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“Yuzuru+4T” is trending on Chinese weibo because it's YUZURU.

He looks good. Waiting for some news reports tonight.🙏

There's not a day when I don't miss Origin 1.0. 2019 World's Free Skate. What a king he was that day. (drown in tears)

Daisuke is 36 and he’s still competing. I think it respectable although I know nothing about Dai’s personality. Yuzu is only 27. I’d love to see him on ice competing as long as he wants.🥳

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1cR4y1M7Se?share_source=copy_web This is a very good edit. It has almost 2M views. BGM: Legends Never Die, which really suits Yuzu.

Ice Rink Sendai closed (Temporary)

I don't want Yuzu to relive that trauma. 🙏

I hope everyone in Sendai is safe and sound. 🙏

May I ask why it'll be awkward? Yuzu invited Johnny to CWW 2018 and they were happy. Anything happened after that?

Yes there's nothing I could do but love and support him. I've got my opinions but he knows himself and the situation better than anyone. Whatever he decides I'm by his side. It's destined to be a lonely journey. It's good he follows his heart, and I follow him. Never cared about the chaos all around.

Has this been shared? Brian Orser talks about Yuzuru Hanyu (+Nathan) after WC 2019.

Even his voice is like...straight out of an animation...

Has this been shared? It's so iconic. I love to see how much he wants to win and that he actually knows everything. He cares about the gold medal more than anyone.

I didn't know Yuzu was interested in Bioethics until I read this interview in 2018. (The original post is in Chinese so I use Google translate.) Q: During the interview in Toronto, you said that the subject you are interested in is anatomy. Are there any other subjects you are interested in? A: Bioethics. <*Note: Bioethics, a field of study concerned with the ethics and philosophical implications of certain biological and medical procedures, technologies, and treatments, as organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill. Definition from Dictionary.com> Q: It sounds like a very deep topic (laughs). A: Actually, when I was skating Hope and Legacy, I thought it would be impossible to not consider this aspect, so I took this course. Hope, legacy, life. I felt that it was necessary to learn how to think about and express things that are invisible to the eye. I feel very much like my own way of thinking about this choice. Although I didn't want to be a philosopher at all (laughs), I wanted to be someone who could think about these things. Source: https://weibo.com/ttarticle/p/show?id=2309404203097734912137

“I dreamed landing, I dreamed success, when I was…when I was so little. So I really want to get the dream for my little boy….." (BBC interview)

My life is complete for now. Yuzu so sweet. This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

I rewatched CWW 2018 last night and I had a beautiful dream. I feel very happy now. Thank you, YUZU. #hearts #hugs #pooh

Yuzu, you're a survivor. We're all survivors. We'll support each other forever. "It takes a night to make it dawn." But if the night is too long and dark, we'll be the stars. I felt so strong when I read Yuzu's message, but let me cry for the moment.😭

Thank you Ghislain for teaching Yuzu the right way to do jumps (and without cheating). Yuzu you'll make it!!!

Ghislain Briand Exclusive Interview (2) Source: https://weibo.com/1847395131/LiXQoho8h ● How exactly did you guide his practice? Yuzu's practice is completely different from other athletes. For example, JIN Boyang (the Chinese skater) and I use zoom, which means that we can connect in real time. After I point out that “here you can do it this way”, he can practice that immediately. But for Yuzu, It was he who sent me the video and then I analyzed it, recorded what should be noticed and what should be corrected, and sent it to him with a short message. Then after he watched it, he would use these (notes) effectively in the next practice. He would send me another message if he didn’t understand. I told him that the approximate airtime for other quads, even 4lz, is 0.57 seconds. But you can't land a 4A with that time. You need at least 0.80 seconds. There is a time difference of 0.23 seconds. But the 0.23 seconds of lingering time in the air is as long as a person's life. 4A needs more rotation than other jumps, and you have to rotate at the moment of take-off. But the difficulty is that in most cases this will sacrifice the height of the jump, which will result in the jump not being high enough. Then as the number of rotations increases, the axis will also be affected. After the axle collapsed, the body fell on the ice like bumping into a school bus. Just like BANG! However, it was really fun to practice with Yuzu. He knows his body very well. This is my eighth year of practice with him, and he understands immediately what I say. “Here you should move faster…here and there should be in a straight line…” — He can answer "Got it!" with just a little hint of me. It is such a process. ● What do you think of the 4A challenged in the FS of the Beijing Olympics? The entry of 4A — this time it has changed, right? The version of the Olympic Games is different from that of JNats. Which is better? In fact, as long as you land the jump, either is fine. Jumping has its own basic laws, which will never change. How fast the take-off needs to be…what the initial speed of the rotation should be — these are all fixed. Whether it is a circular entry or an S-shaped entry, it can be either. It is like opening a door. Any method will do, as long as the door can be opened. About one and a half month before JNats, he sent me several videos and a short message of "Check this out". Usually Yuzu is very cautious, and most of the time he says things like "What do you think of this video?" But this time it was different, he said "Check this out". I watched the video. In the video, his stood after landing the 4A (my note: don’t know if it’s fully rotated or not). So far, he has never landed a 4A (standing). Even if he landed, he fell over and over again. That day, he sent five videos, and he didn’t fall in each of them. I was already very surprised, no kidding, when I saw that video, I was literally jumping around at home. "Oh my god! He didn’t fall?!” ● So you mean he landed on one foot? (He landed with) both feet on the ice. It was not clean, but it he stood after landing. Even so, it was a huge improvement, because he has always fallen on the ice. And what does this mean? It means that he is close to the correct axis, and that his body finally made it to the correct axis, so he was able to land. I just said that if the axis for 4A is crooked, it will be like bumping into a car, which makes it absolutely impossible to land. So I immediately said to him "OMG, unexpected! Can't believe it! It’s amazing. Finally found the right direction.” The 4A in the open practice at the beginning of JNats, which he attempted to land without falling, right? That jump was really good, and I think it was better than that in the competition. However, the one attempted in Beijing this time was even better. Although he fell, the height and distance of the jump were both there, and it is obvious that he landed with one foot on the ice. If I have to say, it would be the best jump with an absolute advantage compared to whoever has attempted 4A in competitions so far. I also told him, ”This attempt is the best 4A so far — obviously landed on one foot. It’s just a pity that you fell." But it's really nice to be recognized as 4A (my note: recognized, not ratified). The rotation is also obviously much more than 3A. It is said (according to the protocol) that this 4A lacks 180° at the landing (<), but (I think) it should be closer to 90° (q). If you want to argue, you can argue however you want, because it is THE “Quadruple Axel". Therefore, the 4A he landed in Beijing is the 4A with the highest degree of completion so far. Part (1) here https://planethanyu.com/topic/1145-general-yuzuru-chat/?do=findComment&comment=510345 This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

Ghislain Briand Exclusive Interview (1) Source: https://weibo.com/1847395131/LiWsW612b ● First of all, I would like to hear your thoughts on Hanyu's SP. Did you watch the live broadcast? I always watch yuzu's games live. I like the adrenaline rush. I feel like I'm on the scene. That 4S is really shocking. Just a few days before SP, yuzu sent it to me the video of him practicing the show and everything seems to be going very well. And in fact, I think the S-jump is better than before. After SP, I texted him. Yes, since the epidemic, we have all been connected by text messages. I haven't seen him in two years. Then when talking about SP he sent me a photo saying "it got stuck in a hole in the ice" and I replied "ah I see". But after that, I got two videos from the person in charge of the video management of the Chinese organizer through an acquaintance. One is the 4S of Yuzu’s SP in Beijing Olympics, and the other is the 4S of Yuzu in other games. Both videos were shot from almost the same angle. After comparison, it can be seen that when the Olympic 4S takes off, Yuzu's legs were slightly, really only slightly slower than the upper body movements. Yuzu is like a well-tuned F1 car. He knows his body well and is very sensitive to all parts. So as long as there is a slight deviation, it will have a big impact. I looked at the photo yuzu sent me again, confirmed the location of the hole where he said he got stuck when he jumped, and then watched the video again, and it was exactly where the foot decelerated. "It's a pity," I said. Because this is the equivalent of missing out on winning the Olympics. What a big mistake this is. But I added, "It's useless to get mad. Just like the outdoor jump competition, the first jump was very good, and when you were preparing for the next jump, a gust of wind suddenly blew, and the shaft shook and it failed. Even so, do you want to file a lawsuit against nature?" I asked him back. It was a pity that the hole appeared in the ice, but there was no way. This happened to him twice, the first time was in Japan and the second time was this Olympics. But Yuzu's usual practice is that no matter what happens, he will not stop halfway, and will continue to skate to the end. So I'm not at all surprised that he was able to continue skating after his mistake this time. This is the proof that he is a very good athlete, a good skater. Actually, it's really a pity. If the 4S is successful, the score should be almost the same as Nathan’s. 13 points, if you add it, you can go for the first place. ● What advice did you give Hanyu when he practiced and explored 4A by himself? The challenge of 4A, this process has been going on for many years. But we have not been able to focus 100% on 4A, and yuzu only tries to jump occasionally. There was a period of time he focused more on 4lz, and when lz succeeded in the competition, he returned to 4A practice. To be honest, this year, I hope more strongly for him to be successful in 4A than for him to win the Olympics. He said "I've already won two Olympic golds, so it's not the ‘first’ to win again. But if the 4A is successful, it’ll be the ‘first in history’, right? So I want to focus on that.” Everyone knows that Yuzu took 4A as a research topic when he was in college. He really did a lot of research on this jump. Personally, I take the axis of rotation as the focus of jumping, and attach great importance to the position of the hands, feet and waist when taking off. So when yuzu was trying 4A, I told him that these are the important points that you have to accomplish. Still can't believe it, he's amazing. He did almost everything by himself. Since the beginning of the epidemic, online teaching has been used. Although there are advantages, it is still very different from direct face-to-face teaching. It might be strange to say that, but for me, "I like the feeling of being able to touch it" (laughs). I usually teach it hand-in-hand:“wrists should be like this…waist should be here…and feet should be here…” This communicates to the players what I want them to do. But when yuzu challenged the most difficult 4A of all jumps, everything we had to do was only online. " This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

Wow Irina Slutskaya...We really need better scoring system and AI assistance. The current flaws and confusion are really taking the fun out of watching figure skating.

from the article: "The landing was called under-rotated, and we peg the under-rotation at one-third rotation, for a total of 3.92 rotations in the air. We also put the jump at 0.75 seconds in the air, for an average rotation rate of 5.2 rotations per second, and we put the peak rotation rate at 5.5 rotations per second." "Taken together, a jump with Hanyu's rotation rate and 0.80 seconds in the air would be considered fully rotated by ISU rules, and a jump with Hanyu's time in the air and 6 rotations per second would also achieve full rotation." "So what is it that kept this attempt from being successful? The answer is pretty much the same as it was for the attempt at Japanese Nationals - air position. At left we show Hanyu's air position two rotations into the jump. The arms are too far from the torso and the legs are bent and too open. This was true for over half the time in the air. These defects in position eat up the top end of rotation rate needed to fully rotate the jump." "Most triples and even some of the quads do not require perfect air position for the entire time in the air to be successful, but the quad Axel does. Our modeling is that had this attempt hit the perfect air position within the first rotation of the jump, the attempt would have had sufficiently greater rotation rate to have been successful." This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

Wow! 😮I thought figure skating was already very popular in Japan before Yuzu. Btw, they can no longer profit off Yuzu once he retires, right?

Wow! Is Yuzu going?❤️ (hope they release the list of skaters before selling tickets)