Hi all! First time poster here but I've been following Yuzu and this thread for a few years now. Thanks to everyone for the translations and links to pictures, videos and updates! This is really the best resource to keep updated with Yuzu news.
I admit I was one of those aunties driven to drink during 4CC. 4CC was the first time I kept up with an FS event live and I won't be doing it again for my liver. 2 bottles of champagne gone lol.
I'm delurking now as I wanted to give another former dancer's perspective on Yuzu's style of movement (I used to do ballet, hip hop, jazz and contemporary in my younger years up until university). More specifically, his posture and his arms have been the subject of criticism before as he does sometimes hunch his back and loosen his arms in his programs. In a nutshell: if hunching his back and loosening his arms naturally fits with the rest of the choreography and matches the music and emotions of the program then why not? Ballet and balletic movements are beautiful but there are other types of dance that fit the fluidity of figure skating. Why should ballet posture and arms be the standard?
For example, look at contemporary dancer Melanie Moore
here and
here. She hunches her back and loosens her arms several times but those details enhance her performance rather than take away from it. They are wrong in ballet terms but beautiful here and an integral part of contemporary dance, knowing when to use this freedom of movement to better express what you want to convey with the music.
Off the top of my head, I remember I loved his "bad posture" in his Worlds 2012 FS and Worlds 2016 exhibition and his "noodle arms" in Chopin and Parisienne Walkways. Of course as another poster mentioned, there are times when they become jarring as they no longer match the aesthetics of the program. You can tell it's because he's tired as everything slows down and the naturalness/ease of movement is gone.
Your mileage may vary of course and I'm just an auntie on a forum so I will mention another dancer's perspective of Yuzu. Tetsuya Kumakawa, the first Asian man to win the gold medal at the Prix de Lausanne, former principal dancer of the Royal Ballet and founder of the K-Ballet company gave him high praise. I note that Kumakawa is a classical ballet dancer but also does modern dance. He has said he's 80% ballet and 20% modern. The translation is from yuzusorbet's tumblr
here.
“Hanyu has a very beautiful style and his landings are graceful.
In ballet terms, this is because he can do the 'plié’ very well (the position where you sink the body by bending the knees).
To jump high, the plié is necessary.
In his case, his awareness extends to beyond the ground (the ice) at that moment.”
It won't be the 4A, it'll be the 4Lz
I actually thought about ending my own last post with 'ffs RIP me', but then I decided to better keep my inner teeange internet drama queen in check 
