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A quick post here :) The Competition Commentary Spreadsheet is parked in the Competition & Events section. As of today, all the links to translations on GS and PlanetHanyu should be fixed and working!

Wasn't he horsing around with Misha during gala practice one time, and he did his little Pooh flourishes? There you go, Misha, now go make it a full exhibition program. That needs to happen XD

Practice Hanyus are the best Hanyu's!

I feel like a plant everyday, cactus or something, pining for news like water XD XD *water me water me* I've seen wideshow program segments, with rehearsals and interviews. So I do look forward to some :)

Ahaha honestly I was just low-key following and giggling at you guys' antics with the magazine cover (and meoima's cats). I agree with Fay, this was really just a natural cycle in the general thread, topics come up and recede. Redaction and starting a new thread seems excessive for a throwaway topic that came up because of a silly magazine cover. A couple people mentioned they didn't enjoy these topics, and that's fine to voice as well - easiest way is to bring up something else interesting and the horde will follow.

Thanks for all the love, everyone. We really appreciate it! (Preserving all your love here in this post, hehe) Please DO NOT post replies here as we'd like to reserve the thread for upcoming and archived information only.

I'm wondering if there could also be an argument to be made for the quad loop being harder to execute consistently across a variety of ice conditions, compared to toe quads? I remember Takahashi testing out the ice at Gangneung and making an offhand comment that the ice there was easy for edge jumps. So additionally, I'm also wondering what kind of ice condition is favorable for edge jumps, and if there are parallel concerns for toe jumps?

Ha. you're so fast. ^_^; Just got done this morning... I was waiting for an answer on title format before I post here.

Yup, ISU served up a big fudge sundae. Fudge it up; fudge it down :s_hang :s_devil I've always found it ridiculous when people suggest he should be getting lower GOE's for transitions in and out of jumps he's mastered for a while (that still no one else can do) (so by definition it's his SIGNATURE). Judges who find it "not interesting" for Yuzu but "interesting" for someone else... need to be pelted with pooh-san (but maybe pooh-san doesn't deserve this treatment :sadPooh:)!

I read somewhere that his dad does baseball so he probably inherited the skills. And he did say he like baseball :space: Judging by the Galas where they throw the signed balls, seems like he still has a good arm :) I thought he played it seriously (or sort of)? Didn't he have to choose at a certain point between figure skating and baseball? I don't believe so. He was mostly playing baseball with crumpled paper wads as ball and magazines rolled up as bats back when he was still a baby skater. He wasn't too focused at practice and so his parents often told him if he didn't like figure skating, he's free to give it up and switch to baseball (Asaichi interview). Competitions used to be his main motivation, and he hated practice. So he credits his parents' approach as being one of the reasons why he didn't end up hating competitions as well, in addition to practice. Instead, well, we end up with a true student of figure skating :) :)

I think Yuzuru was referring the to entry curve and location on the ice. For the 4Lo, he goes in a big circle in the center of the rink so it's a very round approach, while for the salchow, almost like if it was a toe jump, he goes more alongside the longer side of the rink and does a 4S+3T using a much shallower entry curve. I think it's probably harder for him but there's no extra points involved, except for the subjective choreography/composition mark where they can reward placing elements in interesting and different places. I totally picked up on this and as a 10th judge I would give him higher marks for it because look how both the movements and patterns on the ice are so much rounder when the music is just those psychedelic, aimless guitars (lots of spread eagles, ina bauers, and skating in big circles) and then as soon as the drum line kicks in and the music has more "direction", his movements become much tighter and the patterns become a lot more linear. Jeffrey Buttle :goe: <-- I picked up on the movements matching to the music and I was aware of the adjustments they made to his entries for variety, but I never thought about how the patterns on the ice are matching the progression of the music! unicorn, you always make me appreciate his programs in new, fresh ways :love: :love: Thank you! you wouldn't consider doing an LGC version of what you did for H&L, would you? ^.^ *greedy* In terms of the jumps themselves, I'm probably out of my depth here, but I think he personally preferred the flow and "swoosh" of edge jumps and worked hard to make his toe jumps give off a similar vibe (the really light toe pick, the camouflaged flip, a shorter than normal setup for lutz, etc). Yuzu aesthetics? :)

what a good idea :):) yes to viewing party!

Omg i forgot about Zhenya!! I hope they do a duet.. :drool: Congrats on the tickets @Danibellerika And congrats to all of us on 10k posts. Imagine if the shows live streams and we all jam this forum into oblivion :yay: Yes yes. Do a duet. Zhenya can faint from excitement/happiness. No quad battles. Perfect!

:ohno: the only bit I fear ^_^||

This is yet to be announced, but I'm guessing that there will at least be one live streaming and all the other shows will be aired on TV, since they have been every year. That's so exciting :D I know they all get aired on TV eventually, but I wasn't aware there was live streaming too :) I've mostly seen footage from Makuhari and Kobe. What about the other locations? Did those get aired too?

Oh okay :s_wink So, are we going to see a new ex number from him or a Yuzu's-greatest-hits? :s_tongue I really like the latter to happen. I wish to see zigeunerweisen performed by a 22-year-old Yuzu :love: ooh.... that'd be cool. I'm also looking forward to the artist collaboration piece as well :D for FaOI.

I doubt it, will he show his new programs at FAOI before DOI? I don't think he ever did. ahaha. okay. that makes sense. it'd be too soon anyway. but i'm in quite good mood :) I think just the FaOI shows is not bad. And he knows not to overdo it.

you're planning to buy now? O_O

yay yay yay yayayayayayayay :D LP. My bet is on LP!!!!!!

:rofl2: :rofl2: makes me imagine Tracy, Brian, Ghislain's face every morning before they head in: :hachimaki: Must Not Allow The Boy To Do Illegal Things Today. Must. Be. Strong. (sorry OT)

translated by Fay Sochi Olympic Games, Individual Event SP | Sport-Hit ---------------------------------- 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 not like girls – 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.

translated by Fay Sochi Olympic Games, Individual Event SP | Россия (Rossia) Channel 1 ---------------------------------- (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…

translated by Fay Sochi Olympic Games, Team Event SP ---------------------------------- (TAT and Solovyev co mmentating) TAT: This boy is very talented as far as figure skating is concerned. Sol: Yuzuru Hanyu from Japan. TAT: This year he won the GPF. Sol: 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. Sol: 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! Sol: Well done! TAT: Well done indeed! Well done! Sol: 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 Sol: It isn’t just the season’s best – it’s the world record. TAT: That’s the WR in the SP. Sol: 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 bows to his coach! He fell from his salchow today. Sol: Did he? TAT: He did. Several times. I was at the practices… Sol: 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… Sol: In the depth of the winter… TAT: In the depth of the winter, yes. Sol: Now we’ll see. But the Japanese team is training in Armenia… TAT: We’ll see. I think he’ll win Sol: Yes, with a brilliant result – 97.98. His new result today. He comes first leaving Evgeny Plushenko by 6 points. TAT: But he’s the only one to do that! Sol: He’s the only one. TAT: That’s that! And we’re glad of it! Sol: Everyone’s bowing, bowing and bowing… TAT: We’re glad!