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EXCUSE ME THIS IS THE BEST I LOVE WAKING UP TO TOPICS LIKE THESE IN THE THREAD let me contribute a little and look at this: total evil overlord! With shiniest goldest medal!

Okay so this comment is going to be related to nothing, and in fact it would be best for my reputation if it was left ignored by everyone, but I was watching a youtube video regarding reactions to Yuzuru's explanation of quad jumps during his post-Olympics interview with the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, and hearing again Yuzuru's words, it just landed on me the meaning of his explanation (yes, you probably all figured it out two months ago when he first said it, but I was only left confused at his words and didn't try to read into it. I'm very sorry for my stupidity). He was trying to convey how jumping a quad jump 'feels like' in the most possible direct way. You know how we often talk about how different jumps have different rhythms, and that quads have completely different rhythm from triples? He was talking about rhythm right there. "closing your eyes, rotating while jumping the rope three times", it's probably how he counts the time doing his air time mid-jump. It makes sense, since you are in the air for three rotations, and complete the quad when you land exactly on the fourth beat. So jumping a quad probably feels like "SHU - 1 - 2 - 3 - PA!", and it's understandable that Yuzuru chose 'jumping rope' as a system to measure time, because it's a rhythmical excercise. Sorry, I unjustifiably feel like a genius because I understood Hanyu speech. After 2 months.

There my heart goes, you broke it

I promised, and I deliver: Yuzuru Laughing compilation from Continues with Wings (hurry up before Asahi takes it down as it will very likely happen! )

はじめまして、Hossyyさん！ 返事をありがとうございます！ とても有用ことを教えましたって、ぜひスケート連盟から公式の発表を待っています。 ボランティアの研修のついて、ミラノもあり研修があったけれど、一日しか掛かりました。 ヘルシンキへ行ったし、ミラノも行ったし、世界選手権で毎年行くことをなんか自分の伝統になりました。それで、日本語の勉強するだからこそ、来年日本へ旅行をしに行くことがもう決めた。でも、若しかしたら、世界選手権で参加する機会があれば、最高だと思います！ はしめまして、Planet Hanyuへようこそ！ なんか、日本人ではない人と日本語を話すことがちょっとへんかな　 そうですね、私も日本語力は必要だと思います。ミラノには外国人のボランティアが多い来たので、イタリア語を話せない人が沢山いました。 それは予定です！　日本語の勉強を一年前一月から始めましたので、もっと上達するために時間があるので、出来ると思います！全力で頑張ります。 募集あれば、絶対エントリーしてみたいと思います！

Aaaah but I translate everything that comes my way! Sharing Max's awesome commentary with all of you is twice the fun

Ah, I guess the interview is in Russian, right? How I wish I spoke Russian, I love her interviews... sometimes they translate some in the Italian facebook fs group run by Max, but sometimes they don't :c

Oh yes! Yuzuru is the kind of student that makes the teacher grow and puts them to test - so he can't go along with any and all coaches. And since Eteri is a strong, almost stubborn coach, there's the possibility of clash right there. And another yes to the second bolded part - genius often comes with rebellious mindset. It's amazing, the balance and bond that they've all created at TCC.

Aaah! I wonder if it's also an age thing. Eteri's athletes are mostly teenagers (and children), and in things like Interpretation and Choreography, it's not hard to imagine how it's best for them to follow exactly the coach's indications. But Yuzuru is extremely mature from so many points of view, skating wise. I do see his relationship with Brian and Tracy and Briand, right now, as a 'let's agree on something together', more than 'let's do what you tell me to'. And they had to fight last year to find balance. From how they've spoken about it, I feel like at the beginning of 2016-2017 season, there really was some tension over Brian wanting Yuzuru to train everything (choreography, skating skills, jumps and spins) together, while Yuzuru feeling the need to perfect 4Loop to follow his 'complete package' idea. Probably it's thanks to Brian's(and Tracy's) patience and comprehension, if in the end they reached common terms!

Yes, I am also torn between them practicing with muderfaces until perfection reaches the ice, or them passionately fangirling over crazy transitions-combos before and after jumps and spins. But overall, Eteri is a demanding coach and he demands from himself more than anyone. So a perfect fit is not hard to imagine! I'm sure she would understand his personality more if she saw him practicing day to day - the general difference I can tell is that Yuzuru goes from murderface to space kitty in the span of a second - while I've never seen Eteri in a mode different from murderface!

Of course she likes it! I think it's obvious now (at least after the 100th time Ambesi and Dolfini told us) that Eteri has been training her skaters to be able to witstand a program full of transitions and quality of the elements, and she is doing it because that is Yuzuru's method and it worked. Of course, not every skater's going to have Yuzuru's sensitivity and musicality, ability to interpret the music and all the things that make Yuzuru unique - not all skaters are going to have perfect technique on every jump (see Evgenia's flutz) or every spin, but he really is their idol, not only of Alina and Evgenia and all the girls - he is Eteri's idol as well. Sometimes in this forum I will see a lot of negative opinions towards Eteri, which I don't really understand and share, but I just wanted to make sure that at least this point was clear enough. Of course she thinks Yuzuru's skating is the ideal type of skating. She's making all of her athletes "chase" the Hanyu style, even from other disciplines.

No! I lied! I do have something to share, and it's another Ambesi/Dolfini Yuzuru comments spread out during random figure skating moments: At 00:10 Max: "His coach Artunian says that he (Nathan) is working on the 4Axel... I. Don't. Believe. It. Even. If. I. See. It. He doesn't have the technique to pull 4 and a half rotations off, and the triple is already difficult for him to land." Angelo: "Yes, in fact, said like that, it does sound like a wisecrack." And forward at 00:45 Angelo: "If I had to pick an athlete to complete 4Axel (Angelo is still quite skeptical about it being a reality, Max is more of a believer ) it wouldn't be him, I'd say two or three names before him - Hanyu, maybe!" Max: "Who already landed it during practice"

Thank God! (ps: yes, I gave up trying to keep up with the thread, real life took too much of my time these days. Not going to do the same mistake on sunday though!)

Exactly. Yuzuru's quads are in another League, and so far he's the only one who ever delivered a balanced program with sublime quality and 4 quads. So the quad Monster really is him. You know at what else Yuzu is Number One? Becoming motivated thanks to the competition. It's when Jin Boyang skated a wonderful SP at NHK that Yuzuru smiled and brought a figure skating Revolution on Ice. We also cannot spend hours complimenting Yuzuru's fair game spirit and then fail to do the same. I hope Jin or any other young figure skater will reach their full potential, because that's what Yuzuru or any other wise athlete would hope for. Because it's good for the sport as a whole. Also, Jin is the only one in the sQuad currently who is trying to develop a complete package. His So at Worlds 2018 was Amazing. Too bad he seems to have Javi style laziness sometimes and he bombed gloriously because of lack of practice. I don't wanna see him do that again. So remember, the stronger the competition gets, the stronger Yuzuru will become. As long as health is with him, which we hope will be for many years more.

I love this recent love towards my Italian uncles :33333 I think the best source to find all of the Yuzu content with the italian esp is ElenaC's dailymotion account (http://www.dailymotion.com/elechicca). She doesn't only post Yuzuru's performances with their commentary, but also snippets of them talking about Yuzuru during other people's performances, or other competitions entirely... which happens pretty often Here, for example, they talk about how much it's difficult to do the 'grand slam' (win every competition in a year), and that only Yagudin in 2002 managed to do it, but that Yuzuru "who isn't second to anyone in terms of greatness, and I'm not only talking about this discipline (but in sport, in general)" won GPF, Olys and Worlds in the same year in 2014. Also, Dolfini says it's "incredible" that Yuzuru hasn't won a 4CC Gold medal yet Then they talk about how difficult it is to compare figure skating across the years, because the sport changed immensely. Max is very romantic because he is passionate when he compliments Yuzu. Then they go on and specify that Yuzuru's influence on the skating world isn't yet at the highest - we will see the results of his dominance this next four years until Beijing 2022, and we will see them in the 'girls' (he doesn't say 'male' children, he says girls because junior girls are currently twenty steps ahead junior men) who will imitate Hanyu, but not imitate as in 'copy', but as in 'see his method regarding jumps and transitions'. Max says Yuzuru is someone who 'made the jump something else than just three or four rotations in the air'. He goes on to compare figure skating with ski jumping, which is a sport dear to him, and says that what Yuzuru does with his jumps compares to doing a 200 meters jump while holding a tray of sweets in front of you Sorry, I only wanted to drop a link and I ended up translating the whole thing! Well, I wonder if anyone will mind

I noticed that wonderful counter into flying camel spin too! It's amazing and he should do it in future programs!! It seems as if the spin is coming out of nowhere

Yuzuru Hanyu Vs. Wifes/Husbands - the endless fight over whom do you love the most

皆さん、おはよう！ ちょっと、羽生選手の日本人のファンに質問がありますけど。 来年には、埼玉へ世界選手権をすごく見に行きたいと思うけど、チケットを買うことが多分自分にとって無理だと思います。 なぜなら、今年の世界選手権にはボランティアの仕事をしたので、来年も日本でボランティアの仕事をすればいいなと思ってました。 でも、この想定は可能と不可能かどうかあまり知りません。私は外国人で、日本語のレベルはまだ初級だと思います。 そうだから、皆さんがどうと思っているで、なんか、日本でボランティアに成るためには助言とかアドバイスがあったら、ぜひ教えてください。 (それで、日本語で間違ったら、本当にすみません！　このメッセージが分かり安いと希望しています。) Muriel

I guess I'm Adam, always been chaotic neutral always will be xDDD

The topic is a few pages back, but I wouldn't mind a rap battle between Max Ambesi and Phil Hersh... Hersh's poor logical reasoning for his skating opinions would come tumbling down... I would really pay to see Ambesi get the attention and 'fame' in the field that Hersh unjustifiably obtains.

It is the thing they were talking about - but in this case, there is a step. Pretty clearly. But the requirements are 'more than one step/movement immediately preceding the jump', for example you can see Medvedeva and Zagitova doing multiple difficult steps into their solo jump. So, theoretically, if there is only one step, then you get -1 deduction. ZERO steps/movements gets you -3 deduction.

There are so many NOT clean take-offs around, that maybe 'clean textbook take-off' should become an extra bullet? Ah, in any case, I didn't notice other steps beside that one right before the jump, it depends how soon they were before the jump I guess... I'm terrible at recognizing steps so maybe you are right!

Isn't "only ONE step as preceding movement before solo jump in SP" supposed to be given the -1 deduction? Does this not count for Lutz? But I guess that since it's such a marvelous jump (don't remember if it got +2 or +3 from me), the final GOE should still be positive.

Okay so I've done judging both Elizaveta and Marin c: Tbh I was thinking about Worlds in Helsinki. Judges started laying low with the Goe's and PCS and underscored Yuzuru's World Record, but then went on to be generous with the last ones of the group (Shoma and Javi). Maybe I don't feel this way because I've been judging the ladies separately and taking my time with it, but... I just don't feel the concept "because he/she is the first of the group, I can't give high votes". I mean, on the contrary, if I see a performance that's particularily brilliant, I'll use that as a reference for the performances I'll see later, and if they'll stand the comparison, I'll reward them as well, and if they don't, then they don't deserve such a high score. But the order doesn't influence me at all. How hard can it be to only judge what you see on the ice? A brilliant performance is a brilliant performance, no matter the placement order??? For example, Deniss was terribly underscored at Worlds in Milan. Max and Angelo were giving him at least 85 (and hoping for more) in PCS, and he got 83. That's like, ridiculous if you compare it to Chen's usual PCS. Deniss was brilliant, perfect, his Skating Skills impressive, his Interpretation of the music spot on (there was no reason NOT to give him an excellent mark, even a 10). Only Transitions maybe could have been better. Sorry, small rant.

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