Whether it is a flat flower or a park prop, the first lesson is always the balance of the nose and tail of the board on a flat bottom.
"Move your body's center of gravity to your back foot, brace your core, press down, press your hips. Do you know where your hips are? If you don't know, don't ski or you won't understand even if you ski for ten years... Then press down, don't move the hip axis, always stay on your snowboard, don't rock back and forth."
Lao Yan stepped on the snowboard and held his hips. "See? These are hips! Your upper body should always be straight. Your shoulders and body should remain in a straight line. Don't pull up your front leg while your back leg doesn't move. If your upper body and shoulders fall backwards, then you will..."
Before he could finish his words, a classmate in front of him slipped on his board, lost his balance, and fell sideways.
"I fell."
He calmly added the last two words.
This action looks simple, just pull the board to one side on the ground, but it is not that simple when you do it. Watching Lao Yan pull his board, he can easily lift the head of the board up——
You don't feel it when you are skating, but when you practice these fancy moves, the difference between the softness and hardness of the board becomes apparent all of a sudden. Lao Yan usually uses a flat fancy board, which is soft and feels like a piece of paper under his feet.
Weizhi tried to pull it up, and then he realized that her board was as hard as a piece of alloy used to make aircraft carriers. After pulling for a long time, she could only pull it up a little bit, maybe only two or three millimeters away from the snow surface.
She was wasting her energy trying to pull it, but Lao Yan glanced at her and said, "Don't kneel forward or bend your knees inward. The wrong posture will make you look ugly, and you will lose your joints in the future."
“My board is too hard.”
Weizhi said that although the rainbow board under her feet is called an all-purpose board, in fact many people use it to play in the park without any problems, so it is quite hard.
Lao Yan thought about it and was trying to figure out how to phrase it when the man squatting next to him said, "It has nothing to do with the board, it has to do with the person."
Wei Zhi stared over.
At this moment, the man took off his snow goggles and hung them around his neck. He threw his helmet aside and put on a face protector. Feeling the girl's unfriendly gaze sweeping over him, he stood up and walked in front of her.
"How can you pull it up without moving your hips?"
He raised his hand and placed it naturally on her hips.
"This is your hips. Move towards the tail of the board. Move, move! I'm holding you. Why are you afraid? Move your hips, not your butt."
He lowered his head to watch her movements, remained silent for a while, and concluded -
"Lao Yan was referring to you when he said that you don't know where your hips are."
He spoke seriously, but in fact he moved his hand that was supporting her hip upwards, and his fingertips brushed across the soft flesh that was squeezed out from her sideways waist.
...Hmm, it feels good.
Weizhi slapped the man's big hand away with a dark face.
Everyone heard the sound of "slap" and turned around, just in time to see the man calmly rubbing the back of his hand that was slapped red. For a moment, everyone was silent and didn't know what happened.
Lao Yan, who was standing nearby, felt that he was at risk of being blamed and hated, and was so scared that he quickly clarified: "I didn't say that!"
Wei Zhi ignored them and supported his waist with his hands.
"Move down a little," the man who had just been beaten stood nearby, "the area below the waist and above the hips is called the crotch - that's it, move, press down."
With a move of his hips, Weizhi's snowboard was smoothly pulled up four or five centimeters.
The other students were almost there, and Lao Yan followed their movements and pulled up the board: "After the head of the board is lifted up, hold it steady, bend your back leg and lift it up gently, don't jump too hard, feel the rebound force given by the deformation of the board, and then you--"
He had a noticeable ups and downs. At the moment when his back foot retracted, the pressure on the snow surface disappeared, the snowboard bounced up, and he jumped on the snow on the board.
This completes the tail balance.
The same is true for the balance of the board head.
Wei Zhi bounced on the ground. The more he bounced, the more proficient he became. He could even lift the front and rear of the board. Shan Chong said, "Try it while doing this move and step on the front edge."
Wei tried it, and was surprised to find that she stepped on the board and took a step forward, then stepped on the other foot and took another step forward -
"This is the penguin walk you were clamoring to learn." The man saw her jumping around like a little duck and said, "You're welcome. I won't charge you extra for this."
Weizhi raised his head and wrinkled his nose at him: "Go away."
He was very good at crossing the river and dismantling the bridge.
Shan Chong raised his hand to adjust his face guard, then squatted beside her, raised his head and looked at her expressionlessly.
He really looks more majestic in his snow suit.
Wei Zhi's courage suddenly disappeared without a trace. He shrank his neck and said in a soft and obedient voice, "Master, this is Lao Yan's home court. It's rude of you to keep interrupting."
"Have you ever seen a teaching assistant not letting the professor interrupt during class?" Shan Chong said, "Or do you think I'm not good at leveling flowers and have no right to speak?"
His voice was calm and even.
Shan Chong will certainly be flat flower.
He didn't jump around much, but when he did, he knew everything he should know and he was very good at it. Weizhi was not blind, he had seen it with his own eyes... I can't say he could compare with Lao Yan, who specialized in playing flat flowers, but at least he was not worse than Dai Duo.
At this moment she clearly realized that if she dared to say yes at this moment, she would be dead in the next second.
She shut her mouth, and quickly rushed towards the crowd beside her with penguin steps, as if there was a ghost chasing her, and quickly left the man's arm's reach.
At this point, the class had just started for five minutes and everyone had basically learned how to balance the nose and tail of the board... Lao Yan also taught us how to swing the board - to balance the tail of the board to the extreme, so that the entire snowboard is upright and the front hand can directly touch the front of the nose of the board.
This action is useless, it just looks good in photos.
The secret to doing it well and looking good is to swing your arms vigorously, and then don't bend down to hook the snowboard, but let the snowboard come to your hand automatically...
Weizhi succeeded after two attempts.
Her head hit the ground heavily with a "bang" again. She turned around with a happy face. Just when she wanted to let the man watch her performance, she saw the latter squatting where he had just been without moving. Their eyes met, he hesitated for a moment, and slowly took out his cell phone from his pocket.
Aim at her.
——Compared to Jiang Nanfeng who could take ten photos and three videos a day when skiing, Shan Chong started with the words "Only take photos if you ski well, why take photos if you ski like poop?", which saved him a lot of trouble. Ever since he met him, he has never taken photos or recorded videos for Wei Zhi...
oh.
Recorded.
When she couldn't correct a certain move, he would take the initiative to use his mobile phone to record it for her to see how ugly she was skating (.), and then she would correct herself with great effort.
The only video about her that he seriously uploaded on the short video platform was the one she shot herself.
Wei Zhi stepped on the snowboard, a little bit unbelievable that he was so self-conscious: "What are you doing?"
The man held his phone and said, "You don't want to take a picture? If you don't want to take a picture, I'll take it. My hands are cold."
Weizhi: “…”
Mard, this little princess.
"Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!" she said quickly, "The problem is, what can you shoot with that posture? Who taught you to shoot upwards at this fatal angle? If you shoot like this, won't I only be 1.3 meters tall?!"
In addition to protecting his face, the man raised his eyelids and glanced at her lazily without moving, which meant that you can take pictures or not, I won't move anyway.
Wei Zhi looked back at his classmates. Everyone was busy practicing or taking pictures of each other. No one noticed this place at all. His call for help failed.
She held her breath, puffed up her cheeks, and the gang had to give in.
Let go of your hands, use the force, stretch the board, and grab the head of the board.
As the snowboard fell heavily to the ground, accompanied by the sound of two iPhone cameras taking pictures, she saw out of the corner of her eye that the man narrowed his eyes slightly, moved closer to his phone, and was looking at what he had taken.
…I feel a bit embarrassed when people study my photos like this.
Weizhi looked back at her classmates like a thief again, and found that no one was paying attention to her. She decisively moved towards the man and squatted down with him shoulder to shoulder.
Shan Chong felt a sweet scent entering his nose as she approached him. Her soft claws tugged at his arm like a small animal, and she whispered, "Let me see."
The man tilted his phone screen to show her——
His angle just avoided the crowd behind him. In the distance were snow-capped mountains shrouded in mist and a wide-open ski resort...
The sky is blue.
The sunlight became a beam of light, shining down from behind.
In the lower right corner of the photo, the little girl in a snowsuit is a vague silhouette. Her face is not clearly visible, but her body is stretched naturally and beautifully...
The snowboard under my feet was pulled up high. Due to the angle, the snowboard was magnified and the rainbow bottom on it was very eye-catching.
At the moment the photo was taken, she raised her back hand lightly and grabbed the board with her front hand. In the sunlight, her long curly hair fluttered because of her jumping action, and the outline of her figure was vaguely visible through the translucent sweatshirt.
Snow dust was flying around the edge of the snowboard.
“…”
Poor Mamoru has never had such great photos since he started skiing.
She cried out "Ah" with emotion, covered her mouth, turned her head and looked at Shan Chong with starry eyes.
Before she could organize her words of praise, the man had already ruthlessly moved the phone away from under her tearful eyes, and said lazily in a deep and magnetic voice: "No need to kowtow to express your gratitude, I just want you to take a look anyway."
Weizhi: “?”
Shan Chong: "I should teach you a lesson. You will pay the price for speaking disrespectfully to your master."
Weizhi: “…”
As she was slowly switching from praise mode to cursing mode in a split second, she watched the man click into the photo album on his phone, find the photo, and set it as the screen lock desktop.
Then I switched off, locked the screen, and turned on the screen to take a look.
The blue sky and white clouds just happened to be stuck on the current time and date on the mobile phone screen, and the little girl struggling to grab the head of the board in the snow occupied all the remaining blank space...
Just right.
He stuffed his phone back into his jacket pocket with satisfaction.
The series of movements are as smooth as flowing water.
Weizhi only had time to utter three monosyllables:
"Ah", "you", and "eh".
Not far away, Lao Yan clapped his hands and announced that the flat ground foundation was over. Everyone got on the magic carpet and slid on the beginner's track to try balancing on the tail of the board... Wei Zhi was silent as a mute. He stood up, took off his board, lowered his head and followed the team to the last line to get on the conveyor belt.
Classmate A came over curiously and asked, "Classmate, why is your face so red?"
Weizhi gritted his back teeth, made a "hmm" sound, and his eyes unconsciously turned to look at the man standing not far behind him.
Feel her burning gaze.
The man chuckled deep in his throat, bent down and picked up his board. His movements were lazy and natural, as if nothing had happened just now.
When Lao Yan urged him to do so, he raised his feet and walked towards them slowly.
…
They skated three times in the beginner area. In the first skate, they skated to a speed they could accept, did some balance on the tail of the board, and did a few jumps by pulling the board.
On the second trip, Shan Chong drew a line on the snow track, and then asked them to start one by one, slide in front of the line and jump. This was the time to start practicing the jump with props.
The third round of intensive practice.
After three trips, we boarded the cable car and entered the park.
This was the first time Weizhi entered the park in formal attire (not counting the last time when she was tricked in by the people from Wantongtang). Now she looked at the boxes, poles and iron barrels everywhere that she had seen Huayan and his friends play with before. She didn't think much of it at the time, but now that she thought about jumping on them later, it seemed a lot.
"Take the starting point of the box as the line I just drew. This prop is not high. Just put the flat board up and then put it down. The flat board goes straight past the 5050 on the box, which is also our first basic move today."
The man said this and demonstrated it to everyone first.
"Don't sway when you're on the prop. Look in the direction you're going. Don't lower your head. Go flat. Don't try to stand on edge on the prop."
He stepped on the snowboard and easily got on the prop. The metal blade and the iron box made a pleasant and crisp collision sound. The yellow Burton Custom passed straight through the end of the prop, then he pulled the nose of the board slightly, did a balance on the tail of the board, and then jumped down steadily.
Of course he can do a lot of fancy moves, but he doesn't do anything extra fancy. He just does whatever he asks the students to do.
After sliding down for a short distance, the tail of the board swung and stopped on the front edge. He bent down to take off the board and walked over with it: "Who's going first?"
Everyone looked at each other.
The man put his hands behind his back and smiled: "I don't dare."
Use declarative sentences.
Now, everyone is even more afraid. They want to call Lao Yan back and just learn how to play Pinghua in this class.
Wei Zhi was absentmindedly wondering who would be the first warrior, when she felt the man's gaze sweep across the crowd and then turn to her face.
Weizhi: “…”
This is why I was not afraid of anything when I was in college, except for the teachers in the big classes like Ideological and Political Theory remembering my name.
He doesn't know hundreds of people, and he only knows you. So how can you be left out of such "good deeds" as answering questions or calling the roll?
Wei Zhi felt annoyed for a moment, and thought that instead of being called out, he might as well stand up and at least gain a good reputation for being brave. So he held the board, pushed the crowd away with his shoulders, and walked out.
5050 is indeed not difficult.
She just stepped onto the props stiffly, slid down stiffly, and when she dropped the props, she screamed a little, her hands fluttering in the air -
The next second, a big hand beside her grabbed her wrist, stopping her from falling forward. The man grabbed her and her snowboard. He stroked her waist, then naturally and without reluctance, in front of everyone's eyes.
"I pulled the tail of the board to balance at the end, and then I almost fell into the snow with the head of the board. If you don't fall, who will fall?"
Wei Zhi looked back at the box. It was just a few centimeters above the snow. The moment she put the props down, she felt like she was flying and her heart was in her throat.
"This prop is too high." She said softly.
Shan Chong glanced at her nonchalantly, then glanced at the box behind the little girl, and said without hesitation: "Don't say crazy things."
Weizhi: “…”
It took me a while to practice 5050, but I finally managed to do it.
Shan Chong began to teach them how to bark.
"After getting on the prop, keep your shoulders still. The line of your shoulders and arms should be perpendicular to the box... Turn your hips, turn your hips over, and let your body form a reversal. Your eyes should always look in the direction of the slide, which is the end of the prop."
Hengchi or Weizhi was the first to go up.
However, this time she was totally unable to do it.
She tried to pull hard, but it was useless. The snowboard under her feet didn't move. She was about to finish a box. She looked down nervously to see what was wrong with the snowboard.
It doesn't matter what she saw. The moment she lowered her head, the snowboard tilted and her sliding trajectory changed directly!
She lowered her head so suddenly that Shan Chong didn't have time to react before he heard her scream "Ouch!" and she slid down from the middle of the prop when the prop was halfway down...
Then the whole person threw forward.
She threw her hands up and "plopped". It didn't seem to hurt. She raised her head from the snow and looked at him in confusion.
The man looked back at her in confusion.
The two looked at each other for a few seconds, then Shan Chong walked up to her and picked her up, unable to resist asking, "What are you looking at me doing?"
This weird atmosphere was so funny that the classmates behind her started laughing. The little girl's face turned red as she protected her face. She said, "Oops!" "I asked you, why did I fall down halfway?"
"Your eyesight is messed up." Shan Chong said, "Do you even need to ask? I told you to always look in the direction of the glide. Why did you lower your head just now?"
"Let me see if my board has come across."
"It won't come sideways. I just asked you to practice the body twist first, and then the lower body twist after the upper body twist. Now you are just doing the upper body twist based on the 5050..."
As he spoke, the man looked back and saw that the people behind him had laughed enough and were all bending down, putting on their boards and getting ready to set off. No one was looking over here.
He reached out and brushed the snow off her face.
He pinched her soft cheek.
"Didn't you practice well in Pingdi? Laoyan and I don't speak the same language?"
"No, the box is so small. As soon as I felt something was wrong under my feet, I couldn't help but look at it, for fear that I would fall down--"
"The box is the widest and shortest prop you can touch... Never mind, it's not important. Put your center of gravity on the board and step firmly on the prop. How can you fall? You will fall if you look at it."
"...Forget it. I can't explain it to you clearly. You don't understand!"
"I don't understand?"
"Yeah."
"Weizhi, let's discuss something."
Weizhi paused and looked at him with a little caution, because normally, if someone was called by his full name by this person, he would either be scolded or beaten.
"What's your situation now? You're relying on me not to scold you and you won't listen to my soft or hard words, right?"
“…”
Here it comes, the director of the political and educational department is in lecture mode.
"You are becoming more and more aggressive."
“…”
The man finished speaking.
Then he saw the little girl's cat-like eyes slowly widen and she looked at him in shock, meaning, what's wrong? Are you impatient now? Are you impatient at this point? It turns out that your feelings for me are just a little bit.
"What do you want to say?" she asked.
She said this with great emotion, and the air was filled with the feeling of "Come on, come on, do you want to quarrel? Come on."
Instead, Shan Chong was stunned. He took three seconds to recall what he had just said and thought about his wording.
"Nothing, just a discussion."
"Um?"
“…”
He dropped his eyes.
In a voice that only the two of them could hear, the words he spoke were very manly.
"Can you please stop bullying your master?"