◎He is in a long period of low life◎
For a moment, Ji Tiantian and Coach Ma both looked confused.
Cong Juan watched angrily from the side, her chest heaving violently. She had never seen anyone as lucky as Ji Tiantian!
Not only is she talented in skating and dancing, but when she lacks a dance partner, a top player from the national team suddenly appears in front of her. What kind of luck is this!
Cong Juan turned to look at Zhao Feng, whose face was swollen, and felt very depressed. Just now, she tried her best to protect Zhao Feng from being snatched away by Ji Tiantian, and Ji Tiantian seemed to have noticed it. Now think about it, how could Ji Tiantian be interested in a dance partner of Zhao Feng's level? Who knows how she would laugh at her in her heart!
Cong Juan felt embarrassed and ashamed. She looked at Zhao Feng with disdain and could only silently digest the resentment in her heart.
On the other side, Xu Chi silently looked at Ji Tiantian who had a confused look on her face.
He felt that the little girl's expression shouldn't be like this. With Tang Yi's fame in the ice dance circle and his charming face, the little girl should be very happy to hear that she might team up with him. How could she be confused?
Xu Chi thought about it and felt that Tang Yi must have acted too fiercely just now and scared the other person.
"Look how scared you are." Xu Chi patted the back of Tang Yi's neck, "Do you regret it?"
"I regret it." Tang Yi said calmly, "I hit you too lightly."
"I think I hit you too lightly!" Xu Chi was really angry.
"But doesn't Tang Yi have a dance partner?" Coach Ma came back to his senses and asked Xu Chi in surprise, "Where is Qian Xiyue?"
"She doesn't skate anymore." Xu Chi said with a smile, his voice a little hoarse.
"Qian Xiyue is not skating anymore?" Coach Ma was shocked. It took him a while to come to his senses. "Could it be... because of the new rules?"
Xu Chi remained silent and nodded slowly.
"What are the new rules?" The trainees began to discuss quietly. "I think I heard someone talk about it before... I can't remember clearly."
"That is, before this season, international ice dance competitions had three events: compulsory dance, choreographed dance and free dance. For choreographed dance, the dancers chose music and dance steps according to the prescribed rhythm and completed a program. Free dance is easier to understand. There are no regulations on the type of dance music or dance. The degree of freedom is relatively high, as long as the program includes movements of prescribed difficulty. The main problem is that the compulsory dance is more complicated. In the past, the compulsory dance was the pattern dance. Pattern dance can be understood as skating according to the pattern trajectory prescribed by the ISU (International Skating Union). Each season, a fixed pattern is used, or the contestants are asked to draw lots from several sets of patterns, and the contestants complete the program with music." A trainee who is more familiar with the rules continued to explain, "Not long ago, the ISU issued new rules, canceling the compulsory dance and slightly integrating the choreographed dance with the compulsory dance to form a short dance. Starting from this season, ice dance competitions will only include short dance and free dance." [1]
"It sounds like a big change..."
When she heard Coach Ma mention the name Qian Xiyue, related memories of her past life gradually flooded into Ji Tiantian's mind.
In her previous life, she often discussed ice dancing with others in figure skating forums, and also often saw ice fans of other sports discussing it.
So she knew that Qian Xiyue was once an excellent young female single skater. When she was young, she easily landed five triple jumps and her Biellmann spin was also very beautiful. She was a highly expected female singles reserve.
But Qian Xiyue failed to survive the growth barrier. The so-called growth barrier refers to the fact that young female athletes, under the influence of female hormones during their growth period, have a rapid increase in body fat percentage, which affects their performance. In contrast, the impact on growing male athletes is not that great. On the contrary, male hormones can help them increase their muscle content, making it easier to complete the movements.
Due to changes in body fat percentage and body shape, Qian Xiyue's jumping ability has greatly declined, her triple jump has become increasingly unstable, and her competition results have gradually declined. Her coach was unwilling to let her give up figure skating, so she decided to switch to another sport. If she switched to other sports that did not require as much jumping, she might still have hope of achieving good results.
Qian Xiyue is tall, so she is destined not to be an outstanding pair skater. In pair skating, petite female skaters have an advantage in throwing jumps, and are more likely to be thrown by their male partners. At the suggestion of her coach, Qian Xiyue switched to ice dancing. At that time, Tang Yi just didn't have a partner. His previous partner was taken abroad by his parents to recuperate because of anorexia, and basically stopped ice dancing.
In this way, the former female singles player and Tang Yi partnered together. However, Qian Xi, who spent a lot of time practicing jumping, did not have a good sense of joy and dance, and it was difficult for her to get in touch with ice dancing.
There is no other way but to practice harder and remember harder.
Don't think about the free dance choreography first. The main attack rules and the sliding trajectory of the prescribed dance are undoubtedly the best choice for Qian Xiyue. As a partner, Tang Yi also diligently accompanies her to practice the 22 sets of pattern dance steps required by the prescribed dance.
The idea is simple. The required dances in previous seasons were drawn from these 22 pattern dances. As long as you can master the 22 dance steps, at least one of the three events in the ice dance competition will be completed!
But just when they were making progress, a big earthquake suddenly occurred in the ice dance circle. The compulsory dance was cancelled.
The original choreographed dance was integrated with the prescribed dance and changed into a short dance.
The project that I finally had some confidence in is now in a state of uncertainty.
For Qian Xiyue, this was undoubtedly the last straw that broke the camel's back.
Development barrier, hard training and pain day after day did not defeat Qian Xiyue, but the sudden change of rules still severely crushed her. She could not bear it anymore and finally decided to give up figure skating.
The challenges that athletes face are cruel, not only from themselves and their opponents, but also from the ever-changing rules. That is an unpredictable challenge.
Ji Tiantian thinks that ISU's approach makes sense. After all, compared with the other two events, the compulsory dance is not as good to watch. Anyone would get tired of watching so many athletes dancing the same steps.
However, she is also very clear that the cancellation of the compulsory dance will indeed make countries and teams that are not strong in ice dancing feel confused. With fewer fixed things, the subjective scoring will inevitably increase.
She could fully imagine how devastated Qian Xiyue and the coaches were after learning that the compulsory dance was cancelled.
"For Qian Xiyue, it's like she couldn't get a satisfactory grade in Class A, so she went to Class B, which seems to have lower requirements. But in fact, the threshold of Class B is more mysterious, and it is also difficult to get a good grade." The children who participated in the training camp sighed in Ji Tiantian's ear, "my country's ice dance really has a long way to go."
Ji Tiantian came back to her senses from her memories, her eyes swept across Xu Chi's solemn expression, and fell on Tang Yi's yellow hair.
Now that I think about it, he might have been venting his anger in this way.
He was also angry and unwilling, but he had no choice but to watch another dance partner leave.
"When the sea level rises, people standing in low places will be affected or even drowned." Xu Chi smiled faintly, but his eyes were not smiling, "So we must grit our teeth and climb up."
"Oh." Coach Ma sighed, "It's too difficult."
"That's right. Most people with dancing talent won't spend a lot of time learning skating. If you specialize in dancing, even if you can't be a professional dancer in the future, you can still be a dance teacher. As for ice dancing..." Xu Chi smiled, "Athletes who transfer from other sports mostly focus on jumping and less on skating. They are not familiar with dance rhythms, so they need a lot of remedial lessons... That's all. There's no point in saying this."
Ji Tiantian looked at Xu Chi and gradually remembered some things.
In his previous life, after Tang Yi and Qian Xiyue broke up, he did not find a suitable dance partner for a long time and missed the entire 10-year season, so Ji Tiantian's memory of this period of time is very vague.
However, in their previous life, Tang Yi and Xu Chi took a fancy to the female ice dancer who won the silver medal in the National Championships in December 2010. Tang Yi partnered with her and won the gold medal in the 2011 National Championships.
Tang Yi's relationship with dance partners was not always good. His best result in his previous career was eighth in the World Championships. Ji Tiantian always felt that if Tang Yi had not changed dance partners so frequently and consumed too much energy in a lot of running-in, he would not have been injured so seriously and would not have retired early due to injury. He could have achieved better results.
Of course, these do not prevent Tang Yi from providing a solid foundation for the country's ice dancing to move forward with her excellent skills.
When he retired in his previous life, the domestic ice dance landscape had gradually opened up, and young players stepped on the foundation laid by their predecessors and moved forward step by step. Many of them had been taught by Tang Yi, and when they saw him, they would respectfully call him "senior".
But now Tang Yi is far from retiring.
Many boys of his age were playing carefree on campus, but he was in a long low point in his life, silently waiting for the sun to illuminate his world again.
"Tiantian, do you want to try it with Tang Yi?" At this moment, Coach Ma's voice sounded in her ears.
Ji Tiantian raised her eyes and looked at Tang Yi, and Tang Yi also looked at her.
Under the light yellow hair, he looked into her eyes, which were flickering faintly.
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