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He said よいしょ (Yoisho) again. Irresistibly cute https://planethanyu.com/topic/1145-general-yuzuru-chat/page/6637/#comment-483154

a bit but if you are interested in the Tale of the Heike.

Meanwhile, In the Disney Store, Winnie the Pooh is jumping

Has this been already posted? Newsweek Japan Same picture as AERA. This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

Yuzuru Hanyu by Sui Ishida (Tokyo Ghoul) "He was so cool"

Interviewed by Shizuka, then Shuzo. What a combo This was an Irresistible force (for his tears).

He laughs and cries, saying "Wait, wait a moment. It was no good to see your face, Shi-chan (Shizuka) (as it made me like this )," trying to calm down himself. As they have known each other for a long (they are both from Sendai), he may be thinking Shizuka just like his sister. Shizuka is there as an interviewer, but she says "I got a bit emotional too now". This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

Yuzu, you make me smile and make me cry

Cutieee

He was asked about his future challenge of 4A, "Please give me some time. I've given it all out (done so much as I could)." https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/08e5230fbdd67fa140c1bd9aab7668c50477a411

Shizuka Arakawa made a similar comment as Yoshie Noguchi. https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/fdbd59915325a8a24dca770269cb63f41100c2bd 特に注目したのはジャンプの軸。去年12月の段階では、軸は体の真ん中で、”両足”で降りてきていました。 「一生懸命回転している感じでした。まだ回転が回っているのに落ちてきちゃったりしている時に、片足で着氷すると、ケガにつながります」 しかし、今回は、軸が右に移ったといいます。 「ジャンプは片足で着氷する場合は、右足で降りるので、右に軸を取るんですが、今回は右に軸を移して、片足で降りてくるというイメージを空中で持っているジャンプになっていました」 What she especially paid attention to was the axis of the jump. In December last year, the axis was in the middle of his body, and he was landing two-footed. "I felt like he was rotating really hard. If you land on the ice with one foot when you're still rotating, it can lead to injury." But this time, she said that the axis shifted to the right. "When you land on the ice with one foot, you have to take the axis on your right side as you land with your right foot. This time, it was a jump that he had the image of landing one-footed by shifting the axis to the right in the air." This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

「逆境は嫌いじゃない。乗りこえた先にある景色は絶対にいいはずだと信じている」 "I don't hate adversity. I believe the scenery that comes after overcoming it should be absolutely beautiful." by Yuzuru Hanyu

Having said that we need to relax, here is an interesting article by Yoshie Noguchi https://number.bunshun.jp/articles/-/851993 Excerpt: rough translation by DeepL and me. (omission) フリーの構成に書かれた、驚くべき「2つの最終兵器」とは？ What are the two amazing "final weapons" written into the component of free program? 　その夕方、羽生が登録したフリーのジャンプ構成に、驚くべき最終兵器が2つ書き込まれていた。もちろん1つは4回転アクセル。そして新たに加えられたのは「トリプルアクセル＋3回転ループ」だった。これは4回転アクセルの回転軸をつくる練習としては行っていたが、試合で入れたことはない。トリプルアクセルで完全な右の回転軸をキープしながら降りない限り、3回転ループをつけることはできず、リスクが高いからだ。実際のところ、1998年にアレクサンドル・アブトが成功した記録があるものの、現行ルールでの成功者はいない。 That evening, two surprising final weapons were written in the elements of free program that Hanyu had registered. One was a quad Axel, of course. And the new addition was "3A + 3Lo". He had been practicing to make the pivot for 4A, but had never done it in an actual program. This is because unless you land 3A while keeping a perfect right axis, you cannot add 3Lo, which is risky. As a matter of fact, no one has ever succeeded under the current rules, although there is a record of Alexander Abt's success in 1998. (omission) 2月7日、羽生が北京入りして最初の公式練習。そこで羽生は35分間の半分ほどを4回転アクセルの練習にあてた。そのジャンプは、全日本選手権からわずか1カ月半とは思えない、大きな進化を遂げていたのだ。 February 7, Hanyu's first official practice after arriving in Beijing. There, Hanyu used half of the 35 minutes for practicing his 4A. It was hard to believe that it had been only a month and a half since the Japanese Nationals, but the jump had evolved greatly. まず全日本選手権のときは、足を組んだまま降りてくるため左足トウが先に着氷し、すぐに右足に乗り換えて着氷姿勢をとる、というものだった。演技後に羽生は「まだ怖くて左足をついてしまう」と語っていた。 First of all, at the Nationals, he was landing with his legs crossed, so his left toe landed on the ice first, and then he quickly switched to his right foot to take landing position. After his performance, Hanyu said, "I'm still scared, so I put my left foot on the ice". 　しかし北京でみせた4回転アクセルは、右足で着氷しようとしていた。降りてくる最後に回転をほどき、右足で着氷すると、バランスを保つために左足をついて両足着氷になる。同じ両足着氷でも、左が先についてしまうのと、右足から降りられているのでは、まったく違う。「右足で降りる」という段階へ、大きく前進していた。 However, with the 4A he showed in Beijing, he was trying to land on the ice with his right foot. When he untied the rotation at the end of the jump and landed with his right foot, he had to put his left foot on the ice to keep his balance, resulting in a double-footed landing. The same two-footed landing, but completely different between the ones with the left foot coming down first and the right foot coming down first. He had made a great progress to the stage of "landing with his right foot". 　8本トライした4回転アクセルのうち、回転したのは5本。そのうち2本は右足が先行して降りているように見えた。回転をほどいて右足で降りる準備をできるということは、つまり、回転が足りつつあることを意味する。 Of the eight tries of 4A, he rotated five of them. Two of them seemed to be landing with the right foot first. The fact that he could unwind the rotation and prepare to land with his right foot meant that he was getting enough rotation. ただし、今はまだ全力で回し切っていない。下手に本気で回すと、着地で捻挫する可能性もあるのだろう。練習では「右足で降りる」という段階までを繰り返しておいて、本番は全力で締めれば認定されるところまで回る、という計画と自信を感じさせた。 However, he hasn't turned it with all his might yet. If he turns it too hard, he might sprain his ankle on landing. He gave me a sense of his planning and confidence, saying that he would repeat the "right foot landing" stage in practice, and then in the actual competition, if he tightened up (the body) with all his might, he would rotate to the point where the jump would be certified. (omission)

To escape from this tension for a while, here is an article about his skating boots "EDEA" Maybe DeepL can help you to understand the outline. 羽生結弦が高校時代から履き続ける“革命的なスケート靴”のヒミツとは？ 発売当初は周囲からバカにされる“異端の靴”だった What is the secret of the "revolutionary skating boots that Yuzuru Hanyu has been wearing since his high school days? When they were first released, people made fun of them as "unorthodox boots". https://number.bunshun.jp/articles/-/851924 but if you are interested, this is an article about Shoma's boots. He is using a really soft pair of boots now, and it seems to have affected good on his performance recently. https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/1198e82b13b43e49a2624c742c020dab26a01009 This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

In today's newspaper "Nikkan Sports", Tsuzuki-sensei says he saw a video of Yuzuru landing 4A in the practice before NHK, just before he was injured. Although Yuzuru has kept saying that he has not landed, I was wondering why he was so confident in the success of 4A. It seems he has actually landed 4A in the practice. 八百万の神 yaoyorozu no kami (Eight million gods), please protect him and make his dream come true This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

Excerpt of Takeshi Honda's article on "Number" - translated by me. This is the latter part of the article where he is talking about Yuzuru's 4A. As I'm not familiar with the technical terms of figure skating, this translation was really difficult. I want to expect you would activate your imagination fully In another magazine, "Figure Skate Fan", Yoshie Noguchi reported that the practice of 3A + 3Lo is to create a rotational axis tightly. In any case, Yuzuru's practice of 3A plus is for 4A. That's for sure.

Yuzuru should have been clad in PPE, besides the volunteers In any way, they were too close to him, and they should not have disclosed his arrival before the official announcement.

Yes. That's what I read from the article. It is a training for one-foot landing. I will add the content of the article before and after the part of his comment I posted above, sorry not the whole article as it's too long. Please give me some time.

At least five magazines at bookstores featuring Yuzuru (maybe more). I just bought "Number" as it has articles by NOMURA Mansai, HONDA Takeshi, YANO Keiichi about Yuzu and his performance. All were interesting, and Takeshi talked about Yuzuru's SP and FP from technical view points. Someone may remember that I was wondering why Yuzu was doing 3A and twizzles in the practice at the Nationals. I found the answer in this article. Takeshi says; まず公式練習では「トリプルアクセル＋3回転ループ」や「トリプルアクセル＋ツイズル」をやっていましたね。僕が子供達にダブルアクセルやトリプルアクセルを教えるときも、そのやり方をします。降りた時にしっかりと右側に体重が残っていないとループやツイズルを出来ません。右側に残すことが、片足で着氷することに繋がっていきます。 "First, in the official practice, he was doing "3A + 3Lo" and "3A + twizzles". I take the same way when I teach kids 2A and 3A. If you don't have your weight left on the right side (of your body) fastly when you land, you won't be able to do the loop or twizzles. Keeping the weight on the right side leads to landing with one foot on the ice." Apparently, Yuzuru is not trying to jump 4A only by physical strength, but in a totally theoretical manner This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

Shoma, Yuma, Kaori and Wakaba are in the Olympic village. Are they attending the team event? https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/6d8070085eef3c108ae9e98b7d512f918b76ee5a

50 pictures from Yomiuri Shimbun - Yuzuru Hanyu, Road to Beijing Olympics for his third consecutive victory. https://mainichi.jp/graphs/20220130/mpj/00m/050/067000f/1

Some injuries have been reported so far. I hope no more serious damage Thank you for your concern. https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/97734f758c1fab24f95bd16a4564efc901f0bff5

Yoshihiro Murai, governor of Miyagi Prefecture, expressed his intention to provide support for Tonga. "We have not forgotten the kindness we received from Tonga at the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Depending on the extent of the damage, the prefecture will consider providing support," he said. https://www.sankei.com/article/20220117-VJIQMAUJMVMSDLYJTQUTUNXOG4/ Many Tongan rugby players are playing in Japan. Rugby players and fans are considering support for Tonga. https://the-ans.jp/news/212524/

I remember Tonga people donated so much for Japan at the time of earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Tonga is a small country, but it was large amount when seeing its GDP. We are really thankful for that. I believe this is the time for us to do something for Tonga

Today's Figure Skate TV on BS Fuji (17:00 - 17:55) will be about the Japanese Nationals I have nearly forgotten the broadcasting schedule. https://www.bsfuji.tv/figuretv/pub/index.html This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].