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Yuzuru Hanyu: 2016-17 Season

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Wasn't there this video from last year where he attempted the 4A?

https://youtu.be/5iFG58Tjz6k

My first thought was ow, Yuzuru, please don't kill yourself...he crashes into the audience but is graceful to them for helping him up afterwards :)
 
No idea if it's actually aired in the UK, though. I'd assume by now it has, or otherwise tonight?

Not yesterday it hadn't. While you were watching, BESP had biathlon and something else, don't remember what. Earlier today there were highlights on BESP2, not the Gala. There's something marked GPF on schedule for tomorrow evening again on BESP2 though but it doesn't say Gala, not sure what it is but since they had the highlights today it might be :confused2:
 

My attempt at translating this :D

By fourth consecutive year, he wins the GPF, Yuzuru Hanyu with a considerable difference without being his best FP this season, he had a difference of 11 points over Nathan Chen. Four consecutive years in the final, four consecutive years won, this man who in the last two years he's been second at World's.

Always with very very pretty exhibition programs, Yuzuru Hanyu has an extraordinary sensibility, he is a skater who feels really good with melodic music, classical music... You'll never see him with loud music, he feels better with these kind of tones, more peaceful, more expressive, leaning towards classical music.

Well, there you have him, the man to beat. He just turned 22 this wednesday, december 7th he turned 22 Yuzuru Hanyu from Sendai who lives and trains in Toronto with Brian Orser, teammate (training mate?) and friend of Javier Fernández, whom he is always cheering for from the benches. A very very spiritual man, always accompanied by an spiritual guide.
 
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News clip of tonight about Nats.
Yuzuru: I have to have more difficult layout, otherwise I cannot overcome the world record of myself in the past. Me in the past is what I shall overcome :drama:

He's always pushing for more! I think he's talking about both the 4Lo, and future 4Lz and .... 4A :laugh:
 
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Well, there you have him, the man to beat. He just turned 22 this wednesday, december 7th he turned 22 Yuzuru Hanyu from Sendai who lives and trains in Toronto with Brian Orser, teammate (training mate?) and friend of Javier Fernández, whom he is always cheering for from the benches. A very very spiritual man, always accompanied by an spiritual guide.

For some reason, they've always thought Kikuchi is his spiritual guide :laugh:

Paloma has always been a great fan of him, but for reason, she had considered Shoma the man to beat this season. Seems like she changed her mind :biggrin:
 
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Not yesterday it hadn't. While you were watching, BESP had biathlon and something else, don't remember what. Earlier today there were highlights on BESP2, not the Gala. There's something marked GPF on schedule for tomorrow evening again on BESP2 though but it doesn't say Gala, not sure what it is but since they had the highlights today it might be :confused2:

Well, that should come with a great UNlike button. :disagree:
I have no idea how to capture anything off my telly (except maybe use my ipad and point it at the telly screen, doh), or I'd grab it for you guys. Sorry. :-(



In the meantime, here is what the Dutch commentators had to say in the recap program about the SP and FS:

(SP) This is Yuzuru Hanyu, who came another step closer to perfection, here in the SP in Marseille. He tried a quad loop and landed it, maybe not entirely beautiful (that sounded weird even in Dutch!), but he landed it, and he finished it with a gorgeous salchow combination and a triple axel. 106.53 even, and that brings him very close to that world record of his, 110 points in the SP. Hanyu and Chan veeeeery good.

(FS) And we continue with Yuzuru Hanyu, in the lead after the SP. He skated so terrific at the NHK trophy, two weeks in his home country.
Yes, and Hanyu also goes for four quads, and he has a better presentation than Chen. And here the quad loop. Quad salchow. Oooh, he falls at the quad salchow, the second one he tried. Oh, he recaptures hiself at the quad toeloop, but he does appear to be missing some energy today. Triple axel triple toeloop. And the second triple axel, he almost stumbles there, somehow manages to add a double salchow. Opens the lutz at single. He had a very difficult time, Yuzuru Hanyu, but still jumped four quads and two triple axels, one mistake, one big mistake with that quad salchow, and for the very first time in the GP competitions, entirely clean, that loop. And here the first quad salchow, it was good. His program is much better balanced than Nathan Chen, because not all jumps after another, but the spins and step sequences are there in between [the jumps]. Triple flip here on the screen, and here it is, the second salchow, landed at troughly a quart (I guess that means three-quarters in English?), couldn’t quite manage the landing, but almost immediately afterwards he did the quad toeloop. Well, the FS by Nathan Chen was better, but he had enough of a lead, and of course the presentation. But he does lose the free skate to not only Nathan Chen, but also Shoma Uno, and that means that even Yuzuru Hanyu cannot afford to make too many mistakes, but there is space for improvement, including this jump, that double salchow should’ve been a triple instead of a double, and if he also lands the second quad salchow and doesn’t open the lutz, we may expect to see him get a lot extra points, should he skate entirely clean, we hope that, of course, at the end of the season at Worlds. Yuzuru Hanyu had enough left of his lead to win here, for the second (!!!!) time in a row he wins the Final.
 
For some reason, they've always thought Kikuchi is his spiritual guide :laugh:

Paloma has always been a great fan of him, but for reason, she had considered Shoma the man to beat this season. Seems like she changed her mind :biggrin:

I really wonder where they got that from... Because Kikuchi san has been seen praying or what? Pooh is the only guide he needs :laugh:
 
For some reason, they've always thought Kikuchi is his spiritual guide :laugh:

Somebody remind me the function of Kikuchi-san, please? He's such a familiar face that I'm taking his presence for granted but I don't know what he actually does...
 
Somebody remind me the function of Kikuchi-san, please? He's such a familiar face that I'm taking his presence for granted but I don't know what he actually does...
Some gossiper on Russian forum called Kikuchi-san a Feng Shui master and I cracked up so much. If I remember correctly then she's a yellow press reporter. :laugh2:
 
Russian Eurosport commentators named Kikuchi-san a Team Leader of the Japanese officials accompanying Japanese athletes to GPF. That was totally awesome, as if Kikuchi-san got promoted. Congrats to him!:biggrin:
 
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Same. I though he was a physical trainer or some sort. Perhaps multitask as Yuzuru's personal assistant too during competition. :think:

I think he is? Trainer and therapist, doesn't he give him massages too or did I dream that one up? He definitely does help with a myriad of other things during competitions too.
 
I think he is? Trainer and therapist, doesn't he give him massages too or did I dream that one up? He definitely does help with a myriad of other things during competitions too.

That's what i read somewhere too. But I am too lazy to dig up hahaha.

Anyway, I can't wait for Nats to be over, no matter the results, so that I can cool down from skating anxiety for about a month. :biggrin:
 
I just wonder: what if he won't win worlds this season (again)? He was so devastated last season, going into the olympic season with the third lost in a row wouldn't be a confidence booster :no:
 
well I wasn't sure about SP at beginning of the season, but after GPF I think it's just f a n t a s t i c
 
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