Article by: Abe

One month ago, on August 10, Yuzuru Hanyu live-streamed his skating practice on YouTube, and the number of views is still increasing.

Unior Grand Prix (GP) series of figure skating, which is the gateway to becoming a top skater, is held almost every week in various parts of Europe.

Today's main character, Yuzuru Hanyu (27), who won two consecutive Olympic gold medals in the men's event and announced in July that he would turn professional, was inspired by the fact that he won the tournament held in Poland on September 11, 13 years ago. I flew to the world.

After about an hour of carefully relaxing your body while using the spectator stands and handrails, you are ready to go onto the ice. I was surprised again by the speed of rotation of the quad axel (four and a half jumps) and the sound of icing, which I saw for the first time at close range on the rink side. During the splendid consecutive jumps of quadruple-triple jumps, my body moved up and down on my own accord with the timing when Mr. Hanyu descended. With a look so serious that it's hard to believe he's practicing, Mr. Hanyu entered his own world.

On that day, about 100,000 people watched in real time. The number of views continued to grow even after distribution, surpassing 3 million views in less than a month.