Yu-Na Kim - Queen Yu-Na topic

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Name Yu-Na Kim

Date Of Birth September 5, 1990

Family parents, elder sister, toto, hanuri

Place of Birth Bucheon, GyeongGi

Residence Gunpo, GyeongGi

Blood Type O

Height 163cm ; weight:43kg

club Gunpo Suri High School Skating Club

Hobbies Web surfing, cyworld, listening to music, shopping (sometimes)

Start Skating 1996, GwaCheon Ice Rink, GyeongGi

Coach Brian Orser

Former Coaches
2006.9-2007.1. Bun-Seon Park
2005-2006 Se-Yeol Kim
2004-2005 Hyeon-Jeong Ji
2003 Se-Yeol Kim
2000-2003 Hye-Suk Shin
1997-2000 Jong-Hyeon Ryu

Choreographer David Wilson SP/FS for 2007/2008 season

Former Choreographer
Katarina Dickson, Se-Yeol Kim, Jeffrey Buttle, Tom Dickson, David Wilson, Brian Orser

Training Location Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club, Canada


Favorites

Favorite Foods All kinds of foods,
especially Bread (all kinds of), tteokbokki (Korean food, broiled & sliced rice cake with hot seasoning)

Favorite Colour Purple

Favorite TV Program: Infinite Challenge, MBC

Favorite Skaters: Michelle Kwan(most favorite), Irina Slutskaya, Sasha Cohen, Carolina Kostner,
Johnny Weir, Evgeni Plushenko, Alban Preaubert, Alexander Uspenski, Jeffrey Buttle,
Tomas Verner, Daisuke Takahashi, Stephane Lambiel, Aliona Savchenko & Robin Szolkowy





Yu-Na Kim ocupa locul in clasamentul mondial cu 492.60p.
http://web.icenetwork.com/rankings/i...c=ladies&rnk=0

Uitati ce am gasit despre Yu-Na! O fi adevarat?
http://www.ifsmagazine.com/forum/ind...?showtopic=488

Yu-Na Kim Makes History
http://www.ifsmagazine.com/forum/ind...?showtopic=297

Yu-Na Kim Forum http://yunaforum.com/index.php?showforum=5

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[mikeyy]

Yu-na este preferata mea din noua generatie de patinatori. Ma bucur Ade ca ai deschis acest thread. Eu consider ca din punct d evedere tehnic este cea mai buna din toata timpurile si aici nu ma refer la dificultatea combinatiilor ci la acuratetea elementelor pe care le executa. Cu siguranta daca o va ajuta Dumnezeu sa mearga mai departe si sa fie in forma; cred ca ea va fi pe prima treapta a podiumului la Vancouver 2010.
De asemenea sper sa aiba noroc si la mondiale in 2008 unde sa castige medalia de aur pe care nu a reusit anul acesta

[irinaidu]

eu ii doresc sa stea accidentarile departe de ea!!!

[madalina18]

mi-a placut de ea la gala.....ffff eleganta si sensibila!

[Cristinush]

Ia uitati ce lady avem
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[rocs_a]

park e fotomodel!

[mikeyy]

Ce draguta e!

[florik2000]

Fan interest has been a big boost for Kim Yu-na on her way to stardom, but now the 17-year-old figure skater wants less attention.

The two-time defending World Grand Prix Final champion said on her own Web site on Thursday morning that the excessive interest from fans has made her feel bitter.

``When you find me practicing on an ice rink, please watch and root for me in your heart,'' said Kim, who finished third for the second straight year at the World Championships in March despite a hip injury.

``As fans make noise while moving in crowds to watch me skate, other skaters training on the ice cannot focus on their exercises. I really feel sorry for them.

``Concentration is the top priority in practice. Although I fully understand your cheering, please don't distract them.''

Since her sudden return to South Korea in February due to the injury, Kim, who was training in Canada, has practiced at the Lotte World Rink in Jamsil, Southern Seoul.

The rink is usually used for visitors during daytime, while figure skaters, including Kim, rent it around midnight for practice.

Despite the late time, Kim's fame has drawn many people to the site, and their loud shouting and taking pictures have hampered the athletes from exercising.

``Especially, I ask you not to use a flashlight. Even though it is a short time, the light is very, very dangerous to skaters,'' she said.

``The rink is the only place for us to train under comfortable conditions. Please help us to focus on it during the time.''

Meanwhile, Gunpo City, where Kim resides, has planned to build an ice rink for Kim, spurred by Kim's rival Mao Asada of Japan training in a state-of-the-art rink. But the budget for the rink of 90 billion won ($88 million) has made the plans stall.

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Yu-Na joins Jackie Chan & Korean artists in Earthquake relief project

Yesterday morning, famous Korean figure skater Kim Yuna, biggest valued blue chip stock Wonder Girls, 200 Pounds Beauty movie star Kim Ah Joong plus other top stars gathered together at Louis Studio in Samsungdong. . . to lend their voices to the I Love Asia project, conceptualized by action star Jackie Chan, producer Park Jin Young and director Kang Je Kyu to help victims from the devastating Sichuan earthquake in China.

Korean artistes lend their voices for the I L♥ve Asia project <-- click
YouTube Link: Recording for I L♥ve Asia
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[Tracoromana]

Yu-Na a fost botezata pentru a fi catolica, duminica trecuta (24 Mai). Numele sau crestin este Stella.

Sursa: Yu-Na Kim Forum (yunaforum.com)
Article (Korean) and photo
http://www.viewsnnews.com/article/view.jsp?seq=35312

In Koreea sunt 5 milioane de catolici.

[whisper]

:p Vazusem si eu ceva ieri pe fsunivers dar nu am citit threadul sa vad mai sigur despre ce e vorba :p
Multumim pentru info Flavia Stella e un nume frumos

[andreeas]

Ma bucur pentru Yu Na. A facut o alegere buna, numele Stella este frumos.

[mikeyy]

Vesti foarte bune....Yu-na is back in business S-a recuperat dupa toate problemele de sanatate si s-a reintors in Canada pentru antrenamente
Yu-na a devenit una dintre cele mai importante celebritati din Koreea...a fost invitata in emisiuni Tv, a realizat mai multe reclame. Daca asa au reactionat coreeni dupa medalia de bronz de la mondiale..oare cum vor reactiona in cazul unei medalii de aur la CM sau JO?

South Korean skating sensation, Yu-Na Kim is happy to be back on “home” ice at the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club.

Kim returned to Canada on Thursday, June 12 and despite a late night flight arrival was back on the ice the following day working with coach Brian Orser. Choreographer David Wilson will begin choreographing her new programs today. “I missed Brian and David and I am happy to be back,” Kim said.

Life in Canada is a far cry from the one the bubbly teenager has led the past two months. After claiming her second consecutive bronze medal at the 2008 World Championships Kim returned to Korea to have a recurring back and hip injury treated by specialists. Her training schedule was essentially cancelled in order to allow her injuries to properly heal.

But Kim has become a megastar in her homeland and life was anything but dull during her downtime. “I did many television commercials and a photo shoot for a magazine,” she said. “It is hard work doing commercials. It takes a long time to shoot a commercial and I had to smile all the time. I was a little restless waiting around a lot but it was fun.”

According to her manager, Ryan Kim, “Yu-Na has reached a high tier of celebrity status in Korea. She is one of the most important celebrities in Korea.”

The sentiment was echoed by Canada’s Patrick Chan who went to Seoul in May to perform in the “Festa on Ice” show. “Yu-Na is like a rock star in Korea,” Chan said. “She is not just a figure skater to them. Whenever the skaters went out when we were in Seoul we had bodyguards. It was incredible. We went to a shopping mall one day and the crowds were crazy. The bodyguards had to keep all the people away from her.”

Kim was joined by an all-star cast at the “Festa on Ice” show. “I have done other shows in Korea,” she said, “but this was the best show ever. Great skaters came.”

One of the highlights Kim said was performing a number with her friend Johnny Weir who she described as being very special. “He is the best. It was a lot of fun performing with him,” she said.

Orser said his student’s injuries have finally healed and now she has to buckle down and work hard. “It is great to have her back. We all missed her,” he said.

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Happy, healthy Kim hopes for big season
"She's a new person," says her coach, Brian Orser

(09/03/2008) - Training at Toronto's Cricket Skating & Curling Club -- some 6,500 miles from her hometown in Gunpo, South Korea -- agrees with Yu-Na Kim.

When she skates at Lotte World, a recreation complex in Seoul billed as the largest indoor amusement park in the world, the teenager is disadvantaged by her own fame. A national hero, she must weave around dozens of youngsters she inspired to don skates and often pause to sign autographs.

"The rink where she trains in Seoul is in an amusement park, and it's a super-duper-sized rink, way bigger than Olympic size," said Kim's coach, two-time Olympic silver medalist Brian Orser. "And there are all these rides going around and a lot of people taking interest, so we have to skate to the middle of the ice and have our little chats."

Here, at the rather tony private club, visitors are invited by members and carefully logged in at a reception desk. Fewer adoring fans and plenty of elbow room on the ice have relaxed the two-time world bronze medalist.

"I love to train here," Kim, who turns 18 on Sept. 5, said in her fast-improving English. "There are [only] a few rinks in South Korea, and I think there's not enough time to skate. It's hard to train there; that's why I moved here. There is more calm and quiet. I am po****r in Korea, a lot of people come and want to take pictures [with me], and so it's very hard to focus."

The engaging teen misses the comforts of home during her long sojourns in Toronto; family and friends head the list. But living just 15 minutes from the rink with her mom, Mi-hee Park, plus a full-time physiotherapist and a personal trainer, has helped lift her skating to new heights.

"She's a new person this year," Orser, who has coached Kim since late 2006, said. "It's been really remarkable to see her evolve into a young woman, from this little girl who was crying a lot and was very, very shy. She has confidence. She beats to her own drum. She has her own agenda and a real passion for skating now."

That's a huge improvement from six months ago, when hip and back injuries forced Kim to withdraw from the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships held in her home country. She arrived at the 2008 ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, six weeks later, low in confidence and practice time. Still, despite falling on a triple Lutz in her short program, she won the free skate and came home with a second consecutive bronze medal.

"Last summer, she had some good days and some not so good days," Orser said. "Then we got to the fall Grand Prix season and she started doing a big push with her off-ice people, and it was just too much. So I'm happy with the new [physiotherapist and trainer] this season. I'm pretty confident she is going to stay healthy as long as I can teach her about pacing."

"My back is getting better; for sure it's better than at worlds," his pupil agreed. "It is not 100 percent yet but it's [between] 90 and 99 percent."

Kim is looking for a big year. Unlike her Japanese rival Mao Asada, the reigning world champion who has competed neck-and-neck with her since their junior days, the Korean skater doesn't have a triple Axel in her arsenal. What she does have is a technically sound quintet of triple jumps and a consistent triple-triple combination.

"Mao is a very great skater; she can do triple Axel, which is very hard to do for women skaters, so I love her skating," Kim said. "If she was not my rival, maybe I [would not] improve my skating so much. We push each other. It's good to have a rival."

Despite her admiration, Kim has no intentions of adding Mao's most famous weapon to her own repertoire.

"Sure, I tried [triple Axel] when I was 10 or 11," she said. "It's very hard. It takes a very long, long time to learn, and I got injured [trying it]. I don't think it is good to learn new [jump] skills now. It is better, I think, to do what I can and not make mistakes during competitions."

Orser pointed out that if his pupil skates up to her abilities, she has a strong chance for gold.

"At worlds, we've never been able to lay out what she's capable of," he said. "Last year at the Grand Prix Final, she put out a pretty good long program, and the scores reflected that. But at [2007] worlds in Tokyo and [2008] in Gothenburg, [her programs] were sub par. She was in pain; she was not in great shape; she got the tricks out, but they were not good quality.

"Her advantage is [that her] triple flip-triple toe combination usually gets a +2 [Grade of Execution]. She's even had +3s. And her Lutz is a true Lutz [with an outside-edge take-off]; when she does a good one, she usually gets +1 or more, whereas some of the other girls [including Mao] with the edge error could get a -1 or 2."

This season, Kim tackles two new routines, both choreographed at the Cricket Club with David Wilson. Her short is set to "Danse Macabre," her free is to Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade," music one of her favorite skaters, Michelle Kwan, used during the 2001-02 season.

"Its fun to work with David," Kim said with a laugh. "I was very shy a few years ago before working with him. He has made me [less] shy. It's easy to express [myself] when I'm working with David, so I'm lucky to be working with him.

"[The short] is very strong music, much stronger than last season. I want to skate to more impressive music. For the long, I heard [Scheherazade] a few years ago, and I thought I'd like to skate to it, but last year Miki Ando used it, so I couldn't. I wanted to use more po****r music than I did last season."

Rather than adding new jumps, Kim and Orser are working to add new positions to her spins and spiral sequences.

"She's been working on her flexibility a lot, because I know under the new [judging] rules, you get [more credit] for a full split in the spiral sequence," the coach explained.

"The judging system changed, so I've changed, and I'm working on that," Kim agreed.

With her stays in Toronto so successful, Kim seemed uncertain when asked about recent newspaper reports that she had applied to Korean University.

"I live here right now; I can't go to school in Korea, not while I am training and skating all the time," she said. "Maybe later, after the Olympics, I will go."

The 2010 Vancouver Games, just 18 months away, are not uppermost in her thoughts. Her first goal is to do well at her fall events, Skate America and the Cup of China, and then repeat as Grand Prix champion in Goyang City in December.

The prospect of competing at home both energizes and concerns the skater.

"The Korean media expects me to get gold at all times, even when I got injured," she said. "I just try to focus on my skating. [The pressure] is good for me sometimes, and sometimes not good. It's the first time to compete in my country, so that puts a little more pressure on me. But I like it.

"I think Olympics are very big, but they are in 2010. I don't want to think about it right now. I want to think about my [upcoming] competitions and what I need to do this season."

http://web.icenetwork.com/news/artic...&vkey=ice_news

[Tracoromana]

Tare mi-ar placea sa castige CM. Are tot ce- trebuie: sarituri, gratie, simt artistic, e capabila de punctaje mari, mai trebuie doar putina concentrare.

[mikeyy]

Sunt de acord cu tine Flavia.....este extraordinara Yu-na. Chiar daca nu are aceesi dificultate ca Mao..ea compenseaza prin executie. E una dintre putinele patinatoare care primeste coeficienti de +2 la multe dintre sarituri.
O vreau campioana mondiala si olimpica Este cea mai buna!

[whisper]

Nu vreau sa va supar asa ca " Que sera, sera! What will be will be!"
Daca va fi sa fie Yu-Na campiona atunci asa sa fie

[Iulya]

Kim Yu-na to Skate on Charity Ice Show

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By Kang Seung-woo
Staff Reporter

Figure skating wunderkind Kim Yu-na will perform in a charity ice show in Korea.

IB Sports, her agency, said Thursday that the 18-year-old South Korean would skate in the show, titled ``Kim Yu-na's Angels on Ice,'' on Christmas Day at Mokdong Ice Rink.

Kim, who triumphed at this year's two Grand Prix series events ― Skate of American and Cup of China ― plans to skate with 10 South Korean figure skating prospects.

In addition, world bronze medallist Johnny Weir of the United States will pair with Kim.

All profit from admission fees will go to the charity.

``To reward for big support from local fans, I will perform in the charity show,'' Kim said.

Kim has a big reputation for doing good.

Last year, she donated 12 million won for young figure skaters, and contributed 100 million won along with school uniforms worth 200 million won to poor students.

She also presented 100 uniforms to students in Taean, which was hit by oil spill in the west sea last December.

In May, Kim made a 50-million won scholarship for figure skaters again.

Kim, two-time defending Grand Prix Final champion, has already earned a berth to the final contest, scheduled on Dec. 10 to 14 in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province thanks to the two wins.

The top six skaters out of six Grand Prix series will advance to the final.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news...136_35216.html

[Tracoromana]

Ar putea fi Yu-Na miss sport...

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[Cristinush]

God! ce bine arata in poze she`s really pretty

[irinaidu]

wow !!!! clar ar putea fi miss ce vrea ea. superba !!!