With the Sendai Ice Rink out of commission – it would not re-open until July – a new training base had to be found. However, skating wasn't going to be easy in the aftermath of the devastation left behind by the quake and tsunami. 'At the centre, a lot of people helped us so much, and therefore I would like to do anything for them – what I can do is just skating,' he said a month after the tragedy. Meanwhile, Hanyu's parents' house sustained some damage in the shock, meaning the young skater and his family had to spend time in a temporary evacuation centre set up in a gymnasium. While the rink did not collapse and the tsunami did not reach the area, the water pipes under the ice burst, flooding the building and rendering it unusable. 'The feeling of the ice shaking, the shaking of the ground being pushed up, how terrible it was that my legs were shaking from the earthquake.' 'Even now, when I close my eyes, I remember a lot of things,' he would write in his first autobiography Blue Flames, which was published the following year. The frightened teenager, with the ice cracking under his feet, ran out of the building immediately without even stopping to put his skate guards on, damaging his blades. Hanyu was on the ice at the Sendai Ice Rink when the earthquake hit. It was three weeks after the end of the 2010/11 season, which saw Hanyu make his senior debut and clinch an unexpected silver medal at the Four Continents Championships. How earthquake survivor Yuzuru Hanyu persevered to achieve his dream Hanyu's evacuation

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