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Yuzuru Hanyu: 2014-15 Season

http://gendai.ismedia.jp/articles/-/41840

Article about Yuzu family. I'm sorry that I don't have enough English competency to translate.
Gendai is a weekly magazine known for gossip and naked women, so you'd have to discount what they say, but this article at least is not hostile to Yuzu unlike some other weekly magazines.
 
http://gendai.ismedia.jp/articles/-/41840

Article about Yuzu family. I'm sorry that I don't have enough English competency to translate.
Gendai is a weekly magazine known for gossip and naked women, so you'd have to discount what they say, but this article at least is not hostile to Yuzu unlike some other weekly magazines.
:laugh: But wow, that's a long article for that kind of magazine. Thank you for providing us the link and if anyone is so kind as to give us a summary :love:

Fluff piece on a skater name Sakurako who use to train with Yuzuru at Sendai Rink. I think they were talking about how Hanyu and her were both training to land their (double/triple) axels and how he successfully did his. They showed a cute clip of them at 06:27. Then the earthquake of 2011 happened and her and her mother had financial hardship and how she's practicing the double axel again now. (Please correct me if I got any info incorrect lol)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0bCvXHtzx4
Hanyu's 2012 Worlds LP has reach 1 million+ views! Some of his other videos got close, but then were taken down. Anyway, hooray! How many views does it take for a video to be deemed viral? Or is it just how fast it spreads?

Another version already achieved that much before being taken down so he gas two 1000000+ video:cheer:
I think that to be deemed viral it's both how fast and how above the expectation the video spread... even the 4 milion+ views that Jason Brown got are quite low compared to what some youtubers get on every video but it made quite a sensation because it was the first time that a figure skating video got that much visualization...
 
I know that Hanyu is very affectionate and nice with other skaters, but is he gay? I do not want to open up that boo gay can of worms, so don't even. I don't have a problem with it if he is. All due respect to the prince!(Not to be prematurely saying he is... I don't even know what I am saying<<Good night all!

That translation is incorrect. What actually happened is :

Female reporter: "Could I accompany you all the way (filming him all day)?"
Yuzu: "Oh, it sounds like a confession, doesn't it? I was so surprised (laghs)" (So Yuzu is teasing the female reporter).
Then he turned to Sasshi: "Don't you think, Sasshi? Sasshi, why don't you write a song of confession? "
 
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Sota Yamamoto's 4T in the practice of the National Sports Festival. He could not make it in the competition. I wonder when Yuzuru succeeded 4T for the first time :think:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2...nly.ad3cb146d1cd55336539a663e0219270142272285

Anyway, It's just my impression, but young skaters these days seem to master 3A and quad jumps without much time lag.

EDIT: It is mentioned in the video that Yuzuru succeeded quad in the first grade of high school.
 
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Sota Yamamoto's 4T in the practice of the National Sports Festival. He could not make it in the competition. I wonder when Yuzuru succeeded 4T for the first time :think:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2...nly.ad3cb146d1cd55336539a663e0219270142272285

Anyway, It's just my impression, but young skaters these days seem to master 3A and quad jumps without much time lag.

Sotas' jump quality is very impressive. He just needs to learn to handle his nerves better.
Hanyu landed his first 4T in competition when he was 15. --So probably had been trying it out before that...14?
 
Sotas' jump quality is very impressive. He just needs to learn to handle his nerves better.
Hanyu landed his first 4T in competition when he was 15. --So probably had been trying it out before that...14?
Sota is not very good with axel though. I think quad is easier for boy with this noodle body type, look at Boyang, who landed quad when he was 13.

Edit: This was when Yuzuru 15 IIRC, same age as Sota now. http://youtu.be/Q8EYy2MaWIs
In my opinion Yuzuru has better soft landing and pleasing air position.
 
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http://gendai.ismedia.jp/articles/-/41840

Article about Yuzu family. I'm sorry that I don't have enough English competency to translate.
Gendai is a weekly magazine known for gossip and naked women, so you'd have to discount what they say, but this article at least is not hostile to Yuzu unlike some other weekly magazines.

It looks like they were walking around and searching for people related to Yuzuru in his home town to ask directly about him and his family. His grandparents refused to talk and apologized. But I may be wrong. Even though this article is probably made up, I tried to translate it with google and it was pretty interesting. No critics and nothing displeasing about Yuzuru or his family. Actually the article seems quite warm as far as I could understand through google :biggrin: Of course should be taken with a grain of salt.
Btw, there was a "fellow skater" who said there is a "duality" in Hanyu. It was kinda funny because I noticed it myself.
 
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