General Yuzuru Chat

[Umebachi]

10 minutes ago, BWOZWaltz said:

I remember now that iSakura stream is really unstable and gets cut off whenever they're showing figure skating or Yuzu related stuff for some reason... I will have to download it later so I may find out how to upload it onto PH...

 

ForJoy is very stable.  I can download into my ForJoy file, but don't know how to share... will have to figure it out later.  Meanwhile - Live Mission Impossible is intense and dramatic!  So cool to see women at the drums and on trumpet! 

 

[BWOZWaltz]

5 minutes ago, Umebachi said:

 

ForJoy is very stable.  I can download into my ForJoy file, but don't know how to share... will have to figure it out later.  Meanwhile - Live Mission Impossible is intense and dramatic!  So cool to see women at the drums and on trumpet! 

 

 

Once you've downloaded it, you can upload the video onto PH video page. Just like you post your response, you can choose file on your computer to upload it. If you say the quality of ForJoy is better, maybe you can try uploading it later to share  with the satellites  

 

[Umebachi]

Live version of White Legend is amazing - and you can see which Japanese instruments are being played, and the rhythm/intonation is Japanese while the melody is Russian/Tchaikovsky.  I wish Yuzu would skate to it again, in gala or competition.  

[BWOZWaltz]

White Legend is one of my favourite program of Yuzu (so many of them though...) I miss his sit twizzle into the spin part

 

[Umebachi]

Oh, the tenor portion could be better: Notte S and Phantom vocal parts were ever so slightly off key and japanglish...  sorry.   

[Umebachi]

I miss Origin from SCI Kelowna - it was intense and gorgeous, and the violinist at this concert captures it so well!   And Seimei, of course, with live instruments is so special.  This is a national treasure that we can proudly share globally.  

[Ladysci]

This was a fantastic program, with very good sound and no CM. It was good hear the entire pieces of some, not just the skating cuts. Just thinking how good the skating would be with live orchestra, like the Seimei at the MOI. 

[Umebachi]

In the future, I hope Yuzu will develop his own program Continues with Wings into a truly artistic/cultural event, combining quality music with high level skating performance.  This music concert is a glimpse into that future. Currently, most ice shows are such a mixed bag of low-brow stuff interspersed with occasional great performances, but not presented as a cohesive artistic program. 

[KatjaThera]

9 hours ago, Fay said:

“Hanyu, with his ice skates still on his feet, barely had time to evacuate the building before the waves struck.” 

I think they overdid it with drama here - the ground shaking for good five minutes would have been enough to scare anyone. The waves didn’t strike that place, luckily, as far as I gathered. 

It's not the first time media - especially Western media - make it sound like Yuzu was affected by the tsunami and it bothers me every time. His story is plenty dramatic as it is, with the ground shaking hard enough he couldn't stand, crawling out of the rink on all fours, the rink feeling like it might collapse, although it didn't, but it did get badly damaged, his home being damaged, which is why he had to be in the evacuation center for 4 days, before moving elsewhere (probably a temporary home, then living without electricity, gas, water etc. The tsunami did strike Sendai, but the outer parts of it, nearer the coast, I think, and the devastation was incredible, but it didn't reach the inner parts of the city, like where Ice Rink Sendai is. Simply checking a map, you can see Ice Rink Sendai is really far from the coast.

 

That said, whenever I see "barely had time to evacuate the building" I wonder if they might discuss the ceiling... I think I remember in an interview with Takeshi Honda, he pointed out where he'd been on the ice by saying he was under the part where there was a chunk of the ceiling missing. Which always made me wonder if that chunk fell during the earthquake, because that would really make it a true near miss... It doesn't take a tsunami for the whole experience to have felt like near death, tbh.

[Umebachi]

 

I managed to download Music with Wings, but the file is too large for the PH platform.  Here is the google drive link - I hope it works!  The concert was moving.  The conductor and the pianist were asked to speak about their experiences watching Hanyu-senshu skate and their words were moving.  Will translate later if the other usual translators on Twitter don't get around to it.    

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D9HihCddbZ3XFjemIjC209GyTh6YU7eh/view?usp=sharing

 

 

[jinxxoo]

1 hour ago, Umebachi said:

In the future, I hope Yuzu will develop his own program Continues with Wings into a truly artistic/cultural event, combining quality music with high level skating performance.  This music concert is a glimpse into that future. Currently, most ice shows are such a mixed bag of low-brow stuff interspersed with occasional great performances, but not presented as a cohesive artistic program. 

Fingers crossed for a global tour/ easy ticket channels for foreign fans. Yuzu please, I beg

[anniered]

11 minutes ago, Umebachi said:

 

I managed to download Music with Wings, but the file is too large for the PH platform.  Here is the google drive link - I hope it works!  The concert was moving.  The conductor and the pianist were asked to speak about their experiences watching Hanyu-senshu skate and their words were moving.  Will translate later if the other usual translators on Twitter don't get around to it.    

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D9HihCddbZ3XFjemIjC209GyTh6YU7eh/view?usp=sharing

Works well. Thank you very much.

[Fay]

@Umebachi thank you! Something to look forward to this night! 

[TallyT]

1 hour ago, Umebachi said:

 

I managed to download Music with Wings, but the file is too large for the PH platform.  Here is the google drive link - I hope it works!  The concert was moving.  The conductor and the pianist were asked to speak about their experiences watching Hanyu-senshu skate and their words were moving.  Will translate later if the other usual translators on Twitter don't get around to it.    

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D9HihCddbZ3XFjemIjC209GyTh6YU7eh/view?usp=sharing

 

 

 

Tnank you so much!

[monchan]

5 hours ago, CiONTUw4A said:

 

Don't know if this has been posted yet but it seems that Yuzu has won a certain healthy skin award.

 

 

Perfect skin certified by specialists!!! A deserved award, but so jealous with his natural skin with 0 skincare. Like it's a God's gift, a perfect combination of genetics + life-long exercise to always keep it clean and moisture. Lack of either cant create this wonder.