My friend said this, not my words:
"Hanyu has never overcome his mentality, ever since he was young. It is not that he has won so many titles that his mentality has become stronger. It's the mentality that has driven him moving forward until now. The thing is the more he competes, the more medals he get, the more pressure is on, his mentality is stretched too much. He'd better overcome it before it's broken completely."
I guess people usually get more nervous when expectations from others and themselves getting higher and higher. That's true.
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And different people get different weaknesses in their mental aspect. Someone tends to get their nerves on Olympics, some people just can't fight as underdogs, some are not able to handle the pressure in front of home crowd.
Sometimes, and most of the time, I guess, people dun just easily 'overcome the mental', and they might never will, they find some ways to face and deal with it instead. As we are talking about a human being, we do have emotion and mental weaknesses. No one can wiped those away. No matter how great you are as an athlete, prime minister, president, soldier... whoever.
He's 21. He's 21. He's 21. Not exactly a baby, but young enough for me to praise his mental toughness as a sportsman, which is one of the reasons of his achievements right now. Of course he always needs to improve something. He aims high. Exceptionally high. And he's trying. I am not sure how old are the people here I am chatting with, but I guess most of us here didn't go through what he had when we were 21. Is he doing bad and looking like he is melting down and his career is walking towards a horrible dead end starting from 2016 WC LP? His program itself was not even exactly can be described as a complete bombing that showed nothing like his confidence was breaking down.
He's very sad at the moment when he lost, he had tears in his eyes and forced himself not letting it down his face. But he obviously has his own way to think on a positive side instead of panicking. His mood is starting to shine a bit again. We dunno what he's spoken or has he spoken with his coaches yet but I found no way we have the right and information to comment on his career plan.
Apparently he handles failure and challenges far way better than some of his fans when it comes to face a non-successful competition. From some of the posts, I nearly start to wonder if people think Hanyu is having some kind of mental illnesses or he has been a fragile broken crying baby who has never successfully overcome any difficulties all the years in his career or not, which is not something I have seen definitely. It suddenly looks like to some fans, the happy and successful Hanyu who is rather known for his mental toughness has actually never existed.
He got silver, number 2, he's not happy and satisfied with this, true. Nonetheless he's not getting 12 or 22. He's not mentally or physically broke down and I dun see the immediate or concrete possibility for this to happen. I just wonder why his world and future look in an extreme danger in the eyes of some fans. he broke some records this season and his SP in 2016 WC was brilliant too. Hanyu and TCC's works got out-ruled, not recognized by fans (who only know competition results and limited information through media) because of a not-good-enough LP. Feeling is different, so it's just me. When you are pessimistic enough to guess he's going to be broken completely, just let it be. I read some reports, he did little comments to his performance and definitely he has quite a clear mind on what's wrong with the thing. When he has reflected himself and has done his secret little review so swiftly, fans are finger-pointing to his mental, his team, his works and even saying he's over-confidence (and over-trained at the same time??????)... wow, is that fans' love or an appropriate, objective mind to comment?
Yeah, people freely have their own thoughts and freely speak them out. But I found it quite funny and disrespectful to Hanyu and his team's professionalism. I totally agree that people should improve, especially it's Hanyu who has top targets. But panicking and exaggerating sadness (without solid ground) doesn't seem like the right way to do.
Again, it's just me, agree with disagree. Peace out.
