ice emperor

"Once again, Kosuke. Don't be too impatient when Mohawk turns on the front inside edge of the right foot and switches to the back inside edge of the left foot to connect with the QuadSalchow."

"You must keep in mind that the key to completing this series of changing footwork into the jump is to keep the center of gravity on the left side of the body and high-quality footwork to slide into the speed. Relying solely on the strength of the legs will not only consume a lot Physical strength, and that further impacts the aesthetics of how you perform quadruple jumps."

"..."

Studying, training, and day after day, Kosuke Shimada successfully jumped out of the first quadruple jump in the back outer ring. A few days later, the [-]/[-] ISU Grand Prix Finals kicked off. The six strongest players represented by Johnny Men's singles athletes, together with several other athletes who reached the finals in individual events, gathered in Dresden, Germany, to compete for the individual championships in the finals of the ISU Grand Prix this season.

Montreal time, at 10:30 am on December [-]th, while CBCSPORTS was broadcasting the men's singles short program match, An Yi, who didn't have to teach Kosuke Shimada today, came to the new ice rink to watch the boy's skating training class for a while.

After saying hello to Ms. Mira, the footwork skating coach, I went to the rest area and ordered a cup of coffee to start watching the live broadcast. Whenever an athlete finished skating and sat in the waiting seat to wait for his short program to score, he would wake up the mobile phone on the touch screen Tap and tap, record the experience of watching the game line by line.

In half an hour and 45 minutes, six men's singles athletes finished skating and six women's singles took over. He looked down at the memo on his mobile phone, remembered the full content and sighed inwardly. He strategically gave up this season's Grand Prix. That's right, the competition was not only affected by the [-] Beijing Summer Olympics that ended not long ago, and the attention was greatly reduced. The competition itself was not so good because of Johnny and the athletes' bodies that changed from week to week during puberty.

Looking at the entire short program competition, even if the scoring referees deliberately favored each other, the gap of nearly [-] points after the game still killed the suspense of the game, which was already negligible.He can even assert now that Johnny in free skating can beat the other five skaters with high-quality triple jumps instead of quadruple jumps, because their physical condition and technical level are not at the same level.

"Jason's [-]A is still the same, and now it is confirmed that it is not a technical problem, but a psychological fear."

"Anatole...the quadruple axel jump followed by the back inner loop was completed very well, but unfortunately, a serious mistake was made in the quadruple axel jump. Not only was it missing half a round, but he even fell on the ice. Could it be that he still hasn’t adapted to the post-development height and changing body center of gravity? But no matter what, at least it’s better than Howard, who collapsed in the short program.”

Moving his eyes, browsing the 'comments' he wrote down, pulling the memo to the bottom with his fingers, and looking at the statistics he had finished after watching the game, An Yi really felt that Kosuke Shimada was very lucky.

This child was born on May [-], [-], and is only eighteen and a half years old today.

Thanks to the fact that the physique of Asians has stabilized at [-]cm and [-]kg, the height and weight have completely adapted to the mature body after intensive physical training in the past few months.

On the other hand, Howard Nutter, who was still in the domestic competition a few months ago, successfully jumped out of the [-]th floor of the back ice.

This sad young man is obviously two or three months older than Shimada Kosuke, Anatoly, Liu Yuqi and others, and his height and weight data have not been stable since the start of this season's Grand Prix.

How tall and how heavy is he now?He is not sure about his weight, but his height is at least 1.8 meters five by visual inspection, and it may grow longer.

If so, unless he can make himself jump higher and turn faster.Otherwise, the quadruple jump on the back and outside point is probably the difficult end of his career.

'triple Axel! '

'Cindy, Cindy, Cindy!Once again our girls took advantage of the short program with this iconic technical move.God, I can't wait for the free skating finals on the morning of the [-]th.In the face of her absolute jumping difficulty, the Russian women's singles player does not have any threats! '

'...'

When summarizing and thinking, the LCD TV fixed on the wall of the rest area entered the time of the women's singles short program Canadian first sister Cindy Celaya.At 35:[-], An Yi drank his third cup of coffee, and Kosuke Shimada, who had just finished the footwork skating course, bid farewell to the middle-aged female coach and walked into the rest area.

Noticing his figure, he raised his hand and called him to the empty seat in front of him to sit down, and handed him the unusually detailed short program data recorded and analyzed.

For more than two hours after that, the master and apprentice, one big and one small, just sat and chatted, and even lunch was called Meteor Club Catering Service.

Then, at [-]:[-] in the afternoon, half an hour before the dance training class, An Yi took Kosuke Shimada to find Julian Pat, who had been promoted to the head of the club's art team, and confirmed the two programs of Kosuke Shimada's new season Modifications to the music.

At three o'clock sharp, I drove away the little guy who had to go to class, stayed with Julian Pat for more than two hours, left around [-]:[-] in the afternoon, and returned to the third floor of the old ice rink alone to accompany grandpa Clark. Woz had dinner, put on his skates and training clothes, and went to the old ice rink that he 'chartered' to start his own practice.

Calculating the time, although there is still a whole year before his comeback in the [-]/[-] season and the Four Continents, considering the "feat" he is going to do in the Vancouver Winter Olympics, the sooner he prepares, the more mentally and psychologically he can Time will be easier.

As for what he is going to do.

Ok……

Although he never told anyone, he was very sure that whether it was his father, Joyce or Johnny knew it in his heart.

Having mastered the Axel quadruple jump, he will dedicate eight quadruple jumps in accordance with the rules of the International Skating Union in the free skating competition of the Winter Olympics.

hum-

After the warm-up, set up the skating music. Over the empty ice rink, the mellow cello played the first long note. After time, the unique texture and charm of the melody flew up. On the 30-meter-wide and 60-meter-long ice surface, An Yi started own slide.

The first technical movement is a jump-and-swallow spin.

He has a calm face, and his arm movements are swaying and swaying in conjunction with the right leg supporting his body.The body posture gradually transitions from the standard 'T'-shaped basic swallow pose to the Yangyan pose in which the upper body is raised up and the hands are held in the air.

The familiar music played, three times, six times, eight times, he put the floating legs inward and the floating feet close to the top of the head, hooked the fingers of his right hand to the back of the knife to form a 'q', and hung his left arm to cover the side of the head to finish the rotation.

Immediately afterwards, the second technical movement, squatting rotation without changing the position, the third and fourth technical movements, graded step sequence, Axel triple axel, let the melancholy story let his feet Skate writing.

1 minute and 30 seconds, when the bow of the background music is drawn and the whisper of the heart is poured out, the hook jumps around and then the outside point triple axel flies up and down elegantly and nimbly, as light as nothing, like snowflakes blown up by the wind.

Cha~

He landed on the ice, he slid out, he rode the music to the west side of the ice rink, briefly accelerated the three-step swallow balance soaring to the center of the ice rink, straightened his lowered upper body, lowered his right leg behind him, and Swing forward!

Supporting the body, the front half of the ice blade on the left foot slid forward on the front outer edge, suddenly turned to the left with the help of the power brought by the right leg, the center of gravity of the body sank, the arms swung from bottom to top, and the left leg exerted force to the Jump forward, cross your arms across your chest and begin a spin.

One and a half circles, two and a half circles, three and a half circles, four and a half circles, lower and open, the outer edge of the right foot falls off the ice and slides out, stretches the left leg, gently caresses the ten fingers of both hands from both sides of the body, turns around, turns back, silently stare at -

Astonishingly brilliant, Axel performed a quadruple jump that no one else could do except him at this stage.

"Ansama..."

The music ended with a absent-minded sigh, and another piece of music sounded after ten seconds. An Yi, who was devoting himself to the training, didn't know that he had nothing to do when he returned to the rented apartment after a day of practice, so he decided to come to the club for extra practice. Kosuke Shimada walked into the old ice rink.

As time passed, An Yi was skating, and Kosuke Shimada watched, witnessing with his own eyes that the idol in his heart completed one difficult technical move after another with the execution quality that figure skaters all over the world could only dream of.

Inexplicably, a desire arose in his heart, wanting to have such a technology, wanting to see this person more and more.

that mood...

Is it the pursuit of top technology by athletes, or the worship and admiration of ice fans for idols?

Maybe there are, anyway, it is not the attitude of pure supporters when facing idols, the adult Kosuke Shimada can confirm.

Maybe, maybe if he spends more time with An Yi, he will be able to figure it out?

brush.

His thoughts were so chaotic that he couldn't explain it clearly. Inside and outside the ice rink, the master and apprentice skated one by one. Shimada Kosuke felt very familiar, but in the free skating music whose name he couldn't name for a while, An Yi's practice advanced.

Look at his gliding state.

Confidence, calmness, elegance, technology and art complement each other, and the beauty presented is just right.

The facial expressions are neither too restrained to be incomprehensible, nor too superficial to appear false and superficial. Every time the ice skates falter, through body language and eye coordination, the emotions expressed are so sincere and vivid.

Two minutes and 50 seconds, four minutes and 40 seconds, short program, free skating cycle staged, his body was soaked in sweat, his eyes persisted, he continued to work hard, and the belief in ending his career as an athlete without a trace of regret was captured by his heart. Passion, lit by love for the sport.

The three consecutive wins in the Winter Olympics and the No.1 figure skating men's singles event in history, no matter how difficult it is, he will do his best to achieve it.

Not just for victory, but for that glorious and complete period.

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