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Two new photos from the Sekkisei page 

 

"Sayonara, bye bye" 

Credit: RED_far on twitter

 

Have a nice weekend everyone 

 

 

By the way for me the forum works without problems. I'm just with my smartphone online. I will "test" it later on the computer.

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2 hours ago, Yuzuwinnie said:

 

 

 , I went to see on your link and I saw a calendar and I had the price Yen and Euros € translated and it is correct for me (and with the sending, of course) and Amazon Japan does not not accept my French email (I am registered on Amazon France) and I do not understand why? 

 

https://www.amazon.co.jp/Hagoromo-CL22-551-Yuzuru-Hanyu-Calendar/dp/B097PYXTDY/ref=pd_vtp_7/356-7440161-0211522?pd_rd_w=X8GDM&pf_rd_p=949fde26-f5 49d7614d0317 & pf_rd_r = S0131GQVZJBEYS2H7K1R & pd_rd_r = ff31a10a-7f2e-4a53-ad41-e63745dde1ad & pd_rd_wg = DzqQt & pd_rd_i = BY97PYXTD  

 

Since it's off topic, I will put it under here: 

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You will have to open a new account with amazon.co.jp, since your Amazon France account does not carry over to Amazon Japan.   I have a separate accounts for Amazon Canada and Amazon Japan.  There is English language option on Amazon Japan, so hopefully you will be able to purchase things from this site.  Good luck!

 

47 minutes ago, Umebachi said:

 

Since it's off topic, I'll put it here: 

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Vous devrez ouvrir un nouveau compte sur amazon.co.jp, car votre compte Amazon France n'est pas transféré sur Amazon Japon. J'ai des comptes séparés pour Amazon Canada et Amazon Japon. Il existe une option en anglais sur Amazon Japon, donc j'espère que vous pourrez acheter des choses sur ce site. Bonne chance!

 

 

 

 to have answered me, but I suspected it a little and I will, therefore, follow what you do also and I conclude that an account is needed for each country. 

 

For Senkisai, it doesn't look like he's going to be 27 : we give him 20 and that look !!!!! 

 

Maybe you know it, but luck made me find a shower gel with yuzu    from the USHUAÏA brand and there is even some with sakura flowers 

 

 

On 10/29/2021 at 11:44 AM, birnasan said:

Yuzuru interview from his new book "Creating the Future", automatically translated with OCR and deepL. I don't speak Japanese and this is not a proper translation. I think I was able to grasp the overall meaning, but we shouldn't trust every single word or sentence.

 

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Interview after the 2020-2021 season, July 2021

(from "Creating the Future", p. 236)

 

Q: After your 'Super Slam' at the Four Continents Championships in February 2020, you were focused on the World Championships the following month, how did you react to the sudden cancellation due to the Corona crisis?

YH: I was so stunned that I cried. I wasn't really well prepared for the World Championships and I was feeling half-hearted and a bit empty. So when I heard that it was cancelled, I thought "Oh, it's not happening" and for some reason I started to cry. It wasn't that I was very sad or in pain, it was just a strange feeling, like the strings of tension had suddenly been cut. But I didn't lose my motivation, I thought that I could practice skating and Axel more since it was the off-season, so I decided to switch my focus. But suddenly I got an email saying that the rink of the Cricket Club would be closed from that day onwards, so I thought "what should I do?". So I decided to go back to Japan.

 

Q: With the cancellation of the ice shows, it must have been a very different kind of off-season for you, wasn't it?

YH: I've missed it a lot, and now that I've been skating in some ice shows again, I've realized that I really love to perform and skate in front of people, and have them watch me. So last year (2020), when I didn't have that, I felt like I had a lot of time to talk with myself, to face my skating.

 

Q: Have you thought about what you are going to do next?

YH: In the end, I've always had a fundamental desire to execute a quad Axel, and I think that's what makes my life worth living now, chasing my dream. My life now is built around that dream. It's the same now as it was before, but when I decided to work towards the quad Axel, I didn't have a coach, and the training environment changed. There were times when I had to make decisions by myself, and I had to take care of my body as well, so I had a hard time to find the right direction, when I felt like what I was doing was decreasing more and more, not so much in terms of quad Axel, but in terms of everything I was doing. I asked myself, "Why am I skating?". I had a feeling of loss. I felt like I was losing my power, like it wasn't my skating anymore, like I was separated from my ideal.

 

Q: When you look back, why do you think you got so depressed?

YH: After all, 4A is not that easy. For example, if I have a coach watching me, he can give me feedback like, "This was good," or "Let's do this part better," but now I had to do it by myself. Besides, my goal is set pretty high, so I always spend my days without achieving it. The other big factor was that I didn't give myself enough positive affirmation, and I felt like my head and my heart were exhausted from over-analyzing.

 

Q: You were also working on your graduation thesis during that period, weren't you?

YH: That too took a lot of concentration and energy. In fact, only a small part of it was published in an academic journal, and I was doing a lot of work with more solid data. It took a long time to get the data, and I had to use my brain a lot. I had to take a break from practicing quad Axel, because of pain in my foot, and when I returned to practice, I couldn't jump at all, so I felt like everything was going in a negative direction.

 

Q: You didn't have the chance to have someone watching you jump and skate, right?

YH: It makes me happy to be watched and to receive cheers. I realized that skating is the only way for me to do what I want to do without hesitation, to move my body freely. I've been skating since I was 4 years old, and of course there are still many things that I can't do, or wish I could do better. But skating is a way to express myself, a way to communicate and express what's in my heart. It's when I can do that, that I feel happy, I think. As I had no chance to skate in front of people, and I had to focus on quad Axel and other aspects of skating for a long time, I didn't have a chance to express myself, or a time to release my emotions. So, in that sense, I was helped by my old programs like "Haru yo koi", which I skated at that time.

 

Q: When you hit rock bottom, did you realize what you wanted to do, what you wanted to express?

YH: To be honest, there was a time when I didn't know why I liked skating. If I look back to my childhood, it was an extraordinary feeling to be on the ice, and it's completely different from being on land, isn't it? It was something difficult, so there was always a sense of excitement when I could do something. On top of that, I was skating alone on that huge rink, with everyone watching only me. If my performance was good, I would get a lot of cheers, if it wasn't, I would only get a moderate amount of applause. I think I liked that feeling... a lot. But as I've been skating for a long time, that feeling has become less and less, or it has become more and more a given. And I'm under so much pressure to meet everyone's expectations. It's not just about enjoying skating, it's about being nervous, about what if I make a mistake... all this pressure is getting bigger and bigger, and I don't have time to enjoy skating anymore. I put pressure on myself to perform well in ice shows, and I practice a lot for that, but I think in this off-season (2020), when I didn't have such opportunities, I went back to my beginning, asking myself "Why do I love skating?".

 

Q: Q: So it was because you were in a situation where you were not allowed to do what you usually do that you were able to realize that again?

YH: Yes, that's right. It was because I didn't have a chance to skate in front of people, and I had a tough time with the quad Axel. At that time, my heart was in a mess, my head was in a mess, and I couldn't do anything. Normally, a little change of mood, such as playing a game, would have refreshed my mind and helped me get back into action, but I just couldn't do anything. Then, for some reason, I thought to myself, "I feel like I want to skate 'Haru yo koi' in my current mood". When I skated it, I felt so happy, and I thought, "Oh, this is what I loved about skating". If it wasn't for that moment, I probably wouldn't be so devoted to my skating right now.

 

Q: If it wasn't for the quad Axel, would you have retired?

YH: I think I would have quit for sure. After the PyeongChang Olympics, I didn't have as much motivation as before, so I think I would have considered retiring earlier.

 

Q: But the quad Axel was not a goal you were forced into, it was your own goal.

YH: Yes, that' s right. I remember when I was little, I said something about it (laughs). And also I love Axel jumps so much. So I'd like to leave something significant behind. Not for the future of figure skating, not for the Japanese skating world, but for my own satisfaction, like "I have pushed the limits".

 

Q: Compared to athletics, in the 100m, would you like to beat the world record of 9.58 seconds, like 9.4?

YH: I think it's like wanting to break 8 seconds in the 100m. It's like no one else in the world can do it. Nobody knows where the limits of human beings are. Scientifically, there are many things that can possibly be done, but it depends on the individual person. I'd like to make a jump that goes beyond the norm.

 

Q: What helped you heal and think about what to do next during this difficult time?

YH: I think being with my family was a big factor. I was in a lot of trouble, but my family was there for me and supported me in practice and everything. I had a lot of time to be just the youngest of the Hanyu family, rather than a skater, so that was very healing. I think it was very important for me to be able to say what I wanted and just be taken care of. I was able to be in a place where I could be myself, where I didn't feel any different to the person I was before I started skating.

 

Q: What do you think of the three competitions you did in the 2020-21 season after such an off-season?

YH: I was well prepared for the Japanese Nationals. But at the World Championships in March, I was kind of burnt out, because I felt like I had already done the best possible performance at Nationals. But I still wanted to jump the quad Axel. I was feeling much better, and I thought I could do it, so I tried until the end of February, but I couldn't do it. I thought about what I should do, and I decided to keep on practicing, even though I was already thinking about cancelling the competition. That's why I think the result of the competition was not surprising. But I also wanted to contribute to the team and do my best as a representative of Japan.

 

Q: Looking back on that, as a competitor, doesn't it give you a strong desire to break 8 seconds in the 100m?

YH: Yes, that's right. I think I've already won the titles that I wanted to win, to some extent, and if you ask me if I want to win the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics like I did at the PyeongChang Olympics, I don't have that feeling, I just want to overcome my own wall, or the wall of common sense.

 

Q: How do you look back on such a year?

YH: I'm doing really well. The situation in the world is changing and I'm learning more about Corona and how to deal with it. There are more and more things I can do, like ice shows and competitions. I can feel the happiness of skating again, and I think that happiness is what gives me the chance to work hard again. Compared to last year, I'm very happy (laughs). I think I have learned a lot of different things, I've learned something very important, something big, that will be important for the rest of my life, or for the rest of my skating career.

 

(Some parts of this interview really made me cry. We should be careful with our expectations and the pressure we put on him.)

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I'm so proud of him... 

thank you for posting this!

 

It's almost Halloween! Happy Halloween!

 

This comic looks so cute.

Would a Japanese speaker please kindly translate what the children are saying?

 

The fact that Yuzu's new CM has +250 K views in 24 hours and felt 100x more resonance than Skate Canada as a whole lol. We all know who the real topseller of this sport is.

 

 

This is a little off-topic, but it always baffles me how Yuzu's performances from GPF 2015 are still the highest scored programs in PCS until today:

 

 

There is so much wrong with these 4 lists that I honestly don't know where to start. Even the new term Political Corruption Score doesn't do the amount of f*ckery justice anymore.

How to survive this season.

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Meagan and her very “valuable nonbiased” opinion on Nathan vs Yuzu just proves why Figure Skating should not be near the Olympics stage at all.

It’s so clear that Yuzu is “unwanted” by almost all the influential figures in the ISU and these kind of insulting interviews just prove it further. Reading them makes it very easier for me to accept Yuzu retiring after fulfilling his dream of 4A. Being more respectful toward a legendary skater doesn't hurt, Meagan but oh well....

 

38 minutes ago, Mary_kyo said:

How to survive this season.

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Meagan and his very "valuable and unbiased" opinion of Nathan vs Yuzu just proves why figure skating shouldn't come close to the Olympic stage at all.

It's so clear that Yuzu is "unwanted" by almost every influential figure in the ISU and these kind of insulting interviews only prove it even more. Reading them makes it easier for me to accept that Yuzu is retiring after fulfilling his 4A dream. Being more respectful to a legendary skater doesn't hurt, Meagan but hey ....

 

 

 

YES indeed, I just read ..... "Yuzu is under NC" !!!! but WHY is Yuzu so junk? yes it makes shade   and also, what is this judge who is homophobic and "to skate cold on the couple Gabriella and Guillaume" but that does not affect the skating of Guillaume that he be gay and E Radford is too = BIG anything   

20 minutes ago, hananistellata said:

The Towa stylist could surely take notes from this CM. 

 

I wonder if more money is needed, not necessarily on the clothes he'd wear on ads, but rather on paying the expertise of a stylist... 

 

(...oh well, it's simply something not every company can afford I guess... )

4 minutes ago, Figure_Frenzy said:

(...oh well, it's simply something not every company can afford I guess... )

 

If you are a pharmaceutical company like Towa and you can't afford a decent stylist then I worry about the future of the business 

 

Besides, if they can afford paying Yuzu, then I'm sure they can pay for someone to dress people well.

2 hours ago, Henni147 said:

 

The fact that Yuzu's new CM has +250 K views in 24 hours and felt 100x more resonance than Skate Canada as a whole lol. We all know who the real topseller of this sport is.

 

 

This is a little off-topic, but it always baffles me how Yuzu's performances from GPF 2015 are still the highest scored programs in PCS until today:

 

 

There is so much wrong with these 4 lists that I honestly don't know where to start. Even the new term Political Corruption Score doesn't do the amount of f*ckery justice anymore.

 

The impact of casual denim Yuzu is massive  it can heal your depression in seconds!

 

These days I'm totally detached from the scoring and competitions as the numbers really can't tell anything about the actual performances. I just laugh at ridiculous GOE/PCS because I see it as an indicator of ISU or feds choice of winners. Nothing has changed since 6.0 system days.

 

I see these Russian medias trying to give helping hand for US in pursuit of elusive OGM for their chosen one. It is after all Olympic season so all creatures come out to play but in the end the winners are chosen by the beast of the event. I hope the beast likes blunt and boring programs...

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Whoopiewoop said:

 

If you are a pharmaceutical company like Towa and you can't afford a decent stylist then I worry about the future of the business 

 

Besides, if they can afford paying Yuzu, then I'm sure they can pay for someone to dress people well.

 

Admittedly I am a bit hazy on how profitable Towa Pharmaceutical is, but if they actually have the budget, it's somewhat...sad(?) to see them skimp on the stylist budget for their advertising... 

 

(...yeah like I know fitting Yuzu is hard but come on, Sekkisei managed it, Citizen China managed it, no more excuses! )

 

 

1 hour ago, BWOZWaltz said:

I just laugh at ridiculous GOE/PCS because I see it as an indicator of ISU or feds choice of winners. Nothing has changed since 6.0 system days.

 

Thing is, with the current scoring system (not the iteration we currently have mind you), it worked (to a point), yes there were still some funny business happening but it wasn't that blatant in the first half of 2010s (and it seemed like many judges were still trying their best to score the skaters). Post 2018 however, everything fell apart, and some jUdGEs finally found a way to "game" the system... (...and became more shameless at ignoring the guide...) 

3 hours ago, Henni147 said:

There is so much wrong with these 4 lists that I honestly don't know where to start.

Wow, your lists are rather... educational (and sadly also surprising).

The change of the judging system from 6.0 was indisputably a good move. But it rally needs an update (new technologies, AI, maybe also more specific rules that actually will be followed). As well as the "judge control system" and fast reactions from ISU when something "weird" occurs and real punishments when this "weird thing" is  proven to be bias. Maybe one day. 

6 hours ago, Henni147 said:

 

The fact that Yuzu's new CM has +250 K views in 24 hours and felt 100x more resonance than Skate Canada as a whole lol. We all know who the real topseller of this sport is.

 

 

This is a little off-topic, but it always baffles me how Yuzu's performances from GPF 2015 are still the highest scored programs in PCS until today:

 

 

There is so much wrong with these 4 lists that I honestly don't know where to start. Even the new term Political Corruption Score doesn't do the amount of f*ckery justice anymore.

No wonder the ISU wants to shove Yuzu aside. He refuses to cede to their favorite on the TES side, so they have to distort PCS to truly ludicrous levels to get the results they want. 

 

Seeing just how ludicrous doesn't require measuring the favorite against Yuzu. Just look at his haul of candies in comparison to this skate by another American who competed in a less corrupt era: