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Yes he commented briefly about that in GPF 2014

I confess I got a bit teary reading the full articleIt has been a long and complex season, and Yuzu managed not only to regain his title but also to grow even more as a skater and a person (spending hours to chose the emoticons ) (Anyone knows if there is a "proud mama" smiley somewhere among the 30000000000 billions we have? or "proud sister", even "proud papa" would do) yep I repeat: you're all awsome! I'm still mushroom working hard to get better

Congrats! Yuo're the record breaker here! You learned from the best Also, it is only me ore the number of keeps growing? I'll spend hours only to chose one before posting! Thanks to all the staff for the awsome job

Oh yes, Thomas Bergsen & co (I also love this one). Beautiful (non-warhorse) epic music, it can easily catch even the most distracted listener (or judge ). What are the chances such pieces could have been really submitted to/already known to Yuzu? It would be funny if he stumbled in his fanvideos, like the one you linked (by the way I discovered that particular song thanks to that video ) or even this one

Just looking at that photo I can feel the strain Thank you Fresca you for your explanations, they are enlightening I'm learning what is good technique and why it is so important...and why bad one should be pointed out. Too bad skaters' health does't seem to worry ISU (and certain coaches, I may add) that much . The physics of jumps is so interesting, it's amazing to learn how every movement can lead to a certain result

Nice musics! There are so many epic soundtracks out there, I think even would work well, I can picture hydroblade or inabauer around 2.28. Though I'm trying to imagine what kind of costume he could wear... :crazy: :rofl2:

Spread eagles still count as transition/steps, I think? Though I never see them applied to a solo quad jump except by, well, Yuzu. Usually they're getting attached to the 3As (Shoma, Nathan, Yuzu back in Chopin 1.0). What I mean is that this new definition "2) clear recognizable (creative, interesting, original for jump preceded by steps/movements of the Short Program) steps/free skating movements immediately preceding element" can be very very subjective, more than the "difficult steps" I think? I have no idea, this is why I'm asking. :s_dunno A judge may decide he has had enough of spread-eagles-before-jump from yuzuru. I really hate that GOE points can be bended and twisted so much so to justify even the craziest scores... :hammer:

I wonder if the spread eagle can be still counted as "creative, interesting, original" given how overused it's becoming of late :s_scratchhead Poor Yuzu. Maybe we won't see the spread eagle sandwich next season?

I am sure that you meant no disrespect or offense, but the word or abbreviation "Jap" is considered derogatory and a racial slur amongst Japanese, particularly the Japanese minority living in North America. It was said with a lot of hatred before and during World War II and this negative connotation continued affterwards whenever it was used. Therefore, I would ask that people not use the abbreviation "Jap". It doesn't take that much more effort to spell the word "Japanese". (off topic) I didn't know about this either, thank you for pointing out the issue. It is hard not to slip in "mistakes" in particular if english is not one's first language and it comes to slang or words with a peculiar historical background. I knew only small bites about segregation of japanese people during world war II in USA, but let's say that in my country history classes focuses on Europe much more So I'm glad that from now on I have one less chance to sound inadvertently rude. :yes: (back on topic...kind of) I feel you :sadPooh: Where I live soccer is by far the most popular sport :cry: but I manage to warm into something resembling a supporter only when the national team is playing some big match like semifinals or finals :smile: Still not even close to the level of crazed giggling, jumping and screaming I produce when I'm watching Yuzuru's performances (and I haven't even watched them live...) :sadPooh: :sadPooh: :sadPooh: That's the effect Yuzuru has on people :bow:

The Tetsuya Kumakawa part is very interesting. It's a pity that Takahashi seems not quite followed up his description. I wonder if Yuzu can appreciate it more, because he certainly learned a lot from the talking with Nomura Mansai. Well Yuzuru is as good at understanding the theory behind figure skating as at skating itself :goe: His analyses are always a pleasure to read, they are deep and accurate. More so he is very eager to learn more about sport in general. I recall that conversation he had with the gymnast Kenzo Shirai about jumps :smile: :bow: (Also: 25 posts yessss! :yay: )

I guess they are this this and these I don't remeber if there was something else :s_scratchhead

I had to chose Yuna because: 1-she was the first who made me search for FS programs on youtube 2-her folder on my pc is the biggest one after Yuzuru's (but Yuzuru's is just huge :smile:) 3-thanks to her I decided to check how the Sochi OGMs were faring these days, and this is how I discovered Yuzuru :yes: Her jumps! Her flow! Her fire! Her fire in her El Tango De Roxanne is what has sold me, it was love at first sight :love: The first lady I liked was Irina Slutskaya. I watched Turin 2006 as a total newbie in FS and she was the one who made the deepest impression among the women: the russian lady in red (also Arakawa's layback InaBauer). I also like Carolina, how soft she is in her gliding and her upper body movements too. I still have to find that kind of special sparkle with the new generation. Hopefully I will be able to watch the ladies without biting my nails. :acceptable:

I voted only four because I couldn't make up my mind for the fifth I chose Etude because BluFlames is unforgettable, POTO2 because it makes Yuzuru look...sexy, more grown up then his previous outfits :drool:, LGC purple because the song is extra, the program is extra and that costume is so extra, too :devil: Wait, I can't remember the fourth EDIT how could I forget Chopin??? I love both versions, but I picked Chopin 1 because I just love all that soft soft flowing quality (his sleeves! :love: ) The fifth spot for me is for Seimei-Hana ni nare(the sleeves!)-Notte Stellata-H&L-POTO1-RJ1. I like the asymmetric sleeves of his NDP costume a lot too (maybe I have a thing for sleeves? :s_scratchhead ). Even if some costume make me :omg: they are always beautifully suited to the programs Yuzuru skates, they are part of his aesthetics, so I can't really hate them. :space:

Yes!!! :goe: He can go for a warhorse without being mainstream :smile: It would be an interesting experiment. Though I don't think the judges would appreciate that much another R&J from him... It's my dream! :cry: :cry: :cry: I love it so much! It wouldn't be the first time btw I'd gladly accept almost any classical piece, to be honest. Well, that was the year of Lambiel's Four season, no surprise young Yuzu skated to that music. And he managed to pull it off quite well :acceptable: Honestly I am glad he won't (likely) skate to that music, it has been already used quite a lot by top male skaters in the past olympics I'd prefer something a little more unique.

There is also another musical version in 2007, "Giulietta e Romeo" from the same authors of Notre Dame de Paris :smile: Personally I prefer it to the French RJ musical. I watched it live, some songs still make me teary when I listen to them. Sadly this musical wasn't a big hit as NotreDame, so it isn't known at all. I don't think it has ever been translated into other languages. Here are some of my favorite pieces (all in italian, sorry): the intro sung by Mercutio, who plays the narrator the epic fight me and my sister used to duet on this one, we played Benvolio/Tybalt,it was so fun!this one is very romantic (again, sung by Mercutio) it is about love at first sight and how after that sight and thought aren't enough and you need to hear the voice, and touch...more fights and drama! (Mercutio dies :cry:) very lyrical song from banished Romeo more drama!!! Heartache! Romeo dies (usually I played Romeo and my sister Juliet, don't ask me why... she always kind of bullied me, being the older one :smile: ) No dagger scene in this musical, Juliet dies from heartbreak It would be a nice change :lol:

Lol we don't talk of Shoma's landings here.. or it'll turn into pages and pages of analysis and gifs/videos :rofl2: Nathan's and Boyang's jumps have room for improvement but it's entirely different for Shoma (as in, he doesn't just 'wobble'; it's much worse than that lol). Tbf his body type might be at a disadvantage compared to other jumpers in the field, but it is what it is and doesn't change the fact that he has rather poor techniques on his jumps On the other side, I think his body type may help him to save his landings too, as he has a low barycenter and that "soft knee" that allows him to jerk his body in position after the landing. I've heard/read something about this somewhere. Is having long limbs (like Yuzu or Boyang, who has grown quite tall) an advantage when jumping? I think it requires more control and awareness, so I wouldn't say Shoma's is much at disadvantage, apart from the ability to spin fast. His legs looks very strong, very muscular, so that should grant him a lot of "power" for his jumps. Correct me if I am wrong, I'm still a newbie here :yes:

Hi and welcome!!! I like Nightwish too. There are several songs which have that "dramatic flare" which suits FS, I think, and there are also some instrumental covers of Sia's songs (e.g. with cello and piano) that are just :love: Too bad in Olympic season the trend is to go for warhorses... Then again, if that is what Yuzu needs to please the judges... :rant: :acceptable: I believe he will own every music he'll choose, he is simply that good :bow:

Whenever I watched that documentary I felt so sad because he had lost his chance again and in such an awful way. :cry: But now he has the title back, and that plaque to remind him of his achievement. A bit of daily encouragement whenever he feels down, I hope. :pbow: :pbow: :pbow: That photo makes me smile like a proud older sister :yay:

It's a wonderful program, so full of energy, and young Yuzu was so committed to the music :love: It had a sparkle of that rockstar attitude he would show later on.

Ohhh so many interesting pieces :love: Though I must say: I totally second this :goe: I adore the Empire of Angels mad, the music is epic, catching and not overused. The author of the video did a great job at editing, but I have no idea how the song could be translated into a figure skating program :s_dunno I'd also love something with music from Globus or X-Ray-Dog, E.S. Posthumus and the likes... or maybe Stardust score. Or Hans Zimmer. I love his Dead man's chest score, in particular and I think those may be a bit too epic, though. :s_scratchhead I can dream. :smile:

I am no expert but I believe Yuzuru will do his utmost to include the 4Lz. Aside from the higher BV, strategically it would allow him a lot more freedom in the LP were he to fail/pop one of the quads in competitions, as it is likely to happen sooner or later (let's hope sooner) :acceptable: A lot of chances for emergengyQuads+Yolo3A layouts :yes: I just hope he will take good care of his body.

Turned into hopeless fan in January 2017 (no Yoi related, though I later watched that too). Here is my personal descent to hell (or ascent to heaven?) The first time I watched figure skating was Turin Olympics 2006 because...well, because they were home games :yes: . I fell in love for Totmianina&Marinin’s RJ (that music was fated :love:) . I also noticed “the cute swiss guy who got silver”, “the Russian guy with a big nose who according to the commentators has wonderful step sequence and is pretty much the best out there (but he couldn’t win my heart over the cute swiss guy, sorry not sorry) and the japanese lady who did that cool thing with her back (layback InaBauer, definitely fate there too :bow: ). Yet for years I merely enjoyed watching FS occasionally (let’s say once a year when TV broadcasts an Ice show during Christmas :s_blush). I admired the whole concept of “dancing on the ice”, but I felt bored with most of the programs... I completely skipped Vancouver (don't ask me how, I don't know :rofl2:) but someway I ended watching the whole Sochi women event (and all of the drama). Actually I did stumble by chance in men's LP and this Japanese guy with a ridiculous costume :wtf: (yep, fate ) being introduced as the favourite for gold before the LP. I clearly remember turning off the tv with a scoff after the second fall.:embSwan: Yeah, I know, karma is a bitch. Years passed, and I downloaded a few FS performances (mainly Yuna Kim) because I wanted to show them to my family. Then I got curious and I wondered what the winners from Sochi were doing (I was still bitter at Yuna’s silver, I admit it) and so I re-discovered “the weird Japanese guy with the awful costume who fell a lot”.:rofl2: I found his PW SP and even if at first I heartly disliked the music I was blown away by the sheer energy, speed and everything that makes PW special. I still marvel at how Yuzuru manages not to trip in his feet while launching in his huge jumps, contorting in his spins and flying on the ice (that step sequence looks still insane. By the way I have the same feeling about LGC: how on earth one cannot trip with all of THAT?). Then one video led to another and I ended watching all of Yuzuru Hanyu’s programs, and then I started searching for different commentaries, and then watching fan videos, then his interviews, documentaries, etc etc etc ...and here I am :drool: :whiteflag: Now I feel the need to spread the Yuzu love all over the world. :grin: :s_yahoo It has been a long journey (and it’s only been four months :omg:). I’m gonna die next season. I was already shaken by 4CC, WC and WTT, I really have no idea how (if) I can survive a whole season (and the Olympic one!!!) My poor heart... :cry: :crybaby:

I'd love that too. Yuzuru's thoughtfulness for what his audience could appreciate best is one of his (many) endearing traits. Sadly I don't think it will happen. Il Volo aren't superpopular in Italy (strange, I know) and I really doubt they would be invited, though it would be wonderful. I know they have a tour here in Italy but I think they spend most of their time /tour in the USA? By the way, they're going to tour in Japan for the first time this year...may be the power of our spacekitten?

OMG I've been searching for the title of that song for YEARS! Where I spent my summer holidays it's used as group dance on the beach (an evergreeen war-horse for beach dances :grin: ) I'd never thought I'd finally found it on a FS forum :rotfl: :yay: I'd jump on the ice myself too, it could get a bit crowded :smile: too bad it won't ever happen It would be great for an ice show though, so much fun

I want to marry Worlds Requiem hydroblade, if Hydro wants to share? Pretty please? I want Chopin's 3A, the beautiful spins in Notte Stellata and the first spin inH&L at Worlds :love: Also Yuzu's grin after saving his 4Lo at GPF in Marseille :yay: On second thought, maybe can I have the whole Worlds Requiem? Wait, can I also have the opening steps in Change ex? Ops, maybe I'm too greedy ok, i stop now :wave: polygamy is fine :grin: