YUZUPHILE ♡

What an amazing journey, Yuzuru Hanyu.

I can’t heal Yuzuru Hanyu’s unfortunate injury, but I can give you a minute with him in my pictures

“Yuzuru Hanyu…” 

“I’m here!”

“You are… you are what I aim for!” (in Japanese)

“Nice!” “Amazing!”

“Plea…?”

“Please”

“Please do your best!”

“Thank you! (ruffles hair) Good speak! ” 

 - Vadim Voronov (8 years old) to Yuzuru Hanyu in Japanese!

Little Vadim memorised the phrase in Japanese, and went backstage to tell it to Yuzuru after the SP! Full video here, full documentary on weibo here 

Hero’s Special 170402

So, as opposed to the usual media angle of Shoma vs Yuzu, Hero’s has decided to put together a program about their relationship, as seen from behind the scenes footage. Most of the articles/reports are now focusing on the relationship between Yuzu and Shoma instead of the previous angle of rivals, because this time they had the shared role of Japan’s representatives as opposed to being individual skaters.

Shoma: Right now, when I’m practicing, my motivation is the desire to achieve the ability to win over Yuzu-kun. That’s the only motivation and, in order to continue growing, I would like to continue forward without changing this feeling.

Yuzu: I’ve often been told that I’m in a position of being chased by others but, if you think about it, just like how we found out with this SP, there are still many people I have to chase after. After all, after the SP the one who was standing in first place was Javier, and the one who was third was Patrick. Of course, the young skater Uno…Uno-san…U-Uno-san? *frowns at himself and laughs* Uno-senshuu** too (was in the top 3). There are many things that I don’t have, so in a manner of speaking, everything is to me, something/someone to chase after.  

In which we get a behind the scenes look at the bond between Yuzu and Shoma (as viewed by the Japanese media)

Full translation including video narration under the cut.

This time the effort to complete the program was huge. You’re H E R O!

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Yuzu uses a bee spinner during warmup! 

Spinners are things you step on so you can spin on the spot 

The bee spinner is one of EDEA’s children series lol 

See Yuzu’s love for bees here! 

A look into the mastery of one-footed and multidirectional skating, one of the main features of Skating Skills under the PCS components, among Top Men in 17-18 season