Javier Fernandez

hamaguri said:

btw, matmuh, i have a questionfor you. i often know the birthday of the skater from your post. i admire you. you are particular about each skater's birthday. dp you have any list or memo?

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Crossover said:

I have the same thought!

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matmuh said:

i know some of my favourites' birthdays but not all, following skaters and figure skating related pages on social media helps a lot btw thanks for your kind words :

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tzazu said:

And birthdays presents:luv17:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEQSrf4ji7H/?hl=es

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- Q :At the short program, you fell, but if something has characterized you is your ability to overcome these setbacks.
A: After the short program, knowing that I didn’t do a perfect program and knowing that Hanyu was at ten-twelve points of distance, I remember I thought “Well, a second place is not bad”. But then, at the long program, I change a little my thoughts. I thought if I do a clean program, If I have a chance, It has to be doing this program completely clean. So I think I was only myself who put that goal, and I said to myself “Let’s try to improve a little more, and do a clean program and then we’ll see what happens."

- Q : Anyway, when you finish your long program ,you see the standing ovation and you put your hands on your face, in that moment you think “ What I’ve done has been great”..
A: Yes, but even so, I didn’t know what Hanyu had done before. We have to wait while the others skaters are performing, and meanwhile we warm up; but we can't watch a TV to watch the competition, so we only can intuit what’s happening from the sound of the public, If a skater is doing it well or not; but we don’t know for sure what happened, or how many points the skater earned; so when I went to do my long program, I didn’t know what happened with the previous skaters.

- Q: So really, when you put your hands on your face, you don’t know that you’ve won?
A : No, no. I didn’t know, because, besides, the scores depend on the judges. I knew that I’d done the perfect program for me, but I didn’t know whether I was first or not.

- Q: While you were doing your program, the entire public at the venue was standing up and cheering, and especially your coach, Brian Orser, the first thing that told you is “OMG. Guau.”
A: Yes, and I didn’t know. When you’re perfoming , you don’t realize what is happening on your surroundings. I was finishing my program, doing my spins and the people was standing up. And then when I finished my program and I saw the people in Boston,standing up for a guy who is spanish, from Madrid...., and they stood up because I’d done a program that reached everyone, and that is something that I can be proud. Also for my coach, and of course my coach is proud of me and he knows the work that I’m doing at the competitions.

- Q: Other thing that surprises me about your sport. You train with your biggest rival, don’t you? How Brian Orser can handle to train both of you? I guess he trains you in the same way, he says that he’s like a father for you. How is it to train with your rival, at the same ice rink, the same hours?
A: Figure skating is a sport which we don’t have to compete face to face, you compete against yourself, and then the judges decide who wins. We use our way of training together as benefit for our trainings. Yuzuru learns things from me, I learn things from him, if he strives more then I try too. We use this situation as something positive to improve even more.

- Q: How is the life in Toronto?
A: It’s good and I like the training there, because I don’t have any distractions, I live alone and I know that I am there only to train and I devote myself to it 100%.

- Q: You’ve nationalised Canadian, haven’t you?
A: No, I haven’t. And I'll never do it. We tried to do it (The superior counsel of sports, the Spanish federation) .We tried to get a visa or something that would help us to make our days in Toronto easier. The things got complex and we only could obtain a letter from the government of Canada which explains our situation, why we go to Canada and that they couldn’t reject our entry to the country. I’m a tourist in Canada, we have this letter and when we go to the airport, to the custom, we have to show it .

- Q: Javi, now you want to set up the CAR (High performance center) of figure skating in Spain.
A:Well, this is a future project. We want this sport to not end here, we want to help new kids, new skaters to improve and give them more possibilities to do what I’m doing, or even more. We want to ease their way, so they can train in Spain and don’t have to go abroad. It’s a project, we have some ideas, but there is a lot of work to do, we don’t know what is going to happen, but it’s something that we want, we have a lot of hopes and we think that it’s something that we need in this sport. Also others sports like hockey… all the sports related to the ice, they need a rink where they have enough time to practice.

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Q: Other thing that surprises me about your sport. You train with your biggest rival, don’t you? How Brian Orser can handle to train both of you? I guess he trains you in the same way, he says that he’s like a father for you. How is it to train with your rival, at the same ice rink, the same hours?
A: Figure skating is a sport which we don’t have to compete face to face, you compete against yourself, and then the judges decide who wins. We use our way of training together as benefit for our trainings. Yuzuru learns things from me, I learn things from him, if he strives more then I try too. We use this situation as something positive to improve even more.

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Q: You’ve nationalised Canadian, haven’t you?
A: No, I haven’t. And I'll never do it. We tried to do it (The superior counsel of sports, the Spanish federation) .We tried to get a visa or something that would help us to make our days in Toronto easier. The things got complex and we only could obtain a letter from the government of Canada which explains our situation, why we go to Canada and that they couldn’t reject our entry to the country. I’m a tourist in Canada, we have this letter and when we go to the airport, to the custom, we have to show it .

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I apologize for my ignorance on this because I don't know Canadian visa rules, but couldn't Javier (or any other foreigner training in Canada) somehow get a work visa? Especially since Javier does ice shows in Canada (I believe he will be part of the Canada SOI tour) and probably does some teaching. It seems weird that Javier would be on a "tourist visa" - he is probably in the country a lot longer during the year than what I would think a tourist visa would allow.

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cathlen said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sTfN60ZySM&feature=youtu.be Does anyone have time to summarize if there some things we haven't already know? Would be grateful. I'm not sure but I think he said he will be retiring after 2018 Olympics, but I think he already mentioned it somewhere before.

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