In the end, Lu You and Xie Yunjun received a technical score of 30.59 and a performance score of 30.15 for their short program, for a total score of 60.74, becoming the first combination to break 60 points in the short program since the start of the competition, and temporarily ranked first.
The pair that sang the same song as them was previously ranked first, but when Lu You and Xie Yunjun's scores came out, that group of contestants said they accepted defeat with conviction.
When the difficulty of the twist and throw jump is not much different, others have already brought out the triple jump. How can we compare?
In youth pair skating, the existence of a triple jump is definitely like a bamboo shoot in a ten-acre bamboo garden - scarcity makes things valuable.
Even though the difficulty of the two groups' twists and throws was similar, Lu You and Xie Yunjun's high-quality 3S opened up a basic score gap of 2.6 between them and their 2Loop. In addition, Lu You and Xie Yunjun completed the entire performance cleanly, and the GOEs whizzed into their pockets like they were free. Moreover, their performance style seemed to be very much to the judges' liking. Therefore, in the end, the two groups had opened up a gap of more than ten points in the short program alone.
After reading the score, Lu Tingsong was kept behind by Qin Siyu to talk alone. Lu You pulled Xie Yunjun back to the audience seats. After looking around for a while, he found An Jing and Qiu Hai sitting in the middle.
The steps to the auditorium were much higher than ordinary ones. Lu You, wrapped in his coat, climbed up grunting like a big ball of wool. Xie Yunjun held him loosely from behind with both hands, and reached out to support him from time to time.
It was an hour later when all the short programs of the pair skating were finished.
Lu You and his team finally ranked second. The group with the highest points was a group of players who participated in the throw three and twist three. They were from Huai City Team and were participating in the competition under the name of a club. The female partner was 15 years old and the male partner was 17 years old. Although the quality of their throw jump was not high and the female partner fell when landing on the ice, they still raised their technical scores to a higher level.
At least he completed enough turns, but he was deducted a point at the end because he fell.
In order to allow the players to be in better condition, the pairs free skating was scheduled for the next morning. This year's club league is special. In previous years, the first stop would not start until July when the children had their summer vacation. However, this year the competition started a month earlier. Huai City Station is the first sub-station competition. Most of the young players who came to participate in the competition have not yet had their summer vacation. After the competition tomorrow, everyone will have to go back home to face the nightmare of the final exams.
Therefore, a very spectacular phenomenon appeared in this year's club league - after the game, the young players moved in unison, took out their textbooks from their bags, and started to study hard directly on the ice rink.
In fact, as soon as the notice of early start of the competition came out, the contestants were already wailing everywhere, but the Huai City race was a race they had to participate in, so the contestants had no choice but to seize every moment to study during the breaks between races.
——You have to skate on ice, and you have to learn. No matter which competitive sport it is, there are very few people who can actually develop it into a profession to support themselves. If you cannot embark on a professional path in the end, you still have to rely on your grades to get into a good university and choose a good major.
Not to mention figure skating. Apart from the brief moment of popularity during the Winter Olympics held every four years, which is basically due to the athletes' stunning looks, figure skating is actually as unpopular as Antarctica most of the time.
In the south where many colleges and universities are concentrated, many universities don’t even have skating teams. After all, there is no snow there all year round. When many people mention skating, their first reaction is roller skating.
Therefore, if you want to get into a good university through figure skating, your options are extremely narrow.
In an atmosphere where the flowers of the motherland were thriving and learning, Lu You was holding his Grade 8 Mathematics textbook. He felt like needles were pricking his butt. He could neither sit nor stand, and his whole body was twisted like a caterpillar.
"Youyou, does your butt hurt?" An Jing asked seriously.
"..." Lu You was silent, "No."
"She just doesn't want to study math." Xie Yunjun directly exposed Lu You's little thoughts and helped her turn the messy math book to the correct page. "Aunt Liang said that if you don't get 90 points in the final math test this time, she won't take you to Disneyland during the summer vacation."
Lu You stopped twisting immediately.
The needle under my butt also disappeared.
Xie Yunjun could always transform Lu You from a naughty monkey in Mount Emei into a good boy with just a few words. Sometimes even Lu Tingsong found it magical.
The little girl reluctantly picked up the math book, read less than half a page, and turned her head to ask Xie Yunjun pitifully: "Xie Yunjun, if I didn't make it, you would stay at home with me, right? Would you have the heart to leave me behind?"
"I won't abandon you," Xie Yunjun stuffed a pen into her hand, "Study hard and try to get 90 points in the exam, then we can go together."
"Ninety points is too difficult. How about this, I'll get 85 points, then act coquettishly in front of mom, and you can then help me fan the flames, and maybe mom will agree to take us there." Lu You said.
Xie Yunjun: "Okay, but that's not how the idiom 'fanning the flames' is used."
Lu You: "Then what should I use?"
Xie Yunjun was silent for a moment: "...helping the tyrant to commit atrocities?"
Lu You: “…”
On the second day of the Huai City competition, the top 19 players in the short program scores were qualified for the free skating. Because some people withdrew from the competition, there were a total of 15 combinations participating in the free skating.
Lu You and Xie Yunjun swept the jumping points with a 2A single jump and a 3T3T combination jump in the free skating. Although the twist and throw jump were still only two weeks, the lift and spiral line were graded at the highest level four, so the free skating results were also very impressive.
Adding the total scores of the two events together, they firmly held the second place in the Huai City race.
Even though it was only the second place in a single race, the Huai City race gathered almost all the top figure skaters in the country, and the first place went to the combination from the city team. The younger female partner was two years older than Lu You, not to mention that the male partner was three years older than Xie Yunjun.
In the next two or three years, Lu Tingsong is confident that he can let Lu You and Xie Yunjun perform all kinds of triple throws and lifts, let alone the triple twist - if he can find a good enough pair skating coach for the two children.
Lu Tingsong himself was a men's singles skater, so he could do little to help in the four major events of pair skating. Usually he could only observe Lu You and Xie Yunjun's jumping, spinning and gliding techniques.
The two children's twists, throws, lifts and spirals have always been taught by other coaches who have been paid to do so.
But this is where the problem lies. Given the current situation of the two children, the coaches who are good enough to teach them are either coaching in the national and provincial teams and do not accept outside students, or the student quota is full and there is no way to squeeze in even if you spend money.
That is why both children can do triple jumps, and their spins and glides are also good, but their twists and throws are still at double turns.
This is also the reason why Lu Tingsong is so eager for Lu You and Xie Yunjun to be noticed by the provincial team.
There is no way! Lu Tingsong was also worried. No one taught the skills. He couldn't expect the two children to learn by themselves, right? What? Suddenly I found that I turned my head and two weeks became three weeks. That was something that only happened in dreams. Don't even think about it in reality.
When we stayed to communicate yesterday, Qin Siyu said that after the free skating is over, the provincial team will draw up a trial list based on the performance of this competition, which will basically include the places for this group of people selected for the provincial team.
Lu Tingsong was anxious about this for a whole day, and finally at 6:30 in the evening he received a call from the provincial team as he wished.
Because it was quite late when he sent the two children home, Lu Tingsong decided to stay at his brother's house for dinner today.
When the phone rang, Lu You was looking eagerly at the fish in Xie Yunjun's bowl. Liang Jie flicked her daughter's forehead and said to Xie Yunjun, "Xiaojun, just eat your food. Don't spoil her. It's shameful that she still can't pick fish bones when she's grown up."
After saying that, he picked up a piece of fish for Lu You.
Lu You, who was expressly forbidden to wait for feeding, had no choice but to pick up chopsticks and start a battle with the fish bones he hated the most.
Lu Tingsong went to the yard to answer the phone and came back after a few minutes.
"Who is it? Why am I calling you at dinner time?" Lu Shian picked up a piece of fish for his wife before asking his younger brother.
Liang Jie glared at her husband. She had just been teaching her daughter to be self-reliant, but now she was being thwarted. Fortunately, Lu You was struggling with a fishbone and didn't see it, otherwise he would have definitely complained a lot.
"It was a call from the Jianglin Provincial Figure Skating Team. They told Youyou and Xiaojun to go to the provincial team for tryouts during their vacation," Lu Tingsong said with a delighted look on his face. "If nothing unexpected happens, the two kids will definitely be accepted into the provincial team."
Liang Jie was a little worried: "I don't expect to be in the provincial team, but will it affect their studies if they go to the provincial team?"
Thinking back to the time when she had her two children learn skating just to keep fit, and had Lu You learn classical dance to train her temperament, Liang Jie herself was a graduate of the Capital Dance Academy, and since they were her own daughters, she taught them as she saw fit, and she had never expected that the two children would become so good at skating. But skating is skating, and Liang Jie would never allow someone to give up their studies for skating.
Lu Tingsong quickly assured his sister-in-law, "No, Youyou and Xiaojun's main subjects are all scheduled in the morning. If they make the provincial team, the team said they don't have to take the afternoon arts and sports elective classes. They can just choose sports and dance. The provincial team will notify the school and they will be given A's in the final exam."
Lu Tingsong continued, "When I was in school, I joined the provincial team, and the school gave me priority in recommending me for the three best students award!"
Liang Jie and Lu Tingsong were talking here. On the other side of the dining table, Lu You glanced at Liang Jie and found that his mother was not staring at him. He quietly moved his hand under the table and secretly poked Xie Yunjun's thigh.
Xie Yunjun's expression remained unchanged, but when no one was paying attention, he took the piece of fish from Lu You's bowl, picked out the bones, and quickly put it back into the girl's bowl.
He put his index finger to his lips and made a gesture to Lu You to keep quiet.
Lu You understood what he meant and quickly stuffed the fish into his mouth. He chewed it and then stared at Xie Yunjun with wide eyes as he continued to pick out a fishbone, ready to make another sneak attack at any time.
Lu Shian saw everything. He felt helpless at first, but when he couldn't bear it anymore and coughed, his daughter had already asked Xie Yunjun to help her cut five pieces of fish.
Receiving the warning look from his old father, Lu You hamster chewed and swallowed the food first, then licked his mouth.
——Then he calmly picked up a chicken meatball for Xie Yunjun as a reward.
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