17 years on ice [figure skating]

◎Deng Chang saw that he was unhappy about it, it was all on Lu Xi himself◎

Thinking about it carefully, Deng Chang's displeasure with him may be mainly due to Lu Xi himself.

This goes back seven years.

That year Lu Xi was nine years old, and he had practiced with Huang Bin in Crane City for five and a half years.

It's not that Huang Bin forced him to practice. Physical education is already a tough road. Huang Bin thought that if Lu Xi didn't like skating, let him go to school normally.

But the first time he brought Lucy to the ice rink, Lucy played happily.

Huang Bin especially remembers the first time Lu Xi went on the ice. As soon as he tied the ice skates for Lu Xi, the child ran onto the ice with a "thump". As soon as he stepped on the ice, his feet slipped. , shook his little arm twice dangerously.

Huang Bin just felt that something was wrong, and with a "baji", Xiao Luxi had already planted a big horse.

Because he was wearing a white padded jacket, white ice skates, and white woolen gloves, like a little milk bag that hit the ground.

Huang Bin was taken aback, thinking that he would definitely be scolded by his wife when he returned home.

He rushed up to coax Lucy, but he saw the child standing up while supporting the ice with his hands wobbly, and even stepped on the inner edge with his two little feet with great talent, doing a beginner's initial balance movement: front gourd slip.

Huang Bin: What the hell?

Soon Huang Bin discovered that Lu Xi really liked skating and was also very talented.

He seems to be born with a better sense of balance and control than others. The skates are like his second pair of feet. He is happier on ice than on land.

I practiced naturally.

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At the age of nine, Lucy's jumps were relatively weak, because he was too thin and lacked strength, so he could only complete the jumps with lightness and speed, but if he wanted to jump for three weeks or higher, he had to improve his muscle strength.At such a young age, it is too early to give him strength training.

But Lucy's skating ability is very good, and the so-called "jumping is not good" is only relative to his talent in footwork and spin.

There are six types of jumps in figure skating, up to a quadruple jump, that is, four turns in the air.

In fact, nine-year-old Lucy can already do five double jumps. As for the higher difficulty, he can barely do it in two and a half weeks, but he really can't do triple jumps.

However, Lu Xi's level is already outstanding in the Crane City team, so Huang Bin took him to the provincial team to observe.

This is the first time that Lu Xi has left Crane City.

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The provincial team is in Songcheng, the capital of province H, and the admission age for the junior team is 10 years old. Huang Bin plans to report Lu Xi to the team at that time, so he brought him here first to see the world.

It was only when I arrived at the ice rink that I realized the embarrassing situation: Although Xiao Luxi walked on the ice as if walking on the ground, he was too short to be a spectator, and he couldn't see past the board walls around the ice rink.

So Huang Bin had to hold him and sit on the locker so that he could see the situation on the ice.

Lucy was actually a little embarrassed when he was carried to the locker, after all, he looked very short.

But anyway, he was really short, and he paid more attention to the situation on the ice, so he didn't think so much.

At that time, a group of children were having big lessons on the ice, several coaches were standing in the middle of the ice rink, and music was playing in the venue.

Usually ice rink training involves everyone doing skating and footwork uninterruptedly, and the coaches only work on the posture and movements of each person.

Everyone will take turns to focus on training time, but usually when one person is practicing, others will not stop practicing. Anyway, it is a state where everyone is moving.

But as soon as Lucy sat on the locker, he saw the coach slap his hands.

Then a group of children stopped their movements and gathered together.

They gathered in the circle landmark used for footwork practice in the center of the ice rink, and then a boy in a black training suit with good features slid out of the crowd.

This boy has an outstanding appearance and temperament, and he slipped out in full view, making him naturally the focus of everyone.

This was the first time Lu Xi saw Deng Chang.

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"This brother is Deng Chang." Huang Bin whispered to Lu Xi, "One year older than you, the new head player of the provincial youth team."

Children who practice figure skating have a very low body fat rate due to land training, diet control and other reasons. They have not had the baby fat of ordinary children for a long time, and their bodies are slender and slender.

So he looks more mature than his peers, and his body is more elegant.

Deng Chang is a good example.

Because he is very thin, coupled with his cool and handsome eyes, he does not look like a 10-year-old at all, but already has the charm of a 13 or 4-year-old youth.

Wearing a black training suit, coupled with the 10 cm height that comes with the ice skates, it appears that the legs are very long, and the figure is thin and straight.

When he slid out of the crowd, the blade left an arc on the ice, his face was expressionless, and he looked cool.

"Little handsome guy." Huang Bin clicked his tongue.

Lu Xi glanced at Huang Bin.

"But our Xiaoxi is cuter." Huang Bin rubbed Lucy's head happily.

At this distance, Lu Xi couldn't hear what the coach said, but Deng Chang started to help.

Seeing this posture, coupled with the expectant expressions of the onlookers, Lu Xi understood that Deng Chang was going to demonstrate jumping.

At present, the jumps that athletes can complete are divided into one jump to quadruple jump according to the number of circles. The different number of circles represents the number of circles to be rotated in the air.Obviously, lap jumps are the easiest and quad jumps are the hardest.

The mature professional athlete must master all types of triple jumps and be challenged with as many types of quadruple jumps as possible.

The two-week jump should not reach the level that requires the audience to watch, and it can be done after two or three years of practice.

So what Deng Chang wants to demonstrate is the triple axel?

Lucy couldn't do triple jumps now, so he sat up straight.

Usually do a jump of more than three weeks. Small athletes with insufficient strength need to slide around the field for at least half a circle, and slide at high speed to ensure that they have more strength when they take off.

In the complete program, this part of the skating will have footwork and connection, but since it is only a demonstration of jumping, it is good to just do the simplest skating.

Deng Chang first slid forward, then turned into a back step, and passed most of the ice rink counterclockwise. He was skating very fast, with the wind whistling, and shadows passing over his ears.

It wasn't until three-quarters of a circle around the ice rink and back to the center line that Deng Chang turned to slide forward and began to prepare for take-off.

He took two steps off the ice to make sure he was up to speed.

Then the left hand is forward, the right hand is 90 degrees to the side, the left foot steps on the inner blade and turns three times, sliding a wonderful arc on the ice, and the floating leg is raised very high.

When the body reaches the highest speed backwards, the left knee is pressed down, the inner blade is trampled to death, and the ice blade presses a gorgeous arc on the ice surface, flying into the air!

Deng Chang's jump is both high and far, his body is tightly condensed in the air, and his axis is also very straight. He quickly rotates three times, and then opens.

When it landed, the blade pressed against the ice with a "shua".

The jumping position was very close to the locker where Lu Xi watched the battle, and Lu Xi hurriedly leaned back, otherwise the snow fog caused by the skates would hit him in the face.

The time in the air was only less than a second, but it was as graceful as a frightened bird. When it landed, Deng Chang opened his body, raised his head, raised his legs, spread his arms, and slid out beautifully.

A clean and neat triple axel with an exaggerated degree of completion for a ten-year-old.

Enthusiastic applause erupted from the coaches and the watching children on the ice rink.

Huang Bin and Lu Xi, who were watching, also started to applaud.

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When Huang Bin saw this triple axel jump, he immediately let out a sound of "Low--".

Seeing the little milk bag Lucy sitting next to him at a glance, and then remembering his wife's aggressive expression when she heard him occasionally swearing in front of Lucy, he reluctantly swallowed back the word "groove" and changed it. Became a "God!"

But Deng Chang's triple axel really surprised Huang Bin.

There are six kinds of jumps, all of which have common and complicated foreign names, such as Philip jump, Sakhov jump and so on.

However, when training in China, for the sake of convenience and easy to remember, these jumps are simply named according to the jumping method.

Divided into back inside, back outside, back outside ice point, back inside ice point, hook and x and a half (Axel) jumps.

Except for the Axel jump, all jumps take off backward and land backward on the ice, so the number of jump cycles is a full circle.

Only the Axel jump takes off forward and lands backward on the ice, so it takes half a turn more than other jumps, such as 1A (Axel one turn), the actual number of turns in the air is one and a half turns, and the difficulty is also high. Similar to other double jumps.

The difficulty of these jumps is different. In the figure skating scoring rules, the basic points obtained for completing different types of jumps are also different. The scores of these jumps can be regarded as the arrangement of difficulty in a relatively simple way.

For example, Lutz with the highest basic score, that is, the hook jump, is generally considered by athletes to be the most difficult jump to practice.

The jumping learning process of general athletes is to practice the waltz jump first, that is, the half-turn jump that takes off forward and lands backward on the ice. It can be regarded as the prototype of Axel jump and trains the basic jumping feeling.

Then they will learn five kinds of one-step jumps, and then practice for one and a half weeks, that is, Axel for one week, and then start learning five kinds of double-jumps, and then practice for two and a half weeks...

So on the jump score sheet, two-and-a-half weeks will be scored alongside the five triples.

Deng Chang’s triple axel jump, also known as the Sakhov triple axel, ranks fourth among the six triple axel jumps, which is higher than the two-and-a-half axel and the three axel jumps, which are relatively difficult. A relatively low triple axel.

But Deng Chang is only ten years old. A child of this age can win extremely warm applause after completing all the double jumps in ice competitions.

And he can have such a high degree of completion in the back and inner three weeks, if he is not a partial talent who can only jump in the back and in, it means that the two and a half weeks and the three weeks of the back and outside ice point must also have a pretty good level.

This is among the best among domestic peers, and even among the youth groups around the world.

And compared to the technical difficulty, Huang Bin was even more moved by the fact that Deng Chang's jumping posture was really beautiful.

Many children's jumps will give people a feeling of "flying close to the ground", because they are young and not strong enough, and the number of completion cycles depends on the lightness of the body and the speed of speed, and the perception will be a bit cramped.

But Deng Chang's jump is very high in the air, and he can spin in the air with ease, and he looks very beautiful.

This is something more important than "finishing the jump".

It shows that Deng Chang has strong control and explosive power, and this advantage will become more obvious as he develops, which means that he will be easier than others to perform the top level of difficulty in the field of figure skating technical movements - quadruple jumps.

In the field of sports, the talents revealed by young athletes are often more important than the skills they have mastered.

Indeed, as the coach of the provincial team called to show off, Deng Chang is "a good seed that has not been seen for decades."

But Huang Bin thinks that Xiaoxi's family is not bad.

Compared with Deng Chang, Xiaoxi's skating is comparable to him, maybe even better. Although jumping is almost interesting, Xiaoxi is one year younger than Deng Chang, and Xiaoxi's jumping ability is also very strong.

Children at this age are growing physically, and their skills can make a lot of leaps by a year. All in all, Xiaoxi is compared with the top level of the provincial team——

No.

Huang Bin told himself that he couldn't sell melons like Huang Po, and boasted about himself.

So he pinched Lu Xi's face and asked, "Xiao Xi, is brother Deng Chang good?"

"Not bad." Lu Xi stared intently at Deng Chang who slid past in front of her, "Weaker than me."

Huang Bin: "..."

You are even more floating than me!

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Lu Xi is not a brainless madman. Although even a 13-year-old brother can't skate him at the ice rink in Crane City, Lu Xi still has a clear understanding of Deng Chang's level.

The last three weeks really danced beautifully, better than Lu Xi, so Lu Xi said: "It's not bad."

But he is also more aware of himself.

After three weeks, he can't jump out now.

But Deng Chang is one year older than him, he can jump for two and a half weeks, and he will not fail to practice two triple axels in a year.

And more importantly, Deng Chang is not as good as him in skating. Deng Chang has to kick off the ice twice to reach the best speed before take-off, and Lu Xi doesn't need it.

Sliding is the basis of all movements. Sliding speed determines the difficulty of take-off, and blade level determines footwork and rotation ability. Huang Bin, as well as uncles who have visited Lucy from the provincial and national teams all commented very unanimously that Lucy is a "skating genius." ".

So Lu Xi felt that when he was 10 years old, the next three weeks would be as easy as eating beans. With the addition of a little kid's youth and frivolity, he confidently said this sentence:

"Weaker than me."

As soon as the words fell, Deng Chang, who was slowly sliding back on the ice, looked back at Lu Xi who was sitting on the locker.

Lucy:"……"

He heard it.