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The Italian fanboys (Max and Angelo commenting on the SP):
And now there is silence because...are we going to change planet? Shall we say that? Here is Yuzuru Hanyu the Olympic and 2014 World Champion. He has got a second place in Canada and skates in front of his homecrowd so we expect a great performance.
The techic protocol is really ambitious, the music is Prince.
In Canada things didn't well so well, he lost to Patrick Chan.
Pay attention to the first element...4Rittberger with step out.
And now the combo... 4S-3T...crazy! Great quality!
Another element is waiting...3A. Here it is, 3A with a very difficult counter entry. It's not the first time, he has treated us with this many times..
His scoring is ascending, maybe some adjustments at the end but we are beyond the half of the program...
The step sequence and then the spin combo..
A year ago at this competion he scored almost 60 in TES, he won't be far from this. Not a perfect performance but he changed his pace and his Sp is clearly going beyond 100 points. He use the turn signal even though he still lack GOEs for the 4Loop and this weighs a lot in the final score; but this is a program that can go up to 60 TES, not the first time we see it. It's still a work in progress because he decided to add a 4L this season, which is incredibly difficult. It is actually worth less than the 4Lutz that we saw Nathan Chen trying with a bad outcome. Anyway a short program with two quads, 4L and a faboulos 4S. A great performance from Hanyu, he really improved a lot from SC where he was fourth after the SP but he will be more than 20 points up here. So far we haven't seen a 100 SP yet (mentions Shoma and Fernandez points at SA and TEB), who knows? Fernandez after winning in Russia and France will be looking at his competitors and he can't feel really calm, he will have to fight.
Well, let's say the truth, the athlete we are watching now is still the one to beat if he skates clean...he has a global potential that is so superior to all the rest. He is capable of making technical elements of insane difficulty, perfectly wrought in the choreography, there is no one like him, methinks. Let's say that with the decision of putting even more difficult elements his main rival is himself. It was like that even last year, he was able to get scores that were unreachable for the others. He won at the 2015 NHK with such a superior score, he humiliated his rivals and at the time the main rival was Boyang, an athlete capable of putting 6 quads in two programs. Out of all possible previsions if we think at a year and a half ago, he made something incredible. At the GPF he annihilated his rivals, Fernandez included, who after this has raised in his scoring, having scores closer to Hanyu. Hanyu is still making mistakes because he is trying new difficult things, but he is very satisfied. Look at here, 103, 89 and here we are, in the same field we were last year at this time. He can still improve in the second mark and there is the step out in the 4L that makes the difference. The crowd applauds laudly, he is an idol here...he really is an idol everywhere in the skating world.
(He mentions the other's scores). Hanyu confirms his great quality.

are we going to change planet? :rofl: at this, they were the ones who invented "Hanyu planet"!
He use the turn signal . Actually I went for a literal translation, but the italian expression "mettere le frecce" means sth like "he goes full speed", more or less.
 
By the way, his SP video on Youtube has already far more than 100 k views (and there are many others quite active). As for the comments from the viewers, well, seems that they REALLY appreciate how he looks in the new costume... I wouldn't be suprised if it reach 200k when I wake up tomorrow.
 
Will it feel like abuse if I begged you to tell me what's getting said in this video of Yuzuru's Ex in Canada?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmJfpcD_cCg
Yes that pained me a lot to watch that again :luv17:

(before the program)
... Yuzuru Hanyu. He won the FS against Patrick Chan. He stepped up his game there. But he was too far away (point wise) already after the SP. ... The Olympic Champion of Sochi, Yuzuru Hanyu.
(afterwards)
Yuzuru Hanyu as a swan. The music, by the way, by Il Volo, which translated from Italian means "the flight". These are three Italian opera pop singers, but all three of them (name, name, name, I'm not even gonna try to write them down) have great voices, and it fits Yuzuru Hanyu beautifully. After the SP he was 11 points behind Patrick Chan, he was only 4th after the SP, especially because the 4Lo didn't work. He's got some problems with the toe loop, which is partly why he puts in the loop. And then he made up almost 8 points and caught up in the FS. He works incredibly hard, he's a great fighter, Yuzuru Hanyu, the things we've already seen from him. I'll never forget the WC in his home country, after the Olympics, when most of the pressure of the season was already off, but even with totally empty batteries, he fought for that WC title. (The next phrase is odd to translate. He just emphasizes that he must have been utterly exhausted). He's a fantastic skater, Yuzuru Hanyu.
 
Is there a video somewhere that shows him pushing off the boards? I'm curious if he did it like the other competitions this season or if he did it like his competitions before. He looked so much more confident at the end of this program.
 
By the way, his SP video on Youtube has already far more than 100 k views (and there are many others quite active). As for the comments from the viewers, well, seems that they REALLY appreciate how he looks in the new costume... I wouldn't be suprised if it reach 200k when I wake up tomorrow.

In like what, 15 hours from the live?:coffee:Why am I not surprised? I was literally looping his short program at office today,silently
 
p. 3160 – 3170


NHK 2016 – Friday, 25.11.2016


Short Program - Videos

Russian, also with music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=351G9q2Dtng

Grishin was in ecstasy during the combo and the 3A


For anyone who wants to watch the one broadcast by NHK

FUll warmup, when he took off his jacket and the audience squeaked out loud is here. Hahah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDnSOdCjVlE

right, guys, you can't miss this - the things which got said about Yuzuru during the warm up by BESP commentators.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qJe_yXsdyM

We've got the Germans too, if someone would be so kind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQYjAFmc4Fw


Short Program - Pictures








http://media.gettyimages.com/photos...-short-program-during-the-picture-id625692780

Edit: Fixed Link

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos...ns-short-program-at-skate-picture-id618994264

Side by side comparison of Yuzu in the same position. Seems his hair has a smidge more volume ( a bit puffier and less slick back). Love it! His shirt is lighter than his pants. It makes his upper body and arms look slightly bigger in comparison to his legs and helps the vest pop out, while his dark pants make his legs appear longer and define his leg muscles and booty .

Kid knows what he's doing ( or his designer does)!



Other

One of the Italian eurosport commentator tweeted this: https://twitter.com/max_ambesi/status/802117230850936832

#羽生結弦 Yuzuru #Hanyu got more than 103 points 4 times in last 12 months. Nobody else in the history got more than 102,54. #awesome #nhk16




Hahaha, the isu twitter said that Yuzu just begs for a headline "Purple Reign"

I'm on the floor. Someone thought the same as I did since I saw the program apparently.

https://twitter.com/rockerskating/status/802303538801963008


News, Articles & Translations

https://twitter.com/sn_figure/status/802124566822670336
he got the better feeling compared with Skate Canada. However, the program itself doesn’t appear when he misses jump. He wants to get jumps one by one, and then spin and steps, to show the whole program.

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20161125-00000115-dal-spo

he says he has some room for scores. if he gets clean landing 4loop, he gets 5 points more.

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20161125-00000150-spnannex-spo
About Nathan, he is delighted at the first competition wih him. He watched Nathan’s practice only once, but it gave him a lot of confidence about his performance, for he can neither get 5 times quad at FS nor get perfect 4loop. To see his 4ltuz and 4flip, he could know what he was doing was still easy.
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oh no, he is not trying to do something more difficult. he just felt that what he is doing is easy. it is the matter of his mental. When you tackle someting difficult, your mental will be eased when you can feel it is easy.

http://www.daily.co.jp/general/2016/11/25/0009698675.shtml
About the problems, he says SP is up tempo music and needs the art of expressions, so he can improve it more, especially presentation. Further he has something rough here and there even though it is also his arm. Still his skating is like the one by a rising teenager skater (thus he is aiming for more mature performance), to show the contrast of slow and fast parts, something laid deep in the lyric, including in his heart.



About the costume, he discussed with Jeff and they decided to go for purple this time. The purple shines bluish a little, and it was made imaging Prince.

https://t.co/YuXxueStAG



Newsclip (?) uploaded by YZRiko. Daisuke Takahashi is commenting on his jumps and SP here, I think. Anyone can translate what he said about the SP? (also he laughed at Yuzuru's reaction after the SP lol)



Commentary Translations

I suck at that our professor will do a much better job but he said Yuzu gambled it away at SC to lucky strike; called the combo ideal, he said what an axel, he'd wonder if the judges didn't give +3s for that (after the program comments one gave him a +2 as this was not live; he really loves that Axel), he loves the 3A, loves it very much. Uh, what did he say for the 4Lo, I think how managed to land it anyway (due to the lean). He wonders if it'll be better for the GPF, laughs when Brian said it was fine (like yeah, more than fine), then repeats it was great, laughs at Brian's normal. Says he did well. Calls the placement right.

Quick translation of Dutch Eurosport commentary.

We are anxiously waiting for the next skater, because that’s Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu, Last year he won here, two years ago he barely made it, partly (ehm?) due a collision in the warming-up so he had to skate with a head injury. He wore a bandage. Did make it to the final where he was again magisterial (Dutch: magistraal). Let’s hope that this time, he is magisterial a bit earlier than normal with this short program in Sapporo.
He has added difficulty to his SP this season by adding a quad Rittberger (loop?). Didn’t yet manage it in Skate Canada. Here it comes, out of steps… Oh no, with a lean! Oy, he manages to land it, only overrotated the loop. Anybody else would have fallen. Quad salchow, beautiful, triple toeloop. Triple axel.
Yuzuru Hanyu, and like I said before, every season, at Skate Canada, every time he raises the bar, his new programs ever changing, becoming more difficult, and then there are those Grand Prix and the programs just don’t succeed yet. Ivo, like you said in the introduction [uhm, of the complete coverage of the event, I guess, haven’t checked that out], of the 13 times he’s started in a GP, he’s only won three. That’s just how it is, it’s a work in progress, but he makes such fast progress, and by the time there’s a GP Final weekend, never mind the Worlds, then he’ll skate more world records. And here, too, it was already better than in Canada, he was much closer to that quad loop. In Canada not just a mistake with the quad loop, but also the quad salchow, opened at the triple, and that one, too, was a turn extra this time. And how nice for the audience that it happens here, in Sapporo. And you can hear Orser say, “You’re a little bit out” [not sure if that’s what he said, but that’s what the commentator thought he said], that’s pobably about the loop, because he was out of the circle, the inclination as we call it (haha, she explains the English to the Dutch audience), and here we’re going to look at it, the loop, you can see he leans a bit too the left, out of the circle, but he can phenomenally still land it, just a step-out. He was much better in the air with the quad salchow and was easily able to add the toe-loop. And here, yes, this shows his great quality, step - step - and into the air for that difficult triple axel after which he immediately follows with transitions and choreography. He “plays” with the easier jumps, although a triple axel isn’t easy at all. [cut some blabla about the people who worked on the program] Funny how he lists only 14 hours of training on his ISU biography, that’s not that much. *she laughs* Yes, he says is, I was this close!
And to think if he had landed that quad loop, it might have been time for a new world record. It’s at 110.95 and he skated it, well, it’ll be a 100+ score, that goes without saying, 103.89, of course terrific, the first 100+ score this season, and he’s not saving it for the Final, but does it here in the regular Grand Prix in his home country, and takes the lead.

So... Russian TV Channel Arena
Yuzuru Hanyu
SP
NHK 2016


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=351G9q2Dtng

By this GPF Yuzuru Hanyu will turn 22 years old - just on the day of SP draw. Now Yuzuru Hanyu, Sochi Olympic Champion, 2014 World Champion, the holder of all imaginable and some unimaginable world records in single men's figure skating will show us his short programme. He was beaten by Patrick Chan in Canada. Now he's changed his costume and he's also changed the Missisauga ice arena for one in Sapporo.
(after Yuzu's 4Lo stepout) Oh, he jumped the 4Lo during the warm-up, but he couldn't hold the landing a bit here! But 4Sal+3T was brilliant! And what an axel - I'll be very surprised if he doesn't get +3 from all the judges, very surprised!
Well, there's no doubt who wins the SP, but you can feature me in Japanese comic books, since I have very surprised look - the 3A got a +2 from one of the judges and it shows in the preliminary protocol. But it was the only judge who did it. I'll remind you that Hanyu's SP world record is 110, or nearly 111 - 110.95, which was set not in Japan, but at the GPF which Yuzuru won. Willl he get more, that is the question? It was a great SP, a great skate, of course, the 4Lo wasn't done successful, but still quite decently, so Brian Orser can share the huge candy he got from the stands with him. The yellow Winnie the Pooh should become the best talisman in the history. So Brian says, it was fine, it was all right. Brian says 'it was great' very calmly, he continues that it was all right. Well, it was quite impressive!
The athlete reeled a little when doing his 4Lo, so he couldn't land it cleanly, but otherwise there shouldn't be any bones to pick on with the judges in other elements. All the non-jump elements are Level 4. This 3A is so clean, landed ideally on a backward stroke, no problems, no doubts about its being fully rotated... Oh, yes, now we can see that the score is getting sorted out and is becoming more adequate, since he gets +3 all around for his 3A. Probably, the judges couldn't quite decide what to give it, so one +2 could have counted in, but now it's been taken away. +3 only for his axel, which is as it should be, no doubts about that. He gave it his all. This year the competition is getting fiercer. That's a nice repeat (about Yuzuru's gesture with his right hand)
Yuzuru rubs his hands in anticipation. Well, he's had greater scores, but you can't expect more with such a serious mistake on his 4Lo. Yuzuru Hanyu gets 103.89, and if I'm not mistaken, it's the season's best result overall. Which place is he holding? That's right - he's first.

The Italian fanboys (Max and Angelo commenting on the SP):
And now there is silence because...are we going to change planet? Shall we say that? Here is Yuzuru Hanyu the Olympic and 2014 World Champion. He has got a second place in Canada and skates in front of his homecrowd so we expect a great performance.
The techic protocol is really ambitious, the music is Prince.
In Canada things didn't well so well, he lost to Patrick Chan.
Pay attention to the first element...4Rittberger with step out.
And now the combo... 4S-3T...crazy! Great quality!
Another element is waiting...3A. Here it is, 3A with a very difficult counter entry. It's not the first time, he has treated us with this many times..
His scoring is ascending, maybe some adjustments at the end but we are beyond the half of the program...
The step sequence and then the spin combo..
A year ago at this competion he scored almost 60 in TES, he won't be far from this. Not a perfect performance but he changed his pace and his Sp is clearly going beyond 100 points. He use the turn signal even though he still lack GOEs for the 4Loop and this weighs a lot in the final score; but this is a program that can go up to 60 TES, not the first time we see it. It's still a work in progress because he decided to add a 4L this season, which is incredibly difficult. It is actually worth less than the 4Lutz that we saw Nathan Chen trying with a bad outcome. Anyway a short program with two quads, 4L and a faboulos 4S. A great performance from Hanyu, he really improved a lot from SC where he was fourth after the SP but he will be more than 20 points up here. So far we haven't seen a 100 SP yet (mentions Shoma and Fernandez points at SA and TEB), who knows? Fernandez after winning in Russia and France will be looking at his competitors and he can't feel really calm, he will have to fight.
Well, let's say the truth, the athlete we are watching now is still the one to beat if he skates clean...he has a global potential that is so superior to all the rest. He is capable of making technical elements of insane difficulty, perfectly wrought in the choreography, there is no one like him, methinks. Let's say that with the decision of putting even more difficult elements his main rival is himself. It was like that even last year, he was able to get scores that were unreachable for the others. He won at the 2015 NHK with such a superior score, he humiliated his rivals and at the time the main rival was Boyang, an athlete capable of putting 6 quads in two programs. Out of all possible previsions if we think at a year and a half ago, he made something incredible. At the GPF he annihilated his rivals, Fernandez included, who after this has raised in his scoring, having scores closer to Hanyu. Hanyu is still making mistakes because he is trying new difficult things, but he is very satisfied. Look at here, 103, 89 and here we are, in the same field we were last year at this time. He can still improve in the second mark and there is the step out in the 4L that makes the difference. The crowd applauds laudly, he is an idol here...he really is an idol everywhere in the skating world.
(He mentions the other's scores). Hanyu confirms his great quality.

are we going to change planet? at this, they were the ones who invented "Hanyu planet"!
He use the turn signal . Actually I went for a literal translation, but the italian expression "mettere le frecce" means sth like "he goes full speed", more or less.

We've got the Germans too, if someone would be so kind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQYjAFmc4Fw
I'm not sure who the commentators are. we'll call them Dude One and Dude Two.
(I think dude one is Sigi Heinrich and dude two is Hendrik Schamberger. No guarantee, though)

1: Now comes the star of this event, and that's none other than the Olympic champion of Sochi and World champion of Saitama, who then twice lost against his buddy Javier Fernandez at the World Championships, but still... Yuzuru Hanyu from Sendai. One of the most popular and most influential figure skaters of the past four or five years. ("influential" isn't quite the right word. It's more like "defining" as in he defines figure skating and the direction it takes... something like that)

2: We just saw him imitate an element that only he can do: the quad loop. (before he takes his starting position)

1: Let's go crazy by Prince. Maybe not a bad motto considering this program.

(after the 4Lo)

1/2: Not bad

1: Amazing that he managed to land this

2: Well, that he didn't fall, because you can't really call this a good landing (I'm paraphrasing because I don't know how to properly translate this. in German they literally say "to stand a jump" when they mean that it was properly landed). But whatever, it was landed backwards, and that was the quad loop that nobody else will risk.

1: With such a tilted position in the air – amazing.

(after the 3A)

1: This is simply amazing

2: Yes. He's aiming at a score in the 90s with this. Awesome 3A with preparation (I suppose he means steps into it and all)

1: He's more aiming at a score in the 100s. I think.

(after he finished)

1: (no idea how to directly translate the first part) Amazing skate/program (something like that). Unbelievable. Yuzuru Hanyu. Yes, yes, that loop still bugs him a little, but otherwise... just now I see that Axel again in my mind's eye, like he didn't jump up from the ice but like he came from the air, from the sky, just, a huge jump. Unbelievably good.

2: Just the way he goes into that jump...

1: And the flow out of it.

2: ... and then the flow out of it, yes, that's really amazing how easily he can do this, that he chooses to do such a difficult entry and then can land it with such incredible security.

1: 4S-3T, that combination looked like it was the easiest thing to do. (technical elements) presented like they were child's play, within an incredible program – he is so good.

2: And he still gave some points away with the mistakes on the loop, but all in all that was an incredibly strong performance.

1: He and Fernandez, you really get the impression that they push men's figure skating forward.

2: Boyang Jin has surely contributed to this as well

1: And Patrick Chan.

2: Yeah he maybe not so much with the jumps (1: well yeah sure), but the Chinese has set new standards last year, and I think these two have followed suit. Ultimately, also Patrick Chan is more following suit rather than he has pushed anything forward; now the Canadian also has put a second quad in his program.

1: And then there's Shoma Uno, (paraphrasing) who also shows what he can do. The four we have named are the ones who currently give figure skating this incredible esprit.

2. I think you're right, he's probably going into the 100s with this, because the mistake with the loop didn't cost him that much.

1: Tremendous program from Yuzuru Hanyu.

2: This is going to be extremely exciting at the finale when Frenandez, Chan and Hanyu will meet – unbelievable.

1: Shoma Uno also qualified. ... Getting over 100 points in a short program, for Yuzuru Hanyu that's not exactly cause to buy everyone drinks afterwards. That's more like a daily routine. (show the replay of after the program and how he makes that sign with his fingers)... yes and he says "there was just a tiny bit missing", with the loop of course. By now all of the quads – except for the Axel, of course – all the quads have been done now. There's always somebody who can do one of them. (scores are about to come up). Score will be about 104, maybe 103, I don't know.

2: Well, not bad. I'll enroll you as a judge for next year.

1: Thanks a lot. Well, 103.89, just in the middle. So he goes in the lead. By a small margin, right?

2: ehm... 13 points, no, more like 16 points.

1: 16 points! Incredible. Well, comparing this to Patrick Chan last week, he's the clear leader with this SP.

Will it feel like abuse if I begged you to tell me what's getting said in this video of Yuzuru's Ex in Canada?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmJfpcD_cCg
Yes that pained me a lot to watch that again

(before the program)
... Yuzuru Hanyu. He won the FS against Patrick Chan. He stepped up his game there. But he was too far away (point wise) already after the SP. ... The Olympic Champion of Sochi, Yuzuru Hanyu.
(afterwards)
Yuzuru Hanyu as a swan. The music, by the way, by Il Volo, which translated from Italian means "the flight". These are three Italian opera pop singers, but all three of them (name, name, name, I'm not even gonna try to write them down) have great voices, and it fits Yuzuru Hanyu beautifully. After the SP he was 11 points behind Patrick Chan, he was only 4th after the SP, especially because the 4Lo didn't work. He's got some problems with the toe loop, which is partly why he puts in the loop. And then he made up almost 8 points and caught up in the FS. He works incredibly hard, he's a great fighter, Yuzuru Hanyu, the things we've already seen from him. I'll never forget the WC in his home country, after the Olympics, when most of the pressure of the season was already off, but even with totally empty batteries, he fought for that WC title. (The next phrase is odd to translate. He just emphasizes that he must have been utterly exhausted). He's a fantastic skater, Yuzuru Hanyu.
 
Anyway, Practice schedule for him should be soon. Waiting for news reports after he finishes later.
Taisuke Goto seems to be live tweeting practice reports.
He said Hanyu landed 3A3T after doing 1A (just business). Do multiple single loops before that too. He said Hanyu seems to be doing well on the 3A (though this is not really unexpected or anything)

Actually is it live streamed or open? I saw a fan tweeting about his practice too. S/he could be a journalist or photographer though (said he landed multiple 4Los, landed 4S3T and 4T. Anyone can confirm these?

His FS runthrough from the twitter above + some other : 4Lo, 2S, 3F /// 4S3T (or2T, two conflicting reports here), 2T, 3A3T, 3A1Lo3S last jump seems to be 4T from ina bauer huh? :unsure::shocked:

ETA : Actually many fans are tweeting practice reports so seems like the practice is open for today? :scratch2:
 
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So I just decided to go a little "Crazy" myself... I bought tickets to Worlds :shocked::shocked::shocked: In my mind I'm still going "am I really doing this again?!"

2013 Nats he scored 103

Thank you guys!

OMG! Daisuke is funny. :laugh:
He says his skating was nice and feels the confidence.
About 4loop, he says the jump itself isn’t so bad, has enough height. He guess that yuzu had the feeling of getting it too much, so he got tension and the axis went bad.
About his costume, he says this costume denies someone who doesn’t have a physique like yuzu. Daisuke laughed that it’s impossible for himself. Purple for whole body from bottom to upper is just difficult.:drama:
Dai needs to stop. He'd look good in a paperbag and we all know it. :points:
 
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:noshake:So he did an ina bauer 4S the other day, and an ina bauer 4T today? All at the end? NHK please release all your footages for gods sake:bang:
 
He even performed a little bit of Seimei:dance2: Looks like there were audiences at the practice session? Maybe due to the coming up short dance event?
 
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