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Figure skating jumps are identified by the way the skater takes off the ice. Here are simple ways to tell them apart, using layman-friendly terms. 

There are 6 different types of jumps (in order of base value): Toe loop (T), Salchow (S), Loop (Lo), Flip (F), Lutz (Lz), Axel (A). 

Since Yuzuru rotates anti-clockwise in the air, these examples are for anti-clockwise jumps. For clock-wise jumpers, the left and right would reversed.

EDIT: The toe, lutz and flip can look confusingly similar. Just remember, for the toe, the skater rotates away from the foot on the ice and for the flip and lutz, the skater rotates towards the foot on the ice. 

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Notes:

No.1: GOE +2.71 (*) No.2: GOE +2.00 (**) No.3: GOE +2.14 (**) No.4: Single is the new quad No.5: “Sure I messed up but it doesn’t matter because I’m Yuzuru Hanyu” No.6: “I did a #yoloaxel out of an Ina Bauer the other week, how hard can it be to do one out of a hydroblade? ‘kay, turned out it’s pretty hard” No.7: “Watch me do this impossible thing and watch me sulk when it fails”

(*) Judges were drunk (**) Judges were hungover from fundraising parties for new prescription glasses

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Yuzuru at World Championships 2017

No-commentary video of SP above;  post-SP interview with Eng subs below.

No-commentary video of Free Skate:

Japanese commentary (parts of FP) + interview with Eng subs: 

Thanks to 6277 for the subbed videos with proper credit to Sophie Moroi for her translation, and with her permission too.  (I saw videos in Youtube that used Sophie’s translation with no permission, and even worse, with no credit to her whatsoever!)   

And I love no-commentary videos… thanks to siberia1982 for the SP and FP ones! 

Victory Ceremony:  I was watching the competition on live stream and praying so hard during ‘Hope&Legacy’.  When he finished his perfect FP, tears just streamed down my face.  YOU DID IT, YUZU!!!!  Then, after the last skater’s turn, when it was confirmed that Yuzu got the gold, I started crying again.  And I could not stop crying throughout the medal ceremony!  I was watching it on live stream and I kept wiping my eyes so that I could see clearly!   Ahhhhhh……… finally, though all those ups and downs of the past 2+ years, through all the pain and heartache, finally!!! he got the reward that he worked so hard for.  You really deserve that gold medal and all the happiness in the world, Yuzuru!!!

Gala exhibition, the beautiful Swan Prince in ‘Notte Stellata’: 

(much thanks to respective video uploaders)  

What a privilege to know you and to be your fan.  Thank you, Yuzu, and CONGRATS!!!!

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I died at this finish

出来る、出来る、出来る。

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Worlds 2017 Free Skate

4Lo 4S 3F // 4S+3T 4T 3A+2T 3A+1Lo+3S 3Lz

223.20 (New FS record) Total 321.59 Rank 1

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Yuzuru Hanyu, reaction after his WR & World Championships winning FS || 2017 World Championships (x)

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Yuzuru Hanyu x Requiem of Heaven and Earth (World Championships 2016 Exhibition)

Throwback to one of the most beautiful, ethereal, heartfelt performances ever to grace the ice.

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4 types of clapping demonstrated by Figure Skaters

Okay, here we go:

The “That was awesome!”-type. Usually used when feeling a great amount of joy and amazement.

       2.  The “You rock! Keep going!”-type. Often seen when people feel the              urge to cheer on performers they’d like to continue performing and/or                as a sign of support.

      3. The “I’ve no idea what I’m doing but I don’t want to be rude”-type.            Executed when a person did miss the reason for cheering but still desires          to be polite.

      4. … and then there is Yuzuru Hanyu…

(x)

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his smile can save the world 

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Yuzuru Hanyu freaking out watching Nathan Chen from the green room || 2017 4CC (s)

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2017 4CC men’s preview: basically worlds without javi

every time i pulled up a google doc and tried to write a proper preview for 4CC, a low, agonized scream started building in my lungs, so at some point i just gave up and decided to write whatever the fuck popped into my head. will there be a ladies’ preview? a pairs and ice dance preview? if i haven’t devolved into incoherent keysmashing by then (and if the skaters are even still around and not WITHDRAWN WITH INJURIES), we’ll see. (lbr, the most important part of pairs is sui/han anyway.)

in case you didn’t know, the four continents championships, aka. the four continents CHENpionships, aka. 4CC, aka. 4ContsFigure because the ISU can’t come up with decent hashtags to save their lives, is a competition for all non-european skaters that will take place this year in gangneung, south korea, from feb. 14-19. sometimes skaters like to blow off 4CC but since it will take place in the 2018 olympic arena (jesus fuck can you believe it’s barely a year away) most top skaters decided to go this year in order to test out the rink. so we’re in for some p r e t t y interesting stuff next week. (read: this entry list makes me want to die. if you were around for the european championships - the top 5-6 men at 4CC can probably outscore the european silver medalist.)

here are the full entries. aight, let’s go.

Keep reading

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Stéphane Lambiel & Deniss Vasiļjevs at the European Figure Skating Championships 2017

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What does Yuzuru Hanyu’s Pooh know that we don’t?

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Part I (Jump Identification)  ||  Part II (Jump Combinations)  ||  Part III (Spin Identification)

Figure skating jumps are identified by the way the skater takes off the ice. Here are simple ways to tell them apart, using layman-friendly terms. 

There are 6 different types of jumps (in order of base value): Toe loop (T), Salchow (S), Loop (Lo), Flip (F), Lutz (Lz), Axel (A). 

Since Yuzuru rotates anti-clockwise in the air, these examples are for anti-clockwise jumps. For clock-wise jumpers, the left and right would reversed.

EDIT: The toe, lutz and flip can look confusingly similar. Just remember, for the toe, the skater rotates away from the foot on the ice and for the flip and lutz, the skater rotates towards the foot on the ice. 

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That face

Yuzuru Hanyu watching Javier Fernandez’s free skate || 2016 GPF (x)

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It’s amazing to see how many people all around the world prepared birthday cakes for Yunho yesterday and almost all of them had strawberries!!!

So I decided to post mine too! >.< You are incredible person Jung Yunho, 

Best wishes from Turkey~~ 

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TVXQ tries rice pudding (sütlaç) for the first time :D

I love the way Changmin cannot stop eating! He dislikes desserts and this is actually a high score for his standards and the message he sent to Turkey; GOD!!! So adorable.  

Changmin-ah, Turkey loves you too~~ ♥♥♥

P.S, Yunho, my revenge will be painful. I'll make you eat a cauldron of rice pudding and you'll see what a prank is -_-