17 years on ice [figure skating]

◎Snow mist splashes in the surrounding dark colors. ◎

With the start of the new season, a new choreographer is officially on the agenda.

There are two choreographers for the national team, one is a senior Chinese dancer and the other is a top ballet dancer, who are responsible for the two styles of program arrangement.

The national team pays more attention to the choreography method with national charm, because it can better reflect the subtle beauty of the athletes under the influence of oriental culture, and frankly speaking, the western choreography is often inferior to the more expressive western athletes in interpretation. .

The choreography coach of Chinese dance, Jiang Han, is not only a top male dancer, but also a very good choreographer teacher.

But this excellent dancer and top choreographer met the biggest Waterloo in his life here in Lucy.

As soon as Jiang Han saw Lu Xi's small face, slender limbs and neck, and a slender figure of a natural dancer, his eyes glowed green, and he said enthusiastically, "Xiao Xi! Your physical condition is better than I imagined. Come on baby, let's take a look at the soft opening-"

The soft opening of male players will decline with age, but the 16-year-old Lucy is of course still at the peak of soft opening.

He pressed his waist and pulled his legs in front of Jiang Han. After doing a series of movements, the green light in Jiang Han's eyes could be used as a light.

"It's great!" Jiang Han applauded enthusiastically, "Baby, your short program is "Blessing", right? I just thought of a set of moves, let's feel the atmosphere first!"

As he spoke, Mr. Jiang Han swung his posture, raised his hands high, and swayed his waist (looks very) simply. With some small movements of his shoulders and arms, and the smile on his face, almost everyone could feel his body The kind of harvest-like joy.

"Come on!" Jiang Han looked at Lu Xi with full confidence after demonstrating once, "You do it too! Do you remember the movements?"

"Remember." Lu Xi nodded guiltily, feeling a little sympathetic towards Mr. Jiang Han.

Sure enough, after 3 minutes, Jiang Han turned into a withered delicate flower.

"I don't understand." His voice was trembling, "It's so simple, why can you do it like the clay figurines on the ancient altar?"

Lucy:"……"

Deng Chang suppressed a smile, coughed twice, and tilted his head to the side.

Lu Xi glared at Deng Chang, but when he turned to Jiang Han, seeing his exhausted expression, he was really embarrassed, and said cowardly: "Then teacher, I will try again."

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Speaking of it, Mr. Jiang Han is indeed a dancer who has suffered a lot since childhood. Even in the face of Lu Xi's heinous hand movements, after forcing himself to watch it several times, he still withstood the pressure. Once again, he showed the momentum of a dance teacher.

"Smile! Do you know what a smile is! Your expression is almost turning into a uncanny valley!"

"Hand! Swinging is not waving! No robotic arm! Electronic bionic referees won't fall in love with robotic arms!"

Lucy:"……"

Why is this teacher still playing bad jokes?

"Unbearable--"

Jiang Han gritted his teeth, and finally took out his magical tool as a dance teacher, the little pointer, and treated Lu Xi as a child who had just started dancing, picking out the details of him one by one, and like the first teacher of all sports, he started Toxic tongue mode.

The little pointer "slapped" on Lucy's arm.

"Soft! Softer!"

"It's too soft! Are you an octopus arm!"

"Strength, strength, strength! Stretch! Don't shake! You are a human, not a willow tree!"

"Hands! Swing! Soft! Softness doesn't mean you don't have to work hard! Brother! Have you really learned how to dance!"

After an hour of practice, Lu Xi was out of breath, and suffered a double blow both mentally and physically, but I have to admit that this short dance has improved a lot under Jiang Han's devil training.

Jiang Han was also out of breath. His career as a dance coach had never been challenged so much. He even suspected that the cute skating video he had seen on the Internet had undergone AI face-changing.

But it must be admitted that watching Lu Xi's dance moves progress from being unbearable to watching directly to barely being able to watch, it is still very fulfilling.

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The other is the technical movements of choreography.

This year, because "the difficult jumps cannot be placed in the second half", and the overall duration and the total number of jumps are reduced, it is very challenging for technical action choreography.

It can be understood as follows: the physical strength of the contestants can be quantified as a percentage bar in the technical arrangement, and each movement will be reduced by a certain percentage, but this subtraction is not -12.5 for each of the eight jumps, but with the passage of time and the difficulty of the movement The changes are exponential.

Jiang Han only needs to allow plenty of time for the technical movements, and the technical arrangement needs to use up the physical strength of the players as much as possible, and ensure that the players with the same physical strength can get the highest possible technical points, which is quite brain-intensive. .

The technical arrangement is usually done by each coaching staff. Chen Qi called his younger brother, the number three of the national team, together with coach Lin Yingsu, because Lin Yingsu is better at arrangement, and he does not have men's singles under him, so it does not constitute a competitive relationship.

This year, Deng Chang is going to be on the program for four weeks. He will be 18 soon, and his physical endurance and explosive power are about to reach the peak. It just so happens that it is the Winter Olympics. Considering the current injury of Lu Xi, the national team has high expectations for him.

——Of course, it’s not the kind of expectation of winning a gold medal, because the three giant opponents are also in the best condition. Geers is 23 years old, Orihara Chisato is 22 years old, and Varichenko is a little older. At the age of 25, the level of technical maturity has reached the peak, not to mention there are overseas rising stars headed by Asano Subaru.

Everyone's expectation is that Deng Chang or Lu Xi can reach the top six this year, even tying Chen Qi's best record of No.5 in the Winter Olympics.But in this era of technological explosion, he must at least practice one of the two quadruple jumps, the back ice point and the hook, and come up with a more advanced quadruple jump, so that he can rush higher.

After Deng Chang practiced hard for four weeks, that is, 4F, Lu Xi's skating also adopted a full three-week schedule.

Because he is still undergoing long rehabilitation training and strength training, in fact, he can practice for four weeks now. Lucy himself also raised the requirement of increasing the difficulty, but the coaching staff dare not let him practice again.

Once fractured, he is more likely to be injured than a fully healthy person. Lucy is too thin, and the coaching staff is afraid that he will get injured again if he goes up to the difficulty so quickly.

Therefore, most of the time, Lu Xi could only jump for three weeks, and then watched Deng Chang practice for four weeks in the jumping class.

This is of course a kind of torture for Lucy, but it is actually his luck.

Because if there is no athlete at the same level as Deng Chang at the same time, then for the upcoming Olympic cycle, for honor and mission, Lu Xi must return to the highest intensity training state as soon as possible.

In this way, he may become stronger in the short term, but in the next 4 or even 8 years, he will definitely suffer from recurrent injuries due to overload training during the recovery period.

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In September, Deng Chang started school. After school started this time, he will be in his third year of high school. After school, he has to participate in evening self-study, so the training was changed to 9 pm.

Lucy also joined him in the 9 p.m. game, and during the day he did strength training, land training, and art appreciation.Cooperating with the muscle-building meal plan given by the coach, in the past two months, Lucy has become much stronger than before.

Originally, his muscles were in pretty good condition, but now after building up his muscles, in the land training videos he took, he occasionally did some movements that would cause the hem of his clothes to lift up, such as lowering his waist, showing strong and thin muscle lines on his fair skin, which made the comments Districts are often transformed into chicken farms.

Lucy didn't completely hide the injury anymore, because it was impossible to hide it from the beginning of the season.

Anyway, now that he has recovered to the point where he is rehearsing dance, he described it as a "foot injury".

Many fans sent him handwritten letters and cute self-drawn pictures, wishing him a speedy recovery.

The number of players who participated in the training at 9:6 p.m. was much less than those who participated in the training at 12:[-] p.m., because it was too late, and the next training session was at [-]:[-] p.m., and several times it was Lu Xi Deng Chang's special session. , Maybe they will be persuaded to change the training time.

Lucy was practicing for three and a half weeks that night. He had been practicing with a suspender for half a month and was familiar with his new jumping method.Finally, I was able to take off the boom to practice. After jumping four times, I finally managed to land once.

When falling off the ice, Lucy himself felt unbelievable. It had been a long time since he had successfully landed on the ground.

Everyone applauded him.

This is the time when Lu Xi was in the best mood in the slightly depressing training schedule in the past few months. He went to dance for another three and a half weeks and successfully landed on the ice. When he wanted to try the third one, he was caught by Chen Qi. Stopped it, saying that it was almost the end of the day, so Lu Xi had to stop.

So Deng Chang was the only one left to dance on the ice rink. Recently, Deng Chang has been challenging the inner circle of the ice, which is 4F.

4F and 4Lz are two of the most advanced quadruple jumps. Mastering one of them can be said to have entered the ranks of the world's top men's singles.

Deng Chang was the only one left on the huge ice rink. He pressed his steps to help the skater. After adding up his speed, he made a three-turn inside edge to adjust his balance, and then turned three on the front inside edge again. The 4F blade didn't have to be too hard to step on. , a small change of direction under the feet, touch the ice, and take off!

The body rotated around in the air, lightly opened the falling ice, and the snow and mist splashed into the surrounding darkness.

After falling off the ice, Deng Chang was stunned for a moment, and immediately looked towards Lu Xi and Chen Qi.

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Jump into it?

Lucy was also stunned.

In such a very casual environment, Deng Chang suddenly jumped into the 4F that he had practiced for more than half a year. In the true sense of the word, he crossed the threshold of the top men's singles?

Lucy originally thought that this scene would be more ceremonial, at least more people would be watching.

But if you think about it carefully, the witness of this ice rink is already very ceremonial.

Chen Qi was already applauding, Lu Xi was applauding too, and Deng Chang bowed to this side with a smile on his face.

Chen Qi raised his hands high and gave a thumbs up, his usually stern face showed an expression of excitement that couldn't be concealed: "Deng Chang is great! That's amazing!"

"Today is really a good day!" The teaching assistant yelled, "Xiaoxi picked it up in three and a half weeks! Xiaochang 4F is also out!"

Lucy was stunned for half a second.

There was a sudden pain in my heart.

Deng Chang had already come over, hugged Chen Qi first, then Lu Xi, Lu Xi patted him on the back and said, "Congratulations."

Afterwards, Deng Chang was dragged by Chen Qi to continue talking about the movements, and then went to try the jump for the second time. Lu Xi didn't want to do this, but when he saw Deng Chang on the ice take off again and landed on the ice—even though he was on both feet If the ice falls, the degree of completion will be deducted, but this is indeed a 4F——he couldn't help feeling lost.

Lu Xi was very happy for Deng Chang, from the bottom of his heart.

But if he hadn't been injured, he should be practicing this movement now, challenging for a place in the Winter Olympics, instead of picking up a three and a half weeks that he could easily master more than a year ago.

Lu Xi didn't show his emotions to anyone, and even kept a smile on his face, and then slipped into the locker room by himself with the excuse of "going to the bathroom because of a stomachache".

In the familiar position, curled up with his knees in his arms, Lucy thought it would not take long for him, maybe 5 minutes, he should be able to adjust, but he only stayed for 2 minutes before he heard the sound of the door being pushed.

The moment Lucy heard the door knock, he sat upright dignifiedly, acting as if he was tidying up his shoelaces, completely forgetting that he said "go to the toilet" at the beginning, and then he walked towards the door as if nothing had happened. glanced sideways.

No matter who looked at him, he could say hello with a smile, but he found that it was Deng Chang.

-

Deng Chang stood at the door and looked at Lu Xi. There was no expression on his handsome face, and the faint expression in his downcast eyes made people feel that he seemed to be a little distressed.

The corridor lamp casts long shadows, as long as the silent years.

"Are you okay?" Deng Chang asked.

Lucy bit her lip.

He thought that the last thing he should do is to let Deng Chang know his current mood, because anyone can be jealous of Deng Chang, but he can't.

But only in front of Deng Chang, he can't hide any emotions. It was like this when he was ten years old, and it's still like this when he was 16 years old.

"I'm sorry." Lu Xi hugged her knees and looked down at the stool under her feet.

When he said these words, he felt sad for a while, because he was not magnanimous enough, and because he felt that he was very dark and small-minded, "I am really happy for you from the bottom of my heart, but now I am also... so sad."