Yuzuru Hanyu: 2021-22

[DizzyFrenchie]

From Yuzuru's interviews on Dec 28 with subtitles:

 

[ankifeather]

New Year messages from Yuzu

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Sometimes these sorts of videos do good...

 

[decafjava]

Terrific! And another nice music video with our champion.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Even just the legs are a masterpiece. I could watch it hours. I think I will by the way.

 

[ankifeather]

ANA is now selling Hanyu official goods. The teddy bears are adorable!

https://www.astyle.jp/disp/CSfSpeDispListPage.jsp?tx=press72&dispNo=020001176

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

ANA is now selling Hanyu official goods. The teddy bears are adorable!

https://www.astyle.jp/disp/CSfSpeDispListPage.jsp?tx=press72&dispNo=020001176

BUT it's only for ANA passengers...
The rest of the World is envious!

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

ANA is now selling Hanyu official goods. The teddy bears are adorable!

https://www.astyle.jp/disp/CSfSpeDispListPage.jsp?tx=press72&dispNo=020001176

Those are actually really cute...

 

[ankifeather]

BUT it's only for ANA passengers...
The rest of the World is envious!

You want the bears, you have to fly ANA

Another Ajinomoto commercial from Yuzu. But I am not sure he himself can eat that much

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

You want the bears, you have to fly ANA

Another Ajinomoto commercial from Yuzu. But I am not sure he himself can eat that much

He could (it's for 4 people so 1/4 of it) but he said that when he sees a large amount of food in a plate he can't eat it, he needs to have small amounts in different dishes and to have soup at the same time. It's the Japanese way of dining, maybe many Japanese feel the same. The first time I ate in a Japanese restaurant I got an impression of a small amount of food and at the end, it was abundant.

Japanese cuisine - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

With all the buzz being made around so-called 4A attempts which look nowhere near Yuzuru Hanyu's (not even like his GPF 2019 attempts) but rather like heavily prerotated and downgradable, that is 3As + pre- and post-rotation on ice, with the height and length of a 3A; here is slow motion of Yuzuru Hanyu's real, no-prerotation, underrotated, nearly 2-foot landed 4A in a real competition program, under several angles:

There's also slow-motion of his other jumps and of some other steps and elements (and a bit of the Kiss & Cry).

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Roseline Winter posted a very interesting thread on Twitter, analysing for five of the World's top skaters the number, types and variety of transitions in their ongoing Short Programs.
It is clear that Yuzuru is well above. And this is only the measurable part. If one consider also the quality of the moves and their execution, he's even more so.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

It's 4CC and I remember this open practice of Yuzuru Hanyu's with Jason Brown and Junwhan Cha at last 4CC. It was only the usual warming exercises but it's soothing beauty:

 

[AlexBreeze]

Mishin advises Yuzuru. A photo from Anastasiia Guliakova's IG stories

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Mishin advises Yuzuru. A photo from Anastasiia Guliakova's IG stories

Now she has deleted this post. The mystery's thickening.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

A pre-Olympic interview with Shingo Murakami, subtitled by AxelWithWings:

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

The mystery keeps thickening... or getting deeper.
Last April just after WTT, Alexei Mishin said that he had had a 40' "secret meeting" with Yuzuru Hanyu after WTT Gala!
This statement went unnoticed because it was made during a sort of parents-pupils-teachers meeting of his school's and usually nobody cares but the families themselves.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

This is about a Sina Sports analysis, quoted by Sponichi, on the amount of forces and other mechanical stress generated and endured by a skater's body in a quadruple Axel. I'm really dizzy when I try to figure it out.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

This is an AFP article showing a fanartist who both paints and sculpts Yuzuru Hanyu's likenesses.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Here's a list of the 7 Men figure skaters who got 10 Gold medals or more in Super Slam competitions, and a list of the 4 who got more than 20 medals in such competitions.