovery plan for GPF was successful.


Quotable quotes indeed. :) I think the quotes attributed to Brenda Irving actually come from Carol Lane (she's the one with the English accent.) After Carol said that she hasn't seen anyone as naturally gifted on the ice as Yuzuru, she paused and said "maybe Patrick Chan," whereupon Kurt declared that Patrick is the "bigger skater."

Kurt of course is entitled to his opinion, but I think no one can dispute that Yuzuru has made great strides in the area where Patrick is the acknowledged benchmark (speed, skating skills). During the FS warm-up, Carol in fact noted Yuzuru's stroking and how effortlessly he can build up speed. Kudos to Yuzuru and Tracy Wilson, his coach in this department.

As it's a very busy time for me right now, I really appreciate this thread as a place to be updated on all things Yuzuru. Thanks to everyone for generously sharing links, translations, insights.
 
I think Kurt meant that Patrick is a physically bigger skater, not better. He was responding to Carol's comment that Yuzuru was a "perfectly designed figure skating machine" with "natural talent".

Agree with everyone that Yuzuru's skating skills have improved. I found Carol's comment interesting - "economy of movement" meaning that Yuzuru looks like he is not wasting energy. Brian said that when Yuzuru started with him, he expended a lot of energy, especially on jumping. Looks like Brian's intensive training/recovery plan for GPF was successful.
He has improved his skating skill indeed, proof is this fancam:
http://youtu.be/5kE6zmY-pvQ
The uploader also has Tatsuki and Javi's SP recorded from the same angle. We can see Yuzuru clearly has the biggest ice coverage, best speed and excellent lightness on his landing.
 
I think Kurt meant that Patrick is a physically bigger skater, not better.
Nope, he definitely meant Patrick is more well-rounded. :) It's not the first time he implies that. You can also hear him saying "oh, please" when Carol says Yuzuru is in the league of his own :biggrin: It's understandable. He's Canadian, he's a friend of Patrick(and Patrick has not retired) and, after all, he's human like the rest of us and has his own preferences. :biggrin:
 
Nope, he definitely meant Patrick is more well-rounded. :) It's not the first time he implies that. You can also hear him saying "oh, please" when Carol says Yuzuru is in the league of his own :biggrin: It's understandable. He's Canadian, he's a friend of Patrick(and Patrick has not retired) and, after all, he's human like the rest of us and has his own preferences. :biggrin:


Honestly, I think there's absolutely nothing to do with him being Canadian or Patrick being his friend, especially because Kurt Browing is close to Yuzuru too and always praise him, even going overboard sometimes :laugh: Patrick is the more well rounded skater, one can acknowledge that despite their own preferences. I prefer Yuzuru because of a serie of reasons, my own reasons, but I can see why Patrick is considered the bigger skater.
 
Nemorml said:
Patrick is the more well rounded skater, one can acknowledge that despite their own preferences.
Sure, no doubt. But it was his choice to mention it. To bring it up in a competition that has nothing to do with Patrick(whom I myself admire).
What I meant by "understandable" is that although he didn't stay neutral and pronounced Patrick a better skater overall once again, I'm ok with that(why wouldn't he support his favourite?)
 
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Sure, no doubt. But it was his choice to mention it. To bring it up in a competition that has nothing to do with Patrick(whom I myself admire).


Yes, but well we can't blame him, it's natural, Patrick and Yuzuru were neck-and-neck medal standing wise last season, and of course there was the rivalry at Sochi so there's no surprise that Patrick was mentioned. Patrick was/is such a presence at the skating worlds and the "standard" for the last 3, 4 years, so it's natural that he will be mentioned when one commentator says a statement like "Yuzuru is on a class by himself". One can always arguee with that mentioning Patrick for obvious reasons :laugh: Now, I'm actually really excited for his comeback next season.
 
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He would not have any problems getting tamago kake gohan at home in Toronto. Just involves cooking rice (which I imagine his mother makes every day) and putting raw egg and soy sauce on it. I do not know of any Japanese restaurants in Canada that would offer it. I suppose you could ask for a big bowl of rice and a raw egg, if you wanted to.
 
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