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Ahh, space kitten has improved so so so so much in stamina :') excellent translations from Fay: NHK 2010 FS | ESP Russian http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfn0l4 ... s-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. Well, clearly Pablo de Sarasate has absolutely drained the Japanese skater, it has! He skated last 40 seconds of his program with his mouth open with 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, 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 go – 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.

excellent translations from Fay: NHK 2015 FS | Russian ESP Live | Link to come - Now we’ll wait for Yuzuru Hanyu. If you saw his glare, can you imagine what we’re going to see? Well, finally, dear viewers, here we are – it could be a grand close to the evening. What will Hanyu show us – will it be a great close or a so-so close? In 2010, five years ago, this 20-year old – then 15 year-old – Japanese skater won the Junior World Championship, he didn’t get to the World Team first year he was senior, this is his fifth season. He was the third in his first season (in the WT), then he came fourth, then he won the Olympic Games and the World Championship, last year he lost the World Championship to his friend and training buddy, Javier Fernandez. Lets see what shape Hanyu is in today. After all, it’s Japan, it’s Nagano. He lost the Free Skate at Skate Canada to Chan, who had a stunning skate. - A quad, absolutely clean! - Wow! Quad Salchow… - Quad Salchow, a school variant, clean! Quad Toeloop, clean. And he has a very good speed of skating, excellent edge work. Triple Flip. - One more quad toeloop and a triple toeloop? Does that make three quads? - And mind you, they’re all brilliantly rotated! - 3A… oh, what a stunning combination – 3A and a 2T just after that with his arms aloft. - Another 3A… and 3Sal, how great! What a combination! - I’m waiting in awe for him to finish… I'm terrifed what we are going to see now! - You know I had to restrain myself and stop commenting on his jumps, turns, spins and steps to let you admire and enjoy Yuzuru Hanyu’s skate… - 113,99!!! - … just to enjoy it. I think you did enjoy it! - 118,59!!! - How he… it’s difficult to find a correct word – performed? Fought? Put his soul in it? It looked so easy as if he could skate 10 minutes more! - Well, he couldn't – he gave it all! Look at his face, look at the way he’s breathing! To be capable of performing to the best of your abilities for 4 and a half minutes just when you need it – up to the point of complete exhaustion! - He pulled himself together like that in his own homeland! I think they’ll put up a monument for him in Japan! - I think he’s already “raised himself a monument not built with hands and common folk shall keep the path well trodden”! The music comes from a Japanese film ‘Seimei’ – in fact, Abe no Seimei was a legendary person, a Japanese visionary who practised onmyoji – an ancient Japanese cosmology, divination, exorcism and defence against evil curses – sorcery, in short! Japanese folk sorcery, let’s call it that! And Abe no Seimei was one of those sorcerers and mystics… - Folk medicine! - Yes, he lived a thousand years ago, he was very famous… that’s why this music is full of energy, subtexts – Seimei’s personality had to be very strong and powerful, and Yuzuru Hanyu is as strong a personality as that! On January (sic!) 7th he’ll be 21. - Look how he’s getting into the right mindset at the beginning! You can’t say there’s an awful lot of choreography… - Is there little of it? - It’s not that obvious, but it’s everywhere! - He did everything! Look at the way he jumped! You know, 118,59 we saw at the end of the skate are scary, because yesterday he received 106.33 (and 101.45 was a WR before), now he already has a record in the technical score, and now the judges will shower him in the component score, and I’m scared to think about the score. The previous record was Patrick Chan’s and it was 196,33 if I’m not mistaken. What score he’s going to get now is just frightening. But he did everything immaculately – look, 4T – in the second half of the program, you see? - Clean! And a triple – also clean! - He’s got unique legs – they’re both rigid and soft when needed… - Springy legs! - Yes, they’re springy! - You know, they’re like shock absorbers… - Yes, rigid springiness! He’s a stunning talent, Yuzuru Hanyu, a university student, a modest guy, but his modesty conceals loads of ambition and drive and desire to win! But he knows how to rejoice – he was happy for his friend Javier Fernandez when the latter beat him at the last World Championship! He was happy because he knew it was just, Fernandez deserved to be Champion. I think he’s a greater idol in Japan than Daisuke Takahashi who was worshipped in the previous years. Now he’s applauding and bowing to Brian Orser! - This Japanese tactfulness amazes and surprises everyone… - And the good manners and the good upbringing! - The upbringing too! That attitude to himself and his partners… - 196,75 is Patrick Chan’s record in the free skate. No one has ever gone beyond 200. - Will it go beyond 200? - 216!!! I’ve also got my head between my hands now like he has – 216!!! 322!!! - And what is next? 400? 500? - No one has ever hit 300 – Chan’s record was 295! 322! 216! I think Orser is going to start speaking Japanese now – and it won’t surprise as much as this score does! Guys, this is World Championship, it’s just… 322,4! - It's world ranking… - Forget ranking, this is a world record which was unimaginable. It’s just as if Bob Beamon leaped his crazy long jump… Do they understand what they’re doing – and that Hanyu may not bother skating from now on? On the one hand, it’s a great triumph, on the other hand, it’s a great test for the psychologies of the people we can see on our screens. 322! I can understand if it were World Championship, but this is just an ordinary Grand Prix event! Though it was a brilliant skate, of course, I can see that he received 12 top 10 marks in the component score.

excellent translations from Fay: NHK 2015 SP | Russian ESP Live | Link to come … Kovtun comes 4th so far, but let’s wait – we saw how Yuzuru Hanyu skated at his first event, which was Skate Canada. Hanyu had a horrible SP there – he only got 28 points of technical score. He lost nearly all the elements, and he hadn’t received so little for his technical score ever since he was a little kid – only 28 points. But now it’s Japan and weeks have gone by – AND he’s Olympic Champion and World Champion. Frederic Chopin. He isn’t doing much, but you can’t take your eyes off him! Oh, the way he kept his balance! He fought hard for it – there was a lean on his Salchow, but he was able to pull out of it. Clean! Two toe-loops – 4-3! Very clean! He gets a lot of GOE for this combo… 28! He’s hardly behind Boyang Jin’s technical score accumulation pattern, but he’s going to get higher PCS. 3A from such a difficult entry. He was the first one to execute 3A with such an entry, when he doesn’t follow the classical pattern of going into it on his right foot and then jumping off the left foot. But there’s a little trick there he’s using, he helps himself a bit with his toepick. As a rule at the end of the program they have a step sequence. Well, he finished his musical piece… … like a samurai! Not like it was Chopin! … Yes, like Chopin! As if he were famous pianist or composer Frederic Chopin. I said, not like it was Chopin! Sorry I misheard you! With a glare killing his rivals! Look, 59.07! Well, he might go over 100. Over 100? Of course he will! His personal record is 101.45, but that was in Sochi, during the Olympic Games, and it’s a well known fact that judges give more GOE at World Championships and Olympic Games. But in this case Boyang Jin’s score might affect Yuzuru’s score – Boyang Jin was generously marked in technical score and he was scored very well in components too – his components are on average just under 8: 7.82, 7.93, 7.89, 7.93 – nearly 8! If he adds a little more, Boyang Jin will start receiving components over 8 on average, and then skaters like Yuzuru Hanyu, Patrick Chan and Javier Fernandez will be threatened. That’s a subtle aspect which the judges feel very well, so Hanyu’s marks will be… well, his skating also deserves it, but his score will be high, very generous. Let’s look, that’s his Salchow – with a lean, a bit underrotated. Oh, will it be downgraded? No, they won’t… There’s a slight underrotation… There’s one, but it’s less than a quarter of a rotation! It’s less than a quarter, that’s right. Let it be half a quarter. Now they’re showing us his quad Toeloop, let’s look carefully. I want to see his 3A – he does it so gracefully and so cunningly. This one’s also clean, and this (about 3T)? It’s also clean. He’s such a fantastic skater – he’s got flexibility, extension, lightness, musicality, delicate, yet powerful skating… Look here, I think he helps himself with his toepick? He must have! He needed to slow down into his jump… No, he does accelerate himself with it! (Or assists himself into his 3A). But he’s the only one to jump 3A in this way… … the right way is to jump off the toepick. An excellent skate from the Olympic Champion. Yes, this is excellent in every respect, he exceeds every skater who’s performed in his skating skills, very light gliding, and jumps too, he skated last… … and in his glare! Yeah, he just pierces with his glare! And there he is, smiling as ever, always thanking the ice, his coach, the audience… Well, how much? 100? I don’t there will be a record, he won’t reach 100… 106?! Oh, I’ve miscalculated that much!!! I thought they wouldn’t risk giving him that much! 106!!! In this case they’re telling Boyang Jin: “Get back in line! You’re too young!” “Get back in line for now!”, and you see why – this shows the progress in figure skating. Well, if he gets 106 now, what score should they give him at the World Championship? He has to skate that well there and the judges will be different. There will be a different skate there, and it’s not soon. Well, I think if Chan sees this, I think he’s incapable of speaking now!

Posting on behalf of Fay ;) GPF 2015 FS | Russian ESP Live | ------------------------------- - … besides Brian Orser, Geoffrey Buttle and Shae-Lynn Bourne worked with Yuzuru Hanyu, and now it’s the turn for Yuzuru Hanyu’s FS, Seimei, who’s a well-known magician, philosopher, visionary who lived at the turn of the 1st and 2nd millennia AD. They filmed a movie in Japan about his life and Yuzuru Hanyu took the film music score for his FS. - The first quad – done. He has three planned with a combination. - One more quad – absolutely clean. He gets 13.36 – this with the 10.3 BV of this quad – that means once again the he gets +3 from all the judges for his execution. LONG silence - (when Yuzu jumps his 4T3T) How well he does it! An even LONGER silence - (after Yuzu finishes) You know, we can breathe now, now we can breathe finally… - That’s just madness! 120,72! - Of course, he didn’t have a goal of breaking his own record, but he’s not given any other option but do it. I don’t know… the progress in figure skating! - 120,68! - 120 technical score! - And there you have the skaters applauding on their feet! They understand very well the value of such a skate, the value of the whole program – they know how much it takes. - And this is the second such skate within two weeks! There were just two weeks between the first one and the second one! - That’s real figure skating! - That means that he does such skates in his practice sessions… - And, Andrey, how much time has passed since NHK… - Two week! I said it was only two weeks! - Where does he take such strength from? - Forget strength. Where does he take mood for it? - Forget mood, how about keeping his peak up (his form up or a functional toning up) in such a state for two weeks? - Orser said that he went to Canada for two weeks and Hanyu stayed in Japan, he asked to stay, he didn’t go with him and he trained alone. Orser said that they didn’t see each other for two weeks. He said: “I entrusted him (with training) since he’s a very responsible young man.” - That’s just unbelievable. And when at NHK the judges gave him 118.87 technical score and 216 overall, they put themselves in a situation when the program is executed the same way, they can’t give him anything more…. - No, they can’t… - You know where it’s taking us? They’ll have to introduce +4 and -4! Now the judges have a right to mark within the range of +3 to -3, right? But with such a skating, guys, how do you grade Hanyu’s skating? +3 isn’t enough for Hanyu’s skating! - Yes, you’d need a five-mark range, +5. - What else can you do? Unbelievable, just unbelievable! - Now, you have the BV+3 and you can’t get anything more! - Now we have to add one more important thing – there was another historic achievement last night, apart from his improving his own record from 106.33 to 110.95. For one of his components, he got 10 – not separate 10s. How many 10s did he get? So there are nine judges, five components, so there are 45 marks, and I think he got 22 top 10 marks. But his performance component he got 10 from every judge! So the protocol shows 10! - Once again, such a gesture of respect to his coach… - Now they’ll give him some 30 10s here… and now we’ll get the result in the neighbourhood of… - Oh, I’m afraid to guess… whereabouts? - 220! We’ll get 220 now! - Javier kneeling before him and Hanyu to him too… “You won!” - “You’re a god, you are!” - Two figure skaters, two friends – it’s so great! - (when Yuzu gets his 219.48) Well, they didn’t make it by so little! - So little, true! But some of his exits were… - And Orser is looking at it… but it’s another world record! The previous one was 216.07, now 219 – just very short of 220. But I think Orser is going to have a huge problem now, because now he has to… I realise that Hanyu is unique in his psychology, but he’s still human. Being a god is very hard psychologically. - He’s crying… that’s the tension! - He’s crying, yes! Now Orser has to make him forget this state and prepare him for his Nationals and the World Championship, make him look for motivation… - He doesn’t know where his tears are coming from – “I don’t want to cry, yet I’m crying!” - He’s a one-off skater, just unique! I like it that he thanks his coach, thanks the audience, he’s so open, he’s got childlike openness. Orser says that he’s just a kid who loves playing with figure skating and is great at it. - It’s not just a game when you break WR one after another. (they speak about Patrick, Shoma and Javi having fantastic skates too)… - I think they (Yuzu and Javi) help each other! - They do, the fact they’re friends and rivals provide them with freedom to skate. - And – that’ll sound idiotic – they’re just good guys! They live well, they train well and they have a right motivation. I think Orser plays a huge role in it – he know to motivate them in a right way for competitions. He was a top athlete himself, so he went through it himself and he knows it. GPF 2015 FS | Russian ESP Replay http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3kpy4 ... play_sport ------------------------------- - As for Yuzuru Hanyu, you can’t find enough adjectives to describe him. - It’s like Swan Lake - Hanyu? Well, not like back in 1991, during the Russian coup d’etat. (Something only the Russians would remember perhaps – when there was an attempt of coup d’etat in August 1991 – and all you could watch on TV those days was Swan Lake. It created an ominous and ambiguous aura around Tchaikovsky’s ballet – and changed the attitudes towards it). - (then they speak about Russian skaters missing the GPF) - Now we watch this masterpiece of Hanyu’s – the masterpiece called Seimei, a well-known Japanese character, magician, visionary, who lived at the turn of the 1st and 2nd millennia. Seimei, a film soundtrack about the well-known Japanesse wise man. And this is the free program for which Yuzuru Hanyu received 216.07 two weeks ago at NHK Trophy. No one had gone beyond 200 before that, Patrick Chan’s record was 196, Hanyu surpassed that record by 20 points by getting 216, and now he’ll surpass his own result. - The first quad. - Such jumps get +3 GOE from all the judges. Every judge shows that this is the excellence in executing 4T. - A 4T3T combination in the middle of the program. - This is a kind of magic, it’s just a miracle, something mystical – a magic of Seimei the great and enigmatic wise man on the ice! - I’ve just paid attention to one thing – never saw it during the completion skates – how much gloves matter, the shape of the gloves, they’re wedge-shaped, and they also emphasise the choreography – he unbends his fingers, one, two, and look how they add up to the whole effect. - I’ve also seen that he stressed the musical accents with his fingers, furling his hand into a fist and clenching his fist according to the musical phrases, just when he needs to do it. And this adds up so much to the character of Seimei - Without the components, just hands bringing the character forth, it’s just as important – I mean, they don’t get tired… - And that glare! The glare he skated with! The one he did his choreographic sequence at the end of the program – that’s just incredible. Yuzuru Hanyu, a 21 year old genius! He got 120 for technical side of the skate and 219,48 overall. Will he get 220 – he will, as he can improve some things, and I think he can! This is the result of the men’s completion.

Posting on behalf of Fay GPF 2015 SP | Russian ESP ------------------------------ - Yuzuru Hanyu is on the ice. The Olympic Champion, the World Champion. Not the current one – last year he lost to Fernandez. Fernandez will skate after him, but they’re used to skating one after the other – they train together and skate together. Frederic Chopin, a beautiful programme. It was choreographed by one of the most creative choreographers, Geoffrey Buttle, who was also World Champion. - They’re alike with Buttle in something – a musical phrase and a turn of the head. Now it’s the turn of the arm. The harmony of soul and body. Now the spread eagle. Into a spread eagle from a quad. 4T3T. (clearing his throat) I think he’s repeating the NHK Trophy pattern. - His goal is to exceed his own achievements, isn’t it? - He’s never had such a goal. - (after Yuzuru had finished) Well, is it a standing ovation? It is! How can you help it! - We’re on our feet too! 56.66 – now it’s going to be 60! Is it – come on, computer, show us! 59.44 was the (previous) score, 61.59. We’re on the way to a new record, because Yuzuru Hanyu received 106.33 for his SP at NHK Trophy, surpassing his own previous achievement of 101.45 by nearly 5 points. Now his technical score is greater than his result at NHK by 2 points. There wasn’t a gap of two weeks, there wasn’t – I just don’t understand where they’ve kept him, what fridge in Canada Brian Orser kept him in to keep him in this fantastic form. I’m very curious what he does with them on his ice in Canada, Brian Orser! - I think he just takes them away from figure skating, then he releases them and they just enjoy it. - That’s why I started arguing with you during the skate – he’s never had a goal to break his own record. - He didn’t have it before now – he didn’t have a record. - No, he never wanted to do that. He doesn’t have that as a goal, no! The record was his -101.45! He only had one goal – to become one with music, with the choreographers’ ideas, his coach’s energy and talent so much, to become one with the audience for these 2 minutes 50 seconds and to produce such a gorgeous skate – that’s his goal, so that there was an absolute harmony… - I think yes, you can’t say he’s trying to surpass some results, he just skates for his own pleasure. - You can’t skate in this way if all you think about is just results… - These are not long or high jump competitions – there are lots of jumps and spins… - Look, there are two quads as a response to Boyang Jin: he starts with a 4S and then does 4T3T combination. - Just have a look at the exits! And his arms, his arms… - Exemplary exits! Please show us the exit from 3A, please! That was jaw-dropping – in the second half of the SP at that! There it is! Look – argh, Spanish cameramen didn’t show it until the very end, they get a D for that, they don’t understand the beauty of figure skating. But unfortunately, the time frame allotted for program slo-mo won’t fit all the masterpieces of Yuzuru Hanyu’s SP. - And what an ending… - Oh, that’s who a wunderkind is! Not Boyang Jin, but this boy who turned 21 a few days ago. - And, Andrey, I’ll interrupt you, he always shows – give applause to my coach, not me! - He does! Well, come on, 108? I’ll take your bets, gentlemen! He had 106.33, I think the final result will be 108, maybe with something else. 110.95!!! - 110. There you are! - And now I might agree with you - And then he’ll have his LP, that’ll be over 340… - What you said… Now he’s got carried away and wants more… 110.95! - Now he starts breaking his own records! His own records! - He couldn’t break that record of his for such a long time! - He won’t just look at his competitors, he’ll compete with himself now. - I just don’t want one thing to happen – the thing which happens to wunderkinds – when their fame and success produce so much pressure on them and drain them until they’re empty. That’s the most terrifying thing because… - Turning them into show people. - Or that, into show people. But so far Hanyu is the same Hanyu. - Look, Hanyu cheering for… - Sure, because it’s the same Yuzuru Hanyu who cheered and supported Javier Fernandez and showing in every way that he has to be Champion! And now he cries to him as always: Go, Javi!

excellent translations from Fay:, reposted here w/ her permission Worlds 2017 LP | Russian ESP - The public has been looking forward to his performance. - He usually skates not first, but closer to the end of the event – as the last or penultimate skater in the final group. Usually, he’s the one leading the field. But he’s currently fifth now. - He does 4Lo, pristine and clean. He does 4S, also clean. - I think it’s important now that he keeps his emotions under control during his step sequence. Now I think you can see he’s restraining himself, isn’t he? - Well, he’s determined to have a 100 percent clean skate… - … well, later he has two more quads planned. - 3F. Clean. - Now he has a crucial sequence of four jumps coming. He’s trying to control his emotions… There he goes! - He does salchow… toeloop! - Brilliant! He doesn’t let himself go yet as he’s got 4T coming. Come on, Yuzuru, hold it! Go!!! Well done!!! - He does it. Clean. - He can’t relax now either. Two triple axels. - He does it. With a 2T with his arms aloft. - And he doesn’t do it with his trademark entry, but with a conventional one. He doesn’t risk it, he’s skating safe. - Oh, how determined he is… 3S - Keep up! Atta boy! What a fighter! (What determination)! 105.78 and he has four elements left… You’ve got the last jump left, Yuzuru! - He does the triple clean. Well, you can’t hear the music. He’s done what he was planning to. - (laughs in disbelief) We haven’t seen such Hanyu for a very long time! - He’s angry. - Yes! He’s been wound up! - Yes, he’s been moved. - Well, he’s got an incredible ability to command his energy flow for 4 minutes and a half and not to control every single aspect of this most difficult programme in such a way! He’s just stunning! - I remember Evgeny Plushenko at this moment - I told you: Don’t make Evgeny Plushenko, because that made him skate just as perfectly, he’d do everything up to the hilt. - Yes, I’ve got the same idea because they’re alike – Plushenko and him – in that. They could both go out and crush everyone else by their dominance. Hanyu’s just like that. 126.27. I looked the WR up – 219.48, GPF 2015. Now he’ll get a crazy score, of course! It’s a shame his rival don’t get to see this skate… - I think they can hear it in the changing room… - They can, but after such knock downs and knock outs people don’t get up. - He’s crying because of tension… - Because keeping this string so taut for 4.5 minutes?! - Ideal exits… - Ideal! Everywhere. He didn’t slop a single step! He was calm… usually he gets emotional in his step sequence. No, this time it was just that - step after step, let them go, he has lots of jumps coming. He showed us the most difficult layout. In the second half he has 4S3T, 4T, 3A2T, 3A-1/2-3S – that’s a crazy layout. Why does he do it in the second half? Because the BV is multiplied by 1.1, so it gives more points. Oh, this 22-year old from Sendai, figure skating genius! Brian Orser, Tracey Wilson, the LP choreographer Shay Lynn Bourne, and a large group of unnamed people… So how much will he get? 225? 230? I’m afraid to guess. Now he’ll get an enormous amount of top marks! Well, he didn’t make it to 225 – 223.20. OH MY GOD (In quasi English). A new world record. 321.59. Remember these mark – 321.59. This is what the standard will be for next 40 minutes. User avatar Fay Posts: 21 Joined: Sun Apr 30, 2017 4:16 am

excellent translations from Fay:, reposted here w/ her permission Worlds 2017 LP | Arena | Commentators: Alexander Grishin and Fyodor Klimov Gr: Now all your attention to the ice, please – best of the best. Yuzuru Hanyu from Japan, World Champion and Olympic Champion, is only the 5th after the SP, but it’s the FP which is decisive. The music is by Joe Hisaishi for this season for Hanyu. Let’s start. Kl: An immaculately clean 4Lo! 4S. Gr: He flies somewhere to the skies! (then they fall silent and keep silent for a minute after the skate is done – for sheer shock, I think) Kl: I think this needs no comments. Any person, even if he/she is no expert in FS, understands this was a genius skating. Everything was done ideally – there’s nothing to commentate here, everything was the highest level. And we along with the whole audience give him a standing ovation. Gr: Everyone who’s present gives a standing ovation to the genius of world figure skating. I think I won’t be mistaken when I say that we won’t see anything like this even in this group. The fight for the first place isn’t yet over, of course – Hanyu wasn’t the first in the SP. But surpassing this skate will be nearly impossible. And after the competition, at home – either in Toronto or Japan – Hanyu will have around 90 per cent of global Winnie the Pooh resources Kl: Yeah, we joked with our friends yesterday that today it will rain Winnie the Poohs… Gr: Yes, it has rained and is continuing to rain… Hanyu can give one Pooh bear a day to charities and he’ll have enough to last him three years. Love Japanese anime? You’ll have a golden collection from the various competitions of World Championship dimension… Four quads, each one of perfect quality – a loop, 2 salchows and a toe-loop – that’s what Yuzuru Hanyu jumped in his LP. Brian Orser gave him such hugs. That was very touching and just what Yuzuru deserved. No, world records weren’t over with Evgenia Medvedeva’s skate – what Hanyu has shown here – I won’t use too many adjectives here like divine – but it was brilliant. So now we just remember and try to understand the figures which will come up on the boards now. He overcomes his own record by 3.5 points – that’s a new world record. Not the accumulated score, but he’s best in the LP score. 223.20. 321.50. It’s the first time I’ve seen a Hanyu record in the arena itself. A historic competition.

Sorry, I spam this thread >"< But another suggestion: if possible can we show the post number (by that I don't mean the total post number, but rather, "#1" "#2" "#3"). This will help immensely when we have towers and especially for organizational threads.

https is quite necessary i think in this day and age, so seconded.

4Lz height was excellent and the air position quite good though. It could also be the nerves of doing it in public for the first time, knowing all attention is on him and that he had failed 8 times prior. XD I think he's farther along than he looked.

And here's the return of the YH Competition Commentary & Translations Spreadsheet (link), landing on the Planet *wiggles* *settles in* It's a collection of all Yuzuru Hanyu competition commentaries, with a focus on highlighting the many excellent non-English commentaries (Max & Angelo? Russian Eurosport? Oh yes :)) available, all kindly translated by members of the community. This is a project started mid of 16-17 season and is constantly a work-in-progress. I'll be keeping track, but this is an open-edit document :) Meaning people should feel free to contribute new video sources, new translations, and updates. For the most part, the color formatting is automatic and will appear as you type in the relevant information. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions regarding translations/commentaries/how to work the spreadsheet! When the new season starts, we'll have threads dedicated to each competition and commentaries can be posted there. For now, this thread is a good place to collect any translations of commentaries from previous competitions. --------------- May 24, 2017 *all links to GoldenSkate and Planet Hanyu should now work :) *spreadsheet updated to include up to: https://planethanyu.com/topic/46-competition-commentary-translations-spreadsheet/?do=findComment&comment=20898

I'll say I agree with the read re: 4Lz. To me it sounded like he has no set plans to include it, which is quite true. I'll bet he just finds it easier to do all things spread eagle sandwich #yuzuthings

(sorry not the soulmate you're waiting for ^.^ but I'll help get the ball rolling..) I think repeated 4S is not a bad idea, especially since he finally managed to break through the mental block. Honestly I'm leaning towards him including the 4Lz if he stabilizes it before summer ends. It's just a good thing, strategy-wise and especially if he hasn't decided, to more firmly refute those speculations for now.

Here's what I suggested in feedback thread, I think it's most organized that way :) Maybe competition translations should be separate from other translations, and put with where competition videos might be? Because they can come in the form of subs or text. And it's confusing to go for BESP in competition, and translations for other languages. And maybe we can continue to use our spreadsheet after it's been updated with new links to the copy we made of FF :) and To follow up on my suggestion, what if I started a competition translation thread in the competition and events area, maybe mods can pin it? With an ask for people to repost their translations in this thread, if they're willing. And then I can start to contact people who've made it here/ or pm them on GS if they haven't been banned too :)

To follow up on my suggestion, what if I started a competition translation thread in the competition and events area, maybe you guys can pin it? With an ask for people to repost their translations in this thread, if they're willing. And then I can start to contact people who've made it here/ or pm them on GS if they haven't been banned too :) (I posted in the brainstorm spreadsheet since I saw my row, but thought I'd post here as well)

i like to make a banner too... i'm not a graphic designer but i think it will be fun if users can submit banners and stuff... I think it might be fun to have rotating banners, hehehe, surrounding some set dimensions and criteria (for example where the name should be, approximately)

I can't find my ava in my drive >"< D: D: No one take my ava while I'm missing it!!! D: D:

Yes! Hi, quick suggestion. Maybe competition translations should be separate from other translations, and put with where competition videos might be? Because they can come in the form of subs or text. And it's confusing to go for BESP in competition, and translations for other languages And maybe we can continue to use our spreadsheet after it's been updated with new links to the copy we made of FF :)