Yuzuru Hanyu: 2014-15 Season
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Wow, this is the first time I've seen these pictures and that Blue costume! Thank you for this. The boot covers are cute
And thank you to everyone who did translations/subs!
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Thank you so much for the translation Terrapin! If you want I can help you putting the subs into the video?
Well if you have the means of getting the video and know how to put the subs in by all means do! I don't know anything about the technical art of subbing ^^
Thank you very much, Pamina! I haven't seen this video before. It's great to see it with the translation.
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I am wondering about his 4S. His struggling with it is nothing new. But I had hoped he would mastered it this season.:sarcasm:
It's just what went right at GPF with his 4S? I think he might have figured it out at GPF, about how to do a good 4S. Then why couldn't he apply it at Nationals. Cause it went wrong at Nationals again (like he didn't land the 4S even in practice).
I think, except the 4S, all of his technical problems are not chronic and can be fixed easily once his mind has figured out how to. Like the 3lz at Nationals when he landed the 2 beautiful lutz in his free just the day after the SP with the bad combo. Even his Flip has gotten somewhat better edge than last season (just flat edge, not wrong edge anymore).
Still... What's the problem with the 4S? Maybe in this case it's still too soon to say that he couldn't master the 4S. I hope it was because he lacked proper practice/ did not have enough training time due to fatigue and injuries. Since he didn't do many jumps and other elements in the practice video at Nationals as I have seen from the TV reports (like he only had 50 minutes on ice per day).
Or should he change the layout and use the 4lo next season? I hope he can put an end to the chronic 4S all together.
It's just what went right at GPF with his 4S? I think he might have figured it out at GPF, about how to do a good 4S. Then why couldn't he apply it at Nationals. Cause it went wrong at Nationals again (like he didn't land the 4S even in practice).
I think, except the 4S, all of his technical problems are not chronic and can be fixed easily once his mind has figured out how to. Like the 3lz at Nationals when he landed the 2 beautiful lutz in his free just the day after the SP with the bad combo. Even his Flip has gotten somewhat better edge than last season (just flat edge, not wrong edge anymore).
Still... What's the problem with the 4S? Maybe in this case it's still too soon to say that he couldn't master the 4S. I hope it was because he lacked proper practice/ did not have enough training time due to fatigue and injuries. Since he didn't do many jumps and other elements in the practice video at Nationals as I have seen from the TV reports (like he only had 50 minutes on ice per day).
Or should he change the layout and use the 4lo next season? I hope he can put an end to the chronic 4S all together.
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Thank you very much for the translation! I've watched this French-Canadian CBC broadcast many times and had some inkling of what the commentator was saying having taken French in school, but it's great having a complete translation.
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Well, during Nationals Yuzuru was injured, so maybe that's why he couldn't land the 4S. As for the 3Lz, it was said that after his short Brian looked through his videos and gave him some advice for the 3Lz.
You and I became fans of Yuzuru Hanyu in exactly the same circumstances! I was not a figure skating fan until I saw Yuzuru in the team competition. You saw it on NBC and I saw it on CBC. I was completely taken by the ease and smoothness of his performance.
I think that he feel stronger with 4S during off season and that's why he put 3 quads, but then happend what happened.... and his body lost some strength. His technique on quad sal looks good but with it everything must be hit absolutely perfectly otherwise it's going to be hard. I started to wonder if his quad sal problems has something to do with diffrent ice types :scratch:
Maybe he should consider going back to order in FS first 4T and then 4S to warm up body properly, as he talked after GPF that he took warm up time before FS diffrently
I just think that quad sal is not his jump. I think in future he will change it propably with loop when he will get stronger
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He usually lands 4S consistently in practice. Sometimes he is off with it, but overall it's quite high consistency on it :scratch:
Almost the same here! :thumbsup:
I used to be a casual fan years ago, but Yuzuru's Team Event performance was what got me back!
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Same here!! It's funny because before the team event I had decided to root for Patrick Chan, and I remember watching Yuzuru's team event SP on NBC a few days later and actually thinking "I WANT PATRICK TO BEAT YOU". But then I kept rewatching Yuzuru's performance and became more and more impressed, and well, here I am now
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I recall that yuzuru said during an interview after gpf that, he landed that 4s because he found the right timing to do the chasse (which was the step immediately before the 4s) and also the perfect timing for 4s. I believe that Yuzuru is the kind of skater who really relies on timing, not only the timing of the jump but also the timing of the step preceding the jump. Besides, yuzuru said that while machida was waiting for his score, he went out and practiced a 3a to warm up his body, and this 3a helped him to get his body excited.
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Yuzu's 2015 stamp collection - Tohoku - The ina bauer in the first stamp is 
New magazine cover
Love his bow here...
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They're selling Yuzu's Pooh tissue covers in those Arcade claw machines And they included a picture of him holding it in the background too. I want the winking one 
What's this kid doing?
NHK poster
2011 Rostelecom Cup banquet 2
New magazine cover
Love his bow here...
:They're selling Yuzu's Pooh tissue covers in those Arcade claw machines
And they included a picture of him holding it in the background too. I want the winking one What's this kid doing?
NHK poster
2011 Rostelecom Cup banquet 2
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Hi, also my first time posting on the thread despite checking in everyday since sometime this summer
I translated the Sochi FS by the French-Canadian commentaters! (Thank you Terrapin, I had no idea Radio-Canada covered the event! :dance
Just a few things though, anything between ((double brackets)) are just notes I added and anything in [these] are implied words. Enjoy!
[0:00-0:12] Because if he skates to the height of his extraordinary talent, I think the slope might be too steep for Patrick Chan to climb.
[0:13-0:18] I think if both skate well, Patrick Chan could win… even if both skate well.
[0:20] Thank you.
[0:23-0:24] So, here we go.
[0:27-0:33]He opens with a…. a 4S! Missed!
Missed!
[0:36-0:40] And the pressure is gigantic. Gigantic!
[0:43-0:45] Patrick Chan is the chaser.
[0:47-0:53] Careful, 4T! Yes! He got it!
[1:06-1:08] 3F! Missed!
Missed!
[1:18-1:23] Ohlalalala, what a dramatic start.
Dramatic, you say?
[1:25-1:37] Winning a gold medal is a very hard job… Humanly… almost superhuman.
[1:40-1:42] We ask of them so much ((unclear…???))
[1:45-1:50] The spin, camel [spin], on the back outside [edge].
[1:51-1:57] He is already, already….
He knows.
He knows.
He’s got it, that it’s going to be very difficult.
[1:59] The layback spin ((probably meant Biellmann spin…))
[2:00-2:08] He is a shadow of himself even in the spins ((literal translation would be: he is diminished even in the spins.))
He has to get back with a series of difficult jumps.
[2:09-2:28] And we were talking about the order of skating and you can see how unreliable it is. We think that skating first is easier, but this is proof. It is the skater against himself… that makes the difference.
[2:31-2:37] Careful, the 3A, [it is with this jump], yes!, in combination with a 3T that he rebuilds himself. Bravo.
[2:45] He is slower than ever.
[2:49] Spread eagle.
[2:51-2:57] The 3A-
Oof
-difficult, with the 2T. Put it in there. ((sounds odd but not sure how to translate “mets-y là-dedans”))
[3:01] The 3Lo.
[3:07] Long road/fight.
[3:11-3:13] First in the short program.
[3:26-3:32] He takes a breath. The 3Lz, yes! Half Lo- Oh he loses his balance! 3S.
[3:35] He’s looking for his energy.
[3:39-3:42] ((unclear????))
[3:44] The 3Lz yes!
[3:55] Ina bauer
[3:57-4:11] And it looks like it’s a ((??)), and an imploration …to the god…to the god of figure skating to tell him “give me the chance, give me the chance to still have the energy to keep going until the end.”
[4:12-4:25] And to get through… this competition where the result is ineluctable for him. ((unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable.)) The gold medal is slipping through his fingers.
[4:34-4:51] Spin… aah but…. On the back inside [edge], sit spin, change of foot, the position of the upright crossfoot spin. And it’s over.
[4:52-4:56] You can see… he is on the floor, ((unclear???))
[4:57-5:01] And here is someone who got 101.45 points this season.
[5:01-5:11] Defeated by himself, defeated by the stress, by the high stakes, and by the Olympic pressure of an Olympic competition.
[5:15-5:28] Yuzuru Hanyu, a proud soldier, a big performance that I thought would secure his gold medal, but it was far from a great performance.
[5:28-5:37] But once the first place secured after the short program, all the pressure was on him-
We’ll see.
-And that was the game of the competition.
[5:38-5:46] Even so, coming back to what’s left to come, it won’t be obvious. It could be Denis Ten that brings a surprise.
[5:46] (mumble mumble…) what surprise?
[5:51-6:03] Let’s wait for the judges’ scores. First, we’ll see in replay- You can understand just how surprised he is, dazed.
[6:06-6:11] In figure skating we never know what will happen and how the individual will react.
[6:11-6:22] So, let’s see… Here we see again… the 4S, the exit… and he misses it.
[6:25-6:31] It’s crazy isn’t it? And that was played out there, right at the beginning. After that, everything was difficult.
[6:32-6:37] The 4T, opening the free leg…
[6:40-6:42] And he couldn’t do the combinations he needed to do ((uhmm…. What.???))
[6:44-6:50] Next, the 3F, the exit missed.
[6:51-6:56] He was no longer focused, he was gone.
He could no longer control what was happening to him.
[6:56-7:06] The 3A, opening the free leg, the 3T afterwards. This was very good; he was beginning to bounce back.
[7:08-7:14] He was like a boxer that got a hit to the jaw, he tried to get out of it and get his bearings back.
[7:15-7:25] He needs 153.66 points to get into first place; first place that currently belongs to Denis Ten.
[7:25-7:29] But he has the points from his short program, we’ll have to look at the combined total.
Exactly.
[7:33-7:36] But for the free program… we have the answer.
[7:42-7:50] So here as well you’ll understand that…((??))... They’re taking their time to analyze everything.
[7:53] So…
[7:55-7:57] Maybe the medal… a medal, but…
[7:57-8:18] Let’s see. How many points have we granted him? 178.64. Despite 2 deduction points, we granted him 90 points for component score. He is in first place at 280.09 points.
[8:21] Okay?
Yes.
[8:24-8:28] Keep that in mind, 280.09, he is in front of- ((Denis Ten probably.))
I translated the Sochi FS by the French-Canadian commentaters! (Thank you Terrapin, I had no idea Radio-Canada covered the event! :dance
Just a few things though, anything between ((double brackets)) are just notes I added and anything in [these] are implied words. Enjoy!
[0:00-0:12] Because if he skates to the height of his extraordinary talent, I think the slope might be too steep for Patrick Chan to climb.
[0:13-0:18] I think if both skate well, Patrick Chan could win… even if both skate well.
[0:20] Thank you.
[0:23-0:24] So, here we go.
[0:27-0:33]He opens with a…. a 4S! Missed!
Missed!
[0:36-0:40] And the pressure is gigantic. Gigantic!
[0:43-0:45] Patrick Chan is the chaser.
[0:47-0:53] Careful, 4T! Yes! He got it!
[1:06-1:08] 3F! Missed!
Missed!
[1:18-1:23] Ohlalalala, what a dramatic start.
Dramatic, you say?
[1:25-1:37] Winning a gold medal is a very hard job… Humanly… almost superhuman.
[1:40-1:42] We ask of them so much ((unclear…???))
[1:45-1:50] The spin, camel [spin], on the back outside [edge].
[1:51-1:57] He is already, already….
He knows.
He knows.
He’s got it, that it’s going to be very difficult.
[1:59] The layback spin ((probably meant Biellmann spin…))
[2:00-2:08] He is a shadow of himself even in the spins ((literal translation would be: he is diminished even in the spins.))
He has to get back with a series of difficult jumps.
[2:09-2:28] And we were talking about the order of skating and you can see how unreliable it is. We think that skating first is easier, but this is proof. It is the skater against himself… that makes the difference.
[2:31-2:37] Careful, the 3A, [it is with this jump], yes!, in combination with a 3T that he rebuilds himself. Bravo.
[2:45] He is slower than ever.
[2:49] Spread eagle.
[2:51-2:57] The 3A-
Oof
-difficult, with the 2T. Put it in there. ((sounds odd but not sure how to translate “mets-y là-dedans”))
[3:01] The 3Lo.
[3:07] Long road/fight.
[3:11-3:13] First in the short program.
[3:26-3:32] He takes a breath. The 3Lz, yes! Half Lo- Oh he loses his balance! 3S.
[3:35] He’s looking for his energy.
[3:39-3:42] ((unclear????))
[3:44] The 3Lz yes!
[3:55] Ina bauer
[3:57-4:11] And it looks like it’s a ((??)), and an imploration …to the god…to the god of figure skating to tell him “give me the chance, give me the chance to still have the energy to keep going until the end.”
[4:12-4:25] And to get through… this competition where the result is ineluctable for him. ((unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable.)) The gold medal is slipping through his fingers.
[4:34-4:51] Spin… aah but…. On the back inside [edge], sit spin, change of foot, the position of the upright crossfoot spin. And it’s over.
[4:52-4:56] You can see… he is on the floor, ((unclear???))
[4:57-5:01] And here is someone who got 101.45 points this season.
[5:01-5:11] Defeated by himself, defeated by the stress, by the high stakes, and by the Olympic pressure of an Olympic competition.
[5:15-5:28] Yuzuru Hanyu, a proud soldier, a big performance that I thought would secure his gold medal, but it was far from a great performance.
[5:28-5:37] But once the first place secured after the short program, all the pressure was on him-
We’ll see.
-And that was the game of the competition.
[5:38-5:46] Even so, coming back to what’s left to come, it won’t be obvious. It could be Denis Ten that brings a surprise.
[5:46] (mumble mumble…) what surprise?
[5:51-6:03] Let’s wait for the judges’ scores. First, we’ll see in replay- You can understand just how surprised he is, dazed.
[6:06-6:11] In figure skating we never know what will happen and how the individual will react.
[6:11-6:22] So, let’s see… Here we see again… the 4S, the exit… and he misses it.
[6:25-6:31] It’s crazy isn’t it? And that was played out there, right at the beginning. After that, everything was difficult.
[6:32-6:37] The 4T, opening the free leg…
[6:40-6:42] And he couldn’t do the combinations he needed to do ((uhmm…. What.???))
[6:44-6:50] Next, the 3F, the exit missed.
[6:51-6:56] He was no longer focused, he was gone.
He could no longer control what was happening to him.
[6:56-7:06] The 3A, opening the free leg, the 3T afterwards. This was very good; he was beginning to bounce back.
[7:08-7:14] He was like a boxer that got a hit to the jaw, he tried to get out of it and get his bearings back.
[7:15-7:25] He needs 153.66 points to get into first place; first place that currently belongs to Denis Ten.
[7:25-7:29] But he has the points from his short program, we’ll have to look at the combined total.
Exactly.
[7:33-7:36] But for the free program… we have the answer.
[7:42-7:50] So here as well you’ll understand that…((??))... They’re taking their time to analyze everything.
[7:53] So…
[7:55-7:57] Maybe the medal… a medal, but…
[7:57-8:18] Let’s see. How many points have we granted him? 178.64. Despite 2 deduction points, we granted him 90 points for component score. He is in first place at 280.09 points.
[8:21] Okay?
Yes.
[8:24-8:28] Keep that in mind, 280.09, he is in front of- ((Denis Ten probably.))
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I think Mao is wearing high heals in the first picture (2011)
