Blade of Glory [Figure Skating]

The COI Ice Tour, which ice fans from all over the world look forward to every year, kicked off, launching a grand ice event that will last almost the entire summer.Since the purpose of the tour is to show the audience a sufficiently exciting ice performance rather than a competitive display, the invited active players will reduce the degree of difficulty of the program when preparing for the performance skates used in the tour, and increase the proportion of artistry accordingly , and pay more attention to the interaction with the audience in the performance.

In this case, players participating in such a tour will have a more relaxed state than during the season.

But this is also a very large-scale commercial performance, which has assembled many outstanding figure skaters who have been famous for a long time, including men's singles, women's singles, pairs skating and ice dancing.The spectators spent a lot of money to buy tickets and came from afar just to watch the same stage performance of these outstanding figure skaters with the most commercial value in the world.

The players who have participated in the summer tour before this are obviously more experienced. There are even active men's singles and women's singles players who will come here a few days in advance to cooperate and arrange special programs for the tour.Such a program naturally puts a strong sense of stage performance as the top priority, and there was even an interesting program like a small ice stage play, which won a lot of laughter from the audience.In this kind of performance, the contestants performed with ease, and the audience had a good time watching it.

But... This made Qing Yue, a rookie participating in a large-scale ice joint performance for the first time, feel unprecedented pressure.And he felt that he seemed to have a sense of peacekeeping among this group of seasoned players that made him uneasy.

He even began to worry that the program that took a lot of painstaking efforts to arrange would appear out of place here.

Yes, it was a special performance skating program for Qingyue.Because... that program was completed by Freire and him from the initial conception, to the choreography, and then to the choreography of the performance skate.

As an excellent dancer, Freire specially spared time for Qing Yue to come to Xishu to choose the repertoire for the performance with him, and to arrange for Qing Yue with his own understanding of the songs and Qing Yue's performance style. Choreography that suits him best.

It was the first cooperation between them, but the tacit understanding seemed to have gone through thousands of times.Such a tacit understanding, such a coincidence...

Although this show is just the product of two figure skaters at the same time during the holidays.But... Qing Yue felt that it was not inferior to the programs he had prepared for any season.However, that was completely contrary to the light-hearted and humorous performance style of everyone on tour.

At this time, Chu Xuan, who had already gone out to warm up the stage before, returned to the backstage panting heavily after receiving applause from the audience.While panting, he smiled and gave Qingyue a thumbs up.

It seems that Chu Xuan did not make a mistake in judging the style required for this performance, and achieved great success.When he returned to the backstage, all the contestants who were preparing carefully here all smiled and applauded him.It made him smile a little embarrassedly.

Chu Xuan is a figure skater who determined her idol-type route from a very early age.Although figure skating is a very pleasing competitive sport, few players really define their performance style by this, making every second of themselves on the ice rink radiate dazzling brilliance.And Chu Xuan's choreography, costumes, and the choice of music used for performances all make this characteristic of him to the limit, not to mention his excellent appearance and temperament that bring him high popularity.

To put it in folk terms, I have seen figure skaters who are flamboyant, but I have never seen anyone as flirtatious as him.

According to a senior official of an entertainment company, Chu Hyun is a figure skater who can become an outstanding idol star without taking off his skates.

Of course, this is not to say that Chu Xuan can't do this while wearing skates.When on the ice rink, he has always been able to attract countless female ice fans who are willing to pay for him to enter the ice rink.But this time, Chu Xuan came to a country that was completely unfamiliar to him.Here, there was no screaming for his appearance, applause at the end of the show, support for his ice fans.Therefore, for Chu Xuan, today he will face a new severe challenge - to conquer the ice fans present within 5 minutes of his performance.

In the end... Chu Xuan undoubtedly did it.At least the female ice fans present remembered this outstanding young skater.If we say that when Chu Xuan appeared on the stage, everyone was only interested in him because of the host's introduction and the scene of Chu Xuan playing on the big screen, then when he actually appeared on the stage, it was a big surprise. A new kind of visual enjoyment.

Yes, compared to Qingyue, who is a jumping genius, Freire, who is the king of spinning, and Alek, who is unmatched in footwork and skating, Chu Xuan actually doesn't have such outstanding specialties.People generally call him Chu Xuan who is technically versatile.This also means...he doesn't have any skills that can be deeply remembered and characterized.This is very unfavorable for figure skating, which places great emphasis on impression points.

But Chu Xuan was still able to get to where he is today, thanks to his extraordinary performance on the ice.But different from Freire, Chu Xuan is not showing the music and the story behind the music, but only showing his own dazzling brilliance and his personal charm on ice.Chu Xuan is a skater who is very good at expressing personal emotions with his body and subtle expressions, and also makes the audience infected by him at the same time. He can fully mobilize the emotions of the audience, and also affect the referee's rating of him.

Not only that, compared to other players, Chu Xuan is also a player with extremely low turnovers.His mental quality is excellent. In many important games, he is often able to withstand tremendous pressure and slide out perfect programs without mistakes.This happens to be something most current players can't do.

Of course, there is also a player with excellent psychological quality in another sense, Freire.Freire is very brave to challenge himself, and the difficulty of his programs often makes people speechless and stare at the sky from afar.Even many of his ice fans doubted whether he could complete such a difficult program, and sighed helplessly after seeing his tragic fall in the game, and since then joined the face masking party.

However, Frere's excellence is that he can urgently add the number of jumping cycles of the third jump when the first two jumps of a jump almost fall to the ground, and succeed, and even continue to complete the next jump with high quality. A series of jumps.It can be said that there is no one in a million players who fall more and more bravely...

Then, turn your gaze back to Chu Xuan.Chu Xuan, who does not have outstanding technical skills, but surpasses the average player by far in terms of stage performance, will undoubtedly be very suitable for such a commercial performance.

The amount of applause Chu Xuan got even surprised the COI staff.In fact, they have always wanted to invite Freire, who is currently No. 1 in ice art expression, to their summer tour.It's a pity that whenever it's the post-match holidays, Freire will go to various places to perform with his father Reynolds' dance troupe.

If you can't ask for the top, you can't ask for the bottom.That's why when Chu Xuan's agent came to find them, they agreed to invite Chu Xuan, who was also an outstanding player.But never thought that Chu Xuan's personal charm would make the audience's emotions so high.So, they couldn't help but sigh.I thought Qing Yue, the spokesperson of NX skates, who inherited the name of jumping genius, would have more popularity, so he was arranged to appear after Chu Xuan.But he never thought that Chu Xuan could make the atmosphere so hot. If he had known this, he would have reversed the order of appearance of Chu Xuan and Qing Yue.

However, no matter what, Chu Xuan had already finished his performance, and after tidying up the ice rink, Qing Yue would appear.

This realization shocked Qing Yue.He also wanted to close his eyes, follow the music, and go through the performance skating program that he would show to the world for the first time in his mind again later.However, at this moment, Qingyue's mind was in chaos, and he couldn't concentrate no matter what.After discovering this situation, Qing Yue was stunned for a moment, and his heartbeat accelerated suddenly.

At this moment, Qing Yue's cell phone rang.It was Freire's hurried voice that came.

"Qingyue! Are you about to play now?"

"Frell? Where are you?"

Hearing the faint sound of the airport announcement coming from the other end of the phone, Qing Yue was puzzled.Wasn't Freire going to Carlos' inauguration at the National Music Hall in Brandon?Why... are you at the airport now?Is he going on tour with Master Reynolds now?It shouldn't be...

I only heard Freire running fast, panting and said loudly to Qingyue: "Listen, I'm calling you now, just to let you not be nervous later! Maybe your performance and Their styles will be somewhat different. But you must remember that whether it is music, dance, or figure skating, the messages they convey to people transcend national boundaries, regions, and ages! Since your program can touch If you yourself can move me, then you must also be able to move those audiences. If it were me, I would definitely hope to see such a performance!"

The signal of the mobile phone was intermittent. After Freire finished speaking, there was a lot of noise. In the end, the connection was automatically disconnected.However, just as Qing Yue was holding his mobile phone and saying "Hello?", he saw Alek leaning against the door.Alek seemed to have been here for a while, and he must have heard Freire's call to Qing Yue.But he just waited there quietly until Qing Yue put down his phone.

"Sure enough, the choreographer of your skating this time... is Freire?"

"Alek...?"

"During the rehearsal, I vaguely felt that it was not like Xue Liya's style."

"I……"

"Don't be in a hurry to say anything to me. I just want to say that if the choreographer is Freire, then you don't have to worry. Although I have never agreed with his performance style. However, he is definitely better than me. Infect the audience with your own performance. I believe that you will be successful in this performance."

As he spoke, Alek walked up to Qing Yue, saw his untied shoelaces, knelt down on one knee, adjusted the tightness of the shoelaces for him, and quickly tied a knot.

"Try it and see if it's too tight or too loose."

When he accidentally saw Alek kneeling on one knee facing him like a knight, Qing Yue's body stiffened.It seemed that the warm-up just now was all in vain.After hearing what Alek said, he stood up slowly, moved his ankle, and found that the shoelaces were tied properly, so he raised his head and nodded vigorously to Alek.

Seeing Qingyue like this, Alek had a very shallow smile on his face.So he picked up the white cloak that Qing Yue put on the bench and put it on him.However, Alek's hand did not leave just then.He raised Qing Yue's face, and lightly dropped a kiss on the painted painting at the end of Qing Yue's eyes.

"Go ahead, it's your turn to play."