SitTwizzle

Thank you so much for the link! Here it is, she has achieved her translation. Do you think the expression yon-A will remain, as coined by its creator, once he's landed it in a championship? [NEWS]

@Noelle This prediction didn't realise though : he defected all expectations by giving a real interview only two hours after the sending of this photo and the announcement of two new programs; and before the shock of seeing him skating again. He probably knows some of his fans would have been at risk of a heart attack if unprepared? He is always so good and thoughtful!

@Paskud , I think this was the first fanart. And another one was posted a bit later I think. EDIT : this one was posted at 2:19, Paskud's at 2:29, and @ralucutzagy 's at 2:41 (main European time), while the Tweet had been posted at 2:00.

An automatic translation Only 2 days until All-Japan ❄️Men's No.30 ✨Yuzuru Hanyu✨. 26 years old / ANA The whole world is watching his first match of the season🔥! In the midst of various conflicts due to the Corona disaster In the midst of various conflicts due to the Corona disaster, he decided to compete in this event, hoping that it would be a chance to light up some emotions in someone's heart. All eyes will be on her new SP and FS programs! #figureskate #TeamSendai #Fujisuke Tsutaeru Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) So, nothing really new... But the pose on the photo? And you know what? HE IS ALIVE! He gave us a proof of life! EDIT : he has two new programs, it is the first confirmation of it. Although we don't know them yet. This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

"Refreshing every five seconds"... What sort of cactus is it? I don't remember.

Thank you and welcome!

Does this mean he is not registered in a post-grad program? At least at Waseda, and at the moment. He may also chose to compete at Nationals with his 4CC programs, and to reveal his new programs (with which jumps? ) at Worlds if they happen? For instance, to give "shorter Seimei" an interpretation he may find better — because, for Chopin, I wouldn't see how he could skate better. Or maybe, his new SP and Seimei as FS, as Chopin base value may be difficult to upgrade. Anyway I have no doubt he will surprise us. Also, about Sendai posters, he is indeed their only national champion still competing. But Shizuka Arakawa has also been twice a national champion, and Shun Sato (who was born and raised and trained in Sendai until his father's professional removal when he was 12) and Mone Chiba are also competing at these Nationals. All fanyus of course.

There is the elements base value, but there is also what is done. He failed to finish with the 3A+3A sequence, but his program was so wild with "stamina demand" and indeed he delivered. Much more so than Nathan Chen, who, I tend to think, would not be able to skate even an approximation (with less skating skills and extensions/turnouts, and without any interpretation) of Yuzuru Hanyu's program with triples instead of quads, because all what Yuzuru Hanyu does in the whole program is so demanding, and Nathan Chen is lacking very much stamina compared with Yuzuru Hanyu — this is why he is not able to skate his programs, even short programs, as choreographed, yet they seem to be so much "easier" than Yuzuru Hanyu's. And not only would he not be able to finish the program : he would fall repeatedly on spins, on step sequence and (in FS) on choreo sequence, because Yuzuru Hanyu keeps "endangering" his balance in his "simpler" moves while Nathan Chen struggles to keep his balance and has to go with movements maintaining most his stability. He was made to grow into jumps and jumps only, and "naked" jumps with neither entry nor transition, instead of becoming a complete skater, in spite of real talent. While several other skaters would be able to skate Yuzuru Hanyu's programs (without his extensions and turnout, with maybe a little simplification, and with some interpretation) with triples instead of quads : Jason Brown I'm sure, Roman Sadovsky maybe, Jun Hwan Cha? Mikhail Kolyada? And maybe others. They would not reach his level but they would skate the (simplified) program. I am more and more convinced that the very weakness in Nathan Chen's skating (long prepared jumps, stiff landings, general impression of exertion) is what give some people the opinion that he's a better jumper than Yuzuru Hanyu (while it is the opposite, as Yuzuru Hanyu would be pretty consistent in any of Nathan Chen's programs, quads and all, and would still do it much better because he hits more bullets in his jumps, not only on entries), because Nathan Chen looks like he's doing something so very difficult (and he is indeed, but much less so than Yuzuru Hanyu) while Yuzuru Hanyu makes his programs look easy (but, oh, that epic GPF'19 version of Origin! What a power display and how can people not perceive it? There is NO impression of power in Nathan Chen's skating, just of exertion). To learn to watch figure skating I find it very useful to watch Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu side by side, because in the first one can see all what a skater should avoid on a finished program (except that his elements are correct by themselves), and a skeleton of a high-level program; and in the second, what any skater may aim to, and a full-fleshed dream of a program (and to think Yuzuru Hanyu aims at skating even better! How could it be possible? Only he knows.) Maybe one should coin a notion of "extended base value", including the bullets reached in elements, and the most technical, objective parts of components. Because when I watch the best juniors, I find them rather better than Nathan Chen, yet their scores are so far from his. Why denying that a senior skater may have components of a junior, and score him accordingly? (I wouldn't say a novice, because only Yuzuru Hanyu was better as a novice, isn't it? Except in performance where Nathan Chen is sooo low. And if he still had novice artistic score, he was underscored there, and on another system, and I wouldn't want Nathan Chen to be underscored.)

Il me semble que nous ne sommes pas les seules! (J'ai moi aussi découvert le patinage avec ma mère, puis j'ai cessé de regarder parce que décidément, on ne pourrait jamais arriver à rien de vraiment fabuleux avec une paire de lourds patins aux pieds et de la glace glissante en-dessous , sauf que cet arrêt a duré près de trente ans!) Oui, nous avons de la chance d'avoir Maé-Bérénice Meïté (pour combien de temps encore?) et Kévin Aymoz qui patinent si bien! Je ne me suis pas encore "remise" au patinage de couple et à la danse sur glace, préférant tenter d'assimiler d'abord les éléments, règles etc des patineurs simples, j'ai peut-être tort, mais nous avons aussi de grands champions en danse sur glace. On peut revoir les vidéos qu'on a ratées sur le site, il faut avoir un compte Google.

Oooh, I thought about 12 million but not about 12 million 07, his birth date! There are still 24 thousand missing to 12 million, so 31 thousand to 12.07 million, I don't know if it is achievable within three hours (today finishes in three hours in Japan). But I think a screen capture of 12.07 both as a date and as a number of views is achievable in America tonight. To boost the number of views, I have read Youtube counted the views lasting at least 30s, with no window over the video, and tended to discard videos not accessed from a commendation, so it is better, either to click on an embedded video such as yours, or to go on Youtube and search Yuzuru Hanyu, Olympic videos are proposed first. And consecutive views of the same video tend to be discarded too. Well, Olympic PW has reached 7M5, probably early "today in Japan", and Olympic Notte Stellata is missing a bit more than ten thousand views to reach 1M5, maybe it can be reached today? As to Olympic Chopin, I had some little hopes last night because it lacked "only" less than 33 thousand views to reach 2M7, but this morning it was lacking more than 41 thousand views, and is still! I am shocked. EDIT (12/12) : I must "call" my enormous Maths mistake, 12.07 million is 12 millions + 70,000 not 12 millions + 7000, so there was missing 94,000, not 31,000, and it was unreachable... Sorry...

Thank you all for this wonderful birthday party, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our so dear 羽生 結弦!

Bienvenue @Onjong ! Je préfère Yuzuru Hanyu à tout autre, de très loin (mais je ne regarde pas encore tellement de programmes anciens), mais je suis "revenue au patinage" début 2017 grâce à un forum... en russe (dont je comprends une partie grâce à la traduction automatique) sur un danseur classique, "le plus grand de tous les temps" dans son domaine comme Yuzuru Hanyu l'est pour le patinage; forum qui a des fils/sujets parlant de patinage, et j'ai trouvé Alina Zagitova bien gracieuse, et en suivant ses programmes de championnats je suis "tombée" sur "Hope and Legacy" au printemps 2019. Un temps arrêtée (je me demande bien pourquoi?) par des commentaires affirmant que c'était le meilleur de tous ses programmes, après avoir vu qu'il patinait à Skate Canada 2019 comme Alexandra Trusova, "je suis allée voir ce qu'il devenait" et là je suis "tombée dans le terrier du lapin" comme disent les anglophones (allusion à Alice au Pays des Merveilles). Nous sommes à la saison sèche et les "fanyus" n'ont pas eu "d'arrosage" (apparition même brève, même devant un mur blanc pour dire quelques mots, même pour une publicité) depuis plus de deux mois, c'est une période bien dure pour arriver, j'espère que vous vous y ferez! Mais demain (16h, heure française, le 7 à minuit heure japonaise), le site propose de fêter le 26e anniversaire de son héros avec une "streaming party" d'entrevues sous-titrées en anglais par des bénévoles. Et il y a même des "objets pour collectionneurs" à gagner, on peut les voir sur la page Twitter du site en particulier. J'espère que vous vous plairez ici!

Thank you very much! Not the same but : "Dear Yuzuru Hanyu, May your 26th birthday and your 27th year bring you the greatest joys. SitTwizzle" (I am sort of afraid of free riding? Cheating? by wishing him a happy birthday on two projects.)

I'm not participating in this project because when it was launched, I had already participated in another, but I "am with you" in all good wishes for Yuzuru Hanyu's birthday, and admire so much your messages and works!

This judge's intervention was maybe just a swallow,not Spring yet, but I would interpret it as "the thing being already in the air" and when one thing is in the air, it can hardly be stopped. And maybe, ISU starting a narrative of having already started some experiment — which would be disgusting in some way because it is not true, but highly encouraging because if ISU do indeed spread this narrative (which is far from being certain, maybe the blunder comes from the Lady herself), it means they will soon do something. Plus, there's the IOC, who want Olympic sports to be scored as accurately as possible and it is already the case with artistic gymnastics. They must have already pressured ISU to get a similar system or figure skating could be barred from Olympic Games. It would be "too beautiful to be true" if it were at least partly implemented for next Olympics yet it could be done, technically. And, Yuzuru Hanyu's Bachelor's Degree thesis seems to provide assistance to GOEs and calls on jumps, but it would be even easier to implement such a system for spins; and for steps sequence, some measurements could also be rather easy to implement : for instance, number and direction of steps, accelerations and decelerations, time on one foot, time with the centre of gravity not above skates (and how far from the vertical above them), upper body movements (though this may lead to meaningless agitation moments for some skaters), depth of edges... For jumps and spins, entries could be measured too on several parameters, and they are one bullet; and many elements of "effortlessness" can be measured too. In the choreo sequence too maybe? Though I think there is more latitude but a little something can certainly be done, not to score the same a skater with a splendid, masterfully executed choreo sequence and another one with a very few indifferent steps. This for the elements, and if it would suppress ghost calls and forgotten calls, and avoid a mediocre element by one skater to get 2-5s and a similarly mediocre one by another skater to get -2-0s, there would still be latitude to give a 1 or a 2 for instance, which does make a difference at the end, though not forty points. As to PCS, there is also much room for measurement. Of course in skating skills : ice covering, accelerations and decelerations, edges and edge-changing speed, flow, body movements deviating from the bare preparation of elements or rink crossing... and transitions... but even in interpretation (well, maybe just for tempo), performance (body movement dynamism)... One should be surprised to see how much of a skater's real superiority in components can be measured, and compared with another skater's training-like ones. It would probably not make a big difference between an Alexandra Trusova (whose components I find really good and who has beautiful arms) and an Anna Shcherbakova, though the latter has a more artistic interpretation, this would be let to the judges' appreciation, whatever we think of their competence. But it would force judges to mark Nathan Chen's components under a good Junior's if his team persists in making him skate elements too difficult for his lower athletic shape to allow him deserving any good component score, because his flaws there would appear clearly, with digits on a screen. Also, the sort of "serious error" capping components may be determined, probably later. So, there would remain some latitude for judges' appreciation — or politicking... but they would have more time to give to these appreciations (instead of, feeling they hadn't had time enough to observe these, focusing on other details, listening to such or such judge announcing a score for such GOE or such component) and this latitude would no more extent to measurable things. Speaking of Yuzuru Hanyu and Nathan Chen, but not of judges : of Nathan Chen's stans which I had found irrational for long; I think I may have understood something explaining their attitude. It took me long because I "come from" ballet where effortlessness is equally valued, particularly in the French Ballet School where it is explicitly written in the original statutes of the oldest ballet school in the world in 1713 : « l'école française fondée sur la primauté de l'harmonie, la coordination des mouvements, la justesse des placements et le dédain de la prouesse » (the French school funded on the primacy of harmony, coordination of movements, accuracy of positions and disdain for prowess). I suppose figure skating lovers feel the same, Yuzuru Hanyu's succeeding in making the trickiest movements look so easy moves me to tears. And so it is written in the rules, effortlessness is a bullet with jumps for instance. But it may not be the case for people not familiarised with this idea. And this may seriously affect their impression comparing Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu. Nathan Chen's movements, and particularly jumps, look way more laboured, and these people may get from this the impression he is doing more difficult things, and being more athletic, than Yuzuru Hanyu who does things so much more difficult and who is so much more athletic, but they don't see it because he has such a wonderful flow and smiles and is so lithe etc. Maybe some should explain them?

I think I should stay apart a little more but maybe I can add there's an earlier occurrence of a physicist's animal example getting "its own life". Jean Buridan, mainly a XIVth Century logician but also physicist, invented and calculated what is today called momentum and had an early idea of Newton's Third Law relating to gravity; he illustrated it with a dog, which became a donkey in a "paradox of Buridan's a..", still known nowadays but with a completely different meaning (that of human freedom in Philosophy). It goes the same way with Schrödinger's cat. It is now a myth in common mindset, getting rather far from the original comparison — not easily accessible anyway. Yuzuru Hanyu has "Schrödinger programs", had "Schrödinger graduation", and "Schrödinger appearances" in the present state of the myth, of course not in any Physics reality, and this myth may go further in the next centuries, just like Buridan's dog/a...

Thank you! I'm sorry she can skate only half the time she used to before CoViD, but relieved she doesn't lose hope. Yuzuru Hanyu looks a little like a sort of statue of the Commander in her estimation, doesn't he? And she's considering working with a foreign choreographer (she took the example of Rika Hongo's working with Shae-Lynn Bourne) but not a foreign coach.

Welcome! I agree with everybody, Nathan Chen's Axels have hardly room for a 3A, a 4A would be unthinkable (except with a harness but I suppose you too, may "jump" a 4A with a harness?) He hasn't landed a 4Lo yet? He may some day, in spite of this jump scaring him? Well, he doesn't have to work on his spins as errors don't seem to be called. I suppose people around him will see to that and prevent him from fixing it rather than upgrading his base value. The same for PCS. He "just" needs to land jumps.

I felt a sudden urge to see Yuzuru Hanyu skating to Maurice Ravel's Concerto en Sol (Concerto in G). SP and FP cut on the first movement : and Gala/Exhibition skated to the whole second movement, with no jump, a spin or two, just his glide and his beautiful body movements, changes of edge, etc. To be honest, my preferred version of the first movement this concerto is by Martha Argerich with Armin Jordan conducting the Orchestre de la Suisse romande, because I don't like Pierre Boulez' tendency towards some violence, which I had tape-recorded on France Musique; but all her interpretations I heard on Youtube had a very approximative conducting — which is intolerable in this piece of music, and even influenced Argerich's play. Boulez may not be to my taste, he was precise and accurate to his vision of works. And anyway the second movement is largely dominated by piano. Here is the third movement :

EDIT : it's a pity that Jean doesn't want to be retweeted without permission, because I don't have a Twitter account, and her fanart watercolours are so nice, and I liked particularly the last one, Smaugzuru and Pooh Baggins. My husband, who loves Tolkien too, liked the picture quite as much.

I thought about translating Notte Stellata lyrics but my Italian is "in infancy" and my English, faulty. Fortunately there's already one available, and it seems to exist in other languages too. https://lyricstranslate.com/en/notte-stellata-swan-starry-night-swan.html I knew the music had been proposed to him by Tatiana Tarasova (also known as TAT), but I didn't know the choreograph : it's David Wilson.

I just stumbled across this on ISU's rules (emphasis theirs) : https://www.isu.org/figure-skating/rules/sandp-handbooks-faq/24781-tphb-single-skating-2020-21-final/file P.20 : « Cheated take-off A clear forward (backward for Axel type jump) take-off will be considered as a downgraded jump. The toe loop is the most commonly cheated on take-off jump. The TP may only watch the replay in regular speed to determine the cheat and downgrade on the take off (more often in combinations or sequences). » How can one be surprised no prerotation is ever called, as the tech panel is de facto forbidden to check?

Me too now : I suppose the message transmitted has been suppressed. Javier Fernández was proposing a training movement for inexperienced skaters, and another for more advanced ones.

Thank you @Veveco! and for forwarding this tweet : And there is also this : EDIT ( @Veveco ) : His beauty is so angelic (or elfic), it suits him so well. I'm sure many great artists of the past would have been inspired. And yesterday was Archangel St Raphael's day for the Roman Catholic (Church of England celebrate him together with St Michael and St Gabriel, at Michaelmas, Sept 29).