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  On 11/4/2018 at 5:34 PM, sweetwater said:

Translated the short interview with Yuzu after FS by Shuzo Matsuoka aired by Asahi:

 

Shuzo: We are welcoming Hanyu san here. To be honest, it felt more like your new beginning than your origin. Congratulations on winning this competition!

Hanyu: Thank you. Yes, I indeed feel that I finally made a new start.

Shuzo: What do you mean, "finally"?

Hanyu: Well, it had been really hard for me to win the first GP, so I feel that I finally made it. Of course, my first GPs in the past seasons often held in the first or second week of the series, but this year I had one or two more weeks to train so I consider that may have helped me to get this result.

Shuzo: You said you wanted to have fun while competing, but to be honest, I could not find a smile on your face when you finished your performance. You looked as if you were battling, battling with yourself.

Hanyu: It was indeed a battle today. Well, the Loop (4Lo) wasn't as good as I hoped, each of the other elements also had some problems, my feet were fatigued a bit, but I somehow fought through.

Shuzo: The jump sequence you did in the second half, 4T-3A, you landed it for the first time in the history. The audience got excited too.

Hanyu: But if it can't earn GOE, it's meaningless. Next time, I'll do my best to earn some GOE.

Shuzo: Um... could you be a little happy about it? You are doing something amazing.

Hanyu: But as artistic gymnast Kohei Uchimura often says, you have to nail it cleanly. In my mind, nailing it cleanly should be the start point... or what I would be able to call a success.

Shuzo: OK, direct what you feeling now to Cup of Russia. Again, congratulations! It was amazing! (Claps his hands)

Hanyu: (Bow and peace sign to the camera)

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  On 11/16/2018 at 9:48 PM, Tee said:

 

 

 

 

 

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  On 11/16/2018 at 3:12 PM, Tee said:

 

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  On 11/16/2018 at 5:27 PM, ralucutzagy said:

 

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  On 11/15/2018 at 3:41 PM, tafattsbarn said:

 

 

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  On 11/15/2018 at 9:15 AM, tafattsbarn said:

 

Challenge: Kind Yuzu fans stop enabling me :68468287: 

 

I've been bopping to this song for a week now... It's not healthy haha, but thank you :tumblr_inline_mm2wbaeqQM1qz4rgp:

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  On 11/20/2018 at 7:35 AM, Fay said:

You’ll find it hard to believe, but the Russian Lokomotiv football club executive director posted a message to his footballers saying they should emulate Yuzuru Hanyu... 

 

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  On 11/20/2018 at 2:08 PM, Fay said:

Translating the message now. 

“Yuzuru Hanyu has many personal fans all around the world. Huge numbers of fans from Japan travel following Hanyu to all his competitions. This overwhelming love doesn’t come from nowhere. And just his talent isn’t enough to explain it. 

Yesterday Hanyu emerged for the medal ceremony on crutches and proved not only his fantastic fighting spirit, but his immens respect to his fans, who give him their love in the form of Winnie the Poohs. It’s only the combination of talent and the fighting spirit which can make a talented athlete a legend. A champion can become a champion only by surmounting obstacles. We, the current Russian champions, should remember that. Yesterday Hanyu reminded us about it. I wish the Russian football team to overcome the obstacles and proceed onto the League of Nations!” 

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  On 12/4/2018 at 5:15 PM, Fay said:

Inna Goncharenko about Yuzuru: 

https://www.sport-express.ru/figure-skating/reviews/figurnoe-katanie-final-gran-pri-anons-mnenie-eksperta-raspisanie-prognoz-1486702/

 

Question: The absence of Yuzuru Hanyu might make the others think that it’ll be easier now?

Goncharenko: the absence of the leader might lead to others bombing. When everyone’s competing, everyone’s more focused. The healthy Hanyu would have been a hot favourite. His programs aren’t well practised right now, at the start of the season, but seeing them is like seeing Mona Lisa. He’s truly dedicated himself to FS, and he’s a real pro in every aspect. It’s so regretful he’s been injured. I wish him a quick recovery and come back to the competition.

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  On 12/15/2018 at 5:04 PM, sweetwater said:

In Team Brian III, there is a chapter titled "チームブライアンのコミュニティ (Team Brian as a community)." When Brian and Tracy took on the job of being the head coaches at TCC, they have set a goal of making TCC a community, where everyone helps each other. In this chapter, he talks about how the community works, how each member of the community contributes, and there are words like this:

 

 

Rough Translation:
Our "Cricket Village" is working well. So in the village, skaters can focus on their training without worries. Even a top skater like Yuzuru, Javier, Yuna is just a skater inside the village. They can be themselves. Even when they performed terribly on their bad days, it will not be spread via SNS, even if they get injured, it will not be leaked out, because this place is a community.

 

Since we've seen some insider footage and reports in the past, there might not be a written rule about the skaters' privacy, but if this is what Brian (and other members of TCC) hope TCC to be, I want to respect it.
However, we may have to be nicer to the person who uploaded the video first because who would know that fans analyze a TCC-related video so passionately unless the person herself is a fellow fan? :68468287:

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Not really sure how to post a particular post from another thread so I just put the relevant YT video. This was requested by @Dreamer.

 

 

Before I put the translation, I just put some background of this radio interview.

 

It was broadcasted in August 2013 (2013-2014 Olympic season) ANA World Air Current sponsored by ANA. Yuzu's got ANA sponsorship earlier that year and it was after the WC 2013 where Yuzu finished in 4th place bringing 3 spots for Japan for Sochi Olympics. He had to skate with twisted ankle and had to really put out everything to get to 4th place  (he was 9th place after sp).

 

The radio show is hosted by violinist/musician Taro Hakase. His insight as a musician gave this interview more depth in terms of questions that were asked. It is really interesting and I've enjoyed translating. I hope you guys enjoy reading it too :10742289:

 

Because it's rather long, I will divide into sections as that's more manageable when you read.

 

Part 1:  This is how it all began

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Part 2: Skating is part of his daily life (and playing games)

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Part 3: His idol and R & J for Sochi

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Part 4: Moving to TCC

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Part 5: Training for 120%

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Part 6: Toronto and Yuzu

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Part 7: Rice - the Japanese soul food

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Part 8: Ice quality and skating order

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Part 9: Pure skating moment

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Part 10: What's behind the scary door

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Part 11: Sochi Olympics

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Part 12: Skate for life

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Listening to the radio interview, both Yuzu and Hakase-san were having so much fun laughing together. I also felt Hakase-san's genuine affection towards Yuzu and his words of praying for Yuzu warmed my heart:img_21:

 

I hope I didn't make mistakes on copy and paste but if you spot something strange, please let me know. :oops:

Enjoy!!:10742289:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  On 12/31/2018 at 11:08 AM, BWOZWaltz said:

 

Yuzu's high school (Y12) teacher Nakatsugawa sensei on Yuzu's ability to seek out answers by himself.

 

Nakatsugawa: As I've been teaching for years, I can pretty much tell straightway by just looking at someone if the person can put in the hard work or not. (So when I saw Yuzuru) I could imagine that he'd be able to get closer to the world number one.

 

Narrator: Nakatsugawa sensei is specialised in mental training. One day he asked Hanyu if he needed any help in mental training and the answer shocked him.

 

Nakatsugawa: He replied "I'll train by thinking by myself and put my own try and error effort into find the way" Hearing that, I was sure that Yuzuru was  aiming for his goal using his own way of thinking and making effort towards achieving it.

 

Narrator: Yes. His ability to work things out by himself is in the foundation of his success.

 

Nakatsugawa: Making necessary adjustments by try and error is the ability to work things out. Yuzuru was brilliant at that. Nowadays, the ability to think things out by yourself is really hard to come by. 

 

Narrator: So how did Hanyu put that ability into help him in figure skating.

 

The second part is told by Tsuzuki sensei.

 

Narrator: Tsuzuki sensei is one of the mentors who taught Hanyu in the early days. He'd taught Hanyu when he's 8.

 

Tsuzuki: Yuzuru possessed brilliant mental abilities since he's quite young. Out of the abilities, his sensitivity was off the chart.

 

Narrator: His acute sensitivity had prompted his development with a help from a big shot athlete.

 

Tsuzuki: Yuzuru watched numerous videos of Plushenko performing since he's young. I'd imagine Yuzuru had immersed himself in those videos and explored Plushenko's movements and expressions that way.

 

Narrator: His admiration for his idol didn't end there. He used that to think and help his own development. For example, one of Plushenko's signature move - Biellmann spin which is an element that is hard for male skater to perform. Hanyu had worked out by himself what to do to master the skill and had achieved it.

 

Tsuzuki: Yuzuru was a kind of child who sees something, he'd feel and get something from it then he can put that into an actual thing. I believe that's one of the factors that had promoted his rich growth.

 

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Yuzu is a skater with insane talent who can put incredible amount of thoughts into many things. He gets inspirations and try to put that into the actual thing by working out how to achieve it. I already knew he's one of a kind but he's truly amazing... 

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  On 1/1/2019 at 5:36 AM, BWOZWaltz said:

 

I've also seen an article with Tsuzuki sensei talking about Yuzu and 4A. His words about Yuzu being at the edge of becoming the first man to land 4A. 

 

https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2018122800778&g=spo

 

 

Rough translation:

 

I don't know what's his thought about  me telling an axel jump being the king of jumps but he is exerting himself to jump a quad axel so I believe he is at the last part of the course and the culmination of his figure skating life. I feel he is standing on the edge of becoming or not becoming the first man to land four and a half revolution.

 

It is inevitable for him to one day hang up his skating boots. I really hope Yuzu to fulfil as much dreams as possible before he finally says good bye to his competitive skating days. But considering his ankle and everything else, it is not for us to decide when is that time. 

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Thank you for your translations, @BWOZWaltz:img_21:

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Find this one by @Fay while I was cleaning up the GYC:

 

  On 6/5/2017 at 9:37 AM, Fay said:

Oh sorry, I’m keeping a promise I gave such a long time ago to translate what Mishin and Gachinsky said about Yuzu around the time of 2017 World Championship. I apologise it took me so long.

 

Mishin: So after the short program he put out an expert opinion that Yuzuru Hanyu was like a panther who has never been to a ballet class and who has no idea what battement tandu or port de bras are (unlike Javier Fernandez who seems to be a classical ballet dancer). https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3259927

 

After Yuzu’s phenomenal free skate, Mishin said that Yuzuru skated like never before in his life. “I have such a concept ‘zakidonshik’ (don’t ask me what that that means – there’s no such word in Russian dictionaries, but it does have to do with “закидать/закинуть” – throw) which first appeared in my vocabulary when I was 15. In Helsinki, “zakidonshik” Hanyu showed us an unprecedented skate. I wonder when the others will be able to do something similar” http://stadium.ru/news/02-04-2017-aleksei-mishin-kolyada-i-kovtun-doljni-libo-osvoit-dopolnitelnie-chetvernie-prijki-libo-otdat-flag-v-ruki-drugih

 

Gachinsky: Hanyu proved that he’s No.1 in current men’s figure skating. “If Yuzuru goes out, all the others are defeated (lit. remain lying down). They can’t keep up with him, because when Yuzuru does his quads with such lightness, such flow, such an attack, he get +2/+3 GOE. He’s certainly the one to beat!.. Yuzuru was phenomenal in his free skate” http://sporteveryday.info/pages/gachinskiy-odinochniki-rasshirili-ramki-figurnogo-kataniya-na-chm-v-helsinki/

 

The translation is rather free and approximate - too many possible shades of meaning in some cases, and the printed text doesn't allow deciphering those.

 

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  On 1/22/2019 at 11:00 AM, kaeryth said:

Transcript of Jack Gallagher's interview with Tsuzuki-sensei starting at 10:30.

Everything typed out in verbatim as I heard it. Feel free to correct any mistakes.

 

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You can tell how much of Tsuzuki-sensei's philosophy and vision has shaped and molded Yuzu's own vision of figure skating.... Also, his love of Russia :10814716:.

From Russia with Love being his 1st program as a competitor and choreographed by Tsuzuki-sensei makes a lot of sense now. :tumblr_inline_mqt4grU8ua1qz4rgp:

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I'm bringing this here so that it won't get buried in the General Yuzu Chat. Thank you for the transcript kaeryth!

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  On 1/29/2019 at 7:19 PM, ICeleste said:

Here's what I could understand from basically reading Javi's lips lol 

 

(After Sochi footage) Javi: You have to have... a lot of strength, I think. Yuzu’s very strong and he's a guy who can never give up. He always tries to achieve new things and overcome new challenges/trials (...) and when faced with difficult competitions, he’s always tried to fight.

 

(About seeing Yuzu’s 2014 Olympic plaque every day) It gives you a little bit of envy.

 

(About Worlds 2015) J: I think Yuzu was very sad because he wanted to win but at the same time, he even told me that he was very happy to see me there. (...) 

 

(About the months before PC) J: I didn’t see him much. 

"Who was your rival going into Pyeongchang?" J: Yuzuru. My rival was Yuzuru, always. I knew that if I did a perfect program I could compete against Shoma and Nathan very easily. But whenever Yuzuru skated perfectly he’s always received higher scores than me.

 

(ref to OLYS Seimei) J: I haven't seen this program. (After Yuzu landed 3Lo) Very good *smiles brightly*. (during the chsq) Even though he must be very tired for sure, he looks well. 

(after Yuzuru’s Oly LP) J: I knew he had skated well but I didn’t focus on that.

 

(”You are so bad” moment) “What were you talking about?” J: At first, I congratulated Yuzuru and Shoma for their medals and I told them it had been an honour to compete with them. And then I said that this probably had been my last competiton alongside them. (...) And that’s why Yuzu told me “You are so bad” (smiles even brighter than before). It was a beautiful moment. 

 

J: When the time comes for him to retire, I hope he feels proud of the story he’s had but above all, that his name will be remembered/engraved (?) in figure skating and hopefully, mine too. 

 

I rewatched like 5 times and that’s all I could catch... It’s a shame when nuances get lost in SPA>JPN>ENG translation.

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