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“Precisely because I am alive, I must make the most of everything.” 🌟 Happy 24th Birthday Yuzuru!

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Worlds 2019 – Interview with Yuzuru Hanyu after FS by J SPORTS

Translation post 23

Original language: Japanese

Translator’s note: This is not a word-for-word translation. I paraphrased some of the things said in the broadcast to clarify the main point. 

Interviewer: Otsukaresama deshita.

Hanyu: Otsukaresama deshita.

Interviewer: Congratulations on your medal.

Hanyu: (Laughs bitterly) Haha… Hmm… Thank you anyway.

Interviewer: Would you tell me your honest feelings?

Hanyu: Well, I feel kuyashii, but I felt good competing, and I feel super motivated. So… there were so many things I took away from this, I think.

Interviewer: After the short program, how did you analyze it or think about it while getting ready for today?

Hanyu: I was obsessed with comparing this competition to others… thinking like, “I was like that in that competition so I have to do this.” Especially, at the Olympics, I won coming back from an injury, so I was confident but that made me trapped in thinking that I had to do the same. So, I worked on clearing away such obsession. I spent much time especially on adjusting the loop (t/n: the opening 4Lo) to be able to nail it while skating to the music because I felt very insecure about it and often failed to land it in run-throughs.

Interviewer: You were going over the jump again and again in the morning practice and 6 minutes warm-up as well. The 4Lo was the jump caused your injury. Did nailing it help you get your rhythm today?

Hanyu: Yes, something like that. I thought that if I nail the loop, I will be able to perform the rest of the program with no mistake. Even during the practice, I was sure that I could skate clean if I land the loop. So… I wasn’t concerned about the other jumps so much. Well, of course, I became a bit cautious after landing the loop (t/n: in the free skating) and under-rotated the Salchow, but overall, my free skating was good, I think.

Interviewer: Toward the loop…

(Someone interrupts when the interviewer tries to ask something about the 4Lo)

Hanyu: (t/n: To the person) Later.

Interviewer: I’m sorry. Let me ask one more question. So, you have already achieved many things. Now, what do you want to achieve, more than anything?

Hanyu: Well, after all, I want to win in every competition. Especially about competing with Nathan, I felt my lack of competence in many respects, and because I respect him so much, I feel the desire to win all the more. So… Well, I still have time until the next season, so I want to train well until then.

Interviewer: Thank you very much.

Hanyu: Thank you very much.

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Know their names and their stories.

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They’ll tell you where to go But they won’t know (x)

So someone said “what if Regis had to watch his son die” and I

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… this became canon

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here’s that twin sisters au where everything is the same except ravus is replaced by stella

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“Congratulations, congratulations… congratulations…. YUZUUUU YUZU YUUUUUUZZZZUUU I LOVE YOU YUZU YUZZZZUUUUUUU…. congratulations, congratulations” 

Fanboys are the best 😂 This entire video is a mood

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On Notte Stellata

Hi Alice, love your blog so much, thank you for all your thoughtful and eloquent write up on figure skating and Yuzuru especially! I have a question that has been nagging at me for a while: did you notice in Yuzu’s Notte Stellata performance he somehow always (at least from what I’ve seen, OG, WC, GP series..) ended it later after the music has stopped? I heard one commentator mentioned the audience clapping was so loud he couldn’t hear the music, but I don’t think that’s the answer. :) — @life-is-a-foreign-language

Hi :) It’s not Yuzu who is unable to hear the music, it’s us, the audience.

Here, I’m going to use this video from NHK 2016 as illustration. Notice how the music started at 00:28? The version Yuzu uses for his EX is the complete track by Il Volo, uncut, 03:51 in length, which means that the music should play in that performance until 04:19. If you forward that video to 04:19 you would see that that was exactly the moment Yuzu finished his performance. The thing is, the final 5 seconds or so in that song consist of very quiet, soft and fading piano notes, and the audience never managed to stay still until the last moment: everybody always started applauding even before Yuzu finished his last spin, so you can’t really ever catch those final notes.

Yuzu, alone, in all of his Notte Stellata performances, was the person who knew the music by heart and skated to it until the very last note was over :)

hello – thanks for all your wonderful fs analysis! recently I was watching the olympic channel’s video of the pyeongchang gala, and one of the commentators (I think it’s Belinda Noonan) complimented yuzuru for being a student of the sport and having incorporated references to figure skating history in the notte stellata program. I’m very curious as to what those references may be, but there doesn’t seem to be any discussion online about this! could you help? — @inv3rtebrate

Some day, after all this is over, and you have time, and we are looking back at this amazing 2 weeks, I would love to know more about Notte Stellata: one commentator said that it is a masterclass in figure skating, which I get in terms of skills, but then she said it contains these references to the history of figure skating and I wish I could see that… I know about the delayed axel, but what other historical references are there in that choreography? Do you see them? Thank you!!!

I wouldn’t say there are a lot of specific historical references, per se, in Notte Stellata (aside from, as you said, the delayed Axel, and the long choreographic twizzles, which are two very obvious throwbacks). But it is true that NS does have the mood and feel of what I’d call a 6.0 program. 

Back in those days, the technical elements were much less clearly defined, and as a result, the requirement was a lot looser compared to today. As the new rule got applied and skaters got used to the stringent structure of a program under the IJS, you will mostly see them carrying that habit over to their exhibitions as well. During exhibition programs, you will still see traces of competitive performances in the way the skater and their choreographer “partition” their skate into clear-cut technical elements, only the elements they use in exhibition are easier, or are those that the skater is most comfortable with. 

Now, Notte Stellata is a program which breaks that mold of competitive structure. The thing that immediately stood out to me when I first watched NS was how well everything blended together in that program. I mean, yes, of course, all of Yuzu’s programs are usually seamless in transition, but even by his standard, NS is a special case, because you can’t even tell which part is transition and which part is not. From start to finish, it’s one unified choreographic flow.

Secondly, you’d see in that program long stretches of Yuzu simply… skating (he doesn’t start his first spin until 1 minute 30 seconds in), and you would notice that in those intervals, he does not include a lot of ISU-sanctioned “difficult turns and steps”. What he does is mostly edgeworks, glides, and choreographic movements, all of which, basically, constitute a display of sheer skating skills.

Then there are the 2 spins, which serve as the highlights of the program, a dynamics you don’t see that often, or at all, in modern competition. Actually, aren’t you mildly surprised that, yes, there are only 2 spins total in NS? Yuzu does a lot of revolutions and changes of position in those two, so they feel much more substantial compared to the average spin you see in competition. Those qualities also remind me of the 6.0 era, because ever since the definition of spin levels was established under IJS, spins have become a lot more restrictive, as everybody tries to adhere to the level requirements. In competition, and even in exhibition these days, you hardly ever see this kind of elaborately, exquisitely, choreographed spins anymore.

To sum it up, Notte Stellata is a figure skating program in the purest sense of those words, and that was, IMO, the essence of the 6.0 era.

P.S.: Actually, the only element that is completely modern in Notte Stellata is, yep, you guessed correctly, the triple Axel :)

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I FOUND IT ✊

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I WAS SO SCARED IT WOULDNT BE THE ORIGINAL

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modern disney princess study moods

snow white

apple and cinnamon tea, having the cleanest of clean studying spaces, instrumental covers of pop songs, needs to study on her own for important things but loves organising study groups, makes mind maps and diagrams for all her subjects, studies first thing in the morning as the sun rises, always gets a full night of sleep.

cinderella

likes dressing up even for the most basic of social work study sessions, never without a full pencil case and oversized mug of darjeeling tea, lives on her own away from her step-relatives and loves being able to study in peace, doesn’t do study groups but organises collaborative Google docs and always helps others who don’t get the material (she gets the nickname ‘fairy godmother’ as a result), can’t wait to become a social worker.

aurora

sleeps in late but is ready to go almost immediately, never without a full mug of vanilla coffee, everything is coordinated pink and blue, loves studying out in nature with her notes, listens to lo-fi music and romantic songs from the 1950s to help her relax, has the prettiest studyblr out there for a english literature student, audits fashion classes in her spare time, sketches out dresses when listening to her lectures.

ariel

mulls over what she needs to revise and study in the shower every morning, dreams of life after college, even though she loves her marine biology course, spends time at the marina any chance she gets, sneaks on her father’s yacht to study with the smell and spray of the sea around her, breaks up chunks of studying with swimming in the college pool, has a part time job at the pool to help support her studies.

belle

always overruns her study sessions with exploring new concepts and materials that aren’t on the syllabus but fascinate her anyway, studies with pastries from the local bakery and brings them to study groups, loves studying in coffee shops and cafes, practically lives in the library, never without her glasses, always about the extra credit, is planning on her masters and doctorate in mechanical engineering.

jasmine

needs google calendar to keep on track on everything, has the fanciest stationery, immaculate handwriting, studies with her cat on her feet, drinks only sweet turkish coffee, uses pomodoro technique but with keeping up with the kardashians, takes extra semester courses alongside her business management course.

pocahontas

super motivated environmental sciences student, spends a lot of time studying with the geography and geology students too, uses her studies as a way to advocate for environmental change, herbal tea all the way, covers entire tables in the library with her maps and research, leads live study sessions on facebook live, uses recycled paper notebooks only.

mulan

listens to lectures on her phone while she works out, uses her morning run to work out difficult concepts in her head, drinks only green tea when she studies, but chugs red bull when it hits midnight, uses the library late at night with noise cancelling headphones, listens to power ballads and motivational jams.

tiana

the hardest working student you’ll ever meet, balances work and school really well, takes breaks on her waitressing and barista jobs, dark roast coffee and beignets as study rewards, can survive on three hours sleep, listens to ambient beats and nineties pop to focus, starts internship applications two months early, takes time off when exams are over to just sleep and watch netflix, dreams up ideas for restaurant dishes when she should be rewriting her notes, queen of time management.

rapunzel

notes tend to be speckled with paint, sketches as she listens to psychology lectures, motivating as all heck, listens to guitar music when she studies, likes lemonade to drink alongside her study, hoards books about subjects she’d like to study, her bullet journals feature prominently on her instagram, has highlighters for everything, documents her entire studying process on snapchat.

merida

listens to heavy metal and rock music, never without her massive headphones, uses archery as an analogy for everything in her classes, studies for sports science on her rooftop when things get too loud at home, happier when she’s out in the woods studying, red bull and coffee as study aids, hates studying but does really well in exams.

anna

has no formal organisation method for her notes, super colourful highlighters everywhere, always hits snooze, hot chocolate with cinnamon all year round, amazing at energising people in study groups, queen of the study whatsapp group for their theatre and performance class, has nothing but broadway musicals on her study playlist.

elsa

doesn’t do study groups, but will occasionally study with anna if she needs it, likes her cold press coffee and frozen lattes, uses pastel highlighters exclusively, reads the textbooks from cover to cover and not just the assigned readings, leads the curve for her history and environmental chemistry course, has debussy and saint-saens as her soundtrack for studying.

moana

studies in the early morning, copies everything from her international history and politics classes, loves to revisit her notes in the sunshine or at the beach whenever possible, doesn’t do caffeine but drinks a lot of orange juice and water, volunteers for opportunities with the aged and children any chance she gets, has aims to be a community organisor.

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Confirmed. Nanase Haruka is a magical creature who enchants everybody with his swimming, who has unknown constantly progressing swimming skills, he can turn even the most depressed people into smiling and joking pockets of sunshine by raising his pinky. Gets really shy when people are praising him. Rare species. Protect at all costs.

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Local swimmer magically heals others through swimming with them—what is his secret?

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Haru season 1 : i only swim free

Haru season 2 : i only swim free and i swim for my friends

Haru season 3 : IM GONNA LEARN BUTTERFLY, BREAST STROKE AND BACKSTROKE ALL IN A SPAN OF HALF AN EPISODE SO THAT I CAN COMPETE WITH IKUYA IN THE IM AND GET HIM OUT OF HIS FUNK

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→ Wonders of ℇos  ♡『—/∞』

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Unpopular opinion

Im just gonna say it. Im enjoying free dive to the future more in eng dub. There, i said it. *proceeds to hiding underground*