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Pamigena said:

Danibellerika said:

Honestly I'm surprised it took this long to give him his own forum. But sometimes when you get to a certain level, it's necessary.

Yeah, that. But I'm actually almost more surprised that he doesn't have any kind of official website. I mean the boy is basically a brand, but pretty much everything besides a JSF or ISU bio is provided by fans. 

Yuzuru is so blessed. He doesn't have to do anything and he gets tons of fansites, forum and support from fans. 

Marinn is asking if we can have notification feature, telling us if we are quoted. Can we? :s_drinks

Great news feed about Yuzuru on Twitter https://twitter.com/hanyuyuzurufeed

Ninny on Twitter has many taken many beautiful photos of Yuzuru: https://twitter.com/wioveriyw

CharlieBenBrown is also a great photographer: https://twitter.com/charliebenbrown

Max Ambesi is the Italian ESP commentator and he is a great fan of Yuzuru: https://twitter.com/max_ambesi

Iron Klaus has some good English translations of Yuzuru's interviews as well: https://twitter.com/Iron_Klaus

GeumNa is a great Korean fan of Yuzuru: https://twitter.com/GeumNa

PJ Kwong is a Canadian FS figure skating journalist who is very familiar with Yuzuru: https://twitter.com/skatingpj

If you need help with technical terms, please ask Vietnamese fanpage admin. She knows a lot.

Great report of Yuzuru at WC 2017 from kichessarjilian

https://kichessarjilian.tumblr.com/post ... -legacy-in

Won0066's reports:

https://sportymags.wordpress.com/2017/0 ... worlds-sp/

https://sportymags.wordpress.com/2017/0 ... ss-moment/

https://sportymags.wordpress.com/2017/0 ... ce-photos/

https://sportymags.wordpress.com/2017/0 ... ny-photos/

https://sportymags.wordpress.com/2017/0 ... la-photos/

Morozombie's report:

https://morozombie.blogspot.com/2017/04 ... ience.html

To paraphrase David Foster Wallace, watching figure skating on a screen is to live figure skating pretty much as watching pornography is to the felt reality of human love. Nowhere have I been more reminded of this fact than when I witnessed* Yuzuru Hanyu skate his Hope and Legacy long program at the 2017 World Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki last week.

One key aspect of a live figure skating performance that cannot be translated onto the screen is that somewhat vague and underdefined criterion listed in the "Performance/Execution" component of the official Program Components Score explanations: "[t]he skater radiates energy resulting in an invisible connection with the audience." I would say that the "energy" and "invisible connection" parts imply that such a performance becomes more than the sum of its parts by presenting an invitation to participate in something that exceeds the fetters of our immediate experiences, but whatever that criterion means, Mr. Hanyu's performance of his long program at Helsinki last week undeniably embodied it, and embodied it in spades. I have been fortunate to witness a number of indelible figure skating performances in person through the years, but I don't think I've ever had an experience as an audience member quite like what transpired at Hartwall Arena during Mr. Hanyu's long program.

On screen, we can see the audience applaud and cheer, we can share in their obvious excitement despite being thousands of miles away, but that ineffable connection between skater and audience must be experienced in person. How do I even begin to describe what it felt like being in the audience during Mr. Hanyu's long program performance? It was, for the lack of a better word, entirely hypnotizing. The thing I remember most were those tingly moments when it felt like the 13,000-strong audience at the Hartwall Arena was living and breathing as a single, very large organism--for example, the silent, expectant tension that felt like the entire arena was collectively holding its breath when Mr. Hanyu was setting up for his second-half 4S-3T combination and the huge, collective roar and lapse back into regular breathing patterns when he landed it perfectly. The universally ecstatic, deafening applause breaking out when Mr. Hanyu landed his final jumping pass--the 3Lz--that continued unabated until he finally left the ice to enter the kiss-and-cry. Seeing the sheer happiness of the people all around me--Russian, Japanese, Finnish, American, whatever--wiping their eyes, hugging each other spontaneously, and letting out the occasional guttural roar or scream.

Given the attendant peculiarities of the particular context in which Mr. Hanyu skated his long program at Worlds (the fifth-place short program performance, the extremely high level of competition, the quest to regain a long-awaited world title), in retrospect, it's understandable why Mr. Hanyu's long program at Worlds was so spellbinding--simply put, it was one of those otherwordly, possibility-expanding moments in sports that allowed the audience to access certain registers of experience far removed from quotidian existence: exhilaration, beauty, intensity, awe, catharsis, greatness, greatness, and greatness.

*witnessed must be used here, because nobody simply saw that performance

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Yuzuru Hanyu placed first overall with a total of 321.59 points to win his second world title in the most emphatic fashion, taking the podium by a storm by skating a phenomenal, world record-breaking long program after an inglorious fifth-place short program finish. I'm already waxed lyrical about the spellbinding experience of watching that performance live--click here for a refresher--so let's speak about the short program at Worlds. Despite the major loss of points due to the combination jump being invalidated because of the weight transfer between the salchow and the toe, I must say that Let's Go Crazy is also such a great, crowd-pleasing program to watch live. Look past the rather ludicrous purple-tinted costume and it's so easy to feel your jaw drop as Mr. Hanyu blazes through a series of ridiculously difficult transitions straight into a giant triple axel right in front of you. Ditto with how Mr. Hanyu throws himself into the step sequence with great speed and wild abandon before whipping the crowd into a frenzy with that slide towards the judges. All in all, a fantastic performance that did not let the mistake on the combination detract from the program.

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1) Yuzuru Hanyu, Hope and Legacy LP at 2017 Worlds

Well, duh. It was an incredible experience to watch this version of Hope and Legacy live, and watching the skate on video just doesn't do justice as to how spellbinding the performance was. Upon re-watching Mr. Hanyu's Worlds performance on Youtube, however, what is more apparent in retrospect is how . . . effortless the entire skate was despite the overwhelming pressure that Mr. Hanyu must have been feeling: the flow in and out of the jumps, the lightness of the steps, how unharried and serene every movement was, as if Mr. Hanyu was skating alone in an empty rink with not a care in the world. Astounding.

Live reports and fancams of Yuzuru at WC 2017.

I will just copy what I posted at FSuniverse here:

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https://twitter.com/FSpiritVarz/status/ ... 4881047552

Yuzu entered the arena, said hi with bear hug to Liza's mom and to Tracy, chatted with her a lil, hugged Brian, waved to Liza happily

Yuzuru imitated Brian's actions while coaching Liza. He is so cute. https://twitter.com/boc_co4/status/846257890050654208

Like coach, like student: http://i.imgur.com/OeGFbqm.gif

Yuzuru's SP practice first day, no sound

My friend at WC told me:

There is an Australian old lady (77 years old) who said she used to teach dance and she's even seen Baryshnikov and she said Yuzu is as good as them. And that he doesn't have to be told how to interpret the music and what to do with his body.

His 4T1lo3S http://www.facebook.com/groups/16103935 ... 165999114/

4S3T https://twitter.com/BeanySkates/status/ ... 4232637440

https://www.instagram.com/p/BSIr58LjgpR/

4Lo https://twitter.com/Expletivum/status/8 ... 1893366787

Ina Bauer 3A spread eagle http://pamigena.tumblr.com/post/1588860 ... ctice-2703

Yuzuru's practice video day 1 at WC 2017

Part 1 http://dai.ly/x5gesai

Part 2 http://dai.ly/x5gf3y8

Part 3 http://dai.ly/x5gex5z

Thank you so much Kiches

Second day he had not too good practice in the morning:

The Biellmann is back, this mean his shoulders are ok now: https://www.instagram.com/p/BSLGK7LAJw7/

He did a 3A out of nowhere before ending the practice http://weibo.com/5577379807/EBTfckXFj

His 4Lo https://twitter.com/BeanySkates/status/ ... 2791961600

I made a gif of Yuzuru's frustrating 3A out of nowhere from Pamigena's video

https://media.giphy.com/media/IVINQj8yGxyYo/giphy.gif

His practice on the third morning was so so.

Pamigena videos of Yuzuru in practice http://pamigena.tumblr.com/tagged/my-video

I have just updated Chinese weibo as well. 

These blogs have a lot of good translations about Yuzuru. There are interviews and analysis as well:

Non-chan Yuzuru has many good translation over the years: http://yuzuru-hanyu-translations.weebly.com/

Angelica Yuzu has huge collection of translation by herself and her friends: https://yuzusorbet.tumblr.com/

Nanoka12 also has some good translations: http://nanoka12.tumblr.com/tagged/translations

Won0066's blog about Yuzuru, she has followed Yuzuru around the world in many competitions, her reports are all great: https://sportymags.wordpress.com/tag/yuzuru-hanyu/

Deep analysis of men figure skating in English (translated by Fay and Marina), mostly about Yuzuru's programs: http://chibura.tumblr.com/tagged/figure ... g-analysis

Figure skating 101 simple introductions using Yuzuru as main model http://chibura.tumblr.com/post/15355390 ... skating-in

A good blog about Yuzuru with collections of gifs and translation: http://yuzuruhanyuedits.tumblr.com/

Gladi's translation collection: https://wherespacepooh.tumblr.com/

A blog with tons of sarcasm and great comments about Yuzuru and skating: https://fuckyeahdearlybeloved.tumblr.com/

Beautiful gifs of Yuzuru: http://anniesgifs.tumblr.com/

To be updated! :coffee:

I will just post Facebook page first, I am not familiar with Twitter, anyone helps?

Chinese fan group on Weibo (news and translations) https://weibo.com/u/1826082103

Another Chinese fan group (photos and interviews) https://weibo.com/u/5102460475

Chinese fan group on Baidu (over 35.000 followers) http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kw=%E7%BE%BD%E ... 2970253525

Taiwanese fanpage (over 100.000 likes) https://www.facebook.com/YuzuruHanyuTFP/

Vietnamese fanpage (over 15,600 likes) they also post in English: https://www.facebook.com/hanyuuvn/

Lantinos fanpage (over 13,000 likes) https://www.facebook.com/yuzurulatino/

Korean fansite: http://yuzu1207.dothome.co.kr/

Russian fangroup: https://vk.com/yuzuru_hanyu

Yuzuru Hanyu old group on facebook (admin is no longer there, but members still post a lot): https://www.facebook.com/groups/363481468489/

Yuzuru Hanyu International Fangroup (over 11,000 members): https://www.facebook.com/groups/1610393525875114/

To be updated when I find new sites! 

And of course a mobile version please!

Can we have a better banner? Or we can have a banner contest!!

Hello guys! I am finally here!

I am also finally banned from Golden Skate!