ice emperor

"Stop! My dear boss, Mr. Louis, please repeat, my requirements for the style of your free skating program."

"..."

"What, did you forget? Then I'll repeat it again."

"Light, elegant, and between movement and stillness, body movements must be extremely natural. As many blade changes as possible must be incorporated into skating, and the body cannot be rotated blindly, which will make people feel boring. Or do you need to listen to it again? Didn’t complete the skating music? God! What are you still doing in a daze? Take out your energy to overcome the quadruple jump, let go of your thoughts, and accept the change of the style of this show from your soul.”

After clapping his hands and pointing, Julian Pat raised his chin, his eyes showed a sense of 'never compromise' and 'no negotiation', and he stared into An Yi's eyes.

Looking at An Yi again, he nodded calmly after hearing Julian Pat's request.

A pair of blue eyes swept across the faces of those who watched him train around the ice rink, and received sympathy from Johnny, Cheering from An Zexian, encouragement from Joyce, surprise from the coach of the national team, and most of the outrageous sighs A small part gloated, wishing for Julian's stricter expression on his demands.

He didn't speak, and didn't bother to care about some losers who couldn't skate well and didn't want others to skate well. An Yi stopped and listened to the "firstsnows" played on the ice rink in a loop for a while, turned around and imagined himself as a piece of snow, riding the wind Standing up, weightless, dancing with the wind.

The ice skates under his feet were up and down, and obviously he seldom deliberately pressed his steps to increase his skating speed, but his speed on the ice did not decrease at all.The efficiency of using the blade and the skating skills are astonishing. With Julian Parter's first version of the free skating arrangement, most of the people watching in the training hall were gradually drawn into the world of ice and snow by him.

at this time.

The musical keys echoing on the ice scraped past, and he then turned around to take advantage of the sound.

Raise your arms above your head, hold your right wrist with your left hand, take off with a swipe sound as the inner edge of your right foot falls off the ice, and dance nimbly into the air, completing a back-inner-knuckle quadruple jump.

The jump height far exceeds that of ordinary long-distance mobilization, and the deliberately delayed rotation of the body creates a sense of visual error, elongation and stagnation, which makes people marvel when he falls off the ice and slides out.I keep reminiscing about that second, those two seconds, that beautiful moment of youth in my mind, applauding unrestrainedly, and willingly being captured by his performance.

"Wow!"

"... Lingqi, Lingqi, some children you have to admit, they are born to eat this bowl of food. It is obviously difficult, almost all athletes have to practice their technical movements for a lifetime, and in their hands, it will take three days and four days at most. God's business."

"Hey, yes yes, the athletes are good, the coaches are better, and there is no lack of choreography and artistic expression. As long as he plays normally, I don't know who else can stop his progress."

The inhalation and exclamation sound one after another, this is the exclamation of Johnny Wassenberg and many teammates of the national team.

The comments that fell and then rose again were the sighs of the coaches of the national team present after watching An Yi's training routine many times in the recent period.

They looked at the boy who had just finished skating the opening movements of the free skating in the design and was called by the head coach James Joyce. They felt his talent and hard work, envied him and Joyce's luck, and then turned He looked at his own disciples and the disciples of other colleagues, silently observing the expressions of envy or jealousy on their faces, shaking his head and smiling wryly, unable to comment.

I hope that the few thorns who can't see the reality clearly will not be stupid, thinking that with their talent, they can be matched with a coaching team of the level of Joyce and Julian Pat.

"Great job boy, so glad you took my advice and swapped out the opening quads for this new mid-air pose with the rear inner knot loop around instead of sticking to what you want, which isn't very stable Around the rear outer knot."

Just when everyone in the figure skating training hall had different thoughts and a few people were ready to move, after An Yi perfectly completed the expected opening jump, Joyce, who called him to his side, nodded very satisfied, and stretched out with a smile. He helped the disciple in front of him and straightened the black hair on his forehead.

"Don't forget what I have emphasized. For all figure skaters, the difficulty of movement is very important, but there are two things that are more important. First, don't let yourself get injured easily and affect your competitive state. Second, stable performance is always Greater than the challenge limit."

"Recreating your unique quadruple jump at the World Championships next year, although it can bring you more attention and influence, the premise is that you can complete it successfully at that time. On the contrary, once you fail, it will not only be a waste of time. The number of jumps will also affect your results, breaking your amazing miracle of zero mistakes in official competitions so far."

At the end, he blinked his eyes and patted An Yi on the shoulder. Joyce changed the topic after saying the deliberately emphasized 'zero', and began to explain how An Yi could continue to improve during taxiing, combined with the listening experience Julian Pat's opinion helped him better interpret the new season's free skating program.

The whole process is carried out in several steps such as splitting exercises, complete rehearsal, modification and strengthening.Polished and crafted bit by bit, just like treating a piece of top jewelry, he created and perfected every detail of the program arrangement and skating, even An Yi's posture on the ice and the angle of his arms were not ignored. Pass.

The result of this was that An Yi was tortured and enjoyed the 'torture', and Johnny Wassenberg secretly rejoiced that he was 'fortunately' injured and did not catch the bus to the adult group.

Imagine if his right foot hadn't hurt and his best friend decided to make it to the senior division, could he possibly let himself fall?He will definitely follow in the footsteps of his friends, join the world of adult athletes, and take the initiative to send himself to Joyce to be rubbed by him.

brush.

chap——

"Hey! Hey! I say Louis, stop for a minute? I have a question I must ask you."

At four o'clock in the afternoon on April 4th, I was still in the training hall and still in training.

During this period of time, Johnny Wassenberg, who has been used to sitting near the entrance and exit of the ice rink and served as Louis’s full-time water carrier, recalled his friend’s recent training results, caught him raising his hands up once, and pointed outside Bing jumped around, picked up, raised his hands and then tapped the ice outside for a triple axel. He made a mistake in the neutral position and opened his mouth, indicating that he had something to say.

On the ice rink, An Yi, who just got up from the ice and slapped off the ice chips on his legs, was about to continue trying when he suddenly heard a friend's call, turned around and looked at Er Er who was waving his arms outside the ice rink. Huo observed it for two seconds, then smiled and slid over.

Got a question?I knew you definitely had questions to ask.

And I know what to ask, it must be why you raise your hand during the quadruple jump, right?

"Louis, I don't quite get it, why are you raising your hand in the jump?"

Look.

"I think your previous jumps were so perfect in terms of height, distance, and aerial posture. Now you suddenly raise your hand, which makes me feel, um... very... redundant."

When his friend slid in front of him, Johnny first handed over a towel for An Yi to wipe off his sweat, then he was a little surprised by his 'clear' expression, and asked his own question.

He dared to swear to God, he really thought that his friend's six jumps were already the best level among all male athletes.

So he really didn't understand his improvements to the quadruple jump and triple jump during this period of time, and he couldn't figure out the significance of his doing so.

Of course, as a professional figure skater, he must know that it is more difficult to do this, and it will be more novel and beautiful when done well.

But just as he couldn't figure it out, his friend's jumping skills were already far superior to everyone's, so there was no need to make extra efforts to increase the difficulty of his jumping and increase the chance of failure.

Recall the stability of his friend's quadruple jump during training before, and compare the success rate that has dropped suddenly in recent times.He really didn't understand and was very puzzled, and he was eager to ask his friend for details.

"...Why do I raise my hand during the jump? Johnny, before answering your question, I also have a question for you, what kind of jump do you think is a good jump."

Holding a towel to dry off the sweat on his forehead, cheeks and neck, An Yi pulled the collar of his upper body training T-shirt to breathe, and asked Johnny back with questions.

Hearing his question, the Canadian boy frowned and thought for half a second, and immediately said that a good jump is nothing more than a good height and distance. When spinning in the air, the body posture looks good and there is no deformation. , turning over, falling and the like.

However, after he finished these already difficult, "good" premise, he found that his friend shook his head and looked at him with a low smile, abnormally silent.

How can you do this! ?

What he hates most is that others deliberately tease him, without explaining to him, and if he doesn't say anything else, he won't ask.

Joyce may not know what the person concerned clearly, but at least it can help him reduce some of his doubts.Unlike the guy in front of me who deliberately irritated people, I really wanted to punch him in the chest!

"Okay ok, impatient guy. Johnny, I can't say you have a problem with the definition of 'good', but in my opinion, even if it meets the standards you said, that kind of jump is only good , not yet the best."

Putting down the towel, he raised his right hand finger and shook it at the boy in front of him. An Yi pondered for a moment to organize his words, and suggested to his best friend out of kindness.

"Man, I sincerely hope that when you recover from your right Achilles injury and start training and jumping, you better do what I say to you."

"Remember, for me, a good jump has to include, unexpected, difficult, innovative entry; clear, precise footwork or free skating on the skates before take-off; a different body for mid-air spins Attitude, delayed rotation; good height and distance; stretching and stability on the ice landing, novel and unique skiing out; entering the take-off, skiing out on the ice, smooth and natural, there are no small problems such as wrong edge use in the whole process, and it is compatible with taxiing The music fits just right."

As he spoke, he accentuated his voice and finally emphasized with the serious expression in his eyes.

"Only by fulfilling at least six of these prerequisites, preferably more than six, can the jumping movements be called perfect, pleasing to the eye, and flawless. And this is what I believe in myself. Desires and goals. Would you do the same of yourself, Johnny?"

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