General Yuzuru Chat

[Yuzu_legend]

 

 

[Yuzurella]

Another fun Yuzu costumes as things thread. This time, it's cups!

[Yuzurella]

Yuzu respects even the tiniest little creatures.

[Perelandra]

4 hours ago, Yuzuwinnie said:

 

 

Here is a compilation of his program : NDDP" and it is that of 2012 (I think you made a mistake by noting 2013) and Yuzu did not steal his victory and, in my opinion, DT who was his senpai would have had to stop his mockery (I didn't see anything in fact and refer to the writings) from his fans and I translate the end for non-French speakers (well it's google translate that will do it) with the voice of Garou : "dance my Esmeralda, sing my Esmeralda, let me go with you, dying for you is not DIE 

 

And here is the "genius mushroom of Sendai" and its rise   and BRAVO for your text 

 

 

 

Yuzu moved to senior circuit before 2013 ( 2010-2011 season ), JNats 2012 -2013 season, as a competition was a landmark date because it was at that competition that Yuzu beat Dai T, on home soil in front of a huge crowd of Dai fans. Previous competitions in which they had appeared together, for instance World's 2012, Yuzu won the Bronze medal to Dai's silver, Patrick Chan was the 2012 World Champion. This is why Yuzu's win surpassing the favourite at the time was exactly as described, an event which turned the FS world on its head. Nobody expected the youngster to have made such massive strides. There may also have been considerable resentment that Yuzu's rapid progress was attributed to his move to TCC, which for some people would have been regarded as an act of downright disloyalty. It had not been encouraged by some FS factions, even though other prominent people felt that moving to TCC was absolutely right for Yuzu's development at that time. It is widely known and accepted that there was controversy and in fighting within the FS community at that time within certain organisations, an interesting story in its own right, but not for this thread.

[Perelandra]

Sorry to add to the mayhem:

This YT channel that has appeared - would it not have been incorporated into the channels feature of the Official Hanyu Yuzuru channel if it was genuine?

'Real or not real?' to quote Mockingjay.

Hopefully, Pooh san / staff san just clicked the button preemptively before 11:11 JST and it will turn out to be a misunderstanding. 

 

Admins and Mods, Please delete if the discussion is not appropriate for the current situation

[Yuzu_legend]

hace 8 minutos , Perelandra said:

Sorry to add to the mayhem:

This YT channel that has appeared - would it not have been incorporated into the channels feature of the Official Hanyu Yuzuru channel if it was genuine?

'Real or not real?' to quote Mockingjay.

Hopefully, Pooh san / staff san just clicked the button preemptively before 11:11 JST and it will turn out to be a misunderstanding. 

 

Admins and Mods, Please delete if the discussion is not appropriate for the current situation

That's exactly what has us all hanging in the air...till now Yuzu has always communicated everything via his official channels, and also crossposted information. BUT the content in that channel can only be original right?...But why would he just upload a video without announcing it like he did for all other videos? Maybe the schedule was messed somehow...

[Yuzu_legend]

Alright everyone, it's time for me to go to bed but before, I'll unhide the previous posts because the vids are still up and public ...so I'm going to ask you all for help: If something happens in the next hours and the YT account gets deleted, blocked, etc. people who posted should please hide the content again...

 

I hope we'll have certainty soon!  and good night!

 

ETA: Good morning and happy confirmation that the channel is official! 🥰

[Perelandra]

17 minutes ago, Yuzu_legend said:

That's exactly what has us all hanging in the air...till now Yuzu has always communicated everything via his official channels, and also crossposted information. BUT the content in that channel can only be original right?...But why would he just upload a video without announcing it like he did for all other videos? Maybe the schedule was messed somehow...

Oh dear, maybe Pooh san had one too many tots of mead and his paws were extra clumsy !!

[cereus]

It's official!

 

 

 

[Sammie-s]

Gosh! A 12hrs guessing game. Thanks Yuzu. You made us more anxious, as promised. 

[Pammi]

I like the @prologue39 YT handle (39 in Japanese sounds like "thank you" in English I believe?)

Oh and he posted at 11:17am....a few minutes late!!

 

[Soleil88]

3 minutes ago, Pammi said:

I like the @prologue39 YT handle (39 in Japanese sounds like "thank you" in English I believe?)

Oh and he posted at 11:17am....a few minutes late!!

that's the first thing I noticed too. I am like always checking time of the post now like some sort of SOP. 

[Pammi]

11 minutes ago, Soleil88 said:

that's the first thing I noticed too. I am like always checking time of the post now like some sort of SOP. 

someone on twitter said it was for Nov 17th....the Prologue YT channel was born on Nov 17th...(look under About tab)

Yuzu and his numbers/dates 

[Geo1]

2019 AUTUMN CLASSIC INTERNATIONAL IN OAKVILLE

 

Our third live competition with Yuzu was the 2019 Autumn Classic International in Oakville, Ontario.

 

First, I would like to say that we really enjoyed meeting other satellites from the Planet and having a couple of dinners with them.

 

REUNITING WITH GHISLAIN

 

We attended the 2019 ACI with Jason. On the Thursday practice day, we saw Ghislain and went to speak with him.

 

 

 

On the following day, Ghislain came over with his youngest son to where we were sitting and chatted with us.

 

On Saturday, as we were approaching the free skate, I spoke to Ghislain again. As our conversation was drawing to a close, I told him that we were going to go shopping in Toronto on Monday and wondered whether we could visit him at the Cricket Club. Ghislain agreed and gave me his business card with the Cricket Club contact information on one side and his personal contact information on the other. He asked me to email him to work out the details.

 

ORIGIN 2.0 COSTUME REVEAL

 

Again, a major highlight was the purple Origin 2.0 costume reveal and the audience reaction.

 

Again, as in the previous year, we were in the wheelchair section directly across from the Kiss and Cry and the area where the skaters entered and exited the rink. We were in the perfect position to watch Yuzu’s manic lip-synching routine before the 6-minute warm-up.

  

 

 

WE VISIT THE CRICKET CLUB

 

On Monday morning, I sent an email to Ghislain to confirm the visit. He replied almost immediately. He said that the best time to visit was around 12:30 PM because he had a break between 12:45 PM and 1:15 PM. To our delight, he added, “Yuzu will be in for a short practice at 2 PM.”

 

We arrived at the TCC at 12:30 PM and entered the front doors. When we arrived, the security person at the front desk told us that we were expected and that we could go directly to the rink which was straight down the hall. He showed us the wheelchair ramp which was located beside him. We went down the ramp into the hallway which had displays of trophies and other memorabilia. The Cricket Club seemed almost familiar as we went down this hallway towards the rink probably because we had seen it so many times in videos. At the end of the hall, there is a door leading to the rink with an “EXIT” sign beside it. Immediately to the right is the lounge with the large windows looking onto the ice rink. My wife opened the door and Jason pushed me into the ice rink area. Ghislain and Brian were standing right there close to the exit door. I called to Ghislain and he smiled and waved, saying, “Hi George!” Brian looked our way with a nod of acknowledgment. Ghislain ushered us back through the door that we had just come in and set us up in the lounge in the booth closest to the door. We had a great view of the area where the coaches and choreographers were standing as well as the ice rink. After making sure that we were well settled, Ghislain asked us to sit and enjoy the practice until he was finished with the class. He said that he would join us in a few minutes time.

 

WE SEE JAVIER FERNANDEZ, EVGENIA MEDVEDEVA, JUNHWAN CHA AND JOSEPH PHAN PRACTICING AS WELL AS CHOREOGRAPHERS DAVID WILSON AND JEFFREY BUTTLE

 

When I looked on the ice, I immediately noticed Javier Fernandez. Apparently, it was his first day back at the TCC since PyeongChang and he was there to practice his free skate for the Japan Open with his choreographer, David Wilson. I also saw Evgenia Medvedeva and Junhwan Cha going through their paces. Jeffrey Buttle was on the sidelines looking intently onto the ice. During breaks, I saw Javi come into the lounge and sit with a friend a couple of booths away from us. Whenever Evgenia took a break, she would come into the lounge and sit with her mother and her mother’s female companion. Joseph Phan was also practicing. He had recently started at the TCC to be coached by Brian.

 

A SHORT TOUR OF THE CLUB

 

At around 12:45 PM, the practice ended and the skaters cleared the ice. Shortly afterwards, Ghislain came into the lounge and took us on a short tour of the club’s facilities, including a view of the cricket field, swimming pool, weight training room and the dance room where we have seen a young 17-year-old Yuzu doing hip-hop with an even younger Nam in the NHK documentary, “Spirits of the Athletes”.

 

WE MEET BRIAN AGAIN

 

Following the conclusion of the brief tour, I told Ghislain that we had gifts and he took us back to the lounge where we sat down at our former place. Jason went out to the vehicle to retrieve the gifts. After we had given Ghislain his gifts, I told him that we had gifts for Brian, Tracy and Erin d’Eon, the skating coordinator, as well. He said, “Let’s go down to see Brian,” and led us down the hall to the small “Skating Office” that Brian shares with Tracy. Ghislain popped his head into the office and asked Brian to step out. Ghislain introduced us and Brian asked whether this was the first time we had been to the Cricket Club. I laughed and said that this was the first time we had been inside the Cricket Club. I told him that we had been to the Cricket Club the year before, but we had only seen it from the outside. I said that the only souvenir we had from last year’s visit to the Cricket Club was my wife, Emiko, getting stung by one of the wasps in the garden! I also reminded Brian that we had met previously at the 2017 ACI in Montréal outside the restaurant and because he had implied his availability for dinner, I had followed him around at the competition venue to the point that by the third or fourth encounter, I was afraid that he was going to call security on me! Both Brian and Ghislain had a good laugh.

 

Tracy had not arrived so Brian said that he would accept the gift on her behalf and keep it for her in the office that they shared.

 

Ghislain then took us down the hall to introduce us to Erin d’Eon with whom I had exchanged a number of emails in the past. We gave her a gift and chatted briefly.

 

PICTURES WITH GHISLAIN

 

Ghislain then took us back to our original booth in the lounge where we had some pictures taken with him. This is one of them.

 

 

 

Ghislain then asked us to relax and enjoy the practices of the other skaters until Yuzu arrived at 2 PM. He then went back to the rink for the next practice session which included Javi, Evgenia and Jun.

 

YUZU ARRIVES AND WE WATCH HIM PRACTICE

 

At 2 PM, Yuzu walked in wearing a cap and dressed all in black pulling his gold hard-shell carry-on case. He walked past beside us and into the bench area behind the rink where we could not see him from the lounge. He reappeared a few minutes later greeting Brian and Ghislain by the rink. We had the honour and privilege of watching Yuzu practice for an hour, all from the comfort of a warm lounge. Almost all of his jumps and jump combinations were started from the other end of the rink so that they were landed right in front of us, just several feet away. It was all very breathtaking. As Brian Orson has said, "I have no words."

 

At some point, Tracy Wilson joined Brian and Ghislain on the sidelines. I noticed her speaking with Ghislain and Ghislain pointing in our direction. I surmised that Tracy had asked Ghislain about the gift that we had left for her in the office that she shared with Brian and that Ghislain was explaining to her that it was from us.

 

After the practice was over, Yuzu hugged Brian and Ghislain and bowed to Tracy Sailor Moon style. Ghislain came into the lounge and sat down with us. He told us that Yuzu would join us shortly. While I chatted with Ghislain, Jason noticed that Yuzu removed his Under Armour top revealing his bare back to anyone who might have been watching from the lounge as he changed into his street clothes.

 

WE MEET AND CHAT WITH YUZU

 

After a few minutes, Yuzu joined us. He was not wearing his cap. He was very slim and looked like the teenaged boy next door. He presented a totally different image from the superstar that we are used to seeing in the rink. Ghislain smiled as Yuzu and I greeted each other in Japanese, “hajimemashita” (pleased to meet you). I introduced myself, my wife and Jason. I asked my wife to give Yuzu one of our cards. I asked him in Japanese whether it was all right to call him “Yuzu” and he replied, “Hai yoroshidesu”. I am relatively fluent in spoken Japanese as I am a third-generation Japanese-Canadian born in Japan and raised in Canada since I was two and half years old. Furthermore, my wife is Japanese and the language we use at home is mostly Japanese. In fact, my Japanese improved 1000% after I married her! Unfortunately, Emiko’s English has not had the same degree of improvement because I accommodated her by speaking Japanese.

 

Emiko shook hands with Yuzu and she later said that his hand was very soft and smooth. Since he could see that I was paralyzed and unable to use my arms and hands, Yuzu bowed to me and I bowed back with my head. In retrospect, I should have asked Yuzu for a hug! I am sure that he would have obliged.

 

I have heard Yuzu’s voice countless times in videos, but I have never heard him speak as softly as he did when he spoke to us that day. It was as if I was hearing a totally different person. And, he was ever so humble, polite and respectful. Since I was in a wheelchair, he immediately got down on one or both knees beside my chair to my left so that we were side-by-side, facing the same direction, just inches apart, with him being at a lower level than me.

 

We chatted for several minutes in Japanese. I asked him how his right ankle was doing and he smiled and replied, “daijobudesu”. We had gone shopping for gifts on Sunday and one set of gifts we had bought were two of the largest boxes of chocolates available at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory store for Yuzu and his mother. I showed Yuzu the gift wrapped boxes, explained that they were chocolates, and pointed out that my wife had labeled his “Precious Son” (in Japanese) and his mother’s “Precious Mother”.

 

I explained to Yuzu that we had chosen chocolates for him because we had seen his Lotte Ghana chocolate commercials and knew that he really did like chocolates. I said that we had noticed in the “making of” videos, he was always taking bites out of the chocolate bars in between and after takes. I said I noticed that when the director told him that the commercial was finished, he expressed disappointment because he was not going to be able to eat any more chocolate. When I told him this, I was rewarded with a Yuzu scrunchy-face smile-laugh.

 

We also gave him and his mother chocolate balls that had been decorated to look like various kitten faces. When my wife produced these chocolates, Yuzu’s eyes widened and he unabashedly exclaimed “Kawaiii!!!” – (So) cute!!! – in the most adorable voice.

 

PICTURES WITH YUZU

 

After chatting, I asked Yuzu whether it was okay to get a picture with him. Of course, he said. As the four of us – Ghislain, my wife, Yuzu and I – were lining up for the picture, Tracy came running up to me and said with a big smile, “Thank you very much for the lovely gift!” Realizing that we were in the midst of taking a picture, she immediately started to back away. I called out to her and said, “Tracy, come back and get in the picture!” She joined us and Jason took multiple shots of the five of us.

 

After the pictures were taken, we thanked Yuzu in English and Japanese with bows and he left to go home. We thanked Ghislain and he gave Emiko a hug. Since I am unable to shake hands, Ghislain gave me a pat on my shoulder. I said, “Ghislain, give me a hug, man!” Ghislain laughed, leaned over and gave me a big hug. We said our goodbyes to Ghislain and said that we would see him at Skate Canada in Kelowna. On the way out, Tracy saw us and called out, “See you at Skate Canada!”

 

When I checked my watch, it was past 3:30 PM. We had been at the TCC for over three hours and had spent an hour and a half watching Yuzu practice, chatting and taking pictures with him.

 

Jason took multiple shots and each one is slightly different from the others. These are three different sizes of one of the pictures. Yuzu looks like the boy next door.

 

 

 

 

 

PS: Emiko obviously did not get the memo regarding the colour of footwear. Everyone except her is wearing black and white footwear. Even Ghislain has white blade covers with his black skating boots. LOL!

 

Although this took place over three years ago, except for close friends and a handful of satellites, I have not spoken of or posted about our visit to the TCC and meeting Yuzu. I have never posted the pictures that appear here before. I have chosen to do so now because Yuzu is no longer competing, Brian, Tracy and Ghislain are no longer his coaches and Yuzu is no longer associated with the Cricket Club.

 

I wish to emphasize that I have not disclosed any confidential information.

 

PS: I want to give credit to @yuzuangel for figuring out why I was unable to upload the picture of us with Ghislain and the pictures of us with Ghislain, Yuzu and Tracy using Imgur. @yuzuangel deleted the “#” from the title of the picture and Imgur allowed uploading. Apparently Imgur doesn’t like the “#” in the titles of images being uploaded! I have not tested it, but Imgur may not permit the uploading of images with titles including special characters of any kind.

[Yuzu_legend]

Good morning and yay we got confirmation about the channel!!

I’m so happy we don’t have to guess anymore!