17 years on ice [figure skating]

◎But you really don't understand Lucy. ◎

"Amazing!"

"not bad!"

"That's it!"

Amid Jiang Han's repeated praises, Lu Xi and Deng Chang ushered in the World Championships.

Jiang Han has been feeling emotional almost every day in the past half month: "Xiaoxi, why did you suddenly become enlightened! This is great! It's exactly the feeling I want!"

Lucy didn't speak.

After all, it was impossible for him to tell Jiang Han that after Deng Chang was called away that day, he suddenly understood a little bit of that feeling.

He felt bored after Deng Chang ran away. This is not the mentality that a mature player who is about to grow up should have. It is too shameful.

Moreover, Lucy's thoughts are quite confused, and he can't explain why, but he feels that such a mood is not humane.

But unexpectedly found the feeling of free skating, which surprised everyone including the coaching staff.

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World Championships.

It is held around March every year, stepping on the tail of winter, and announcing the end of the season with the grandest event.

The World Youth Championship will be held a few days before the World Championships. Lucy made his debut at the World Youth Championship, so he always felt that this tournament was his blessed land.

Before the players set off for Moscow, the World Youth Championship had just ended. American player Nick Ace won the World Youth Championship by a large margin, and his score of 290+ also set a world record for the youth group.

"Should be a very good player, with three quadruple jumps, so fierce." During the training interval, Lucy watched Nick's video, and thought with his chin, "But why do I think he is a bit annoying when I look at this person's name? "

"Because of his senior brother." Deng Chang drank his saliva and replied concisely.

"Huh?" Lucy was stunned for a moment, recalling, "Oh! This is the one that Jayers bragged about before, his junior brother who won the World Youth Grand Prix, right!"

Deng Chang nodded.

"It's a pity." Lu Xi sighed regretfully, "It's such a good player, it must be such a senior brother."

Deng Chang laughed, that is to say, Lu Xi didn't read the forum, if he did, he would know that this Nick and his senior brother are in the same line of dislike.

But there is no rush to tell Lucy about this kind of thing. Anyway, Nick will not be promoted to the senior group this year.

But Nick's technique is really strong. At the age of 16, he has mastered three quadruple jumps, just like a new jumping madman.

Both Lu Xi and Deng Chang are only 78 years old and have not officially entered the peak. The top players in front are still occupying high positions, and there are such aggressive pursuers behind them. The environment is really dangerous.

But to stand on the world's top stage, this level of competition seems inevitable.

After Nick Ace won the World Youth Championship, Giles took advantage of the east wind and immediately started acting like a monster again.

He first publicly praised his juniors for their extraordinary talents, hexathlon, Yinyang Luxi, Deng Chang, and Asano Subaru in the open and in the dark.

Afterwards, Giles said that he was behind in the Grand Prix because of his poor performance. If he competed in the World Championships, these juniors would not be his opponents at all.

Now as soon as Jayers said something, someone rushed over to interview Lucy. It was indeed for the sake of blogging, and Lucy didn't care about their mentality of doing good things. Young people are full of vigor. If someone offends me, I will be the one, even if no one comes With him interviewing, he might also take the initiative to find the reporter to touch the microphone.

Chen Qi always said, "Don't be an early bird, in case something happens to you if you are in a trough someday", Lu Xi didn't care, and said that if the trough was a big deal, it would be a big deal not to go online, and Chen Qi had nothing to say.

"What do you mean by a dignified competition?" Lu Xi said, "It means that our juniors let him jump in the grand prix? Don't the legs grow on him?"

"It's a competition, it's called a competition, isn't it just a competition?" Lucy said again.

The questioner got the ideal answer and left satisfied, and Lucy went back very satisfied, leaving Jayers with an angry face turning green, and Chen Qi always worrying about what if Lucy gets scolded one day Do it, I was so worried that I lost a few hairs.

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Lucy didn't have the time to keep arguing with Jayers, and his opponents in the World Championships were not just Jayers, Deng Chang, Subaru Asano, and Grand Prix champion Chisato Orihara.

And his idol, after breaking the short program world record at the Grand Prix, retired in order to maintain his condition, only to prepare for the World Championships Varichenko.

To what extent can it be done.

Lu Xi didn't know much about it either.

With his current technical difficulty, even if the score is full, it is not realistic to defeat a difficult fighter like Lao Wa, and he will lose some technical points.

Therefore, in the more than one month from the Grand Prix to the World Championships, Lucy trained like crazy, in order to collect all five quadruple jumps, and for more difficult quadruple jumps.

Even strength training, which he dislikes the most, is increased as much as possible within the scope of his ability. Often, after a practice session, he is so tired that his legs are weak and he can't stand up.

His hard work paid off. He obviously felt that his physical strength was not at the same level as the same period last year. The coaching staff also moved his double jump to the second half of the program, so that he could get some coefficient points.

What's even more surprising is Lucy's technical moves.

4Lz, also known as hook quadruple jump, among all quadruple jumps, it is the jump with the highest technical score and the most difficult jump. Because of the small change of edge and inward pressure of the center of gravity during take-off, the take-off height of the athlete will be affected to a certain extent, and the take-off action is at the point. The ice jump is also the most difficult to use. Because of these two reasons, few players can complete the hook quadruple jump.

There are only two active players who have taken this single jump in the competition, Orihara Chisato and Varichenko.

So on the first day in Moscow, when Chen Qishen carefully filled in "4Lz" in Lu Xi's free skating preselection technical action table, Bao Zhongjie and the other coaches gathered in a circle gasped: "Old Chen, are you sure?"

Everyone has seen Lucy's 4Lz. He jumped for the first time on the training ground of the B-level competition at the beginning of this season.

At the end of the year, he was able to fall off the ice with the help of a boom. Until two weeks ago, he finally completed a 4Lz by himself.This is also the first time he has been ahead of Deng Chang in so many years. Because of his height, Deng Chang could only suspend the practice of new movements and focus on keeping his old movements. Lucy overtook him, and he was the first to complete all five quadruple jumps. .

But 4Lz is not a movement that Lucy has mastered very well, and the success rate in practice is only 20%.

"With such a high level of difficulty, if you fail, the player's mentality will collapse, and the allocation of physical strength may also become a problem." Bao Zhongjie said, "Old Chen, you are no longer a player, and you can't just focus on taking the bloody route."

Lin Yingsu also said: "Senior brother, Xiaoxi's 4Lz will probably be deducted from Goe. I understand that you want to fight for a high score, but isn't it too risky for you to give him this?"

Chen Qi was noncommittal to everyone's rushing suggestions.

"You don't understand." Chen Qi said.

"We don't understand?" Bao Zhongjie pointed to his nose, "Old Chen, I have won an Olympic gold medal. Although it is a pair event, you are biased if you say I don't understand."

"Baotou, you know choreography, but you really don't know Lu Xi." Chen Qi said.

Bao Zhongjie was full of question marks. On the ice rink, Lu Xi made a 4+3 jump and slid towards him.

"Coach, do you want to report the action later?" Lu Xi asked Chen Qi immediately after asking the other coaches.

"Yes, what do you have..." Chen Qi said half a sentence symbolically, and as expected, Lu Xi picked up the words.

"Give me the 4Lz for free skating." Lu Xi said seriously, "Although the chance is not great, I want to try it. If you jump, you will be at your own risk. Trust me."