Melodie Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 This is new, I think? Here is the article, via Google Translate: Yuzuru Hanyu, a figure skating boy, and the popular comedy "Sandwichman" will appear in the video corner of "Tohoku House," a base in central Tokyo that conveys the status of reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake and the attractions of the six prefectures of Tohoku and Niigata. The Tohoku Economic Federation, which serves as the secretariat of the executive committee, announced on the 13th. Ask three people from Sendai City, who are well known, to play a role in PR. Tohoku House will open from July 22nd to August 7th at the event venue "Akiba Square" in Akihabara, Tokyo. Due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, it will be difficult to visit from overseas, so some events will be available online from August 24th to January 24th next year. This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS]. Link to comment
amylance1215 Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 12 minutes ago, Melodie said: Your next move, ISU? If any? Here's the BV increase in percentage. It's even clearer how ridiculous the BV for 4A is... Link to comment
caterpillar Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 47 minutes ago, IceWings said: Ugh. It's even worst than that. They are selling tickets for people to go watch in the theaters too. It's like they don't care about human life at all. ... Nice. Lovely. Can't wait. Link to comment
Melodie Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 2 minutes ago, caterpillar said: ... Nice. Lovely. Can't wait. 36 theaters in total. 36. Including theaters in hotspots like Osaka and Tokyo Link to comment
amylance1215 Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 1 minute ago, Melodie said: 36 theaters in total. 36. Including theaters in hotspots like Osaka and Tokyo Didn't Osaka announce emergency lockdown and advise everyone to avoid unnecessary activities??? How is this allowed to go on I don't understand... Link to comment
caterpillar Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 10 minutes ago, Melodie said: 36 theaters in total. 36. Including theaters in hotspots like Osaka and Tokyo GOd, the disregard for human life borders on criminal. Is it too much to hope for that people will just stay home and watch the event for free on TV? 13 minutes ago, amylance1215 said: Here's the BV increase in percentage. It's even clearer how ridiculous the BV for 4A is... These percentages make it so laughably clear that the BV for the 4A SHOULD be 15 points. That would make 3A -> 4A a 87.5% increase, following the trend for the other jumps almost perfectly. Additionally, 4Lz -> 4A would be an increase with 30.4%, much more in line with the triples. The whole thing is just completely nonsensical and utterly transparent. Link to comment
Melodie Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 17 hours ago, amylance1215 said: Didn't Osaka announce emergency lockdown and advise everyone to avoid unnecessary activities??? How is this allowed to go on I don't understand... Some news a couple of days ago mentioned that Osaka probably wouldn't enter SOE until one day after WTT ends, plus, there are photos of people enjoying some sort of local festivals floating on the internet The ISU and JFeds IMO are both dumb irresponsible and lucky Link to comment
CaroSkate Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 16 分, Alpha_orionisさんが言いました: Hi @CaroSkate, nice to meet a fellow figure skater here! I have been a recreational skater since childhood (not by choice, I wanted to be part of a club, train regularly and compete but my family didn't allow it ). I learnt the single Axel in my late teens with my adult height (1m80!) and no regular on-ice practice, just skating on some public sessions whenever I could and having a few scattered private lessons per winter; as you can imagine, it was a real struggle for me as well. Some other skaters' parents at the rink were being naysayers and telling me it's not worth it to try, I would never land it at this age and in these conditions (at a completely different scale, this mindset reminds me of the people who don't believe in Yuzu's 4A). I am happy to say that I proved them wrong! You are definitely right about the Axel being a different beast from the other single jumps: landing it took a lot of patience, quite a bit of off-ice practice (let me know if you'd like tips about that, it really helps!), and many, many unsuccessful attempts every time I had the chance to be on ice, but it finally worked out. In relation to another poster's comment earlier, this also leads me to think that Yuzu needing over 1000 4A attempts is not actually as outlandish as it seems: my coach kept telling skaters that they would go through several hundreds of attempts to get a decent 1A, and that's just a single! With the sheer difficulty of the 4A, I am not so surprised to hear that it is not ready yet after 1000 attempts, although I agree that it is slightly terrifying to think about Yuzu throwing himself into this monster of a jump so many times without landing properly. If my skaters' perspective can reassure anyone here, I'll just say, however, that most of my unsuccessful 1A attempts didn't end in a fall: I actually had many more two-footed landings, hands down, stepouts, URs etc than falls. 1A and 4A are hardly comparable, obviously, but we shouldn't assume that all of Yuzu's 1000 attempts ended in dramatic, GPF19-style falls (especially knowing how much of a perfectionsit he is and what his criteria for a "proper landing" are!) Anyway, this was a long digression haha. Good luck with your Axel @CaroSkate , I believe you can land it, especially with Yuzu as a motivation! Thanks for your encouragement. May I PM you for tips? Similar to you, I wanted to be a figure skater since I was a kid, but my mum thought it was too dangerous and didn't allow it. I only started to learn figure skating when I graduated and got a job to pay for my own skating. (She still dislikes it whenever I go skating now though.) It is true that most of my Axel attempts don't end up falling, just lacking in rotation, but I reckon that the speed and force of my singles are incomparable to Yuzu's quads, so I won't be surprised if Yuzu falls a lot on 4A. Regarding the 1000 attempts, if I can land my Axel after 1000 attempts, I will be very happy as it doesn't seem too much to me. However, based on previous interviews, it appears to me that Yuzu usually lands things right away, just needs time to stabilize them. He landed 3A at the 2nd/3rd attempt, landed quad on the 1st day he tried, maybe drilling them over and over again just to land something the 1st time isn't what he is used to? On the other hand, impact from 4A attempts must be taxing on his body too, so he probably can't just keep throwing himself to it and 1000 may be too many. Link to comment
SuzyQ Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 Has this been already posted? Hideki Matsuyama won the Masters on Sunday, and Washington Post referred to Yuzuru "And it placed Matsuyama in the Japanese sports stratosphere, one of the world’s shiniest places, where he can mingle with Shohei Ohtani, Naomi Osaka and Yuzuru Hanyu." https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/04/11/masters-live-updates-sunday/ This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS]. Link to comment
caterpillar Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 10 minutes ago, CaroSkate said: Regarding the 1000 attempts, if I can land my Axel after 1000 attempts, I will be very happy as it doesn't seem too much to me. However, based on previous interviews, it appears to me that Yuzu usually lands things right away, just needs time to stabilize them. He landed 3A at the 2nd/3rd attempt, landed quad on the 1st day he tried, maybe drilling them over and over again just to land something the 1st time isn't what he is used to? On the other hand, impact from 4A attempts must be taxing on his body too, so he probably can't just keep throwing himself to it and 1000 may be too many. I think part of this might be that Yuzu is a very visual person with an extraordinary ability to convert a picture in his mind into movement. For example, he landed his first 3A by watching Mao jump it, and a big part of his decision to go to TCC was that he wanted to learn from Javi's 4S. He doesn't have an image of the 4A, which I image complicates matters a lot - he has to make up the technique essentially by himself. Maybe a better comparison in this regard would be the 4Lo, but I'm not sure how long he practiced that before landing it. Link to comment
Alpha_orionis Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 1 minute ago, CaroSkate said: Thanks for your encouragement. May I PM you for tips? You're welcome! Of course, you can PM me. I love this emoji by the way! 5 minutes ago, CaroSkate said: Similar to you, I wanted to be a figure skater since I was a kid, but my mum thought it was too dangerous and didn't allow it. I only started to learn figure skating when I graduated and got a job to pay for my own skating. It seems like our situations are very similar indeed! My parents enjoy seeing me skate occasionally as a hobby, but forbade me from training seriously, mostly for health reasons as well. I have a genetic illness (hemophilia) that might make surgery dangerous for me, and they were terrified of potential injuries requiring an operation. In addition, there were some practical factors (money, not living close to a rink, etc) weighing in their decision. I am a Yuzu-style perfectionist, very passionate and wanting to do my absolute best in all of my activities (including skating), so these restrictions have been highly frustrating. Now that I am moving out of home and abroad this fall for my PhD, I will finally have the freedom to practice as much as I always wanted! I am so impatient for it that I have started "preparing", working out, building core muscles, improving flexibility, teaching myself off-ice double jumps etc so that I can progress as fast as possible once I get to train on ice! 30 minutes ago, CaroSkate said: He landed 3A at the 2nd/3rd attempt, landed quad on the 1st day he tried, maybe drilling them over and over again just to land something the 1st time isn't what he is used to? That is absolutely mind-blowing, he really is the GOAT! 31 minutes ago, CaroSkate said: impact from 4A attempts must be taxing on his body too, so he probably can't just keep throwing himself to it Yes that's for sure. I hope he knows how to balance practice and rest time to avoid injury, and also that he will have access to the doctor / physiotherapist he mentioned in an interview ASAP. Link to comment
amylance1215 Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 Fanart is fast to follow Link to comment
Henni147 Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 2 hours ago, Melodie said: Your next move, ISU? If any? 1 hour ago, amylance1215 said: Here's the BV increase in percentage. It's even clearer how ridiculous the BV for 4A is... If there is any positive take from the low 4A base value, it's the fact that junior and novice skaters are not tempted to bring it in competition with 1.5 turns missing and selling it as another sensation. Imagine a quad Baxel with +270° pre-rotation and +180° short on the landing ratified as a "first". I think Yuzu would cry rivers of pain... and us, too... Link to comment
caterpillar Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 6 minutes ago, Henni147 said: If there is any positive take from the low 4A base value, it's the fact that junior and novice skaters are not tempted to bring it in competition with 1.5 turns missing and selling it as another sensation. Imagine a quad Baxel with +270° pre-rotation and +180° short on the landing ratified as a "first". I think Yuzu would cry rivers of pain... and us, too... There's the silver lining But I honestly imagine it would be hard to jump an axel with much more than 180° prerotation, even from a skid, given the forward momentum of the jump. The axel is neat in that way Link to comment
Henni147 Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 28 minutes ago, caterpillar said: There's the silver lining But I honestly imagine it would be hard to jump an axel with much more than 180° prerotation, even from a skid, given the forward momentum of the jump. The axel is neat in that way Yeah, thank God it is. I'm shaking my head whenever I read something like: next novice sensation works on a quint, but still has a 2A. Like... ok? Link to comment
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