Yuzuru Hanyu

[DizzyFrenchie]

ISU's financial report mentioned Yuzu
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(from https://isu.org/inside-isu/financia...tory-auditor/31359-2022-financial-report/file)

Okay, I shouldn't be smug and it's really not good for current and future skaters... but it's still nice to see an (I'm sure begrudging) acknowledgement of how much he did for the financial health of the sport, as well as the artistic and athletic progress (and it's the most popular skater in the world, ISU)

When you think of the estimates of the takings for GIFT alone... I'm so glad the Japanese fans and public are supporting him.

Here's this financial report:
https://www.isu.org/inside-isu/fina...tory-auditor/31359-2022-financial-report/file

So, contrary to what I thought, it's not an official acknowledgement by ISU that Yuzuru Hanyu and Japanese TV channels were their main contributors, but rather a "leak": the auditor heard ISU officials acknowledge it to explain things, and reported it flat-out, maybe because he didn't know that it had to be kept a secret.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Today June 9th had 2 broadcast of Yuzuru Hanyu. The first one was 1h of Fantasy on Ice extracts, and interviews of Yuzuru Hanyu and Shizuka Arakawa by a Miyagi TV channel. Here's a series of Tweets with little bits of this boradcast:

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Here are the third and the fourth:

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Here's the fifth:


Here's the translation of the first part of the interview:

 

[Magill]

Here's this financial report:
https://www.isu.org/inside-isu/fina...tory-auditor/31359-2022-financial-report/file

So, contrary to what I thought, it's not an official acknowledgement by ISU that Yuzuru Hanyu and Japanese TV channels were their main contributors, but rather a "leak": the auditor heard ISU officials acknowledge it to explain things, and reported it flat-out, maybe because he didn't know that it had to be kept a secret.

Whatever the background, it is a good thing that what basically everyone was aware of or at least suspected got finally acknowledged in an official doc. No space for denials and dismissals any more, just plain financial realities out there to be seen. This is always a good thing in the long run.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Here's a brief extract of that broadcast, focusing on Yuzuru Hanyu's footwork:


Here are these moves at half speed:

It's not one of these moves where his body visibly defies the laws of Physics; it looks "easy" thanks to Yuzuru Hanyu's wonderful and habitual effortlessness in his skating. Yet even for a non-skater his mastery of blades and balance is simply astonishing. It's not surprising that when David Wilson indulged in some similar footwork in a group program he choreographed, while Yuzuru Hanyu skated it with ease and precision, two other skaters tried to do it, looked clumsy then fell, and the others slurred it putting vaguely their bodies in the required position and omitting the footwork.

 

[TallyT]

I think this is the ad? from the Sendai broadcast, Yuzuru looks amazing

 

[TallyT]

Whatever the background, it is a good thing that what basically everyone was aware of or at least suspected got finally acknowledged in an official doc. No space for denials and dismissals any more, just plain financial realities out there to be seen. This is always a good thing in the long run.

Agreed. I'm sure TPTB, especially from th JSU, were not happy to read that paragraph but the maths doesn't lie.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Today there was a broadcast of Fantasy on Ice in Makuhari Day 2, here's If:


Here's Yuzuru Hanyu's goodbye, Arigato Gozaimashita?:

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

This user focuses on this new element in If; in French, if means yew, and this move has a bit the shape of a yew, don't you think?
It looks natural at first sight, but it must be pretty difficult too.


In the broadcast of Fantasy on Ice in Makuhari Day 2, was an interview of Yuzuru Hanyu, here's the first out of five parts of its translation:

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Here are figures of If and of the CLAMP-style "big Yuzuru":


The same fanartist shows here the final split of the If program:

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

As we are on this final split of If, here's a slow motion version:

 

[TallyT]

Here are figures of If and of the CLAMP-style "big Yuzuru":


The same fanartist shows here the final split of the If program:

I love that costume, as well as the program.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Here's another fanart, back from last year about the rainy season and Fantasy on Ice:


This one is a collection of few-pixels chibi Yuzus:

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

We're given some crumbs. Here's a little part of the Finale in that Fantasy on Ice in Miyagi broadcast:


Here he tells that he likes encouragements from the public:

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

The Yuzuru Hanyu ricefield art project 2023 is going on:


The poster has seen a long-haired foreign woman watching the field, they could only bow to each other:

 

[Magill]

Some beautiful fanart by roselisa772 Insta channel. I know there is lots and lots of Yuzu related portraits, drawings etc. on the web but this one seems to me particularly catching, there is something special about it. Kudos to the artist!

 

[TallyT]

Yuzuru uploaded another video to his members on youtube: Notre Dame de Paris, and he still fits into that costume (which may be rather more Weir than I usually like, but I have a soft spot for it).

 

[TallyT]

Sharepractice is back (there was a huge fannish panic when it seemed to be blocked for a while ) and I notice it has over 104,000 comments. The love....

 

[Magill]

Yuzuru uploaded another video to his members on youtube: Notre Dame de Paris, and he still fits into that costume (which may be rather more Weir than I usually like, but I have a soft spot for it).

The Notre Dame program is so beautiful! I still have a soft spot for it after the last year's FaOI. But this is a full splendid version while the FaOI one was shorter or somehow different, I think?
Fun fact is that Yuzuru clarified in his post that the video can be commented on in other SNMs as long as it is not being reposted (which is strictly forbidden, of course). It reminded me of the little concern we shared here on the occasion of his previous post on whether the content from the membership zone can be discussed outside ot it and to what extent and in what circumstances. I felt like it was responded to from the very source . Thank you, Yuzu, for listening and clarifying