Chapter 36 36 Survival Week 4T
the next day.
The Chinese women's singles team's ice time sometimes cannot be completely scheduled with others, so the next day, everyone shared the ice with the members of Natasha's team.
The two teams that met on the field each had their own embarrassment.
First of all, there was a language barrier. Most of the kids only spoke Russian. A few of them said hello and then went off to practice. Occasionally, there were some who were curious, but after saying a few words in Russian, they realized that they didn't understand and waved goodbye and left.
"I always feel that the other party is very cold." Lu Nanfeng murmured.
He Hui looked at each child skating with a serious expression and explained, "Maybe they are under a lot of pressure."
Lu Nanfeng and Cheng Ran did feel tremendous pressure, but this pressure was more on themselves.
Many of the Russian junior athletes can do the advanced triple three with ease, and some even seem to be challenging the triple and a half spin, their deep blue eyes are full of fire.
"How scary." Lu Nanfeng shrank back, "Is there really anyone here who would be lazy?"
He Hui: ...What kind of good person would just want to be lazy every day? !
Because of the unexpected meeting with Tours yesterday, He Hui practiced 3A extra seriously today, and even completed 3A+3T several times, which was praised wildly by Lu Nanfeng.
The clock on the wall showed eleven o'clock in the morning.
"I'm so hungry..." Lu Nanfeng looked at He Hui and then Cheng Ran pitifully, and touched his belly, "Shall we go eat?"
He Hui and Cheng Ran nodded, and the three of them walked towards the cafeteria.
In the cafeteria, some contestants had already sat down to eat.
Lu Nanfeng looked around, wishing he could pile the plates into a small mountain.
"Hey, isn't that the player who did the pull-up jump shot we saw yesterday?" Lu Nanfeng raised his chin to the left.
He Hui looked in the direction and saw the contestant. She was wearing a sports jacket but still looked very thin. There was only some vegetable salad on the plate in front of her, and the only protein was probably a few slices of boiled chicken breast.
"Why doesn't she eat?" Lu Nanfeng was curious. "It's just a small amount of food. I think she will finish it in a few bites."
"You speak a little loudly." He Hui held his forehead with his hand.
"She can't understand anyway. Our Chinese conversation is encrypted."
A few people found an empty table and sat down. Lu Nanfeng couldn't wait to start eating like a madman.
Ten minutes later, the plate in front of Lu Nanfeng was clean.
She looked around, then lowered her voice and said to He Hui and Cheng Ran, "That girl fell down before she finished eating."
When they looked, they could indeed see the remaining leaves and a whole chicken breast on the plate.
Cheng Ran frowned and said hesitantly: "She doesn't have anorexia, does she?"
"Anorexia?" Lu Nanfeng was shocked. "Is there anyone who doesn't like to eat?"
"Why do you say that?" He Hui asked Cheng Ran.
Cheng Ran scratched his head a little embarrassedly. "Maybe I was under a lot of psychological pressure for a while. I always felt that if I ate more, I wouldn't be able to jump up, so I didn't like to eat. Sometimes I even wanted to vomit when I smelled something."
"So that period was the early stage of anorexia. Later, my coach noticed something was wrong with me and took me to see a psychologist. I got better after cooperating with the treatment."
Female singles figure skaters need to strictly control their weight. The myth that they can easily spin themselves three times and three times before puberty did not come out of thin air.
"Well, anyway, I hope she can be found and treated this morning, otherwise it always feels like a big hidden danger." Cheng Ran sighed.
"I hope so."
He Hui didn’t know what to say anymore, but the path of being an athlete was indeed not as easy as one might imagine.
*
The atmosphere in the training camp was indeed more tense than He Hui had expected. Everyone was working very hard and invisible smoke of gunpowder was everywhere.
Coach Natasha also looks like a strict teacher. As long as she is on the court, the atmosphere in the team will be a bit colder than usual.
Yes, what the world sees is that Russian athletes sweep all the medals, but what the world doesn't see is a group of children competing for a precious spot in the competition, under tremendous physical and mental pressure, rolling again and again.
For example, the little kid who looked like he was suffering from anorexia yesterday.
He Hui was sitting on the bench wearing his ice skates, his mind in a mess.
What you think about during the day, you dream about at night.
Last night, He Hui lay in bed thinking for a long time, recalling the history of figure skating development in his memory. He was frightened to death by the rapid increase in the difficulty of jumps after the Sochi cycle, which was like a wild horse running out of control.
Maybe, before I encounter the development stage, why not try the quadruple jump first?
The training abroad in Moscow made her increasingly worried.
As a former overbearing CEO, He Hui's ability to take action is perfect. When it was time to go on the ice the next day, she slowly started practicing quadruple jumps.
At the beginning, everyone just thought that He Hui had passed the Zhou Dynasty by accident.
After all, the ice jump can be said to be the simplest three-week jump, so it is not surprising to use too much force to complete the three-week jump.
But then…
The crowd of onlookers gradually gathered, and they found that He Hui seemed to be practicing a quadruple jump!
He Hui became the brightest focus.
"What are you doing here if you're not training?" Natasha said in Russian in a low voice, and the crowd dispersed immediately.
Although everyone seemed to be practicing on their own, their eyes would glance at He Hui from time to time.
With a loud bang, He Hui fell heavily onto the ice before he could finish turning around four times.
Natasha saw the whole scene clearly from the side, her eyes were deep.
She probably didn't expect that He Hui had the same idea as her and was heading towards a more difficult quadruple jump.
In the development of figure skating, there is only one senior female singles player who can complete a quadruple jump, and in the current Sochi cycle, only men are competing for the quadruple jump.
On the first day of attempts, He Hui ended up in complete failure with no success.
But now her image in Lu Nanfeng's mind has reached the sky.
"He Hui, you are actually going to practice 4T!! Isn't that too strong?!" Lu Nanfeng had starry eyes almost the entire time today. In her worldview, those who dare to challenge the quad that only male athletes can do are true heroes!
“We’re still just experimenting.”
During a day of wrestling training, He Hui was not optimistic about his future of mastering the quadruple jump in a short period of time.
"But now you only need to use a double 3A set, and BV will be far ahead of other players, right?" Although Lu Nanfeng admired him, he still didn't understand. "Is it because you have been promoted to a higher group and will be compared head-on with Tours?"
“That’s part of the reason.”
He Hui thought, I can't tell her that because she was reborn from the future, she knows that she can't get on the stage without a quadruple jump, right?
"It's too twisted, this world is too twisted!" Lu Nanfeng took a step back and shook his head.
He Hui smiled and said, "Isn't this a failure?"
"Why don't we end this topic and go eat!"
As she spoke, Lu Nanfeng strode towards the cafeteria. Seeing that He Hui and Cheng Ran did not react, she took two steps back and held one person on each side.
"Man is iron and rice is steel!"
*
The Moscow training ground is in the suburbs, with almost no entertainment facilities nearby. It is so remote that it takes dozens of kilometers to drive to reach a good restaurant.
After a week, almost all the players in the training camp began to feel bored.
Fortunately, the three women's singles team walked to the training hall together, ate together, and went back to the dormitory together every day, so they had company. Otherwise, this cold and boring life would really make it easy to get depressed.
"The training life is as lonely as the snow!" Lu Nanfeng walked on the road, wrapping himself tightly in his tweed coat.
Fortunately, it didn't really snow in Moscow in May, which made Lu Nanfeng completely heartbroken.
She saw the same security guard in the distance who was there yesterday, the day before, and the day before that. She looked up at the sky and sighed, "My life seems to have entered a cycle..."
He Hui decided to comfort Lu Nanfeng, a typical e-person: "But our daily training content is different!"
"The wrestling postures are also different." Suddenly, the usually taciturn Cheng Ran added a sharp blow.
He Hui turned around and secretly gave Cheng Ran a thumbs up.
She didn't expect that Cheng Ran was actually a hidden, vicious and venomous person? !
The person involved, Lu Nanfeng, was speechless:...
Then, somehow, the three of them looked at each other tacitly and suddenly burst into laughter.
The clear laughter echoed in front of the training hall.
In today's training, He Hui is still the fancy wrestling contestant.
4T tried it almost every ten seconds, but almost every time he ended up falling.
Occasionally one or two times out of a hundred times, they can stand, but the rotation number is basically off by nearly 200 degrees. In other words, this is a downgraded jump and cannot be certified in an official competition.
If you want to be recognized, you must ensure that the difference in angle is within 180 degrees, so that at least you get a less than sign, which is just a storage period.
After a series of attempts, He Hui finally understood that his quadruple jump challenge had reached a bottleneck.
He Hui once called Lin Xiaoman late at night and asked Natasha for advice without hesitation, but it seemed that no one could provide much useful information.
After all, no one has ever taught the current female singles players the technique of quadruple jump, so everyone is crossing the river by feeling the stones.
He Hui even talked to classmate Bian Jing who was competing in the men's singles.
"Do you have any tips for doing quad jumps?"
Bian Jing scratched his head in confusion: "It seems like, just jump as high as you can?"
He Hui:...It’s the same whether you said it or not.
"What else?" He Hui asked.
Bian Jing pondered for a while, and finally said, "Maybe it's because boys are stronger?"
A white light flashed through He Hui's mind.
Yes! How could I suddenly forget the most basic step?
I can't do a quadruple jump now because I want to rely solely on my rotation speed to complete it. Bian Jing is right. If you don't jump high enough, it will be difficult to complete a quadruple jump unless you turn your body madly in advance.
Therefore, my top priority is not to focus on quadruple jumps on the ice, but to strengthen my physical fitness through reasonable and long-term training and make my muscles stronger and more powerful!
"Thank you!" He Hui patted Bian Jing's shoulder, packed up his things and ran to the gym.
Bian Jing was left sitting there in a daze, mumbling to himself: "Thank me... for what?"
*
The biggest change that He Hui made after his sudden realization was that he rarely tried to do the 4T position on the ice.
Most people thought that He Hui was going to give up, and the number of people observing her openly and secretly every day decreased by half.
But she did not stop her strength training in the gym and dormitory.
Every morning, she would get up an hour earlier, tie sandbags on her calves, and then complete a morning run around the dormitory area three times with the weight.
In order to prevent injuries caused by excessive weight bearing, He Hui would carefully consult the team doctor on relevant issues, and would also do stretching and massage on time to relax the tight muscles.
Days go by...
On the last day of special training in Moscow, He Hui planned to try 4T again.
Zhu Jianyong specially used his mobile phone to take videos everywhere today to record the final training time.
He was initially filming the advanced three-three moves of Cheng Ran, who had made rapid progress recently, but He Hui, who was moving very fast in the corner, somehow caught his attention.
As a result, the focus of the video unconsciously shifted to He Hui.
He Hui's steps were firm and powerful, and his speed increased very quickly, so fast that Zhu Jianyong almost lost him.
Snap——
He Hui touched the ice deftly and threw himself high into the air.
The feeling of fighting against gravity was exciting and unbearable. He Hui jumped as high as she could and felt her stomach was about to reach her throat.
But she didn't dare to be distracted, she quickly completed four circles.
When He Hui turned three and a half circles and found that the ice skates had not yet landed, she couldn't help but feel a little excited.
Unfortunately, it still couldn't be completed.
He Hui completed her 4T with an angle difference of about 120 degrees.
In an instant, the place was dead silent.
Then there was a scream, and Lu Nanfeng rushed to He Hui and gave her a big bear hug: "He Hui!! You did it!!!"
Cheng Ran also rushed over, and the two of them hugged He Hui in their arms.
"That's great!" said Cheng Ran.
Zhu Jianyong first spent half a minute to digest this reality, then hesitantly opened the video in his hand and watched it again. After confirming that he was not seeing things due to presbyopia, he applauded He Hui.
"Congratulations, He Hui!" His voice was even a little hoarse.
The young Russian players did not expect that a player from China could become a 4T in just two weeks, and there was a lot of discussion. Some people joined in the applause and cheers, while others worked hard silently.
Until he got on the plane, Zhu Jianyong had never thought that he could record He Hui's only successful 4T by just making a video.
Zhu Jianyong went through a fierce ideological struggle over whether or not to post this video online.
After all, this is a 4T storage.
But under the temptation of the title of the first active female singles player to land a quadruple jump, Zhu Jianyong gritted his teeth, registered a Weibo account overnight, and posted the first social media video of his life with a profile picture of blue sky and white clouds.
@朱建勇: He Hui's 4T attempt in Moscow [Video]
The video is only six seconds long, and the person filming it has a rather unsteady hand.
But within an hour after sending the message, Zhu Jianyong discovered that his phone kept sending notifications, and the message froze several times when he opened it.
After being forwarded by several big Vs, the video successfully exceeded one million views and became a hot topic on Weibo.
He Hui's ice fans even set off cyber fireworks and cried with joy on the Internet.
"Aaaah, congratulations to my girl for becoming the first active female singles player to win four weeks!!"
"Even though it was a weekly edition, I was still so excited that I danced around at home. My parents thought I was crazy!"
"Chinese women's singles are going to rise, right?!"
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