17 years on ice [figure skating]

◎Prepare for the first match of the adult group! ◎

If you don't want to, forget it...

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Deng Chang said "OK"?

Lu Xi punched back the rejection draft that was about to come out in his mind.

"Where's Xiaoxi, is there a problem?" Lin Yingsu looked at Lu Xi kindly.

"No problem." Lucy replied in a daze.

Lin Yingsu made a circle with his finger and thumb, straightened the other three fingers, and made an "ok" gesture: "Then we will arrange a party tomorrow, and make preparations in advance."

Lucy continued to nod in a daze.

There are youth groups and adult groups in the National Championship, and as long as you have enough points, you can participate, so basically everyone present can participate, so Lin Yingsu went to find other people to arrange a joint group.

At the same time, the game was still going on on TV, and now the famous player from North America, currently ranked No. 3 in the world, Jayers, was on the stage.

Jayers has a handsome face, the most striking thing is his pair of very light ice blue eyes, those eyes always make people feel cold... In a sense, they look a bit like Deng Chang.

Speaking of Deng Chang.

Lucy was still in a trance.

Mainly because it is a bit unbelievable.

Just agreed without any hindrance?

It is definitely a good thing to be in the same group as Deng Chang. For Lu Xi, it is a kind of recognition.

You know, the youth group has always won the championship, but after being promoted to the group, there are many players in Shenhu, at least 50%, because in the adult group, the male players' skills have a big explosion, not all of them burst out .

Although Lu Xi has self-confidence, he is not the kind of player who is brainless and arrogant, so he has self-confidence and a lot of apprehension.

But Deng Chang's strength in the adult group has already been verified.

Although he was second in the National Trials last year and failed to win the Championships and Grand Prix, he participated in the Four Continents and even won a silver medal, so Deng Chang has a perfect reputation among ice fans, but he is not like Lucy. Fire out of circle.

Although the Four Continents Competition is the lowest gold content among the A-level events, because the top players will give priority to participating in the other two events, the player allocation is often not so high, but the silver medal is also the best record of my country's men's singles.

Hele training is usually a group of players with similar levels, that is to say, Chen Qi thinks that Lu Xi can be in a group with Deng Chang, and Deng Chang himself agrees with this, which means that they think that Lu Xi is really good—although Deng Chang Chang may just be too lazy to refuse, after all, it is one of his styles to not want to be troublesome at all, but Lucy decided not to think about it for the time being.

At this time Deng Chang patted him.

Lucy turned his head.

"We don't need to be in one group," Deng Chang said.

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When Lucy heard this, he almost jumped.

Still don't want to chant.

All the happy Naobu just now looked like a big fool, he even wanted to throw off the mat and leave, and said with a sneer in his heart, he didn't want to say it earlier.

But before these words were uttered, Deng Chang had already added, "If you don't want to."

Lucy was stunned for a moment.

If he doesn't want to.

Where does he look like he doesn't want to?

No, the point is——

So...Deng Chang is actually not unhappy?

Lucy opened his mouth, but he didn't say a word. The anger just now hadn't subsided, but suddenly he seemed to be out of breath. He was at a loss and a little surprised. These emotions piled up together, which made him feel very stupid.

So much so that he was dumb for a while before asking: "Why do you think I don't want to be with you?"

"Your attitude is very negative." Deng Chang replied, "It seems that you were eliminated just after finishing the short program."

"..." Hearing what he said, Lu Xi couldn't hold back the question, "Do you know this kind of metaphor?"

Deng Chang remained silent, pretending to be cold.

With this level of language, I don't know where the city's focus is.

Lu Xi intuitively felt that this person had misunderstood, so he explained, "I'm not negative, mainly because I was a little surprised."

"Why are you surprised?" Deng Chang asked.

Lucy:"……"

He found that what he said was digging a hole for himself.

It would be impossible for Lucy to admit that Deng Chang's willingness to be in a group with him surprised or even surprised him. This is very low on self-esteem for both an 11-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy.

After thinking about it, he changed his reason: "Because you are not very friendly to me."

"You are not very friendly to me usually." Deng Chang said.

Lucy got stuck again.

Because he found that Deng Chang was right.

He was even a little enlightened.

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This doesn't seem to be a matter of who is unhappy with the other, the two of them have nothing to do with each other at all, and they are just two top students who are not in the same class.Deng Chang never took the initiative to look for him. Although Lu Xi had a lot of drama in his heart, he rarely took the initiative to look for Deng Chang, and the conversation always stopped at a back and forth.

After all, Xueba is a bit arrogant.

So maybe Deng Chang didn't dislike him.

Not to mention treating him as an opponent.

A question that has been troubling me for a long time suddenly has an answer, in an unexpected way.

Lucy felt a little lighthearted.

Suddenly feel good.

Deng Chang was still waiting for a reply. Lu Xi neither wanted to admit that he was unfriendly to Deng Chang, nor that he wanted to be friendly to him, but his tone really flew up:

"That's what I said, but it's okay to be in your group." Lucy said.

As soon as he was in a good mood, Lu Xi found the state of a proud boy full of confidence in front of others.

He stretched out his hand to Deng Chang, "The cooperation is pleasant?"

Deng Chang looked down at Lu Xi's outstretched hand, and after two seconds, when Lu Xi began to feel embarrassed, he stretched out his hand and squeezed Lu Xi's fingertips.

Through the thin velvet gloves, Lucy could feel that Deng Chang's hands were quite cold.

"Happy cooperation." Deng Chang said, seeming to raise the corner of his mouth slightly.

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Of course, there was no joint music practice that night, because everyone got together and watched the men's singles match.

In the end, the famous Russian player Varichenko defeated the famous Japanese player Chisato Orihara by 1 point and won the gold medal in this year's World Championships. Giles won the bronze medal.

The 17-year-old Japanese teenager Subaru Asano played very well, but after all, he fell in the 4F+3Lo double jump. It doesn’t matter if he is still in the youth group. Directly let him only get No.6 in the end.

But for this young player who has just entered the senior group and is the same age as Deng Chang, this result is already quite good, and it has also set a new personal best result.

Lucy's hands were itchy to watch, he was one of the rare athletes who liked competitions, and his blood boiled when he stood on the field of a big competition.

Thinking that he had just boasted that he would grab Deng Chang's spot in the trials at the end of the year, he couldn't help but glance at Deng Chang again, but Deng Chang was watching TV intently.

Lu Xi thought again, the two of them had just reached a cooperative relationship, and they couldn't make trouble so quickly, so he reluctantly pushed back his competitive spirit.

The so-called music practice means that before the big competition, the contestants have to rehearse their performances with the soundtrack, that is, the short program and the free skating program for the competition.

This kind of exercise will not be a full set every time, because it is too tiring to jump a whole set of programs, 4 minutes and 30 seconds, 8 jumps, joint rotations, footwork and non-stop full-speed skating.

Some people say that the intensity of a figure skater's free skating is equivalent to running the entire 400 meters at the speed of running 1500 meters. Half an hour later, asking him to do the second set is still in a state of weak legs.

So in fact, in the joint music practice, the contestants are more likely to jump the clips that they did not perform well before, or to pick out the details.

However, during a player's joint music time, his soundtrack will always be played in a loop, or it will be played alternately with the players in his group.

This is also to let the players be familiar with their own card points, because sometimes the rhythm will be messed up if they fall during the game, but the soundtrack has been heard a lot. Just listen to the current melody and you will know what to do next.

They have to get used to keeping up with the rhythm at the fastest speed in various time periods of the music.

Teams of two is a practice method that came out in recent years. Before, it was a group of three or four, because the coach couldn't see it, and the players had to take care of each other. However, some people would be ignored in a group of three or four, so they simply changed Became teams of two, one on one.

But there is a limit to joint training, because the coach is the absolute authority, and the players can only check each other for technical problems, whether there are any mistakes in the movement, and chat, adjust and adjust the mentality...

Of course, Lu Xi didn't expect Deng Chang to chat with him to help him adjust his mentality, but no matter what, it's better to practice with someone than to practice alone.

In fact, after the men's singles competition, Coach Chen Qi was fine, because among the players who went to the competition, only Cui Xiao, who was in the men's singles, was an athlete in his group.

Although Lucy didn't pay much attention to these things, he probably knew that there was a competition between the players, and this competition would affect the coach's performance and bonuses, which would inevitably lead to the lack of harmony among the coaches.

For example, even if they went to the World Championships together, Bao Zhongjie would not let Chen Qi have any right to speak in the women's singles or double events, and Chen Qi would not let Bao Zhongjie train his players in the same way.

And even Lin Yingsu, who is relatively indifferent to the world and has a better relationship with Chen Qi, is very measured: he can teach Lu Xi how to dance, but if it is about Lu Xi's participation in the national championship, then all ideas Let Chen Qi take it all by himself.

But the big team must still come back together, which led to Chen Qi, even though he was fine, still had to stay in Russia until the women's singles, pair skating and ice dance competitions were all over before returning to China.

However, his attention was no longer on the World Championships, but on Lu Xi, Deng Chang and the others.

The next day in the women's singles free skating, Chen Qi made a direct phone call from across the country to discuss the national championship with his three juniors.

Zhu Sibai was in the youth group, and was first driven aside to play in the mud.

Lu Xi and Deng Chang found a quiet, empty classroom and played a video call with Chen Qi.

"You brother Cui is not going to participate in this year's National Championship. The World Championship is too physically exhausting, and he is a bit strained, so he doesn't plan to fight that hard." Chen Qi came up and threw out a big news, "So this year's champion is basically It's just--I'm welcome, right?"

Lu Xi and Deng Chang shook their heads very synchronously.

"En." Chen Qi nodded in satisfaction, "This year's championship is basically between the two of you."

He didn't regard Liu Xinyu as an opponent at all.

If Liu Xinyu knew, he would roll his eyes twenty times in anger.

-

Chen Qi seldom talked nonsense, so he went straight to the point and discussed the choreography of the championship game.

"Deng Chang just danced the two sets of this year's Four Continents Competition?" Chen Qi asked, "Does the arrangement need to be changed?"

"No change." Deng Chang said.

Chen Qi nodded: "Those two sets of difficulty are quite suitable, and the technical score is among the top in the country, so it won't be too forced."

Deng Chang said "hmm", he would definitely not reply if it was someone else, this is to give the coach enough face.

Figure skaters usually prepare two programs in one season, one short program and one free skating. No matter how many competitions they participate in this year, they will only participate in these two programs, and at most they will add a performance skating.

This is because the arrangement of each program is very complicated, and the corresponding Costen needs to be produced. It is already very difficult to compile and practice a program from scratch, and it is basically impossible to prepare a spare one.

However, with the ups and downs of the players' status, the difficulty of jumping, footwork and rotation in the program may be fine-tuned. If the condition is good before the competition, the difficulty will be increased, and the score will be high. If the condition is not good, it will be lowered for stability. However, the overall series connection, positioning, and stuck points will not change.

Deng Chang is completely unchanged this time, and he went directly to his arrangement of winning silver medals in the Four Continents Competition, which can be said to be top-level competitiveness in domestic competitions.

"For Xiaoxi's program, why don't you still dance the two sets of your World Youth Championship?" Chen Qi said, "Although I think there is still room for improvement in the arrangement, but you are familiar with these two sets, and it's the end of the season, so let's do it. "

"Okay." Lucy said.

"The difficulty is..."

Just as Chen Qi started, Lu Xi had already said, "I want to go up the difficulty."

Chen Qi was stunned: "Didn't you take the short program and free skating for two weeks, and you still take the difficulty? How do you want to do it?"

"I want to go to the back and outer four weeks." Lucy said.

Chen Qi was taken aback again.

There are only two kinds of quadruples in Lu Xi's reserve, the back-to-outside quadruple and the back-to-inner quadruple. He is still practicing the back-to-outside quadruple, but at least before Chen Qi leaves, he has no signs of being able to do it.

"You can jump back and forth now?" Chen Qi asked pleasantly.

"No." Lucy said.

Chen Qi:? ?

"It will be in April." Lucy said.

Chen Qi: "..."

Chen Qi's expression at the moment was very exciting.

With more than ten years of sports career and 20 years of coaching career, he has never seen such a crazy player-in a sense, you can say that he has no B number-player.

It was less than a month before the competition, and he still didn't know how to do this jump, but he dared to say that if he wanted to make this jump into the program, Chen Qi would think he was crazy if he was someone else.

But Chen Qi has also followed Lu Xi for two or three years, and has a general understanding of this young player's style. In short, Chen Qi doesn't think that Lu Xi is completely crazy.

That's half crazy.