General Yuzuru Chat

[glilikoi]

26 minutes ago, Fay said:

Can you translate the bits which got missed out? 

Edited it into the post above now 

[makebelieveup]

36 minutes ago, glilikoi said:

Someone on twt already did, there are links on the previous page 

 

Actually I'm too tired to focus on my work so I might do a line-by-line translation anyway, I'll edit it here in a bit. Also I noticed the fsnanchara account didn't do a full translation, they just pointed out the translation was lacking. So here's a more detailed translation. It's still pretty rough so please forgive me for any mistakes. 

 

1:36-

 

Y: Figure skating is something you can on your own in a huge rink, where everyone kindly focuses on watching just you. I think that's what's really special about it. In other sports, I don't think anyone pays as much attention to just one person. If I were doing another sport, I also think I could not express what I want to express to the same extent. That's why I think figure skating is really special, and why I love figure skating. 

 

7:00 - 

 

Y: A lot of people have said to me, 'I felt encouraged when I watched your skating', or that they received some kind of happiness from it, and being told things like this is what motivates me to continue skating, I think. It's what makes me want to continue skating til the end/to pursue what I've started to its conclusion. 

 

7:50 - 

 

I don't think anything about this season is particularly different from the usual. I'm being called a challenger a lot, but.. I'm always chasing after the strengths of other skaters and challenging them. So I always think of myself as a challenger, and that applies to last year's and this year's world championships too. 

 

8:38 - 

 

I find it enjoyable to try answering to people's expectations. But.. the times I'm unable to do that are very frustrating and hard. In order to achieve that goal (of fulfilling expectations), I also need to accumulate a lot of practice and training. It often feels like a struggle, but I think that if I can overcome that struggle, I may be able to give a performance that fulfils people's expectations again. Because I'm able to think this way, it's enjoyable. So for me, I think it's like my mission/duty in life, and I'd like to see that mission through to the very end. 

Thanks soo much! this def sounds more like a Yuzuru Hanyu way of responding. always full of genuinity and so articulate

[Veveco]

FYI Ontario declared the state of emergency today. The main consequence is the closure of most of the "service industry" (restaurants, schools, churches, libraries, movie theaters,...) Grocery shops, public transit, important public services and other types of industries remain open. So not a full shut down but they are increasing the measures.

[rockstaryuzu]

7 hours ago, Bonesfan said:

Looking forward to listening to the CBC interview.

I'm in California and today we were ordered to "shelter-in-place" for 3 weeks. Stay at home except for food and medicine.  I've heard that non-critical surgeries have been delayed (non-critical as in a slow-growing cancerous tumor?!).

I work in a cancer clinic. Cancer patients are usually immunocompromised. So right now, any oncologist worth the name will be fighting to keep his patients away from COVID-19. That could mean postponing their cancer treatment and telling them to stay home

[rockstaryuzu]

2 hours ago, glilikoi said:

RIP Chris  Such a sudden and shocking way to die. It seems there has been nothing but bad news recently...

 

The CBC interview with Yuzu was lovely though, I'm glad they released it. Agree that the translation could have been better though. I don't really understand why a big network like CBC would use such poor subtitles. I'm not really familiar with North American TV customs - do they perhaps think that people don't have the patience to read longer/more lines of subtitles or something like that? They left out so much detail, there were parts where Yuzu was clearly saying multiple sentences and expressing various viewpoints but the subtitle wouldn't change at all. The interview itself was very good, but they omitted a lot of nuance in the translation. I don't want to complain too much though, because it's still one of the best non-Japanese interviews of Yuzu I've seen. His embarrassed laughter at being praised was so cute 

My feeling is that the translation issue is a budget thing. CBC has had their budget slashed by the government in recent years, maybe that's the best they could do with the budget they have.

 

@glilikoi : Thanks for the more complete translation! Appreciate it. 

[fyere0]

6 hours ago, rubyblue said:

Idk if it has been shared, but Camden Pulkinen said few really nice words about Yuzu in some recent podcast:

 

 

Just for a bit of happiness on a sad day today, I've transcribed Camden's comments below for anyone who wants to copy-paste translate. (Just edited out most of the times he said 'like' excessively. xD)

 

Interviewer 1: I have to imagine it's probably a little bit of a confidence-booster to hear Yuzuru Hanyu compliment your triple Axel.

 

Camden: Yeah! [laugh] Oh my gosh, I remember, first off, after that short, I was on top of the Moon. I was like, "Wow, I just scored 89 points in my first senior Grand Prix! I don't know what to do with my life." And then next thing you know, I have [the] conference and I'm sitting next to someone that - I remember when I was Juvenile, watching him at a Grand Prix Final, win. And I'm sitting next to him and I'm in second place - of course there was like a 15-point gap because he is God - [laugh] But it was like, I'm in the same room with him, in a conference with him, I'm sitting next to someone I looked up to, and just hearing that he respected me to some extent was - it was mind-boggling. And seeing him again at Four Continents, it was good to see him because I felt less of a fanboy and more of a friend to him, because since after Canada he's kind of been really nice to me and I feel more comfortable with him. Like at events I can see him, and - first thing we did at Korea was give each other a hug and say "Hi, how are you," and it was just like, I still feel like a fanboy but I feel [like] more of a friend. And, I remember at the banquet at Four Continents everyone was like "Oh, Hanyu, photo, photo, photo!" But he went out of his way to come up to me and say hi to me, and he took out his iPod and took a selfie with me, and he's trying to find the best [indistinct]. And I was like "Waaaaaaa!!!" I'm crying on the inside, low-key. But he wanted a selfie with me. I was just like, "Wow. This is a class act. Like, this man is a man of class."

 

Interviewer 1: I feel like you should take that and just remember that, and now you have it on record as well for next time you feel like a failure, 'cause [Camden: Yeah!] you're wrong. You're very wrong. 

 

Interviewer 2: It's so hard to remember the good things, isn't it. I think we all struggle with that, right?

 

Camden: Exactly. Yup, yup, exactly.

[mercedes]

2 minutes ago, fyere0 said:

And I'm sitting next to him and I'm in second place - of course there was like a 15-point gap because he is God

LOL this made me laugh a lot!

thank you @fyere0for sharing and thank you @glilikoifor translating the japanese bit before to the both of you!

[rubyblue]

Haha, CBC Olympics reposted Yuzu interview, they want even more likes

 

[barbara]

2 hours ago, rockstaryuzu said:

I work in a cancer clinic. Cancer patients are usually immunocompromised. So right now, any oncologist worth the name will be fighting to keep his patients away from COVID-19. That could mean postponing their cancer treatment and telling them to stay home

Really?  When my late husband had his first bout with cancer, it was stressed that he make every single radiation treatment  Every single chemo - even on weekends.  Is there a way to stagger arrival times for the most needy?  Being the the waiting room with not just other patients but with those who rove them over and need to wait must be the most dangerous time for exposure. Keeping everyone who came along with the patient outside and asking them to not enter the building would lower the risk of exposure -unless the patient has already been exposed, I suppose, and then everyone is at risk.  What a dreadful decision to have to make.

[Whoopiewoop]

15 minutes ago, barbara said:

 What a dreadful decision to have to make.

 

Unfortunately, these decisions have to be made more and more these days.

People with pre-existing lung conditions who contract COVID-19 most likely will have to be put on a ventilator. 

There was a video of a doctor here in Europe where he explained the ethical decisions he had to make so far. Who to put on a ventilator? Someone who contracted the virus or someone who had a sever accident? Elderly or young? All this because there were not enough machines at the hospital to provide vital support where needed. 

It's the stuff that you never hear about, or only see in movies unless you experience it in person.

[ralucutzagy]

 

 

[Figure_Frenzy]

I left the planet for a few days and I am already 20+ pages behind here— that's a reminder for you to not underestimate the power of the planet 😅😅😅 even as we enter the drought season way earlier than we expected 😫😫😫

 

Corona rambles incoming↓

Spoiler

I only started self isolation yesterday, after I got a bottle of hand soap refill now I am ready for self-quarantine! 😏😏😎. After doing my laundry and buying a few more supplies (mostly food), I finally started staying at home. I should have bought the hand soap refill way earlier (I mean I already thought of it since Monday last week 😅😫), but by the time I went to the supermarket by last Saturday the hand soap refill was completely wiped out off the shelves 😫😫😫 ...oh well, at least people here in Belgium were smart enough to wipe out the hand soap as well, not just the toilet paper! :v :v. The minister reassured that the "essential" stores (ie. supermarket, bakery, butcher shop etc.) would remain open during this period (lasting until 3rd April), so there's no need for panic buying, but it happened anyway. 

 

 

Update: welp, I guess real lockdown starts for real  tomorrow (Wednesday) noon. It's okay, I have enough food supply 🙏🙏🙏

 

Anyhow, speaking of Yuzu's whereabouts, I feel like it's likelier for him to stay at Toronto, ninjaing as he wont to do during off-season 😃😃. The pandemic might already subsides by May in Japan, but even then I don't feel like it would be feasible to hold the ice shows as planned. It will be another unusually long drought but I don't mind having FS (...well, Yuzu really 😛😛) content only at the start of the new season (which is more like mid-September, amirite? 😛), rather than having him (and other skaters) risking it in ice shows in the coming months.

 

Anyhow, let's keep doing our own part during these trying times, wash your hands, and I'll be off to watch Yuzu's latest CBC interview 😄😄😄

[TallyT]

5 hours ago, makebelieveup said:

Thanks soo much! this def sounds more like a Yuzuru Hanyu way of responding. always full of genuinity and so articulate

 

I also love how much importance Yuzuru places on giving to the audience - hearing how his skating makes them happy, meeting their expectations - as he has said in other interviews.  Probably because of his unique position (only Yuna could match it, and her relationship with Korea doesn't have the sheer complexity of emotion, tears, tragedy and hope that Yuzu has taken on for Japan), his skating is more giving and has that extra depth of meaning, and he clearly knows and treasures it.

 

Though Scott didn't dwell on it, you can tell he is also aware of how special Yuzu is as a person to Japan, as well as a skater and champion.

[makebelieveup]

27 minutes ago, TallyT said:

 

I also love how much importance Yuzuru places on giving to the audience - hearing how his skating makes them happy, meeting their expectations - as he has said in other interviews.  Probably because of his unique position (only Yuna could match it, and her relationship with Korea doesn't have the sheer complexity of emotion, tears, tragedy and hope that Yuzu has taken on for Japan), his skating is more giving and has that extra depth of meaning, and he clearly knows and treasures it.

 

Though Scott didn't dwell on it, you can tell he is also aware of how special Yuzu is as a person to Japan, as well as a skater and champion.

Yes exactly. Thats why I'd like to see Yuzu as a hero. He really brings honor to his country and fights all of his might for it. I still remember how he carried the mission to save Japan three spots after 5 out of 6 missed the podium at Saitama..Yet dirty little JSF called his pooh rain out because they wanted the ice to be clear for someone else

[mercedes]

29 minutes ago, makebelieveup said:

Yes exactly. Thats why I'd like to see Yuzu as a hero. He really brings honor to his country and fights all of his might for it. I still remember how he carried the mission to save Japan three spots after 5 out of 6 missed the podium at Saitama..Yet dirty little JSF called his pooh rain out because they wanted the ice to be clear for someone else

 

40 minutes ago, TallyT said:

 

I also love how much importance Yuzuru places on giving to the audience - hearing how his skating makes them happy, meeting their expectations - as he has said in other interviews.  Probably because of his unique position (only Yuna could match it, and her relationship with Korea doesn't have the sheer complexity of emotion, tears, tragedy and hope that Yuzu has taken on for Japan), his skating is more giving and has that extra depth of meaning, and he clearly knows and treasures it.

 

Though Scott didn't dwell on it, you can tell he is also aware of how special Yuzu is as a person to Japan, as well as a skater and champion.

and yet it is scary if you think about it,the pressure and responsabiluty on the shoulders of a young  man now(although when this unique relationship between Yuzuru and his country started he was really a child)and i don't know how fair it is to him,but on the other side he soldiered and  accepted it,his strenght always amazes me.