💖"Oh there's no one, there's no one quite like you" -
- on Yuzu and fanyus 💖
🥳Happy Birthday, our Beautiful Bird! Our Birthday Boy!
#Happy29thBirthdayYuzu
#ゆづHAPPYBIRTHDAY2023 #羽生結弦誕生祭2023
His own farewell wasn't spectacular. Alone, in his training clothes, pants rolled up, he kneeled down to the ice, took a moment, thanked the tech crew, looked around, bowed & left the venue where he performed for the last time as a competitive skater. That was it. That was all.
💮This is probably the most beautiful, the closest & most intimate shot of HB from Beijing's HYK I've seen so far. I feel almost like getting too close to this love exchange between Yuzu & the ice. Simply amazing.
#HanyuYuzuru
#羽生結弦
Yuzu talked much longer today. Also after his final Arigatou gozaimashita.
Have some rest now, son of Sendai, you're going hope & love & joy, in the end.
❄️The beauty of this spin: one hand holding the ribbon, the other over his head, face & neck. The whole body position, the effect of the ribbons twirling, the beautiful exit.
#HANYUYUZURU
#羽生結弦
He knew exactly what they were doing to him.
It all starts to add up - Beijing perhaps best illustrated detachment of the formal evaluation from what is "appreciated by people properly".
We SAW it. We WITNESSED it. We'll stay by his side, only.
#YuzuruHanyu
#羽生結弦
Yuzu's impact on people's life
"Lastly, I would like to express my special thanks to Yuzuru Hanyu, a figure skating athlete, from whom I have gained a lot of courage and strength."
- from doctoral thesis's acknowledgments (publicly available). Excerpt 👇
#HANYUYUZURU
#羽生結弦
He hold them like remains of that battle, crumbs, just before they melted, disappeared, the last moments of his Olympic story.
Then he closed them in his hands, cherished them, put them to his face & they whispered good bye our king, see you elsewhere.
“I realised how INSANE
#YuzuruHanyu
is...
He leaves the ice right at the take-off, he doesn’t do any pre-rotation!...Guys, this is actually INSANE, this is NOT even NORMAL..
This is the best technique that I don’t think other people could possibly do”
🌏Yuzu quote OPENING the WHOLE Ph.D. thesis in Climate & Space Sciences & Engineering.
"Efforts will lie, but will never be in vain."- Yuzuru Hanyu
It's even more profound: on a BLANK page, before dedication, acknowledgments, table of contents. 🤯
#HANYUYUZURU
#羽生結弦
The aesthetics of Prologue.
Celebration of a beautiful life & person, it's all so elegant, so clean, so mystical w/the leading role of the light & colour. Unthinkable for an ice show & yet Yuzu turned it into reality. Stunning.
#羽生結弦 #プロローグ
🌸Yuzu's gifted flowers always so beautiful showing his gratitude 💐 compositions are always meaningful:
- Ina Bauer for Suga Shikao
- Rondo colours for Shinya Kiyozuka
- Raison white&purple for Miya
#YuzuruHanyu
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🏥 Yuzu THANKED in a thesis at YALE University:
"Finally, I thank Mr. Yuzuru Hanyu who has always been my spiritual anchor. Thank you for your inspiring
performances."
The thesis was submitted in May '24 at Yale School of Public Health. SUPER PROUD! #羽生結弦
#YuzuruHanyu
Look at him here, he NEVER took ANYTHING for granted.
To win his SECOND Olympic GOLD he had to FIGHT to work much HARDER than anyone cause they already designated someone else. And yet he DID WIN, against all of their schemes & plans. The True Champion.
"I realised how INSANE
#YuzuruHanyu
is...He doesn’t do any pre-rotation!...This is the best technique that I don’t think other people could possibly do"
Well, maybe they should at least try.
As a top elite skater you DO have a choice. #羽生結弦
💻Yuzu in acknowledgments AGAIN, this time a computer science degree thesis:
"My final acknowledgment goes to Yuzuru Hanyu, the greatest figure skater of all time. I thank him for being my hero and pushing me to always challenge the unknown"
Yes, me too♥️
#HANYUYUZURU
#羽生結弦
Computer vision researchers from Google, Uber & Princeton demonstrate new algorithm on...Yuzu in Swanyu & Seimei costumes!✨
They could test da Vinci's Mona Lisa, details of Mayan calendar, wings of a tropical butterfly against the background. But they've chosen Yuzu. #羽生結弦
🌺*Yuzu gifted flowers UPDATE* starting from the newest:
- True Love white shirt for Fumiya Fuji
- Change costume's red for MONKEY MAJIK
- Raison white&purple for Miya
- Rondo colours for Shinya Kiyozuka
- Ina Bauer for Suga Shikao
#HanyuYuzuru
#羽生結弦
🧬 Yuzu acknowledged AGAIN - Ph.D. in Biological Engineering (MIT!):
"I am grateful for
#YuzuruHanyu
's inspiring performances on ice, and for his incessant reminders that one can never stop pursuing perfection & excellence"
#HanyuYuzuru
#羽生結弦
🌸Skating at heart & on the ice, see the parallels:
0:05 spreading his arms like in the spin
0:11 hands together picking stg from the ice
0:40 looking up, arms up, eyes following his hand
0:49 hand put down for HB
0:56 grabbing the ice shreds
#羽生結弦 #クラシックTV
Absolutely insane transition into his 3A that is then landed with a bended arm - hyper difficult, but looking effortlessly, followed by twizzles & an illusion spin. This is a SICK level, this should be and will be a new WR.
#YuzuruHanyu
#羽生結弦
#YuzuruHanyu
𓃵
🤩This beautiful move requires thighs of steel & a perfect balance, here in 2 versions:
- upwards/forward (DB)
- downwards/backwards (IF)
-> looks easy & effortlessly, but look - the main weight of his body is *on his toe* only 🤯#羽生結弦
We're going to see him tomorrow.
In my short post-Beijing fanyuism I've never seen him confident & happy like that, even during FaoI.
#HANYUYUZURU
#羽生結弦 #プロローグ
🥺Farewell in Shizuoka. Moments after he electrified the audience performing Raison, made everyone sigh for Esmeralda, after giving interview while crying, he came to say goodbye: to the arena, to the crew, to the ice.
From yuzuru_94h on IG.
#羽生結弦
#HANYUYUZURU
𓃵
#FaoIFriday
⛸️Yuzu's thesis quoted in a research paper on automatic judgment in fs:
"Hanyu...attempted to analyze fs motions using an IMU & showed that the system has good tracking performance for the pose angles of skate blade".
It's OPENING a section on motion analysis in fs!
#羽生結弦
🥇They didn't let him sing, but he won the awards for the best outfit & for being the nicest & most beautiful person. 🥰
#NHK
紅白 #羽生結弦
#YuzuruHanyu
𓃵
#HANYUYUZURU
✨"You'll never be alone"✨
Shots on Prologue audience as:
- ppl need to be reminded of the *full* venue sold out for this 1 man show while all other JPN shows struggle
- that it's only a tiny fraction of fanyus
- that we'll always stand for Yuzuru
#プロローグ
#HANYUYUZURU
Shuzo kneeling down was really moving, he did what many had in mind then & every time Yuzu risked his health for skating: on a sprained ankle, w/ pain, ligament damage in his foot, after asthma attack.
Injured & in pain, he's bowing, thanking. No words.
#羽生結弦
#HANYUYUZURU
1/[THREAD] Question: Who published a shot of Yuzuru's 3A from this recording & where?
Fanyus on twitter? No! A team of scholars, in a scientific, peer-reviewed article on GOEs, Ice-Scope data & Axel jumps, published in Journal of Sports Science👇🏼
#YuzuruHanyu
#羽生結弦
#AxelJump
Never again, ever. He's free now & only getting love, support & admiration, as deserved. He's topping/high in all the popularity ranks, filling in all the venues, making the merchandise sell out, he's awarded, invited, interviewed, filmed. Let there be only happy tears now.
😃Yuzu listed with Napoleon, Leonardo da Vinci, Socrates & M Monroe in a paper studying role knowledge of large language models.
✨A small mention, but it's interesting Yuzu was included in this set of "real life celebrities" among such historic & contemporary figures! #羽生結弦
Yuzu's mind-blowing 4T landing ⚡️on the note⚡️he's amazing, this is exactly how landing quads *with the music* looks like. GPF 2014 (Barcelona).
Last h of
#MusicalMonday
#HanyuYuzuru
#羽生結弦
GIFT is also about YOU. The dream you forgot about, the wings you lost on the way, the fears you prefer to hide, the pain you learned to live with. This journey through yourself- he's taking you by the hand as if saying he knows everything. All of that.
#羽生結弦
#GIFTfromYUZU
💐*Updated* Yuzu's gifted flowers most beautiful collection of gratitude & thoughtfulness💝starting from the newest:
- Change costume's red for MONKEY MAJIK
- Raison white&purple for Miya
- Rondo colours for Shinya Kiyozuka
- Ina Bauer for Suga Shikao
#HanyuYuzuru
#羽生結弦
✨We're getting the making of GIFT! 🎉🥳
"A story “GIFT” that expresses the life and future of #羽生結弦 on ice"
Best news, best news today!!! Thank you so much!
Trailer:
#HANYUYUZURU
#GIFT_tokyodome
🌸Idk why, just watching this section repeatedly.🌿
Details of his costume, him being focussed, his hands, the cameras arranged in an even row, him counting, looking down, all of this preparing a Christmas gift for us.🥹💚
#HanyuYuzuru
#羽生結弦
✨New coordinated fan action
#Challenge4Yuzu
✨
Let's express our support, hopes & dreams for this new stage of Yuzu's career!
⏳From July 28 (10 PM Japan) until July 31. ⌛️
Follow the instructions and use the hashtags 👇
#Challenge4Yuzu
#YuzuruHanyu
#羽生結弦
📚Yuzu included in 'Famous-Figures-25 dataset' developed by 2 researchers from the Univ. of Pittsburg in a paper on the use of public figures' photos for image forging (simplified!)
🌠Context is specific but good to see Yuzu *again* among GLOBALLY renown names 😁#羽生結弦
"I don't mind getting hurt...I took the plunge & got the sprain...I was prepared to get injured"
And so he got injured. When that happened, he tightened his laces & started testing that ankle. It was probably swelling, so he tightened the laces even more. The man, the fighter.🥺
"Everybody wants to be in your big black coat
Everybody wants to have your style"
May be a simple fashion choice or may be a symbol of insulation, a protective coat (literally). One small detail out of soo many. Plus this outfit is stunning, sophisticated, minimalistic, love it.
❤️ It was a STUNNING, WONDERFUL performance, glorious, clean, you gave it ALL. THANK YOU, thank you THANK YOU SM, you're just perfect, your heart, your skating, your kindness, your beauty. 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
You deserve all the LOVE in the world. 😭😭😭
"My happiness" - or in a longer version -
"everyone's dream is my happiness" (みんなの夢は 私の幸せ/minna no yume wa watashi no shiawase)
- that's what Yuzu sings here.😭😭😭
Thank you
@Eisbaer47535399
for your find & translation. Cc:
@CostanzaRdO
Chopin 4CC '20: "There was NOTHING in that program that was at all short of skating PERFECTION" said the commentator before it took the judges almost 6 min to underscore this masterpiece.
Yuzu opens up about scoring - we're happy he's out of this, but he won't forget, ever.
😭I AM CRYING WHO IS HERE?
THANK YOU for representing all of us !!!
We are international fans travelling thousands of miles to see Yuzu, fighting for tickets, for annual leave & seeing this JUST FEELS SO GREAT 😭😭😭
🎹Yuzu's Ballade mentioned in an article in "Chopin Review" journal:
"it is fitting that Chopin’s G minor Ballade accompanied Yuzuru Hanyu’s triumphant figure skating performance at the 2018 Winter Olympics"
Yuzu is the ONLY athlete mentioned there.
#HANYUYUZURU
#羽生結弦⬇️
🪩 Yuzu did his regular Moonwalk but then its "side" version, which I haven't seen before (*maybe* during Ashura-chan).
It's difficult to do it like MJ w/blades on, but he adjusted it putting his foot back & rotating a bit. 🤩
BG Tenchi 3A, cause:
- it's Yuzu's last jump in a competition
- followed by twizzles & inside spread eagle, when transitions still mattered (theoretically)
- It's Tenchi Tuesday,
- you may never see anything like this in a competition again.
#HANYUYUZURU
#羽生結弦
He's a REBEL. The biggest rebel ever in fs.
He was never bragging about himself or calling himself a god.
And yet it's HIM rebelling, revolutionising fs, creating 1 man show, dominating media. Rebelling w/his charisma, hard work, perfectionism & a strive for beauty. #羽生結弦
The Greatest Of All Times - also the most humble.
Turning w/his WHOLE BODY to honour other skaters:
- JNats '20: turning immediately when YK is announced
- JNats '21: dropping his own gold medal to turn to SU wearing the silver
✨That's who he is, that's his greatness. #羽生結弦
A year ago he kissed the olympic ice one last time.Pressed his arms, his lips against it, closed his eyes & cherished it w/his cheek not breaking the touch, but when he finally had to, ice shreds clung to his mouth, his hair desperate to make the moment last a few seconds longer.
🇵🇹University of Porto - a Master's Thesis in Electrical and Computer Engineering & it's opening statement on a blank page, Yuzu's words:
✨"Efforts may lie, but will never be in vain"
- Yuzuru Hanyu
Yuzu again inspiring researchers all over the world! #羽生結弦
Sendai was very lively today - crowded, full of life.
The city that survived & lives on.
And he - Yuzuru Hanyu - is love, life & beauty. How he did it again today after all the recollection of 3/11 memories is beyond me.
#nottestellata
Yuzu's sportsmanship & kindness are well known & documented. But the BIGGEST act of RESPECT for the sport & other athletes was his INTEGRITY as a skater, bc he never resorted to cheating on his jumps to get points, out of respect for others, for the sport
🥹NEW doctoral dissertation ACKNOWLEDGING YUZU!
"...the figure skating of Yuzuru Hanyu, whose skating & life story have inspired me tremendously during some of the darkest periods of my life."
- this PhD thesis was defended at University of Leiden, the Netherlands! #羽生結弦