17 years on ice [figure skating]

◎All his childish competitiveness seems to be unspoken. ◎

Of course Deng Chang didn't come to fight Lucy.

He tilted his head slightly and met Lucy's gaze.

A large piece of noise, talking and laughing, and overhead lights cut the dance classroom into grids of light and dark, movement and stillness.Amidst the noise, Lu Xi held the phone still in call mode, and looked at Deng Chang in the darkest and quietest corner.

On TV, the 17-year-old Japanese player Asano Subaru did a very difficult back-to-back ice point around the back and outer ring for three weeks. This is a very advanced jump, but he fell down after three weeks. .

Although it was not completely successful, the challenge at such a young age still caused cheers and applause in the classroom.

Lu Xi stared at Deng Chang confidently in the background sound.

The shape of his eyes is very beautiful, and there is a small mole under the corner of the eye. He will not look fierce when he stares at people like this. On the contrary, he looks a bit like a cat because of his big eyes deliberately staring for a long time.

Deng Chang also looked back at him, his face was still cold, his eyelids were slightly lowered, and he looked a little tired.

In fact, such an uncaring expression made people wonder why he was able to keep such a stare at each other, but he was indeed looking at Lu Xi, and Lu Xi could even see his outline from the light and shadow of his pupils.

three seconds.

Deng Chang finally spoke: "What are you doing?"

"I……"

Lu Xi wanted to say, I'm going to win you in this year's trials, but he suddenly felt that for a 16-year-old him, these words were too secondary, to the point where he couldn't even say them.

Deng Chang waited for another two seconds, seeing that he didn't speak, probably because he was impatient, and turned his gaze back to the TV.

This was obviously a very small movement, but like a needle, it burst Lucy's emotional balloon with a "chih".

The high mood faded like a tide, and the depression came rushing back.

This is a feeling that Lucy hasn't had for a long time.

In fact, it is not only the phrase "I want to win you in this year's trials" that I can't say, but about Deng Chang, he seems to be unable to say all his childish competitiveness.

-

Lu Xi has always been a very confident person, but it is different in front of Deng Chang.

It's been like this since I was about ten years old.

That year on the ice rink in Songcheng, Deng Chang did a back and inner three weeks. Lu Xi said "weaker than me", but he couldn't actually do this move at that time.He practiced for a long, long time, before he reached Deng Chang's age, and completed the first three weeks.

But at that time, Deng Chang had already unlocked new skills.

In the past seven years, consciously or unintentionally, Lu Xi has been chasing after Deng Chang.

Back three weeks, advanced triple axel, quadruple jump; national trials, training, World Youth Championship...

But in the technical growth period, they are all talented players. In the poor year, it seems that they will never be able to catch up.

Regardless of how Lu Xi can be on the same level as Deng Changping last year, or even surpass him at the same age—for example, he is the champion of the World Youth Championship, while Deng Chang is No.3—but now he is still not as good as the current Deng Chang.

He can only do two quadruple jumps, while Deng Chang now knows three.

People who want to surpass no matter what, subconsciously feel that they can't compare.

It seems that there is nothing wrong with saying "childhood shadow".

However, Deng Chang's attitude towards him has always been indifferent. Maybe he didn't like him so he didn't bother to talk to him, or maybe he didn't pay attention to him at all.

This made Lucy feel that his obsession with surpassing the other party seemed to be stupid.

In fact, Lucy really did something stupid when she was 11 years old.

-

That year he practiced triple axel jumps, that is, 3S, for a whole year, and miraculously practiced an advanced three-three jump.

At that time, the old rules were still implemented for jump scoring. Generally speaking, under the old rules, if the sum of two jumps has a technical score of more than 10, it is called an advanced three-three. The Luxi jump is 3S+3Lo, and the inner three weeks are followed by the outer ring three. week.

After practicing this three-three jump, the first thing he did was to pester Huang Bin to go to Songcheng, to the provincial ice rink.

Huang Bin agreed.

Xiao Luxi went to Songcheng and put on his skates. He didn't tell Huang Bin about this little thought, but he was looking for Deng Chang as soon as he entered the ice rink.

Fortunately, Deng Chang was indeed there that day.

Lu Xi didn't take the initiative to talk to Deng Chang, but after going on the ice, he skating quickly on the court.

Lucy's skating ability was impossible to ignore from the first time he stepped on the ice. His skating speed was so fast that the children who were skating on the field were quickly attracted to him.

So Lucy started to help skate after going around the field for two weeks. He didn't tell anyone in advance that he was going to jump, but the child's posture was too aggressive, and everyone consciously gave way to him.

Familiar ice rink, familiar crowd watching, even the jumping point is exactly the same as Deng Chang's in memory.

In the past three weeks after Lucy has done it thousands of times this year, he is now doing this movement as if he was playing.

The speed reaches the highest, the left hand is extended forward to maintain balance, the right hand is 90 degrees to the left hand, the left foot steps on the inner edge and turns three times, presses down, and the rear inner edge takes off.

Spinning three times in the air, the 3S landed perfectly, Lucy's face tightened, this action has just begun.

The person is not fully open, because of the continuous jump, there is no need to land on the ice now, adjust the movement slightly, continue to keep the left hand in front, the right hand behind at 90 degrees, and step on the rear outer edge.

The left leg is placed in front of the body as a floating leg, the center of gravity is pressed down, the whole body strength is stepped on the rear outer edge, the upper body is slightly twisted to the right, and then the center of gravity is lifted, and the body is quickly turned to the left to tighten.

Taking advantage of the energy left in the first jump, Lu Xi directly took off again!

If you want to do a triple jump, you need to turn your body 1080 degrees in the air, and you need to leave the ground at least 25 cm with your legs straight.

And this is not simply a high jump, it must be a good take-off posture to ensure that the jump can be completed in the air.

The advanced three-three is a bit reluctant for the physical function of an 11-year-old child. Fortunately, Lucy is light and fast. Even though the height of the second jump is only about half of the first jump, it is still possible to complete the rear outer knot ring three. Week jump.

As long as it is done, the 11-year-old senior Sansan can only be described as awesome.

-

Moreover, Lucy is very stable on the ice, although his dance is ugly, but his posture is quite beautiful, and he looks like a proud little swan on the ice.

Lucy had already heard the applause before his eyesight caught the crowd when he slid out.

He didn't care about the applause, and looked directly at the position he had hoped for before taking off.

I was a little nervous when I looked at it. It would be embarrassing if Deng Chang was not looking at him, but fortunately, Deng Chang should have seen it and was applauding with everyone.

"Great!" The coach whistled.

Only then did Lu Xi come back to his senses, his eyes turned from Deng Chang back to the crowd, and he made a thank you gesture.

Everyone applauded him again. Everyone had reached the limit of staying on the ice for one person for so long. The coach clapped his hands again. The people gathered on the ice were like fish in the ocean current, flowing again stand up.

Seeing that Deng Chang also started skating, Lu Xi rushed over without thinking.

-

Lu Xi didn't quite understand why his emotions came, but he came to the provincial team's ice rink to dance this advanced three-three, just to let Deng Chang watch.

Was it to prove that the phrase "weaker than me" that I said at the time was not crazy, or was it for something else? In fact, at the age of 16, Lu Xi didn't think it through clearly. Zhou Tiao made a deeper impression on him than he had imagined.

When rushing towards Deng Chang, Lu Xi didn't call his name, but just slid over with straight eyebrows.

Although the goal is clear, it looks like ordinary sliding with the flow.

But Deng Chang seemed to understand that Lucy was coming towards him, he stopped the knife in the flowing crowd, and then turned to look at Lucy.

Lu Xi originally wanted to ask Deng Chang "How am I doing?" or "Am I very good", but when his eyes met, he suddenly felt that if he asked Deng Chang such a question, he would look dumb.

It's like admitting that this person is stronger than himself.

For a proud 11-year-old boy, this kind of thing couldn't have happened.

So Lu Xi stopped in front of Deng Chang with her neck held high and her head raised, and then she blurted out a sentence that I feel very, very stupid in retrospect.

He asked: "Deng Chang, do you find me unhappy?"

-

Looking back now, Lu Xi felt so ashamed, how could anyone rush to others and ask "Do you think I'm unhappy"?

He even forgot how Deng Chang answered, he probably just pretended to be dead and slid away just like his usual operation, whatever he wanted, anyway, Lu Xi had already avoided it in his heart and completely forgot about it.

And at that time, Deng Chang must have been able to dance 3S+3Lo, and he didn't even shock the other party.

What is the class door to make an axe, this is called class door to make an axe.

In short, it is impossible for 16-year-old Lucy to commit such stupidity again.

He is already a mature man, at most during the training he secretly compares himself with Deng Chang in his heart, never thinking of the urge to show off in front of him.

But if Deng Chang happens to be looking at him, he still has to pose proudly, and if someone asks who is better between him and Deng Chang, he still has to say "I am stronger" without hesitation.

But just now Lu Xi was still a little hurt.

Mingming provocatively said such arrogant words as "Deng Chang will be replaced by Deng Chang in the World Championships", Deng Chang obviously heard it, but did not respond.

In the post-match interview of the World Youth Championship before, what Lu Xi said was not so exaggerated.

——At that time, he said "I want to be the number one men's singles in the world". The media and ice fans reacted greatly. I can see them arguing.

But facing Lu Xi's face-jumping attack, Deng Chang just stared at him for a few seconds and asked him "what are you doing".

Like looking at an idiot.

It's really boring.

-

Lu Xi was in no mood to say anything now, on the other side of the phone, Cui Xiao seemed to notice something strange, and was asking him why he didn't speak.

Taking this opportunity, Lu Xi shook his head at Deng Chang, indicating that he was fine, then ignored him, and turned to Cui Xiao: "I was just watching the 4+3 combo of Brother Mao."

The cat brother is the young Japanese player Asano Subaru who is currently competing.

Because the word "subaru" in the name is homonymous to "cat", and because there are five cats in the family, he got this pet name.

"Brother Cat is indeed very strong. This group of young people are average in North America and Russia. We will wait for you two to compete in the international arena." Cui Xiao said here and remembered that he had lost a spot, and sighed. But then he laughed again, "Come on."

"Yes, Brother Cui, go get busy too. There should be a lot of things on the field." Lucy said.

"Okay." Cui said with a smile, "Then goodbye."

He hung up the phone, and there was a short busy tone from the phone, and there was another burst of cheers in the dance classroom, as if Subaru Asano had slid his best record of the season.

Then someone yelled: "Our brother Deng can also be around!"

Deng Chang didn't answer the call, neither did Lu Xi, and he didn't even have the habitual thought of "I can go out for four weeks at this time next year." The energy of the childhood shadow has never passed.

He handed the phone back to the teaching assistant, and curled up in the corner without energy.

-

Sometimes people feel lonely when they are in a lively place, and Lucy has realized this now.He seldom has this kind of emotion, maybe because of this, this kind of energy is particularly high when it comes up.

He saw that Deng Chang always had a feeling of wanting to recruit this person, maybe it was because of his impulse to prove himself.

But now there is a feeling that he doesn't want to deal with this person anymore, he doesn't take him seriously anyway, anyway——

"Don't you believe what you say?"

Lucy looked up sharply.

Deng Chang was looking at him with no expression on his face, his pupils were light colored by the light.

A question mark floated in Lucy's mind.

This seemed to be the first time this person took the initiative to talk to him, but what was he talking about?

It took a turn in his mind before he realized what Deng Chang meant, "You don't even believe that you can snatch my spot in the World Championships, so that's why you're so sad?"

"Put—" Lucy swallowed the last word forcefully.

Being so excited by Deng Chang, he regained his spirit in an instant, and sat upright awkwardly.

"You look as if you were eliminated just after skating the short program." Deng Chang said.

Lucy:"……"

Sorry, he has never experienced this.

But Lu Xi couldn't tell Deng Chang what happened to him.

You can't tell this person that I'm unhappy because I think you look down on me, right?That's too humble.

Deng Chang seemed to be waiting for his explanation, or maybe it was simply because of his concern as the captain of Chen Qi's team. Lu Xi was racking his brains to find an excuse such as "I'm sleepy", when suddenly coach Lin Yingsu came over and took a picture of him alone. Shoulder, relieve them.

"Next month's national championship game will be the last game of this year." Coach Lin said.

Lu Xi and Deng Chang nodded together.

"We have a habit of training each other in groups of two." Coach Lin continued.

Lu Xi knew that, logically speaking, Cui Xiao should be paired with Deng Chang, he should be paired with Zhu Sibai from Chen Qi's group, or according to the national team's status, he should be paired with big white-eyed brother Liu Xinyu.

That's right, it was another scene that made him realize clearly that he was weaker than Deng Chang.

"I just talked to you Coach Chen on the phone. You two are in a team. Is there any problem?" Coach Lin said again.

Lucy was taken aback suddenly.

He pointed to his nose, then pointed to Deng Chang: "I am with him? Are we in the same group during the music together?"

"Yes." Coach Lin nodded.

Lucy was a little shocked, usually he wouldn't think so much, but now all the messy thoughts popped up all at once.

What about Cui Xiao?

Would Deng Chang be willing to join him?

Shouldn't number two be in a group with number one?

Coach Lin saw that he was struggling, so he asked Deng Chang first: "Is it okay?"

Lu Xi bit his lower lip, looked over, and decided that if Deng Chang expressed a second of entanglement, he would just refuse it first. Anyway, it doesn't matter who you practice with. In the end, each of the competitions depends on their own abilities...

"Okay." Deng Chang said.