Yuzuru Hanyu: 2016-17 Season

[shiroKJ]

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I swear, somewhere in this world, its a crime to be this adorable. :dev2:

OK, this is the night of translations - one more, from the dawn of his senior days. It's quite short, don't worry.

NHK 2010 FS

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfn0l4_yuzuru-hanyu-2010-gps-fs_sport


… Yuzuru Hanyu from Japan, Junior World Champion last season, Junior Grand Prix Champion. Music by Pablo de Sarasate with an unpronounceable title. Zigeunerweisen.

(after Yuzuru has skated)

Well, clearly Pablo de Sarasate has absolutely drained the Japanese skater, he has! He skated last 40 seconds of his program with his mouth open and his tongue nearly lolling out and having difficulty breathing.
But well done, Yuzuru Hanyu, anyway! He did everything his coach Nanami Abe told him to, he was very musical and good overall! But the most important thing is the thing he started with, great for a junior! There it is, 4T. Great! Then he fought hard for the 3A exit.
Then he started skating in a more relaxed manner, there was a musical rest before another 3A in combination with 3T. He executed nearly all his planned layout, apart from one jump.
On the whole, he was good, he worked hard, but his musicality and everything he does looks trained and introspective, so he has trouble reaching out for the audience (not that he has trouble here, the audience here know him and love him and he gets a lot of support here). I thought that he wasn’t skating that much for the audience. But that’ll change – given his age... how old is he? He was born in 1994, he’ll turn 16 in December, so the most interesting and expressive years are still ahead for him, he might well start skating as well as Takahashi. Takahashi didn’t execute such difficulty at his age.
138 points, of course, he isn’t losing to anyone at this point, and he’s ahead of Mura by 16 points.

Now does anyone want Junior JPF?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHfufKeAHGs

For people who can read chinese, 新生組 did it: http://www.bilibili.com/video/av9087422/

I think yuzusorbet will post brief translations on her blog soon.

But generally, there aren't many new comments in SA2, actually :scratch3:

The main arc in reviewing his competitions was, 2 quads in AC and SC, 3 in NHK/GPF, reached his goal of 4 in 4CC with the recovery! But rival Nathan! Ends with death glare + looking toward the peak.

And then the Brian vs. Yuzu arc. Brian initially thought Yuzu was too into jumps, like a "child with a new toy". And they showed his protocol at AC with the 8's.
Yuzu, as we all know, thinks that if the jumps weren't there, the program doesn't stand. That even if the performance were beautiful, if he failed on the jump - "ah, he popped" "ah, that was a mistake" - everyone will think that way, himself included. Same end goal, different approach. Then in NHK, during practice, Yuzu focused on the skating, the spins, everything between the jumps, didn't actually jump. First 300's since last season. Then they showed his protocol, now with 9's.

The clips they used (hi-def koi dance?! four seasons LGC?! etc etc) were amazing though.

~Random~
I made a little painting and I thought I would share

(I'm not the greatest at art but it's a nice little pass time...also this looks nicer irl)

Yuzuru's long interview after 4CC. Sorry, I do not have time to translate tonight. Could somebody help?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ejbdq_170311-4ccハイライト-ロングインタビュー_sport

Sochi Olympic Games, Team Event
SP

Спорт-хит (Sport-hit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE0anpwVnKA
(starting at 45.16)

(TAT and Alexander Grishin commentating)

TAT: This boy is very talented as far as figure skating is concerned.
Gr: Yuzuru Hanyu from Japan.
TAT: This year he won the GPF.
Gr: With a result just under 100 points. In the SP.
TAT: 4T. Easy. But Zhenya (Evgeny Plushenko) had 4-3! His spin was wonderful. His second spin is wonderful too. He sits down very low – it’s always highly appreciated and assessed. 3A from a very difficult entry. No one enters their 3A like that – with a rocker.
Gr: Abbott used to jump it like that.
TAT: 3-3. Lutz-toeloop. His skating is very good, free! It fits the style, it’s musical. You see how much turned out his feet are – no one has to teach him to turn his feet out, he was just born with such feet! A difficult position in the last spin, everything is level 4 and everything will get positive GOE. He had a great skate!
Gr: Well done!
TAT: Well done indeed! Well done!
Gr: And of course he’s so light, so airy, when he enters his spin, it seems to accelerate more and more. He’s like a feather!
TAT: We’ll see. He’s got the season’s best – 99.84
Gr: It isn’t just the season’s best – it’s the world record.
TAT: That’s the WR in the SP.
Gr: He got even more in the Japanese Nationals, but it doesn’t count. Brian Orser.
TAT: There you can see Mao Asada standing. The team has come to support him, just the way our team supported our Zhenya. It was’t so easy to do that, as he cleaned the ice a lot. He fell a lot. You see, that he didn’t quite make the toe-loop… no, he didn’t quite make the lutz, but got himself to jump the toe-loop. There’s the whole team – the two girls, the dance pair… you see how good he is, he's bowing to his coach! He fell from his salchow today.
Gr: Did he?
TAT: He did. Several times. I was at the practices…
Gr: Perhaps that morning shock could come in handy…
TAT: Oh yes, he’s also jet-lagged (or getting used to the climate). The distance between Japan and Sochi must be around seven hours. In winter time…
Gr: In the depth of the winter…
TAT: In the depth of the winter, yes.
Gr: Now we’ll see. But the Japanese team is training in Armenia…
TAT: We’ll see. I think he’ll win
Gr: Yes, with a brilliant result – 97.98. His new result today. He comes first leaving Evgeny Plushenko behind by 6 points.
TAT: But he’s the only one to do that!
Gr: He’s the only one.
TAT: That’s that! And we’re glad of it!
Gr: Everyone’s bowing, bowing and bowing…
TAT: We’re glad!

2014 Sochi Olympics, Individual Event, Short Program: Parisienne Walkways

Commentary: Rudi Cerne for ZDF

https://youtu.be/MeNflywRG-Y

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... and that's what he will prove right in the beginning of the free skate, Katrin, one of the few who jump two quads in the free. He starts right away with a quadruple toeloop.

So, we are in the short program, seven elements are required in the span of two minutes and fifty seconds.

1,71m tall, light as a feather, here he is. Quadruple toeloop. Hoh.

The required flying camel spin. Six rotations are required but you can of course easily do more- as he showed.

And next is the seated spin which is usually launched forward but he launches it backward which just goes to show that he doesn't miss any opportunity to make it more difficult.

He has good transistions- which are summarized in the components.

And the approach to the next jumping pass. That is the triple axel. You can easily distinguish it as it is launched forward. From a turn! Excellent!

Now he is approaching his last jumping pass, a combination: triple lutz, triple toeloop. If he can get that one... [yuzu jumps]... then he can really go for it. That's what you see right now. Like a tornado! The step sequence and at the end, the combination spin.

Simply ins*ne what this young man is charming onto the ice here! [Charming, as in performing magic.] Nineteen years old, Yuzuru Hanyu from Sendai! His best placements in world championships until now- one 3rd place and last year 4th place. But now, with this performance here, he has made a huge step towards protest. Plushenko, as mentioned, is not participating anymore.
And now we are waiting for the scores. There is nothing to complain about, I have seen no flaw. The slow motion will prove that to us.

Well, with this he has mightily lain the ground. The world champion Partick Chan from Canada will skate later. There's quite a few skaters who are yet to skate. Eleven in total.

And you already know this young man here, it is Brian Orser. [LOL] Silver Medalist from Sarajevo Olympics 1984. Only one person exceeded him- back then there were still compulsory figures- Scott Hamilton from the USA. He also trains in Toronto with Brian Orser.

Look at this. Reaches far back, four rotations, straight as a candle in the air, his wrists tight at his chest, barely any air resistance and he lands light as a feather, as if it was a double.

Out of the turn, the triple axel, launched from the toe pick, crossed legs, and here as well, barely any instability while landing- just once there is a short correction(?) but that does not reduce his speed.

Triple lutz, triple toeloop, it's a piece of a cake for him- as if he had an afterburner in him. [LOL] And thus Brian Orser is delighted, who, by the way, back in the day was one of the few that could execute the triple axel without error. That was thirty years ago, however.

Now we are waiting for the score. She is a the team leader. It's a privilege to be seated there on the bank, as it is for all figure skating nations.

101.45... 101.45, that is an excellent score and of course means the lead for Yuzuru Hanyu.

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The beginning is cut off so I'm not quite sure what he was talking about in the beginning. Katrin is the announcer's name.

I tried!! It was a good excuse to procrastinate.

A beautiful fanart I wanted to share : https://twitter.com/utz_skt/status/840583754393436160

OK, one more - and then I go to bed...

Sochi Olympic Games
Individual event
SP
Россия (Rossia) Channel 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05ynAN09eCo

(The skater who’s about to skate) is phenomenal. His star has really, genuinely ascended this season. He’s only 19 years old, he trains in Canada, in Toronto, and at the moment, mind you, he’s the one holding first place in the world ranking, not Patrick Chan. He’s had no major super-success in his career – he won the Bronze medal at the 2012 World Championship, last year, he was only fourth, but this year he pulled himself together and what he showed us at the GPF and the SP – that was incredible! He won the SP during the Team Event here at the Olympics. Let’s watch him – he’s a phenomenal boy with phenomenal skating skills. He’s tiny (what the commentator says, effectively – he’s of tiny height), but it doesn’t interfere with perception of him.
Well done!
An impeccable quad!
Toeloop. He jumps 4T on its own, not in combination and yet gets these incredible scores just short of 100 points.
That’s very difficult – off a counter, a step on one foot, he does a 3A. I’ll tell you what, not every skater from the top 10 will be able to land it successfully even during their practices.
3+3 in the second half of the program! I want to draw your attention to the fact that his axel is also in the second half, so he’s going to get a phenomenal technical score.
Yeah, bravo! And the audience understand very well how good the skate was!
You know, he’s very young, this Japanese boy, and during this Olympic quadrennial we thought, Daisuke Takahashi is undoubtedly (the leader), many Japanese skaters are top-class skaters – Tatsuki Machida, for instance, the one who skated the FS at the Team Event. But this skater stands out among them. I don’t want to compare him to Patrick Chan since they are not alike, but both get superior second mark. I don’t know… it’s more natural to take it with a more detached perception – the way Belousova and Prototopov say it “I don’t pay attention to points, I just can tell whether I like it or not”. From the point of liking it… Hanyu is more exciting. There’s something intangible in his manner of skating
I always think that he feels his music phenomenally well and he lets it sing through his body and his arms, he immerses himself in his music and you can see it.
Well, you can see the result. He’s had a lot of difficult situations in his life already. Brian Orser coaches him. And the most terrifying was… well, I’ll tell you about it a bit later, the tragedy of 2011, now let’s watch the slo-mo. 4T.
Just look at how high he jumps! Do you see the way he opens up – very cleanly. The landing – from his toepick to the edge, the foot made no waves, didn’t vibrate when he landed it. That was a top-quality jump.
There it is – a counter and 3A. It’s very difficult, since you have to turn your shoulders, stop your rotation and then enter the jump. Lutz – very clean, from the outside edge, toe-loop.. there’s a continuous movement, which means the positive GOE for everything. They seem like little details, but they mean many positive GOE added to his technical score, so his score will be sky-high.
Yes, this boy has had to go through a lot because when that famous earthquake of 2011 hit, he was at the skating rink, and during his practice the ice started to shake and split, the walls started to crumble, and he remember that he ran out of the skating rink and took off his skates. He behaved like a professional skater – he was barefoot, there was a snowstorm, he waited barefoot, while in his skating rink the roof came crashing down…
Bravo, bravo!
Look, as far as I can understand it, it’s the first time in the history!
It’s a world record! It’s a record!
101!!! 54 TES, and deservedly so, will you agree, Artur?
Deservedly, because he executes his elements so cleanly and so easily and musically. Phenomenal!
4T – GOE 2.86. nearly perfect.
And that without the second quad. That is, only with one quad…

Verbatim translation of Yuzuru’s interview (from 5’30”) ------------------------------------------
PART 1
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(What’s your feeling now?)
Well, it’s the same pattern again [probably he is referring to another silver medal], but I feel it has been another luxurious [fruitful] experience. For, first of all, the result was a proper… well, I cannot say it was ‘proper’ per se, but the fact is that I managed to win a medal. In addition, I think I gained something [out of this]; a certain feeling of achievement. Furthermore, the feeling of frustration, which has given me more appetite for training. So, all in all, I appreciate that I have been given great experience, again.
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(What’s your strategy for the World, given the appearance of another rival?)
Sure, of course, I have been thinking that Nathan is great, and Mr. Uno has also (reportedly) landed a (4)Lo, although I have yet to watch it; I have already seen him landing (4Lo) in practice. So, I feel they are very promising, and at the same time, well… I am thankful to them. [Perhaps, he thanks them as they give Yuzuru further impetus.]
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(So, from now on, one mistake will be fatal; what will you do?)
Well, ‘my performance’ equals ‘a performance with no mistake’, for me. In addition, it’s not merely ‘no mistake’ but ‘a performance with complete quality with no mistake’ is my performance in my understanding. If I may say, I believe that no one can beat me if I executed such a performance. To ensure that this self-confidence should not turn into over-confidence, I think I will have to engage with further training with more precision.
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(Have you prepared for the changes of elements during performance like this time?)
No, I hadn’t prepared for it, no, it was the first time. It was improvisation. ------------------

Omg, the cutest thing. Kumamon cosplaying as Yuzu in his Chopin costume + skates! Paying tribute?

I'd say we could very well add English language video links into our google doc table, couldn't we? Just to serve as a general reference point - along with our page one?

And lastly, Sporthit's video of the Olympic SP. No readily available video in YT or DM, I'm afraid - but I could try and see what could be done about it later.

Sochi Olympic Games
Individual event
SP
Sport-Hit.
(Grishin)

So, Yuzuru Hanyu – he looked brilliant in the Team Event. Everyone said about how light and weightless he looked, how concentrated he was, how technical and flexible he was. Lots of descriptions, and one of them – the last one – how young he was. Boys are different from girls – look at Lipnitskaya, 15! To do a quad at 14, 15 or 16 is a separate experiment and they haven’t reached it yet, but they will! I mean at real competitions!
The music is Gary Moore’s famous song and he’s immersed in his movements. He’s so free.
(He keeps silent during the program)
It’s just incredible, the way it looks here at the stadium, live… so free and fluent that Gary Moore’s improvisations on his electric guitar fall short of expressing the freedom of this guy’s movements. One gets an impression as if he’s just walking freely, as if he’s at a show, as if he’s Kurt Browning’s son (???), as if it’s nothing much to him, as if he didn’t start working yet! All this conceals hard work and incredible talent – only the combination of these two things will produce an impression we’re getting from Yuzuru Hanyu’s skate. And I can only wonder how much air flight his jumps have – look at his quad, off he jumps – and his skate was straight backwards on his left foot, and his landing is so exact. When he was executing his jump, there was an impression he could have added a bit to the jump. 3A – the absolute. Of course, that freedom has an element of youthful skating, he’s got a teenager face and we’re not used to such boys becoming Olympic Champions. It’s more usual with girls, but in men’s competitions it just doesn’t happen. We’re used to seeing a grown-up man’s build and character in skating, but it makes it more interesting to see that youthful viewpoint of the world. He’s gone beyond 100! That’s a record! 101,45! Oooh! The free program will be more interesting now as the experience of some athletes will try to overcome this youthful exuberance.

Hmmm, this drama does get sometimes excessive.

OK, a somewhat subdued commentary now - I think I'll be done for today. Well, maybe. This is very short.

Worlds 2016 EX
Arena
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgQLeHAhkDc
(Alexander Grishin commentating)

Still the one and only, great and unique, a samurai with a baby face. Two years in a row he skated before Fernandez and lost the title to Javier. But the fact he’s unique has been proven by him more than once this season. Requiem… no, not to Dreams, but of Heaven and Earth
(after the skate)
Hanyu raises the audience up on their feet even at gala shows. Well, he deserved it. Just look, how much sweat he sheds – quite literally, when he’s all pouring sweat after each program, both SP and FS. Today he looks a bit less exhausted (literally, ‘looks more like a human) after his gala exhibition program. Well, that’s the way major titles are won in the sport.

 

[Yuzu Beloved Angel]

Better photo of his face here.

http://www.hochi.co.jp/sports/winte...rom=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Says he looked relaxed, was smiling at the reporters (with mask on?? maybe his eyes.)

thank you so much. We can finally see it.

 

[ralucutzagy]

I just popped open a cider to celebrate
(and get me thru tumblr format editing)

Well, good for you!!! It's too early in the morning for me to do that!
I'll wait a few hours and then I'll celebrate too!!! :dance:

 

[YuzusHydroblade]

I feel so happy that i want to jump all around my room. Finally, news, his face and i'm so ready for this! After reevaluating 4CC i feel relaxed, because hey, he still won the FS! Against a 5quad program and with a YOLO3A. I think he is prepared, he seems to be healthy and my only hope is that he gives us a performance that can make him feel proud
Are we ready?!
(Finally got time, i'll try to sketch him <3)

 

[Yuzuuu]

yay. I think he cut his hair a little. nice length, still looking fluffy without covering his eyes :luv17:
more pics of yuzu

 

[narcissa]

yay. I think he cut his hair a little. nice length, still looking fluffy without covering his eyes :luv17:
more pics of yuzu

YES!! I LIKE THAT THEY SHOWED RESTRAINT WITH THE SHEERS. Can't wait for LGC!Yuzu :dev3:

 

[gladiolusc]

yay. I think he cut his hair a little. nice length, still looking fluffy without covering his eyes :luv17:
more pics of yuzu

Oh my! I completely forgot about this matter of utmost importance!!!! ! Good for them!

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So things he could have gone back to japan for
1. emergency haircut
2. graduation (eh)
3. ...?

 

[Yuaz]

Better photo of his face here.

http://www.hochi.co.jp/sports/winte...rom=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Says he looked relaxed, was smiling at the reporters (with mask on?? maybe his eyes.)

And we knew, he still has a long hair for H&L

 

[blackey]

When did he go back to japan?

 

[Yuaz]

When did he go back to japan?

He had a ninja skill, no one would knew when.. In a blink of eyes he could be in Helshinki
But seriously, what he did in Japan for? I thought he was in Toronto ..

 

[gladiolusc]

He had a ninja skill, no one would knew when.. In a blink of eyes he could be in Helshinki
But seriously, what he did in Japan for? I thought he was in Toronto ..

Emergency haircut


jk

 

[YuzusHydroblade]

Maybe something to do with JSF? Because he departed from Narita...

 

[gladiolusc]

http://www.hochi.co.jp/sports/etc/2...rom=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Hehe, his co-year at Waseda + certified fanboy + Team Japan swimmer, Seto, said at his graduation ceremony that he wanted to meet Hanyu but ... ninja Hanyu~

 

[Yuaz]

Emergency haircut


jk

Who's the special person who cuts his hair that he has go back to Japan for it?

 

[marlet]

Time flies fast! Almost to start worlds again, so nervous, I wonder too why he was in Japan , anyways I hope yuzu will have a great time next week, good luck yuzu!!!

 

[shiroKJ]

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Gosh, these RUS ESP guys talk a lot!

NHK 2012 SP
RUS ESP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkf3xzmG-Cs

-That’s it, dear friends, it’s time we forgot about those 70 or 72 points… Ross Miner – 72.4, Kevin Reynolds – 70.2, Dornbush – 70.05, Voronov – 70.03 – all that! Now we’re hitting a completely different level on the ice… Fernandez… Oh just look at that, Hanyu has already received 95 points for his SP this season. Fernandez has received 86 today. I have a feeling that those 70 points everyone else received today happened somewhere else, at a different time, in a different life. Look, there’s a number of modern skates now…

-Perhaps, they’ve a lighter configuration?

-Gary Moore’s Parisian Walkways is the music of Hanyu’s SP. A choreographic start of the program. He skated around a little and now it’s the entry to the jump. I’ve a feeling it was better than Fernandez’s!

Cool, isn’t it? He turns around with a 3-turn, swings his leg and jumps immediately!

3Lz3T! Cleaner than with Fernandez, I think – it looked easier!

You’ll agree, dear friends, that this wasn’t a SP, it was just an exhibition number at the gala at the end of NHK Trophy! Well, over here the Japanese audience are raving, everyone is cheering for him. The 17 year old Japanese skater. I can just imagine everyone thinking this is the future Olympic Champion for Japan.

You know it’s hard to say he just skated the program, or that he jumped through it, or just that he span around it… It’s like a performance (literally, work of art) – and he performed it! He produced a major effect. The spectators can see it too – well, they aren’t as much experts as the judges. The judges will notice everything. They won’t be able to give him anything lower than 90! Orser is happy, as you can see. You see the way they’ve figured things out for the three of them (literally, an idiom meaning ‘they’ve knocked off a bottle between the three of them)? It worked very well for them. The three of them have come together, three merry friends (an allusion to a well-known Russian song here).

I’m concerned how Fernandez is going to cope with the competition, because Fernandez is a hard worker, he’s a workaholic. He started with the 35th position at his first World Championship and he’s been making it for the podium for years, and then there appears a 17 year old next to him who just goes out onto the ice, skates – and gets more! And you understand that you’ve been working your socks off for so many years – and then you see a talent like that!

Yeah! Three skaters make a crew. (a quote from a song, sorry, nearly untranslateable!). Well done, guys, great, both Fernandez and Hanyu!
He’s been training with Brian Orser since spring 2012, but I’d like to remind you of his previous Japanese coaches who he grew up to this level and won the 2010 Junior World Championship – they are Nanami Abe and Shoichiro Tsuzuki. Hanyu grew up into what he is now with these specialists, so you can’t say in this case that Orser made him a champion, no, he came to Orser well-prepared. But they’re cleaning up the finer points with Brian Orser, Tracey Wilson, the choreographers David Wilson and Geoffrey Buttle, who was invited by the team to choreograph the FP (sic!). That’s a great shirt, look, these folds, and inside they’re covered with glittering mirror-like cloth. They look fantastic during spins or step sequences. Yeah, you’re a lucky guy, Brian Orser, to get such students! But on the other hand, he provided Korea with their first Olympic Gold. Yuna Kim won in Vancouver. Yuzuru Hanyu has just thanked everyone. Well, the same score, the same score – 95.32, now I hope these numbers don’t go to his head. He made his home audience happy.

I think his success won’t go to his head! Everything will be all right here!

Covering NHK 2012 SP - another commentary.

NHK 2012 SP
Sport Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwDyVsPR7kw

This young boy – he’s only 17, he’ll only turn 18 on December 7th – Hanyu is getting a special attention. Look, 95.07, World Record in the SP, the result he got at Skate America. Then he was brilliant in his SP, without a single mistake. The judges couldn’t find a fault with anything, so he got such a high score.
(silent during Yuzuru’s skate)
What can you say, he’s just brilliant! Honestly, I wasn’t sure that the 17-year-old Hanyu would be able to cope with his SP – the general expectations, everyone came round to see him, his home audience, his home arena – all that must have been a pressure for the boy. But look at the way he performed it – he went out on the ice as if it was nothing much, absolutely relaxed, and he did everything. He has wonderful spins, and in Canada (???) all his spins got level 4, and here too… Once again, he has done as well in his SP here as he did in Seattle. In Seattle, US. Now it’s understandable why Brian Orser wasn’t along with Javier Fernandez when his score was announced – he was preoccupied with the other student. Of course it’s hard to surprise Brian Orser with anything, but here he is… let’s have a look – a splendid 4T, these spins – so fine and elegant! Difficult and elegant… every one of them will get level 4. You can such ease and lightness in his program. An excellent 3A. He’s got a very difficult program – a quad, 3A and 3Lz3T combination. Yeah, he’s got perfect nerves – I remember that in Canada, well, I mean, the US, not Canada he bombed his FS just because he seemed to have been shocked by the score he got for his SP. Let’s see what he gets today. I’ll remind you that he got 95.07 at Skate America. And all you can do now is take off your hat – 95.32! A new world record – he surpassed his brilliant result by nearly 0.3.

If this has been shared here, my apologies (I might have missed it)
Video of Kumamom in Yuzuru's chopin costume doing an ina bauer

.....
An english subtitled version of the beginning of the "spirit of the athlete" program has just appeared on youtube :
- part 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeoGkbJ7kUw
- part 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzCAfNLF6r4

Lys said she caught the translation bug from you, Fay


She just translated a roundtable post-Olympics commentary involving our dearly beloved Max. Watch this before you go to bed. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4tzmik_yh-wog14-after-sp-ita_sport

Imma add it to the translation spreadsheet~

4CC 2017 LP
CCTV5

M= male commentator
F = female commentator
*they call him by the Chinese pronunciation of his name, Yǔshēng jié xián. But I'm just going to say Yuzuru so we don't get confused

(after Shoma's LP)
M: I think today's competition is still gonna be mainly between Chen and him.
F: Yuzuru Hanyu is all of Asia's first Olympic champion for the Men's singles figure skating event. He's also the champion of every major competition, like the Grand Slam winner. This program's music is from Joe Hisaishi's Hope and Legacy.
M: We don't really know how he is. Because just a few months ago didn't we hear that he got sick?
F:A little, true.
M:We don't know how he'll be in this overcoming situation, because you rest, you still have to recover your training.

(program starts. I think they closed the mic because nothing at all during the actual performance)

F: Wow, a very unbelievable set of moves. I'm afraid to say it's a perfect, beautiful masterpiece, but I think after seeing this I can really relate to why some people think +3 GOE is not enough and we should have +5.
M:I agree, some elements from competitors before, you have +1, +2 compared to Yuzuru's +3...you feel like it's a bit of a loss. You want to apologize, you want to give him more.
F:You feel ashamed, with such high quality elements you can only give him +3. Ah really, he lit up the arena/crowd and gave it life and enthusiasm. Compared to some before, seeing this makes you think, it really is extremely worth the watch.
M:A really high quality competition! Today his performance, apart from in the second half his 4T-3T, he completed all his elements. But that combo, he popped it and lost points there. But later, he completed his elements with pretty good quality. Just consider it he completed two 4T and two 3A , and all completed really well! So they're all +GOE moves.
F:Apart from that 4T-3T in the second half- that was the only element in his planned layout that that he didn't do. All the others were beautiful.
M:Yeah, very high quality- landed cleanly and with neat completion. So talking from an athletic point of view, you can complete this program but you can't possibly be 100% perfect on the every front. So with the performance and components that he already gave, especially with this level of difficulty, is already...And there is so much physical strength and training required for each quad. But today slightly, I personally feel because of the difficulty and pressure to defend his reputation against the younger Nathan Chen and Jin Boyang was really great. So today on the performance side he put a little less heart than usual. I'm not saying it was below my standards, but compared to his standards.
F:Mm, yeah not a vertical comparison but a horizontal one (I don't really know what she means?). He seemed a little less emotional today.
M:Yeah, simply because he put all his effort into how to complete his elements.
F:Still *sighs*, he's already really good. Today this performance makes you feel. So close to the end, and he's still able to maintain such height, distance, and beautiful landings in his jumps.
M:Because you see, his body is in the thin side so you might not think he's particularly strong. How can he maintain such strength, even till the very end? That means his technique is very good, and he was able to pace his program really well.

(KnC)
F:Yuzuru Hanyu. Before this competition, he is the consecutive 4-time GPF champion. To him, the 4CC gold is still not something he owns. Today, he looks like he's looking forward to it (seeing his scores). Maybe he can add another medal to the ones he owns. A new gold.
M:Usually because of the rules, he can repeat a quad two times. If you have two types of quads, you can do four quads.
F:Let's see the scores.

(Yuzu says yaaay!)
F:"Yaaay" , we heard him say TES 112.33, PCS 94.34. Both the highest marks so far. They combine for 206.67. Also his personal best this season. And the highest at this competition so far.
M:The first competitor to break 300 pts. He got 303 pts.



Okay I know I said I thought it would be too hard to translate, but it actually wasn't that bad. Maybe because I know Yuzu's layout so I knew what to expect. Anyway, I get the feeling both commentators really really like Yuzu. They kept on gushing about how every jump is so HQ. I like them because they're pretty respectful and they don't talk over the performance.

After watching the latest Spirit of the Athletes documentary, I was inspired to do this motion study of Yuzu going for a jump. http://figureskating-in-color.tumbl...tudy-in-pencil-of-skating-and-the-motion-of-a

I can't smile any bigger

 

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2017 4CC EX ELTA Live Chinese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoGhTQ_E5lg

http://hanyusan.tumblr.com/post/158311376432

Yeah, folks, I know I'm addicted now... but I've got around ten YT videos open on my computer, and I want to close at least one. So another translation from 2012.

Skate America 2012
SP
Sport LIVE

(the video is mirrored, so you have a chance to see Yuzu jumping clockwise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8G5rhvX7qI

The first day of men’s competition will be closed with the SP of last year’s revelation, Yuzuru Hanyu, the Bronze medallist of the World Championship in Nice. The winner of Moscow Grand Prix event last year. I remember him winning the event – he needed to win to get to the GPF. He came fourth in the GPF, then came the stunning skate at the World Championship – he won Bronze medal at his first WC.

He also starts with 4T – now we’ll see this quad. You can judge by the audience’s response that the athlete has landed a fantastic quad.

(in a slightly more animated manner) Well, this guy is just 17! He’ll turn 18 in December. He’s a major hope of Japanese men’s skating, with a brilliant result last season and you can feel that he’s going to surprise us quite a lot. A wonderful SP, he was so confident while performing it, he’s undoubtedly a super-talented skater. Now he lives in Canada, in Toronto. He moved there to train with Brian Orser, a brilliant coach who was once a brilliant skater himself, silver medallist in two Olympic Games, 1984 and 1988. There he is greeting his student. Indeed, it was a stunning program – let’s see: a fantastic 4T. In fact, Yuzuru (or Oozuru, as he pronounced it) didn’t have any problems with his jumps. There you can see once a brilliant skater, now an outstanding coach applauding him. A splendid 3A impeccably executed. The program itself is very exciting, and the skater himself is both emotional and graceful (or elegant). He delivered everything in this program, so we should expect to see a high score. By the way, he received his highest score for the SP so far in Moscow – 82.78, and I’ve a feeling that this result will be surpassed now. I think two Japanese will be at the top… 95.07! Of course, I expected him to improve on his result, but to do it by so much! By more than 12 points! 95.07 – that’s a tremendous achievement!

Has this been posted before? A fan made "No Miss Edition" of Hope and Legacy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODu_yo4ItSI

Credit: Changyu XIU

Hi, does anyone have a link to the Universal coverage of Yuzuru's fs at NHK 2016? Found a bit of it in a cut YouTube video and realized that I had never seen it before - and because I'm quite curious I can't really stop thinking about it (might have been GPF16 but I don't think so) Would really appreciate it.

Edit: Found the "cut video", seems to be nbc coverage of GPF16 (my bad - sorry) but not the one with Weir and Tara, other commentators? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODu_yo4ItSI

https://twitter.com/yukiya_yuzu/status/841465149235986434

anan cover arrives~~

http://shop.bathclin.jp/hmovie/

Bathclin video clip, new-ish? I haven't seen this before.

Anyway I am sharing jun hwan's interview where he mentioned Yuzuru here

Q: You share practice ice in Toronto with Yuzuru Hanyu and Javier Fernandez. How is it to train with them?
JHC: We train together, but the session is busy. Everybody focuses on themselves. There are eight to ten or twelve skaters on the ice. Sometimes there are also pair skaters, Dylan (Moscovitch) and Liuba (Liubov Ilyushechkina), so we have to watch out. When Yuzu and Javi are jumping, we have to watch out. When we are jumping, we have to be careful not to kill each other. We have to be careful when training together. When I do my elements, the jumps, I might fall a lot of times, but when Yuzu and Javi are jumping, I’m watching them and I get the feeling for the jumps.

Q: What do you do outside skating?
JHC: When I’m not skating or studying, I like doing nothing, just lying down like that (hits a relaxed pose). I don’t really have a hobby. I’m friends with other skaters at the Cricket Club, Roman Sadovsky, Javi (Fernandez), Yuzu (Hanyu), but we spend time together only at the rink.

Ice Time inquired about Zoueva’s thoughts on Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu.

“He is amazing,” Zoueva commented. “He flows with the music on ice. That’s the thing. It seems like most of the Japanese skaters have this ability.

“I love the way he interprets the music. It’s very light,” she added. “He doesn’t seem like he is working hard. It looks like the skating and jumps come from within him. It’s natural for him. He is very flexible.”

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/...imed-defense-world-junior-crown/#.WMgAK9SLTGi

runrun's beautiful fanart with Yuzuru, Pooh, Moomin & Snufkin

https://twitter.com/runrun8383/status/841463864986222593
https://twitter.com/runrun8383/status/841595834936438785

anan: Breathing and Body Trunk, featuring men's figure skating
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B06XH4HPRT/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1489507450&sr=8-3&keywords=anan
Nihon Camera: Magazine of cameras
https://www.amazon.co.jp/日本カメラ-2017...?ie=UTF8&qid=1489507656&sr=8-1&keywords=日本カメラ
Kiss&Cry:
https://www.amazon.co.jp/氷上の美しき勇者たち...&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=フィギュアスケートマガジン　kiss&cry
Quadruple:
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4789962431/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1489508385&sr=8-2&keywords=quadruple

There should be another flood of magazines after the Worlds

Shameless self-promo. Warning: my doodles are pretty messy, and the lighting is poor quality.

https://yuzuru-art.tumblr.com/image/158379298994

Okay then

Beware, it's gonna be LONG. VEEEEEERY long (God THEY REALLY SPEAK A LOT !). But fun. At least I hope... anyway

So here is my take on the translation of french TV commentary of Yuzu's SP at Sotchi.
You can watch it on two links :
short version : http://www.francetvsport.fr/le-record-de-hanyu-206493
long version (the one I used) : https://tinyurl.com/z3xtba8

Please note that there was already a post with a translation, by Yuzusan. I took it as a reference but I completed it, corrected some mistakes, probably added some, added some storytelling because it's good fun, and changed some (many) sentences in a way that I felt sounded better.


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The commentators are, as always on french national TV (France Televison), the three musketeers of figure skating comment, those whose lyrical enthusiasm can only compete with their tendency to talk ALL F...G THE TIME, the very unique Nelson Montfort (NM), Annick Dumont (AD) and Philippe Candeloro (PD). For those who don't know him, Candeloro is a former french skater from back in the days when figure skating was popular in France. He's pretty famous here.

But first, in order to understand the translation, you must know that, while the competition was broadcast live on France 2, they chose to have the commercial break just when Yuzuru was skating... the legendary french sense of timing strikes back
The live broadcast was back just for the scores announcement – which they commented live – and they broadcast Yuzuru's program just after. Sadly, they already knew the scores so there was less spontaneity than usual. But don't be afraid, they're as always SUPER enthusiastic and plenty of "Ohlalas" are to be heard

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(in the beginning of the video, the host is speaking about Brian Joubert and Florent Amodio, and then about Plushenko's withdrawal and Jeremy Abbott's fall)

0:40 (Laurent, the host) This is going to be quite an evening, don't you agree, Nelson ?

NM : Yes, I concur, Laurent. Now we're on the kiss and cry with the japanese skater Yuzuru Hanyu, who's just... Annick, please describe us...

AD : he's just (she's more or less speachless )... we're waiting for the scores-OH LA LA !!!

AD & NM : IT'S THE WORLD RECORD !!!!! THE WORLD RECORD !!!!

PD : it's a masterpiece.

NM : YUZURU HANYU HAS JUST... IT'S INCREDIBLE !!!

AD : IT'S THE FIRST TIME A SCORE IS OVER 100 !!!

PD : … on a short program.

AD&NM : yes, on a short program.

AD : It's incredible ! He did a quadruple-triple combination... I swear, he skated faster when he landed the triple than when he entered the quad. He manages to GAIN speed during the jumps.

PD : He's trained by Brian Orser, who can't be on the kiss and cry right now because the skater who's going next is Javier Fernandez, who's also trained by Orser. I can tell you that Yuzuru Hanyu has set the bar really high in this second to last group. It's going to be quite a challenge...

(back to the host, speaking again about Brian Joubert (these olympics were his last competition) and telling that Yuzuru Hyanu (sic) 's program is coming next. He also mentions that Brian Joubert and Florent Amodio think that Yuzuru is the most likely to win the competition, or is their favourite skater in this competition, it's not clear. The formulation is ambiguous but in any case it's very nice to hear )

2:10 (host) Now we're going to watch this absolutely magnificient program.

NM : Yuzuru Hanyu is on the ice, representing the Empire of the Rising Sun. Yuzuru Hanyu, who is a skater on the rise, a dainty and delicatee skater, who is both a tremendous technician and an absolutely wonderful artist. And here it begins for the cheerful Japanese, with his oh-so-endearing personality.

PC: You're scaring me, Nelson. You're saying he is in on the rise, but he is already at the maximum, and even beyond everybody else.

NM: Yeah, in any case we are now watching his program.

PC: This skater may do a quintuple jump one day, because it looks like he could do it (whaaaat Philippe FFS have some chill !!! ).

NM: Gary Moore, the Parisian Walkways, what a marvelous theme – which you know well (I guess he's talking to PC).

PC: It is a very good musical choice… the rythm of this program is perfect for the first part of an event with such high stakes as the Olympics Games.
Look at this, right now, the quad toe loop.

AD: Ohlala what amazing skating skills !...

PC: He's quite happy that the jump is clean, and he's celebrating.
And here, he earns also many, many points with his spins. With his flexibility... He's a skater who can bend and twist himself in all directions while keeping a perfect edge… But it's true ! It's not easy at all ! When we have a stronger musculature, it is harder to do this … Brian (Joubert) would agree with me on this. This kind of detail makes all the difference (for the win) …
(1:45) and now normally, he's got an innovative preparation for the triple axel, he's the only one to do it… Here, without any preparation.

NM: A little dance step, and then... triple axel !

PC: Exactly, and it earns many points regarding a percentage that Annick will perhaps be able to explain.

AD: It gives points on what we call “Transitions”. Each time you do a jump’s preparation that is not classic … (we gain points).

PC: And here (2:19) he does it again with the triple lutz, triple toe loop, a perfect combination…

AD: … (going on with her explanations) and so he earns points on what we call “Components” (PCS). A few years back, we called that “the second mark”, and we're going to keep on calling it like this because it's basically the same thing, and it's much easier to understand this way…

At 2:33 Nelson Montfort specifies something for French people. Because AD has pronounced “Components” in English, while in French, we translate “components” by “composantes” (different pronunciation). But she used the English word so it can disturb French who don’t know English.

(2:40) AD: Yeah and “Components” regroup five criteria of the second mark which are transitions, the choreography, the interpretation, the skating skills (the speed, the lightness of the skating) and the performance/execution. This system tries to make more credible what we (in France) would call “creativity”.

NM: So, Philippe are you ready for the test? (after this skating lesson by Annick Dumont ).

AD: I’m ready (laughing)

PC: He really skated very well this program, it was a very good choice of music and his order of passage has certainly made him more confident, and disconcerted Patrick Chan, who has not been perfect but still stayed focused.

NM: So, we've just witnessed the program which is, at the moment, the best short program in all skating History, at least since the new ISU judging system has been adopted, ten years ago. Because Yuzuru Hanyu scored more than 100 points.

AD : He's had 101.45 points. He's just beaten his own record btw, since he was already the current world record holder. But he hadn't reached the 100 points bar yet, he « only » had 98-99 points.

PC : Yeah, we could say he had kept a little margin for himself. (laughing)

(then they speak about other skaters)

THE END
***

(I'm a bit sad, I remembered some really great (french) comments about this video, but apparently they're not there anymore. They were in awe of Yuzu and quite lyrical about him, but mad at PC, AD and NM because they talked so much that people couldn't even hear the music during the program )

I kinda want to change my avatar again... Why can't i hold all these avatars
I want one that is more Yuzu facey. I love his hydroblade and his expression there but...

Edit: looks like there are some spanish translation requests? I might do them when i get home Except World's Ex. I cannot look at that again. Also i translated the GPF EX Commentary here

Fay, Fay, Fay Exchange time...:luv17:

A little fanboying fluff by photographer uncle Ryousuke Menjyu for Figure Skate Magazine, 2016-2017 Season Climax. As you can see, excessive use of "cool". More photographer uncle gushing coming along, because that's how I deal with WC-induced nerves!

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The moment when the switch turned on.

I was sent on assignment to cover the Four Continents Championship. In the plane headed out from Kansai International Airport, seated in front of me and behind were ladies headed to Gangneung in support of Hanyu-senshu. Even though Gangneung is quite close to Japan, what extravagant lives do these people lead, following him abroad like that…? As I pondered about these things, the plane arrived at Gimpo Airport and from there, I travelled to Gangneung by bus.

Men's SP is on February 17th, which is the second day of the competition. Days before the opening, cameras have already been set up at both main and practice rinks, attentively following Hanyu-senshu’s each and every move during the practice sessions. But at the OP before the evening's SP competition, the atmosphere surrounding him was clearly different. Perhaps he was listening to Let's Go Crazy, or some other hard rock music? Completely engrossed and shaking his head to the beat of whatever he’s listening to, he looked more like a rock artist rather than a skater. (The photo that went with the story: http://imgur.com/a/gASRV)

Aahh, so Hanyu-senshu makes such a face... I've been photographer at many figure skating events thus far, but this was the first time I’ve covered a competition with Hanyu-senshu. My impression of what “figure skating” was and my mental image of figure skaters were completely rewritten at that very moment. Figure skating until then had always been “beautiful" and “serene." However, the air that Hanyu-senshu created was quite different, very manly and fierce.

And then, when I saw the SP performance that night, these thoughts became something decisive for me.

The form of Hanyu-senshu skating, jumping and dancing to Prince’s song was, even from a guy’s perspective, extremely cool. I am not exaggerating, I was shaking as I watched him. Energetic, but at the same time, majestic. As my shutter clicked away, I was muttering to myself, “Hanyu-kun, so cool, man..." I felt I understood the feelings of all those fans who traveled abroad just so they could support him.

In this competition, I would like to do my best to cover Hanyu-senshu. But, my photos don’t do justice to Hanyu-senshu’s full extent of coolness yet. One day, I’ll shoot and show pictures that are just as cool as Hanyu-senshu. My feelings as a photographer has been ignited!

EDEA stand at Junior Worlds

 

[Ladysci]

Wondering if he was in Japan for a while and we didn't know it . It's a 10 hour flight from Narita to Helsinki, not much different from Toronto to Helsinki.

 

[Ladysci]

When I arrived in Helsinki last week, there were quite a few Japanese tour groups there at the airport, so perhaps some of them were going to Worlds?

 

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This little tidbit from Japanese FS magazine, Quadruple: When Mai Mihara was working on correcting her flutz, she specifically referenced Yuzuru's lutz as a good example of how it should be done
(Nice detail when poor little 3Lz is always on the chopping board in his layouts, either from second quad in short program, impending 4Lz or YOLO 3A )

Photographer Uncle Fluff, Take 2. This time it's a piece written by Yutaka Nagakubo during NHK Trophy this year. He also wrote about Yuzu's twelve-seat-spanning triple axel during the same competition, kindly translated by Yuzusorbet.

This is part 2. I looked around and I don't think it's ever been translated...? Fingers crossed that's true, but forgive me otherwise.

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NHK Shameless Diary 2: The Air Shimmers with Heat in the Makomanai Ice Arena by photographer Yutaka Nagakubo

Shooting photos from behind the audience, I felt my spine seize up. My lens was pointed toward Nathan Chen, the last performer of the day, but internally I was panicking.

On the ground beside me was my laptop with 1593 photos of Yuzuru Hanyu who had just finished his performance. All the monitor displayed were bad photos of terrible picture quality, one after the other.

It’s not that they were out of focus. Rather, they were "sleepy” pictures in photographer jargon, as if frosted glass had been placed in front of the lens. The cause didn’t occur to me at the time, and the sense that I had screwed up majorly was all I felt.

NHK Trophy, day of Men’s Free Skate. 8 AM.

“I wonder how many roundtrips I can make today...” Even the taxi driver was in a good mood. “The other day when Arashi was here, I made 4 trips to the Sapporo Dome from 4 o'clock in the morning. Today too, thanks to Hanyu-kun."

Arashi fans lining up at the goods store since 4 AM were ardent, but fans at the Makomanai Ice Arena were just as passionate. Ladies bundled up against the cold formed long lines at the entrance. You couldn’t do that without passion when the weather out there is freezing cold.

11:10 AM. When the final practice group began and the music to Hanyu-senshu's program, "Hope & Legacy,” came up, cheers from afar could be heard even at the rink side. Wasn’t that weird, the audience had yet to enter the arena… While I was thinking, raucous applause once again met the ending of the song. Seemed that the music had leaked out to the fans lining up outside, who got psyched imagining the appearance of Hanyu-senshu.

This heat, strong enough to melt ice, further intensified in voltage when the actual performances began.

Actually, this heat was the cause of my failure.

Keiji Tanaka-senshu who gave a satisfying performance just before Hanyu-senshu. My photos were normal, right up to the moment he pumped his fists in response to the cheers. However, the image quality became dodgy once Hanyu-senshu was called, and once he landed the quad loop, the outline of my subject melted and blurred.

The excitement in the arena was palpable (lit. as if the arena would burst open). Fans letting out a collective breath they hadn’t realized they’d been holding as they prayed for a successful quad loop. A warm sigh of relief at the sight of a health Hanyu-senshu after a season of injury. Frenzy radiating from within their bodies. This heat met the cold air in the rink, forming a haze. Or, the air shimmers with heat between the warmed seats and the cold atmosphere, refracting the light and bringing distortion to the lens. A rare phenomenon that you only see at events the like of boxing world title matches.

Such calm analysis only came about the next day (a cameraman will become silent and withdrawn after a failure). When I piped up about the incident, "I was surprised yesterday...” “Me too..." a bunch of my colleagues concurred in response. We came to this conclusion as we licked our wounds together. In any case, I take responsibility for my lack of foresight.

A shutter clicks at 5 frames per second. I could have checked on the monitor screen of the camera, back when I initially felt suspicious. But such is his performance, that you’d regret looking away from the viewfinder for even a second or two. You understand my feelings, right?

Could anyone translate this from German?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbNqkpK9K4g

I gave it a try. It's not nicely translated and I missed 1-2 short things (I marked it with [...]), so if a native speaker could help it would be very nice.
The lady (actually I don't know who she is....) is clearly a Yuzu fan

Yuzuru Hanyu GPF SP 2013 German Eurosport

And the last instructions for Yuzuru Hanyu from Brian Orser, his trainer, a two-time Olympic silver medalist. At this Grand Prix he is with only one of his students, at the last two GPFs, Javier Fernandez, the European champion was also there, but in this season, he was not that good at the GP events and he missed the Grand Prix Final.
Here it is with his short program, Yuzuru Hanyu, 18-year-old, but not too long as he is having his 19th birthday on Saturday.

During the program:

Yes...he did the quadruple toe-loop, great beginning for Hanyu!

After the program:

Superb Yuzuru Hanyu, what a short program! And you can see the Japanese spectacors jumping, they give a standing ovation, but it is, of course, absolutely deserved! The 18-year-old with an insane[ly good] program here, and the pressure, is of course, great, the Japanese would like to have a winner here at home field. There were four times - it is the 4th time - when the GPF was held here and a Japanese male skater has never won it so far. Anyway, he took a great first step, and this could be a new personal best score for this nice man, who has been training in Canada for longer now…

Yes...he barely can even get through...the ice is littered with flowers, plushies and many others for Yuzuru Hanyu. The next skater, who is also a Japanese, Tatsuki Machida, has to be a patient until the ice will get cleared again. He can't even carry all these…

Good job, good job, you did great, Brian Orser's words for his student, he was second at last year's Grand Prix Final, he was also there in Quebec City two years ago, where he was 4th, at the age of 16.

During slow-mo:

And here we see the beginning once again, the quadruple toe-loop, delivered greatly. It's a very nice triple axel, from steps..as if it was nothing. Here we can see it again. He also did the combination, and after it, he only had to enjoy it, we could see then how fun he has had. And a nice picture, with Brian Orser here in the background, he jumped up, because he knew that this is it!

During kiss&cry:

This season he had problems with the quadruple jumps, but just in time for the Grand Prix Final, it seems that he gained control of it….Yuzuru Hanyu.
99.84, it is an absolutely unbelieveable. Look at Brian Orser! No skater has ever made it..it is a new world record! So he basically broke the best score held by Patrick Chan.

Thank you for the translation, sallycinammon. And so quick! I'm neither German nor English native but I do understand both languages. So I allow me to make just a few comments.

This commentator's one of the regular German ESP commentators (rather boring one at that lol). Actually she hasn't particularly struck me as Yuzu fan so far. I'd say she's actually neutral and nice to almost everybody.

a Japanese skater ... She's speaking of a Japanese "male" skaters here (ein Japaner=masculine). Mao in fact won twice at GPF held in Japan. But the commentator's a bit confused here about how many times the Final was held in Japan (she said it's the 5th time).

He got the new best score from Patrick Chan...I'd suggest: "So he basically broke the best score held by Patrick Chan." I hope you'd agree with me?

I didn't know that this video existed so I enjoyed watching it very much!

Worlds 2014 FS
Rus ESP
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1k84tw_wc-2014-yuzuru-hanyu-fs_sport

Well, the traditional rituals before coming out on the ice of the Olympic Champion, Yuzuru Hanyu. In Sochi, in his FS which brought him a win…
His costume reminds me of Johnny Weir.
Why did you say that about him?
Well, yes, he reminds me of him! So I remembered him.
… he failed in his 4S – he fell. Then he fell in his 3F, so he had 2 points of deductions, though his 4S and 3F were counted in as rotated. And he had a mistake in his combination – he didn’t do 3S, in his combination 3Lz-1L-3S. Perhaps, he can have an ideally clean skate now?
Oh, he made it – he held on to the jump!
He kept on his feet! The quad was borderline, he could have fallen!
Toeloop. Yes, he’s done the quad! The second one.
Yes, he’s already doing better than at the Olympic Games in his jumps. 23.09 for just two jumps. That’s beautiful!
3F!
Beautiful! He really jumps off steps – even his 3A!
I think he finds it more convenient.
Yes, his axel is… off a counter, isn’t it?
3A – hold on! -3T!
There it is, that axel!
Yes, one more axel with 2T.
All the combinations are in the second half.
3L.
In the second half the BV is multiplied by 0.1
3Lz! – oh – and 3S! Is that real!
He did it!
He jumped it almost from a standstill.
He didn’t do it at the Olympics, but here he did – he had to show his character and fight hard for it (‘he did it by the skin of his teeth). 83.73. Keep your balance!
That’s it!
He’s got two spins coming.
Now it’s the choreographic sequence. There are some points on the serpentine (???)
This season, he and Yulia Lipnitskaya are getting very high marks.
That’s dotting his i's! (literally, that was his final full stop).
He’ll receive more than 100 for TES!
101! 101!
101.45 is his record for his SP, dear friends. Here, he got more for his TES – he received 101.49! It’s 0.04 points more than what he got in Sochi for the whole program!
His leg… Now you can see he’s exhausted.
He’s absolutely drained!
I haven’t ever seen Hanyu so tired!
Neither have I!
To see him breathe like that…
Has he got a cramp?
I think so. He’s holding his leg. Perhaps it was his knee – he might have hit the knee against the ice when he was doing his final posture.
That was some skate! Will he go beyond 200? I think the judges will be generous and give him a lot of 10s…
The score is coming down – 100.84.
I think he’ll still have over 100. There were a lot of world records this season. Volosozhar-Trankov – several records, Mao Asada…
And Patrick Chan too.
And Patrick Chan too, a record at a Grand Prix event. And Hanyu, and Mao Asada yesterday in the SP. So this season we’ve seen incredible figures, or rather, we’ve seen the achievement of the athletes in figures…
There’s his 4S…
He did everything! Great! That salchow – how did he not fall? Just like Viktor An overtaking everyone around the bend. They’ll overlook his underrotations today, I think… Oh, that’s a shame!!! There it is…
They may add something…
I dunno… The judges are closing up and you can see the TES going down all the time. They see underrotations, and they lower his marks. Oh, that’s a real shame! At the Olympics his TES was 89.66, so shall we do some calculating? Machida’s TES was 93.85, so the difference is 6 points. The gap was 7 points. Hanyu will get higher PCS and he should overtake Machida, he will overtake Machida though Machida got very good PCS, for instance, his transitions were 8.71, and Hanyu will get something just under 10. Thank you very much? (Laughing)
Thank you, my mascot! (when Yuzuru shakes Pooh’s paw).
I think the audience is being restrained towards him, don’t you think? Asada is worshipped like a deity, but Hanyu… just look… (when Yuzu hushes the audience)
… in order to hear the score!
I think it’s because Fernandez has to skate! He’s first, it’s clear! Well, he didn’t go beyond 200… And there he goes again – ‘Am I the first?’. I saw it with my own eyes during the Olympics – he was in the mix-zone and just then Patrick Chan had just finished his LP. I just saw him dive to the TV next to me to Chan’s score and the words…

I promised i would translate it, so here it is!
FS GPF 2016, Spanish Commentary
I apologize beforehand because i don't know who are the people commenting, so i just labeled as FC=Female Commentarist and MC=Male commentarist, sorry!

MC: Well we now have to the one in the lead, Yuzuru Hanyu. He had an impressive short program, let's see what he will offer in this free program, because we're going from good to the best.

FC:With a margin of 7 points ahead of Patrick Chan, after the short program where both were maginificent, Patrick had one of his best short programs where in fact he got the best score in his career. Hanyu didn't get that much but his short program was amazing, with the music of Prince. We see him in his FP.
And he opens with a 4Lo!
A 4Sal, splendid.
A beautiful triple flip linked with the movement.
Second 4S, he wanted to do it in combination with a 3T, he couldn't do it, lack of stamina in that jump, in the 4S he had a fall, he still has another quad, a toe loop.
Very important that 4T, in the second half of the program for Hanyu's aspirations.
A combination, 3A3T.
He did a save in the exit of that 3A, a bit forced, he combined it with a 2S, he couldn't do the triple there, he wasn't in a good position.
He's running out of gas, a single in the last jump, the lutz.
MC: He's human too, Yuzuru Hanyu...
FC: Yes!
MC: Like how it happened before with Medvedeva.
Well, he left the door open, a big opening.
FC: Yes, he did with the fall in the 4s, the devaluation to a difficulty (i can't make out what she says here)
He did it better than yesterday, yesterday it was almost acrobatic, the way he managed to save the opening of the free program, he did it with better results, we can see the exit of that jump.
He did afterwards the 4S, that it was really good in that first attempt, too bad he couldn't combine it because in the second he didn't had the option to do it, he didn't have enough height to correctly complete the rotation and do the opening movement. This was the 3F that came after those steps, almost as if they were choreographic steps, the fifth element. And here comes the fall, in the second 4S that he wanted to do in combination with 3T. He completed the rotation, the four rotations, but it was impossible to mantain the support to combine.
This was a 4T, that he did alone in, the third that he realized correctly and the combo 3A3T that he did as eighth element,. The 2nd 3A, oh no, this is the second, we're watching a repetition of the first with the 3T. The next element was a second 3A combined with 3S but his balance was off, we see it here, this is the axel, he saves it with a single loop that lacks a rotation, he will have a penalization for that too and he doesn't risk a triple, he leaves it as a double because he doesn't feel with enough stamina nor the position to do that jump, so he left some things unfinished...
MC: Yeah, we'll see now...
FC: He failed some things and he left that door open as you said.
MC: Yes, for Javier Fernandez and Patrick Chan.
We'll see the scores, for Yuzuru Hanyu.
187.37, third position.
FC: In the free, yes. In presentation a very low score, those eyes aren't used to see that. First place anyways.
MC: As total score, 290.90, first place.
FC: For Yuzuru Hanyu, who stays there.