Yuzuru Hanyu: 2015-16 Season
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Watched it with my family, had my hands over my face during the whole thing, but was watching with one eye. LOL.
He is just SSSSOOOOO unpredictable and this time it was a good surprise. My heart has finally stopped going at 100kmph and I can relax and watch it again and again.
Whoooohooo!
He is just SSSSOOOOO unpredictable and this time it was a good surprise. My heart has finally stopped going at 100kmph and I can relax and watch it again and again.
Whoooohooo!
But if I'm already back to screaming at the grainy stream on my computer, God only knows what may happen in Barcelona
for all the crappy days, I'm so glad this helps make things just a little bit more bearable for you. Honestly, as this point I'm not sure how I'll survive the excitement at the GPF. I hope my voice won't fail me after a single day of screaming. If this morning was any indication.... it's not gonna last long.
I didn't find the video on dailymotion, but I uploaded the video...You can download it here.
Click on "free user", bottom left and you should have the link.
I just uploaded my recorded copy of the B.ESP to dailymotion too! http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3fsrzp
Great Job Yuzuru! Now get some good rest and bring us your SEIMEI tomorrow!
You have to be called Yuzuru Hanyu to take away issues on a triple by replacing it with a quad
K&C= Kiss and Cry
Thx Pika,
Im just noticing it is just from Sochi 2014 that I discovered Yuzu and we are at the end of 2015 and I think I know him from longtime ^^ Concerning the SP, I remembered the first time he presented his first version of Chopin in a gala, catching by an amateur camera, and at this moment, for me, that was the best first version of his SP. Then he was not able to reproduce the same quality with the same mouvements. It was striking. I need to refind this video on my folders.
Im just noticing it is just from Sochi 2014 that I discovered Yuzu and we are at the end of 2015 and I think I know him from longtime ^^ Concerning the SP, I remembered the first time he presented his first version of Chopin in a gala, catching by an amateur camera, and at this moment, for me, that was the best first version of his SP. Then he was not able to reproduce the same quality with the same mouvements. It was striking. I need to refind this video on my folders.
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From 70 to 106 in four weeks, we all have been riding roller coaster. I love the fact that he skate clean once he taking the luzt out and put 4sal in hahahaha.
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ikr!!! I knew him like last year during the summer (not even during the olympics), but I felt as if i have been supporting him and knowing about him for a long time!
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Such an exciting day. I was so nervous and then screamed with joy. My nerves feel over stimulated, I need to calm my self with nice Yuzu bathclin bath and hopefully sleep well for another exciting day tomorrow. Seriously before his SP I was thinking about quitting to be Yuzu fan because it is too nerve wrecking. And then he did this. I guess I'm stuck here
I hope I can survive
I hope I can survive
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I didn't find the video on dailymotion, but I uploaded the video...You can download it here.
Click on "free user", bottom left and you should have the link.
Thank you!!!!
The first thing I did after exiting my exam was look at the results and :eeking:106 pointssssss! Now I've seen it and it looks like a new program, really fantasticI"m in Canada so this was in the night for me... I had 2 dreams (I don't dream about skating much) and one was a REALLY bad skate by Yuzu and another was a world record by Yuzu. I woke up and immediately had to check which dream came true. So glad it was the world record, haha.
I liked the KissnCry decorations too... the little pooh as well as the other stuffed animals, lol.
I liked the KissnCry decorations too... the little pooh as well as the other stuffed animals, lol.
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So I spent the night grinding out art in the studio and as I was packing up I remembered that the results would be out. I'm really glad that no one else is on this floor at this hour because I saw 106 and screamed -- I thought I was seeing things after the all-nighter. 106, it's a 106! Almost a full five points higher than his last record! Remember when we were excited because he broke 100 by almost a full point and a half?
So this is what a clean Yuzuru-Chopin is capable of... two quads, sharp triple axel, gorgeous spins~
Gaaaah, this is bad, guys! It's past 8 AM here but there's no way I can go to sleep now!
So this is what a clean Yuzuru-Chopin is capable of... two quads, sharp triple axel, gorgeous spins~
Gaaaah, this is bad, guys! It's past 8 AM here but there's no way I can go to sleep now!
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So I spent the night grinding out art in the studio and as I was packing up I remembered that the results would be out. I'm really glad that no one else is on this floor at this hour because I saw 106 and screamed -- I thought I was seeing things after the all-nighter. 106, it's a 106! Almost a full five points higher than his last record! Remember when we were excited because he broke 100 by almost a full point and a half?
So this is what a clean Yuzuru-Chopin is capable of... two quads, sharp triple axel, gorgeous spins~
Gaaaah, this is bad, guys! It's past 8 AM here but there's no way I can go to sleep now!
Haha. See I woke up at around 7:20....10 minutes before my alarm....which funny thing, I did the same thing last year......and after looking at emails, I went straight away to the event page, clicked on the judges score, put my hand on the screen, saw Yuzuru's name at the top, uncovered the score, and freaked out quietly. It was a nice thing to wake up to!
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A more detailed Q&A came up.
http://sports.yahoo.co.jp/column/detail/201511270006-spnavi
I've just translated Yuzuru's (and Boyang for one question) replies from the press conference. I think this one makes more sense in parts. The other Q&A skipped some details (like he suddenly started talking about the 4lz and not the 4lo :scratch
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Thoughts after the SP and what you hope for, for the FS.
- The result of the SP comes from working really really hard. Tracy Wilson, who is also with us, and Brian, and all the other coaches at the Cricket Club, all the coaches who had coached me in the past and the audience helped me deliver a good performance today.
Because I was able to skate a good SP, I hope to be able to enjoy the good feeling from the SP for the rest of today like I did at Sochi Olys, and do the best for tomorrow in a relaxed state.
Jin-senshu skated in a senior competition with Hanyu-senshu, who he admires. How do you both feel about it?
Yuzuru
- Thank you (in Chinese). I have a feeling of appreciation and also, there are many skaters who have come up from the junior circuit recently. Starting with Uno-senshu, there are many wonderful skaters and I'm actually being treated like an old person but I'm only 20 years old. I don't think the situation is any different from me competing with Mura-senshu. When I compete with Mura-senshu, I definitely don't think like he is my senpai and I definitely want to win against him. So I think Jin-senshu is competing against me with the same feeling and I don't consider him as a someone who is younger than me or anything. On the contrary, I'm happy that he's finally competing as a senior and I haven't been able to include the (4-)lutz in competition, my (4-)loop success rate hasn't increased enough yet so I want to tell him that I'm studying his.
Boyang
- My feelings towards Hanyu-senshu or other skaters who I admire hasn't changed very much. I think I was able to score over 95 points today because I was able to stay calm. So I want to stay calm in the FS tomorrow as well. And I appreciate the nice things Hanyu-senshu just said about me. I'll do my best.
Hanyu-senshu and Mura-senshu were both still small when the 1998 Nagano Olympics took place. Do you remember anything about it?
- Calculating the years, I was 4 years old then but I hadn't started skating yet. I have no memories of watching skating either and I remember nothing about Nagano Olys. But thinking about how I started skating, the 4 senpai skaters at my home rink had all skated at Nagano Olympics and that's how my family and I started going to the rink. I might not have started skating if that was not the case.
Hanyu-senshu and Mura-senshu, the number of skaters who did 2 quads increased at this competition. Do you think this sport is heading towards that direction and do you think anything will be sacrificed for it?
- Just speaking about having 2 quads in the SP, there are skaters who are able to and there are skaters who are unable to. Skaters are all unique so if asked if it'll be absolutely necessary, I don't think so. With the current rules, having 2 quads is as far as one can go. Someone with a 4A might come along but with the current rules, having 2 quads is the max you can do, plus you have to do the steps, spins, transitions, expressions, etc. But, like Mura-senshu, you could do 1 quad, 3-3 or 4-3, 3A and will he never be able to win with that? I don't think it's impossible. In reality, I had 1 quad with an axel and lutz in the 2nd half, I received +GOEs with expressions, spins, steps and scored over 100 with that layout. So if I think about that, I don't think having 2 quads is absolutely necessary.
I don't think there is anything to lose by having 2 quads. It'll depend on each and every skater's uniqueness. You could do a program with 2 quads, do triples and have expressions like a skater without a quad, execute beautiful jumps, steps and spins with +GOEs, and nobody will be able to beat you so there is nowhere else to aim for besides that for us. So there is nothing to lose.
When the layout of the SP was changed, Coach Orser said that he wanted to change towards a conservative direction, but he said Yuzuru was ambitious. Why did you think that you should go through with your ambition and how did you convince your coach?
- I don't remember exactly but I, of course, discussed it with Brian and Tracy and before that, i discussed it with my family. Like before the accident last year, I had the option to change the layout to jumping the quad first and ending with the axel, but I thought about what I'd gain by doing that. I trained that layout last year, then the accident occurred so I had to water it down, but I couldn't execute them cleanly. I can't define that as "growing" and I can't "grow" at that (small) pace. I wanted to do it because I wanted to grow.
Also, I thought that I'd have to include 2 quads in the SP one of these day to win. I think that I have to include 2 quads with +GOE worthy entries, landings, steps spins, expressions and skating until the end, fully focused. That is what I must be able to do by PyeongChang Olympics and as an OGM, I have to be predominantly strong to win consecutively. This (current situation) is far from my goal yet. I want to work hard and challenge myself more. I just told Brian that "I'll do it". He didn't ask me if I can do it, I told him that "I'll do it" and I did it.
http://sports.yahoo.co.jp/column/detail/201511270006-spnavi
I've just translated Yuzuru's (and Boyang for one question) replies from the press conference. I think this one makes more sense in parts. The other Q&A skipped some details (like he suddenly started talking about the 4lz and not the 4lo :scratch
.Thoughts after the SP and what you hope for, for the FS.
- The result of the SP comes from working really really hard. Tracy Wilson, who is also with us, and Brian, and all the other coaches at the Cricket Club, all the coaches who had coached me in the past and the audience helped me deliver a good performance today.
Because I was able to skate a good SP, I hope to be able to enjoy the good feeling from the SP for the rest of today like I did at Sochi Olys, and do the best for tomorrow in a relaxed state.
Jin-senshu skated in a senior competition with Hanyu-senshu, who he admires. How do you both feel about it?
Yuzuru
- Thank you (in Chinese). I have a feeling of appreciation and also, there are many skaters who have come up from the junior circuit recently. Starting with Uno-senshu, there are many wonderful skaters and I'm actually being treated like an old person but I'm only 20 years old. I don't think the situation is any different from me competing with Mura-senshu. When I compete with Mura-senshu, I definitely don't think like he is my senpai and I definitely want to win against him. So I think Jin-senshu is competing against me with the same feeling and I don't consider him as a someone who is younger than me or anything. On the contrary, I'm happy that he's finally competing as a senior and I haven't been able to include the (4-)lutz in competition, my (4-)loop success rate hasn't increased enough yet so I want to tell him that I'm studying his.
Boyang
- My feelings towards Hanyu-senshu or other skaters who I admire hasn't changed very much. I think I was able to score over 95 points today because I was able to stay calm. So I want to stay calm in the FS tomorrow as well. And I appreciate the nice things Hanyu-senshu just said about me. I'll do my best.
Hanyu-senshu and Mura-senshu were both still small when the 1998 Nagano Olympics took place. Do you remember anything about it?
- Calculating the years, I was 4 years old then but I hadn't started skating yet. I have no memories of watching skating either and I remember nothing about Nagano Olys. But thinking about how I started skating, the 4 senpai skaters at my home rink had all skated at Nagano Olympics and that's how my family and I started going to the rink. I might not have started skating if that was not the case.
Hanyu-senshu and Mura-senshu, the number of skaters who did 2 quads increased at this competition. Do you think this sport is heading towards that direction and do you think anything will be sacrificed for it?
- Just speaking about having 2 quads in the SP, there are skaters who are able to and there are skaters who are unable to. Skaters are all unique so if asked if it'll be absolutely necessary, I don't think so. With the current rules, having 2 quads is as far as one can go. Someone with a 4A might come along but with the current rules, having 2 quads is the max you can do, plus you have to do the steps, spins, transitions, expressions, etc. But, like Mura-senshu, you could do 1 quad, 3-3 or 4-3, 3A and will he never be able to win with that? I don't think it's impossible. In reality, I had 1 quad with an axel and lutz in the 2nd half, I received +GOEs with expressions, spins, steps and scored over 100 with that layout. So if I think about that, I don't think having 2 quads is absolutely necessary.
I don't think there is anything to lose by having 2 quads. It'll depend on each and every skater's uniqueness. You could do a program with 2 quads, do triples and have expressions like a skater without a quad, execute beautiful jumps, steps and spins with +GOEs, and nobody will be able to beat you so there is nowhere else to aim for besides that for us. So there is nothing to lose.
When the layout of the SP was changed, Coach Orser said that he wanted to change towards a conservative direction, but he said Yuzuru was ambitious. Why did you think that you should go through with your ambition and how did you convince your coach?
- I don't remember exactly but I, of course, discussed it with Brian and Tracy and before that, i discussed it with my family. Like before the accident last year, I had the option to change the layout to jumping the quad first and ending with the axel, but I thought about what I'd gain by doing that. I trained that layout last year, then the accident occurred so I had to water it down, but I couldn't execute them cleanly. I can't define that as "growing" and I can't "grow" at that (small) pace. I wanted to do it because I wanted to grow.
Also, I thought that I'd have to include 2 quads in the SP one of these day to win. I think that I have to include 2 quads with +GOE worthy entries, landings, steps spins, expressions and skating until the end, fully focused. That is what I must be able to do by PyeongChang Olympics and as an OGM, I have to be predominantly strong to win consecutively. This (current situation) is far from my goal yet. I want to work hard and challenge myself more. I just told Brian that "I'll do it". He didn't ask me if I can do it, I told him that "I'll do it" and I did it.
I recorded the Eurosport 2 Dutch commentary, quick translation. Here’s the full SP.
Note: I’m going on the assumption that the commentator is talking about spread eagles when she mentions [moond] or some such, as per suggestions in this thread. I haven’t found a website with Dutch figure skating definitions.
Wunderkind. Local hero.
Like Kovtun, he's going for two different quads, salchow and toeloop. Here comes the salchow... quad, yes. Here the toeloop, nicely jumped from passes, quad T, 3T. Very good! And those passes he didn't have to do, they are purely transitions, very, very good. Last jump, from transitions, 3A, beautiful.
Yuzuru Hanyu, Olympic champion, and what a difference from the SP at SC. This was phenomenal, fantastic, really not just only the technical elements that worked, but when it really works, then everything is connected with another, no long preparations towards the difficult elements, nothing like that, everything is tied together with transitions, with passes, with skating movements, with [spread eagles] etc. etc.
The [spread eagle] saved him a little after the first jump, because he was a bit overturned, but {mumbled} very fast into such a transition, we’ll be able to see that later. The kur is very well put together. Yes, what a skater, such skating skills, the way he moves his body, his presentation, excellent, good spins, and… he already is way ahead of Jin in the technique---
[this is where the other commentator also starts talking, Jeroen Prins)
“not normal, eh? When we saw him at the Olympics, his tech score was five points lower than we’re seeing now, so we’re going far into the hundred.”
100 plus?
“Yes, it’ll be 103 or 104.”
And everything just fit and went well, the spins, the step sequence, two quads, a combination triple, now [they show the ] quad, there he is a little deep and overturned, but went very fluidly into the moond, we didn’t see that in the slowmo, look here at the landing, not entirely round but will be given (as a quad), and then he manages to step into the moond, that shows his class, that you’re able to solve it like that. And then the second quad, the toeloop, turned into a combo, and also with connecting passes (transitions?), no long preparation, very easy, 4 rotations and 3 rotations in combination. Beautiful positions in the spins, a beautiful performance to this gorgeous piano piece by Chopin. And here the entrance to the axel, again, so easy, so fluid, so difficult (!), and he was able to immediately pick up the music again after the landing of the triple Axel. And the interpretation of the music.
Well, what will this be? (she means points) What is the world record?
JP: the world record is 101.45, his own
His own
JP: his own, at the Olympics. Well, this has to be higher, if the technical score is adjusted downwards, but I haven’t really seen anything that needs to go into the review (note: Jeroen Prins is also an ISU judge / tech controller etc.). well, maybe he will get lower for the program components than at the Olympics, though I wouldn’t have any idea why.
Almost 41 is the highest components until now, by Mura. Almost 41, well, he must get higher. That was not yet a nine on average, but of course he will get that.
JP: what’s it gonna be? 106.33! Bonkers (not really a good translation I’m afraid, the Dutch word sounds VERY positive, bonkers doesn’t, well, not to me, really). It’s already unreal that someone scores into the 100, and he did that at the Olympics, and here he adds another five points. We watched the perfect short program here, well, not entirely, the landing of the first quad could be a little beter –
Lady laughs
If you really still want to make a comment on it—
They could give tens, I don’t know if tens were given yet, but he comes at an average of about 9.5 for the components. There are judges who have already given tens, even for Fernandez in the free skate even though there was a fall in it, we can look at the protocol later to look it up. But gee, 106, and smashing [bad translation, I think, the Dutch expression is ‘sharpening’) the world record by five points, wow wow wow (‘jonge jonge jonge’, doesn’t really translate). And what a gift for the Japanese fans, and that has been different like last year here at the NHK, when in front of his own audience, he skated as Olympic champion and completely messed up, really messed up, in the post Olympic season, [note: she really should have bothered to add WHY he was not on form then, sheez] but in the final, the GPF, he came back [with a vengeance]. Yes, look at that, everybody ecstatic.
JP: what a short program, what a way to start NHK. Hanyu, incomparable, sensational…
Note: I’m going on the assumption that the commentator is talking about spread eagles when she mentions [moond] or some such, as per suggestions in this thread. I haven’t found a website with Dutch figure skating definitions.
Wunderkind. Local hero.
Like Kovtun, he's going for two different quads, salchow and toeloop. Here comes the salchow... quad, yes. Here the toeloop, nicely jumped from passes, quad T, 3T. Very good! And those passes he didn't have to do, they are purely transitions, very, very good. Last jump, from transitions, 3A, beautiful.
Yuzuru Hanyu, Olympic champion, and what a difference from the SP at SC. This was phenomenal, fantastic, really not just only the technical elements that worked, but when it really works, then everything is connected with another, no long preparations towards the difficult elements, nothing like that, everything is tied together with transitions, with passes, with skating movements, with [spread eagles] etc. etc.
The [spread eagle] saved him a little after the first jump, because he was a bit overturned, but {mumbled} very fast into such a transition, we’ll be able to see that later. The kur is very well put together. Yes, what a skater, such skating skills, the way he moves his body, his presentation, excellent, good spins, and… he already is way ahead of Jin in the technique---
[this is where the other commentator also starts talking, Jeroen Prins)
“not normal, eh? When we saw him at the Olympics, his tech score was five points lower than we’re seeing now, so we’re going far into the hundred.”
100 plus?
“Yes, it’ll be 103 or 104.”
And everything just fit and went well, the spins, the step sequence, two quads, a combination triple, now [they show the ] quad, there he is a little deep and overturned, but went very fluidly into the moond, we didn’t see that in the slowmo, look here at the landing, not entirely round but will be given (as a quad), and then he manages to step into the moond, that shows his class, that you’re able to solve it like that. And then the second quad, the toeloop, turned into a combo, and also with connecting passes (transitions?), no long preparation, very easy, 4 rotations and 3 rotations in combination. Beautiful positions in the spins, a beautiful performance to this gorgeous piano piece by Chopin. And here the entrance to the axel, again, so easy, so fluid, so difficult (!), and he was able to immediately pick up the music again after the landing of the triple Axel. And the interpretation of the music.
Well, what will this be? (she means points) What is the world record?
JP: the world record is 101.45, his own
His own
JP: his own, at the Olympics. Well, this has to be higher, if the technical score is adjusted downwards, but I haven’t really seen anything that needs to go into the review (note: Jeroen Prins is also an ISU judge / tech controller etc.). well, maybe he will get lower for the program components than at the Olympics, though I wouldn’t have any idea why.
Almost 41 is the highest components until now, by Mura. Almost 41, well, he must get higher. That was not yet a nine on average, but of course he will get that.
JP: what’s it gonna be? 106.33! Bonkers (not really a good translation I’m afraid, the Dutch word sounds VERY positive, bonkers doesn’t, well, not to me, really). It’s already unreal that someone scores into the 100, and he did that at the Olympics, and here he adds another five points. We watched the perfect short program here, well, not entirely, the landing of the first quad could be a little beter –
Lady laughs
If you really still want to make a comment on it—
They could give tens, I don’t know if tens were given yet, but he comes at an average of about 9.5 for the components. There are judges who have already given tens, even for Fernandez in the free skate even though there was a fall in it, we can look at the protocol later to look it up. But gee, 106, and smashing [bad translation, I think, the Dutch expression is ‘sharpening’) the world record by five points, wow wow wow (‘jonge jonge jonge’, doesn’t really translate). And what a gift for the Japanese fans, and that has been different like last year here at the NHK, when in front of his own audience, he skated as Olympic champion and completely messed up, really messed up, in the post Olympic season, [note: she really should have bothered to add WHY he was not on form then, sheez] but in the final, the GPF, he came back [with a vengeance]. Yes, look at that, everybody ecstatic.
JP: what a short program, what a way to start NHK. Hanyu, incomparable, sensational…
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