ice emperor

As athletes, who doesn't want to participate in the biggest sports event in the world, can we tell you in advance?

Who said who is a fool? Well, a lunatic would be willing to miss such an important opportunity!

As Hu Zhenbang slapped a sweet date, some people saw the reality clearly.After all, the arm couldn't twist the thigh, and the matter of An Yi's promotion to the adult group was settled like this.

However, it is different from what the athletes and coaches in the conference room think.

As An Yi's father, An Zexian didn't feel honored by his superior's decision. Instead, every time he thought of Hu Zhenbang, he became more and more unhappy with his remarks about putting a burden on his son. After Hu Zhenbang announced the adjournment of the meeting, he turned his head and left , ignoring the call coming from behind, the suffocated anger had nowhere to vent, until he rushed back to the figure skating training hall, and happened to see An Yi jumping into a weekly hook quadruple, his mood improved a little .

Does great power come with great responsibility?

He thought so.

What's the use of being so emotional all by himself?

Since the situation permits and the child himself is willing, he should not stop him, but instead try his best to assist his own boy and leave his name in the figure skating altar.

Isn't it the adult group, isn't it the World Championships, isn't it the 2 Winter Olympics, who is afraid of whom!

He didn't believe that with the athletic talent of his precious son and the great help of his father, all kinds of "dreams" could not be turned into reality.

Feeling ruthless and making a decision, An Zexian quickly put it into action.

First, he called An Yi who was practicing on the ice rink to his side, and informed him of his decision to enter the senior group.Then, the training for the second half of the day was suspended, the training plan was readjusted, and the intensity of physical training was increased.By all means, I am going to improve my son's physical endurance to the point where he can finish the short program and free skating consecutively, and still have enough energy.

Unnecessary?

Ha ha ha.

This is the level of competition in the adult group, which is as peaceful and calm as the youth group.

figure it out.

Although the short program time of the adult group has not changed, it is still 50 minutes and [-] seconds.But for the three jumps, except that there must be an Axel triple or double jump, the remaining single jump and combined jump can reach four or even four plus three.

Not to mention, free skating with a maximum time of four minutes and 40 seconds, seven to eight jumps, three sets of rotations, one set of sequential steps, one set of choreographed sequential steps, twelve or thirteen movements, which one is most important for endurance and physical strength? Consumption is not huge.How could he not speed up the accumulation in this area?

After explaining the situation, the father and son worked together to straighten out the focus of training for the next year, and An Yi once again devoted himself to a life that outsiders saw as boring, but which he himself enjoyed.

On March 3th and March 9th, after two days of adjustment and adaptation, he first determined his physical strength distribution, and became familiar with the extra "arrangement sequence" in the free skating of the adult group.

I casually found a set of art choreography coaches in the national team, and inserted it into the two free skating programs of last year and the year before, so that I could get used to the changes in physical strength and program arrangement.

Afterwards, he allocated part of his energy to initially designing two sets of programs for the new season, preparing to determine what he wanted to express and perform through the two sets of programs before meeting Julian Pat next time.

I don't know if the referees and the audience saw it, but he felt that the limitations of his programs in the last two seasons were too strong, they were either objects, emotions, or people.Perhaps in the eyes of other athletes, skating these three things well is enough, but he will not be satisfied with it.

brush.

brush.

Stepping on the ice, turning around, during An Yi's training interval, I thought about a lot along the way of thinking, and made a lot of decisions in just a few days.

It seems that he is officially promoted to the senior group, and the short program music and free skating music for the first season have been determined.

The former will use the German composer, Mendelssohn's piano piece "The Sound of Spring".The latter free skating will use American musician Michael Gettel's music album released in 1997, "firstsnows" in "winter: songs of my people" as the main theme, and edit it together with several other songs about winter in the album. .

And the reason why he chose such two pieces of music as the background of the program is also very simple and clear, from characters, emotions, breakthroughs to more difficult natural things, forcing himself to keep improving and growing.

It's still the same sentence he once said, if you want to become a legendary athlete, you can't let yourself have the so-called good and bad.Not only must the technical movements be fully mastered, but even the performance style must meet the same standard.

chap——

During the slide, the blade under his feet turned and his body stopped suddenly.

An Yi leaps forward in the air. When he descends, he supports his body with the teeth of the ice skate on his right foot. He floats his left leg backwards and lifts it up. With his right arm in front and left arm behind, he slowly opens up and down.The posture of the body is extremely elegant and flexible, and the movements are fixed on the classic movement Arabes in ballet.

next second.

Just as he was counting one, two, three in his mind, and was about to bring himself back to life from stillness, an exclamation with a different tone exploded behind him.He was so startled that he staggered and almost fell on the ice, and the beautiful pose he posed was also changed.

"Mondieu, so special, so ugly Arabes."

"Ann, I think little Louis needs more ballet training. With his current dance level, no one would believe that he is my student."

Exaggerated French exclamation, exaggerated and dramatic facial expressions, the French man Julian Pater, this is the culprit that An Yi found after turning around.

At this moment, this guy was standing outside the protective wall of the ice rink, holding his father's strong arm, whirling and talking.The affectionate and intoxicating eyes looking at the man next to him can make all those who don't know the truth ignore his gender after seeing it, and just want to fulfill him and his miserable life.

but!

Very unfortunate!

An Yi happened to be the one who knew the truth. Seeing this situation, how could he watch his miserable father endure the harassment of his friends and be taken advantage of by others.

Almost immediately, he kicked his feet and slid towards a friend who was waving and laughing at him by the side of the ice rink, which surprised him. At the same time, he raised his voice and shouted, reminding the fat man who patronizes shaking hands and greetings, take care of himself scabbard!

"Joyce! Look what Julian's doing?! I heard Johnny say you've... oh! I'm sorry, forgive me for thinking you were that lucky."

"Pfft-hahahaha! Lou, Louis! This is, definitely, the best joke I've heard this year!"

Shout out and laugh out loud.

After one step at a time, Johnny Watsonburg, who walked to the outside of the protective wall and stood still, waving his arms to show his presence, saw his best friend sliding over, and was about to stretch out his fist to touch him.The next moment, just because of this joke, and hearing the joke, and staring at it with a straight face, the head coach covered his stomach with a cannibal expression and bent over laughing.

Oh gash!

Please God forgive him, he is not without compassion, but Joyce's reaction reminded him once again of the farce he experienced after waking up on the morning of March 3th.

That shrill scream, that robust naked body that 'broke through' the bedroom door and burst into the living room.He swears he really wants to forget!But, he can't forget, can't forget, can't forget! !

So, my dear, Joyce who cares about me like a daddy, you just accept the reality, enjoy the arrangement of fate and God, and be the dear of Coach Julian at ease, puff——

"...Hey, buddy, although I'm curious why you're smiling like that, I have to remind you that the way Joyce looks at you right now could almost kill you."

Shouting a word attracted James Joyce's attention. After successfully rescuing his dear father, An Yi slid in front of Johnny, stretched out his finger and tapped his head, reminding him that he had better restrain himself immediately, otherwise The consequences are absolutely unimaginable.

It turned out that this bastard's IQ was online, and he quickly adjusted his breath and stood up straight, and smiled apologetically at Joyce, who was still staring at him from time to time.Afterwards, they focused their attention on him, stretched out their fists and completed a small ceremony with him, and greeted each other.

Next, well... of course it was time for him to torture the 'traitor'.Who made him so daring enough to make a surprise attack.

If he remembered correctly, they had a video call three days ago, and the guy didn't tell him at that time that they would come to China in a few days.He must be punished for keeping such an important matter a secret from his best friend.

"Johnny..."

"Oh, Louis, it's not my fault, it's really not my fault."

Maybe it's the animal's instinctive sense of danger. Johnny Wasenberg, who is simple and often a fool, suddenly succeeded in capturing the "maliciousness" of his friend, and hurriedly opened his mouth to defend himself.

"It's Joyce! He's the one who asked me to keep it a secret from you! Don't you forget, boy? With our friendship, I didn't even dream for the first time—"

"Shutup, idiot! How can such a thing be said outside? God! Please don't just grow muscles, but also grow some brains, can you? I assure you, brains are a good thing, you can't live without them."

Seeing that the stupid Johnny actually brought up such a private matter in public, An Yi got annoyed, rolled his eyelids and gave this guy a white look, then quickly changed the subject and asked about their itinerary for this trip to China.

Fortunately, Johnny Wassenberg was not really stupid. Seeing that there were steps to go down, he immediately explained along the lines of his friend's question.

Let An Yi know that the reason why the three of them came to China during this period is, on the one hand, for the recovery of Johnny's Achilles tendon, and on the other hand, of course, for his two programs in the new season.

Ok……

The first point and the second point, no matter which of these two things, it is thanks to his father's arrangement, otherwise Joyce, Johnny, and Julian Pater would like to come to China so quickly absolutely impossible.

And he will continue to endure the "poison" of the national team's art and choreography coaches, watching the adult men's single brother all day long, skating martial arts routines, and skating the Yellow River.Witness with my own eyes how they put two sets of pretty good ideas into a difficult and rigid arrangement, fragmented.

"Ah! By the way, there is one more thing related to Cindy, which I forgot to mention just now."

After explaining the general arrangement of this China trip, Johnny turned his head and looked around for a while to watch the training situation of other national team members on the ice rink, and suddenly remembered one thing he hadn't said.

Although that incident seemed to have nothing to do with friends, in fact, it had a lot to do with it.At the very least, after knowing about that incident, my friend can let go of the worries he has been worrying about...

After pondering for a moment, he quickly recalled in his mind all the worries that Joyce had mentioned two months ago when he was recovering from his injuries.Johnny Wassenberg was really in a complicated mood for a while, lamenting how he was so lucky.

In terms of family, although his mother died unexpectedly due to the nature of his father's work, he was still young and didn't have much memory of his mother, so although he felt regretful, he didn't feel much grief. He only remembered how kind his father was to him.

When he was a little older and chose figure skating as his ideal, he met the best coach, best friend, and best opponent at the beginning of his enlightenment. It was difficult and tiring along the way, but he never flinch.

Then, he got a girlfriend, ruptured his right Achilles tendon, and all the good and all the bad broke out together, allowing him to see and learn a lot in just a few months.

It was only at that moment that he realized that Joyce, who was so kind to him, regretted accepting his girlfriend Cindy as a student, and only then did he know that his best friend was also worried about his competitive state because of the same thing. .

The reason why the two of them didn't speak was because he didn't know how to speak because of his mood.If it hadn't been for February 2rd, when a newly retired women's singles world champion turned coach had arrived at the ice rink, Joyce might never have talked frankly with Cindy and with him. thing.

"Johnny?"

Seeing that his friend called him, he fell into deep thought without speaking for a minute or two, An Yi waited for a while in doubt, noticed the emotional change in his friend's eyes, and reminded him aloud.

"Oh? Ah, I'm sorry Louise. What I want to say is that there are only two students in Joyce again, that is, you and me. What about Cindy, who ditched him and invested in two women's singles Olympic champions and three The arms of the world champion coach. After she knew about my trip to China this time, she was afraid that you would suddenly ask her and ask me to explain to her.”

"Well, you know buddy, although she is my girlfriend, but I think, with the friendship between the three of us, no matter how big the problem is, it's good to talk about it. I'm not sure what she thinks, maybe it's... fear Her decision to leave Joyce makes you think she hurt Joy- ow! Why hit me on the brow Louis? So true- ow! Okay okay I'm not joking can I? Cindy for The matter of the head coach is the result of the three of us discussing together."

Once or twice, Johnny Wassenberg, who was beaten one after another, ran the train with his mouth full of words, and became more and more unreasonable, received retribution.

Ten seconds later, seeing that he finally told the truth, An Yi gave him a sideways look and snorted, too lazy to complain.He felt that it was impossible for Cindy to do such a thing, and it turned out that Johnny, an idiot, was spreading rumors and causing trouble.

but……

Did Joyce break off his master-student relationship with Cindy?

I didn't expect him to be so courageous. Once he found a suitable opportunity, he would immediately take action.

He originally thought that his original complaint was just a casual remark, but he didn't expect that there would be a day when he would actually implement it.

This is also good, not only can save Joyce's energy, avoid some sweet burdens, avoid disasters, but also increase the importance of him and Johnny in Joyce's heart in a disguised way.Um? !What was he thinking about?They are very important to Joyce.

At 3:11 pm on March 02, An Yi welcomed two people who were very important to him and one person who was very useful to him.

My daily life has also changed accordingly. I no longer follow the habits at home, training hall, and home, and many good and bad things are interspersed, such as eating and drinking without restraint.

Regarding this point, An Yi strongly stated that Johnny was all to blame.It's all because of him as an example that he can't control his mouth.

It has only been a few days since he came to China, and when he looked in the mirror, he found that his face was round in a circle!You know, it wasn't like this before!

I didn't say anything, he must be blamed, he must be blamed!No, no, just blaming is not enough, he has to follow the habits and traditions of the Chinese, and strongly condemn!

"Oh! My God, Louis, did you know that when I weighed myself in the morning, I found out that I had gained five pounds! Can you imagine Louis?! This is the first time since I was a child, as long as I can remember. More than - woo! This chicken without sex tastes really good. Luis, my dear friend, won't you have some?"

"……roll."

Gritting his teeth, An Yi slapped his chopsticks on the dining table, despised the chef who translated chicken as 'chicken without sex', and despised Johnny Watson, a Canadian land turtle who had never eaten anything good. grid.

Today is the 15th, and this product has been in China for four days.

Think about how I got here under the influence of these bastards in the past four days!

Eat it in the morning, eat it at noon, and continue to eat it at night!Eat, eat, eat, except for soybean juice and stinky tofu, he has never seen anything that makes Canadian foodies feel embarrassed!

And he.

As a sincere, competent, and considerate good friend, how could it be possible for Johnny to experience the inexplicable embarrassment of being eaten by others?

It must be eaten by friends, and he cooperates.Friends let him accept.When faced with fresh food that he had never seen before, his friend demonstrated it himself to dispel doubts.Look, look, is there a more qualified friend than him?So nothing to say, it seems that Johnny is to blame for his gaining weight!

"Louis, I swear after today I'm going to... hmmm~ Chinese food tastes so... oh, I think I can eat another pork ball the size of a fist."

"Oh no! No, God! This is such a wicked country. Five pounds! If I stay here any longer, I can't imagine if I will be as fat as Joyce when I return to Canada!"

Eating, drinking, and howling, Johnny, An Zexian, James Joyce, and Julian Pat jointly weaved the main theme of An Yi's life for a period of time thereafter.

The specific division of labor is like this.

Every morning, after An Yi got up, he met Johnny at the hotel and escorted him to the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine for acupuncture and massage to promote the recovery of his right Achilles tendon.

Return to the national team training hall around 10:30, and under the supervision of An Zexian and An Xingguo, carry out more difficult comprehensive physical fitness training.

At twelve o'clock, I had lunch with Johnny in the national team cafeteria or outside. At two o'clock in the afternoon, I started ice practice under the guidance of Joyce and Julian Pat.

There were joys and sorrows in the process, which lasted until the 18th, when he went out with the national team delegation, and the 21 World Youth Figure Skating Championships held in Seoul, South Korea from the 25st to the 2th was temporarily suspended.

Because everyone, including himself, does not want to leave regrets in this World Youth Championship, so he must focus [-]% and let himself go all out!

March 3, sunny, men's singles short program.

On March 3th, light rain, men's singles free skating.

The specific process of the game was stable and everything went smoothly. Except for the increasingly loud applause and screams when he played, there were no accidents, no dark horses, and without Johnny Wassenberg's athlete team, even The Russian player Yeveshchenko, who just won the European Championship, also failed to cause him any trouble and stop him from reaching the top.

Let him send off his grandfather An Xingguo on March 3th, and at the same time successfully win a World Youth Championship medal, which perfectly brought his career in the youth group to a close.

With the attention of domestic and international sports media, shouldering his own dreams, the expectations of his family, friends, and the national team, he officially entered the adult group.Practicing, preparing, waiting, looking forward, silently counting in his heart the World Figure Skating Championships held in Nice, France on March 2, 1, which is very important to him and to all figure skaters 's arrival

He couldn't wait to prove himself through that competition and continue his legend in the youth group.

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The author has something to say: An Yi's career in the youth group is over, very complete, but not complete for me, please forgive me.