17 years on ice [figure skating]

◎Xiaoxi, come to a group of cheerful body movements! ◎

While the choreography of the contestants was in full swing, everyone in the figure skating team held a meeting in early September.

A meeting is held at the beginning of each season, and each project reports its achievements last year, and then lists the goals for this year in detail.Before that, the coach wanted to talk to the relevant athletes. Of course, Chen Qi also talked to Lu Xi and Deng Chang.

Now everyone sits in the conference room.

In the past, the focus of figure skating meetings was on pairs skating, because other small events had no future, but this year, men's singles has also become a strong event, and there is a key report.

When setting the goal, the head coach Bao Zhongjie said: "Let's make a big one this year. Deng Chang and Lu Xi have been training for two years. They are both in good condition this year. How about trying to win a gold medal in the World Championship?"

Deng Chang didn't speak, but Lu Xi raised his hand: "No problem."

Bao Zhongjie smiled slightly, "Well, I hope we can have a big breakthrough by the end of this year."

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For this "big breakthrough", Lu Xi and Deng Chang started more rigorous training.Dance, strength, and technical movements for land training, rotation, jumping, and sliding for ice training, as well as meal matching and work and rest arrangements.

Bao Zhongjie is also going to help the two of them contact foreign training, because their level has reached the ceiling of domestic men's singles training, and if they want to improve, they need a coach with more championship experience.

But it's up to you when you can get in touch.

During the Olympic year last year, Deng Chang had already completed his training according to the new training plan. At that time, Lucy was recovering from training. This year, he also joined this training. Lucy can do more on the ice part, but the land training is really great. Tired, the muscle training for the shoulders, arms, waist, calves, ankles and other key parts of the jumping force is very intensive, and Lucy is sweating profusely every time he finishes.

Sometimes I use elastic bands to practice jumping movements. Because I do it too many times, I am so tired that I can’t lift my arms. I need an assistant to help me with the fascia gun.

But the muscles are growing visible to the naked eye, and Lu Xi also feels the strength improvement brought by the growth and development. The training intensity that was difficult to complete last year has become much easier now. He is slender, with a small frame, and is naturally thin, but Under this kind of training intensity, it has perfectly reached the state of "looking thin when dressed, and fleshy when undressed".

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At the end of the training that day, Deng Chang was called by Jiang Han to talk about the show.

Most of the free skating shows the music first and then the choreography, but because Deng Chang is very determined to dance the theme of "Unreachable Moonlight", Jiang Han very cooperatively helped him find a lot of songs and asked him to choose.

After choosing Deng Chang, he went back to the dressing room to change, and was shocked when he opened the door.

Lu Xi was wearing pure black training clothes, standing in front of the full-length mirror, holding up the hem of the short sleeve with one hand, revealing a small white and thin waist from behind, and holding the phone with the other hand facing the mirror.

Deng Chang paused.

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Lu Xi was admiring his abs in the mirror, that's right, admiring, admiring, self, abs, muscles.

When I was changing clothes just now, I suddenly felt that my lines were pretty good-looking, and I happened to be at the age when I was suffering from the second illness. Sometimes I saw fitness bloggers on Weibo, and suddenly I wanted to take pictures.

So he pulled up his clothes a little so that it wouldn't reveal a lot, but his muscles were clearly visible, but he heard a knock on the door just after taking two pictures. It would be embarrassing to be seen taking selfies. After coming down, he quickly turned his head, saw that it was Deng Chang, and heaved a sigh of relief.

It may be because the light bulb is not working well, the room is a bit dark, and at the first glance, Deng Chang lowered his eyes to look at the ground, showing a colder and restrained expression than usual.

Lu Xi was a little embarrassed: "Hello. Have you finished talking to Mr. Jiang?"

"Yeah." Deng Chang nodded: "What are you doing?"

"I..." Lucy rubbed his nose and coughed embarrassedly, "I'm taking a selfie."

"Selfie?" Deng Chang raised his eyelids.

"Yes." After these few dialogues, Lu Xi finally became more natural, and showed Deng Chang the photo he just took.

The background of the picture is a brick red floor and a light gray locker. The boy is standing in front of the mirror, with a slender figure, his left hand is pulling up the hem of his clothes, and the small waist under the black T-shirt is dazzlingly white.

She is so slender that she can be hugged with one hand, but she doesn't look thin at all. Her fair complexion clearly shows distinct but not excessive abdominal muscles, and the mermaid line is hidden at the edge of her trousers.

From the angle of the selfie, to the tense and straight body of the young man, to the awkward posture of the arms pulling the hem of the clothes, he can feel the jerky, but it is precisely because the jerky mixed with the youthful feeling of sports students makes this This photo is like an underripe apple, eye-catching and exciting.

Deng Chang stood in front of the phone, quietly looking at the photo without saying a word.

"How is it?" Lucy even showed off, "Not bad, right? I want to post on Weibo."

These words finally activated Deng Chang.

"No." Deng Chang said, reaching out to lock the screen of Lu Xi's phone.

"?" Lu Xi looked at Deng Chang in confusion, "Why can't you post it?"

"You want to be popular because of this?" Deng Chang asked.

Lucy:"……"

A series of hot search titles such as #Luxiabdominal# appeared in his mind.

Thinking about it, it would be embarrassing enough if this thing was posted on Weibo. What if I called my parents at night and my father brought it up...

"I didn't say anything." Lu Xi was shocked.

But it's a pity.

"It's really hard to take this photo of mine." Lucy said, "It took a lot of effort to adjust the color, so I can't blame it for regret."

Then a sudden idea: "I'll send it to you!"

"Ah?" Before Deng Chang could react, Lu Xi had already sent this photo plus the warm version and cold version taken with filters.

"The precious locker room selfie of the future world champion." Lu Xi patted Deng Chang on the shoulder and said earnestly, "Keep it well."

Deng Chang: "..."

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Another thing that happened later was that Deng Chang was growing taller.

He was already 175. Athletes would not grow too tall because of Lajin since he was a child, but this year he suddenly jumped three centimeters, and suddenly reached 178.

If the figure skater is too tall, there will be big problems. If the height reaches 180, it will be difficult to find the axis when taking off, and the difficulty of completing the quadruple jump will be much higher than that of athletes around 173.So when it was discovered that Deng Chang was so strong that when he started to grow taller, the entire coaching staff collapsed. Lin Yingsu forced Deng Chang to stretch his muscles every day with a tense face. He firmly believed that this could curb the growth momentum of his height. Deng Chang smoked a kind of grass, saying that it was a folk remedy for height control.

Only Chen Qi was a little more scientific and rational, pulling Deng Chang to jump training every day, just in case he suddenly jumped to 180 or even 180+, and he could also regain the quadruple jumping feel as quickly as possible.

Fortunately, Deng Chang's body is still a face, it stopped at 178 and did not grow any further.

"If only Deng Chang could be as good as you." Chen Qi looked at Lu Xi and sighed lightly.

Lu stopped at 173. Xiaoxi: "..."

good size.

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In addition to challenging the fifth quadruple jump, the hook quadruple, Lu Xi and Deng Chang are also practicing advanced quadruple jumps.

In the performance, there are also requirements for jumping movements: the initial quadruple jump cannot be repeated.

也就是说如果第一个4+3是4Lo起跳，第二个4+3起跳就必须换一种四周，自由滑七个跳跃里有三个是连跳，也就是得掌握三种不同的高级4+3。

At this point, Lu Xi and Deng Chang have opened up a clear gap with other men's singles players in the national team. Zhu Sibai will be promoted to the senior group at the end of this year, and Liu Xinyu is added, but the difficulty of both of them stays at four weeks Single jump, triple axel, watching Lu Xi and Deng Chang practice quadruple jump like a spinning top on the ice.Envious to speechless.

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In addition, Lucy is still receiving special training in artistic expression.

He is a little better than the completely stiff state at the age of 16, but this kind of natural shortcoming is difficult to overcome. If one day figure skating includes "improvisation", Lucy may directly fall from a first-class athlete to a top ten athlete. Ba Liu.

But there is no so-called "improvisation" in figure skating. The expressiveness of a complete program can be shown by talent, or through repeated high-intensity training, and [-]% to [-]% of it can be completed purely by following the gourd. So Lu Xi is still very good. competitive.

However, Chen Qi is still unswervingly cultivating his impromptu expressiveness.

Probably something like this:

Chen Qi: "Xiaoxi, come make a sad face!"

Lucy tried hard.

Chen Qi: "I will be sadder if you make this expression!"

Chen Qi: "Come on, Xiaoxi, come and laugh with me—"

Lu Xi painted a ladle as a gourd, trying to raise the corners of his mouth.

Chen Qi: "Forget it, you should just use your own expression."

Chen Qi: "Xiaoxi, let's do some cheerful body movements!"

Half a minute later, the assistant coach rushed out carrying a stretcher with a nervous expression on his face, "Mr. Chen! Is the player convulsing suddenly! Do you need first aid!"

Lucy:"……"

He was full of gloom, seeing his unsmiling teammate Deng Chang and his unsmiling coach Mr. Chen Qi laughing until his stomach ached.

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In such an atmosphere where most of the time is tense and cheerful, and a small part of the time Lu Xi wants to beat people very much, the 2019 season has officially arrived.

Thanks to the joint efforts of Lu Xi and Deng Chang last year, this year all A-level competitions, the men's singles of the national team will have two players to participate together. Starting from this year, with the points base of the previous two years, Lu Xi has also officially started to compete. ranking.

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The scoring rules of the International Skating Union are very complicated. Simply put, it is the sum of the highest two championship/Winter Olympic Games points, four Grand Prix points and four B-level points in the last three years. fold.

The current world No. [-] is still Varichenko. He has been No. [-] in the world for three years, but the second-ranked Orihara Chisato and his scores have become smaller and smaller.

Although Lu Xi and Deng Chang participated in various events, in fact, there are not many players who can participate in world-class events. If they can get a high score in a major event, they can kill a lot of players. Simply put, the top three in the world There may be three or four thousand points, but after that, it will drop by a thousand miles. With more than 1000 points, you can be in the top 20. As long as you get a good ranking in one competition, a high ranking is not a problem.

所以虽然路西目前一共就参加了一次四大洲（铜牌680分）、一次世锦赛（铜牌972分）、一个B级赛（250分），但因为排名都很好，所以已经挤进了前20，邓畅因为有一次四大洲（银牌756分）、一次冬奥会（No.4875分）、两次B级赛（250分+225分）再加上大奖赛（分站赛冠军400+总决赛No.6472），世界排名其实已经攀升到第8位。

But from the top ten to the top, every step is difficult. Lucy's goal this year is to break into the top five.

When Lu Xi mentioned this goal at the regular meeting at the beginning of the season, he clearly saw some people's distrustful eyes, but he didn't take it seriously.

After all, the goal is to be number one in the world, and fifth is just a step.

Right?