figure skating king

Since coaching Yuuri, Katharina, an unruly woman who never considered being a coach, had to take a lot of lessons, and the source of coaching knowledge was her senior brother Yakov besides books.

The two brothers and sisters had a good friendship at first, but after having Little Pumpkin, she and Yakov became more in touch, and Yakov was also used to his younger sister calling him from time to time, asking a bunch of "how to clean up the vegetables". Pumpkins that pick their feet" and the like.

Yakov has never seen Katsuki Yuuri before, but he just knows that this child is 141cm tall and weighs 31kg. He has a body that is easy to gain weight and is flexible.

Whenever Yuuri gets some achievements, although Katharina must be giving Yuuri a hard education, telling him "you are still good and need to work hard", but she turned around and called Yakov and told Yakov, "My baby is super Struggle", very silly feeling.

So Yakov also took it for granted that the pumpkin raised by his junior sister had mastered four triple axels at a young age, as well as various 3+2, 3+3 jumps, and could spin and footwork. Reached the fourth level, but still dizzy from time to time during the game, and lack of physical strength due to asthma.

In fact, jumping is okay. After all, his family Wei Qia is also a jumping genius who has gathered all kinds of triple axel jumps at a young age. Jumping out of the quadruple jump, Yakov has always suspected that Victor is secretly practicing the quadruple jump, but he has no evidence. Victor has always been a bear, which has bankrupted his credit with Yakov.

And Yuuri can reach the fourth level in terms of spin and footwork, which makes the old coach detonated by Katharina again.

The gang of adolescent bears under his command all love jumping, and although they don't take spin footwork and performance seriously, they are definitely not as enthusiastic about jumping, so... except for George, no one can do quadruple steps Law, and George's rotation has been hovering between the third level and the fourth level. Whether the fourth level can be determined depends on fate.

This group of little souls have been practicing for so long under the guidance of his Yakov Feltsman, but the 9-year-old pumpkin who dare not jump backwards has achieved the full level of footwork. Doesn't this mean that Is Yakov's ability to train his apprentice's rotation and footwork inferior to that rookie coach Katharina?

The old coach is not convinced!He has been struggling with skating since he was in service, and was even bloodied by the prescribed graphics back then. After becoming a coach, he paid special attention to this aspect. The last apprentice who was ranked number one in the world also had excellent skating and smooth footwork. Now the footwork of a group of brats in the group can't satisfy him. Could it be that he hasn't struck hard enough?

After answering the phone and returning to the ice rink, Yakov started to growl again.

"George! What's the matter with your footwork? Didn't I tell you to go deeper with the blade? Grave! Where's your shaft? Peter! Mice can jump better than you! Victor! Tie your hair up and roll away Step step! Georgi! Your floating leg is too low!"

A group of teenage bears broke up, each muttering, "That woman Katharina must be calling Yakov again."

Lilia calmly reminded Yakov again: "Yashenka (Yakov's affectionate name), watch your blood pressure."

Yakov complained to his wife angrily: "Really, can't I meet a good student? Cathy's student can even cook borscht for her. I don't even have a good student here. "

Lilia thought about the scene where George and Victor waited for the brats to cook borscht for Yakov, and felt a rare chill. Then the lady realized that Yakov really didn't teach any good boys.

She sighed rarely: "Unless Cathy's student is transferred to another group, it's better for you to give up the idea of ​​meeting a good student."

Really, Yakov's acceptance of his apprentice must be a bad boy's luck, so don't expect too much. You must know that even the most honest Popovich fought with the young skater from the speed skating team next door.

Yakov: "Forget it... That pumpkin is equal to Katharina's son, whoever touches her is in a hurry."

He still remembered that girl throwing the captain of the ice hockey team off the balcony on the second floor when she lost her temper. If her old arms and legs were thrown like that, even the fighting nation would not be able to bear it.

However, Yakov still unintentionally mentioned that Katharina's student actually won the bronze medal in the Japan Youth Championship. He also lamented that although the child is only 9 years old, his talent is really good, as long as there are no accidents ( Such as injury or loss to the development level), will be a great opponent in the future.

Then he used this incident to urge Viktor to practice step-steps, but Viktor became interested in Yuuri's game show instead, and pestered Yakov to ask for a video tape. After watching "Ashidaka", he knew that girl Surely the Tsar would videotape his beloved disciple, and Yakov got it.

Yakov: "..."

Sigh, take some money to be a coach, and worry about selling xx.

So a few days later, Victor successfully got the video tape, and happily borrowed the player in Yakov's office to watch the children's game.

Popovich, as Victor's fancier, and his only junior in the Yakov group (currently the Yakov group is the two youngest), squatted beside him watching him play with the remote control, and said unexpectedly: "You don't know Is it Lotriyeva's ice fan? See how concerned you are about her students."

Victor blinked and nodded: "That's true, but her students are also very interesting. Didn't Yakov say that his rotation has reached level four? Let me observe."

So Popovich also squatted curiously to watch the performance of the female tsarist son Zai.

Two videotapes, one short program and one free skate.

Victor watched with great interest, and first expressed his love for Yuuri's Kosten style, and praised the designer who made these two sets of Kosten with good taste, and then watched Yuuri's performance carefully.

Then he rubbed his chin and sighed: "His jump height is not very high, but because he slides fast, he has a good distance. He doesn't land very well on the ice. The spin and slide are really good, but he is obviously struggling when he turns the back. Haha, there are also signs of physical exhaustion in the second half of the free skating, are these two programs programmed at his limit?"

Popovich made a black line next to him: "No, can you think about his age before you complain about him? It's really amazing to be able to do this at the age of 9. I haven't practiced 3lz yet."

He is also two years older than Katsuki Yuuri... I am ashamed to think about it, but as the top 1 female czar of the women's singles, it is not easy to fall in love with.

Victor raised his chin: "I knew how to do 9lz when I was 3 years old. At that time, I had already collected 5 triple axels. This kid is obviously not good at F jumps. I think he is a bit awkward when he jumps 2F. You may not be able to practice 3F."

Popovich froze for a moment, then played the video tape backwards, and also found clues: "Yes, the jumping method is different from others."

Generally speaking, the lz jump uses the outer edge, and the f jump uses the inner edge. If you use the wrong edge at the moment of take-off, it is the wrong edge. Then it will be done.

But Katsuki Yuuri obviously changed his blade. He used a very strange method - directly press the center of gravity of the body to the right when taking off, without pre, and directly point the ice foot in the opposite direction, which is the same In one jump, he turned a little more in the air than others, and it looked different from the standard, but this jump was within the allowed range of the current rules.

He sighed: "It's also very powerful. The ice feet are facing outwards, which is equivalent to increasing the difficulty of jumping. Moreover, this F jump looks very beautiful."

Victor does not take this seriously: "Spotting the ice with the feet facing outwards, that is, touching the ice against the direction of the rotation is indeed more conducive to staying in the air, but it is relatively unfavorable to the rotation, so the ability to complete the rotation is higher, and he is 2F. After playing like this, if he can do this in 3F, it will be called amazing, if he doesn’t change his jumping method, it will be very difficult for him to play 3F.”

Popovich rolled his eyes: "Yeah, your F jump is the best."

Victor nodded as a matter of course: "Of course, I will challenge 4F in the future."

The little Popovich was shocked: "Really, are you kidding? No one has successfully challenged the 4F. Do you still remember that the existing quadruple jump is only 4T?"

Seeing Victor start to pack his things and leave, Popovich remembered something again: "You remember to do your homework when you get home, otherwise Yakov will be angry again when he receives a call from your teacher."

"Pfft, when will he not be angry?"

Victor happily carried his bag home, and on the way home he packed his favorite dishes at a nearby restaurant to take away.

He is very used to living alone. Apart from cleaning, he has to do it himself. He can go to restaurants and cafeterias for meals, and put his clothes in the laundry. He usually goes to school or the sports center, and takes the subway when traveling. Everything is very convenient.

Of course Victor did his homework, but whether it was written well or not seriously is another matter. He doesn’t think he thinks skipping classes is a daily routine, but occasionally if he really wants to skate, he will Go skating on a nearby rink instead of flipping through a book at home.

He was already a middle school student at this time.

"Well, middle school is really much harder."

He bit the tip of the pen, and inadvertently glanced at the letter paper pressed under the glass of the desk, his eyes softened.

Now Victor thought he remembered where he had seen Pumpkin.

Before the other party wrote this letter to him, they had already met. During that time of illness, it was Little Pumpkin who came to take care of him with her father. Maybe she also cooked the delicious fruit oatmeal porridge .

She also carefully purchased Chinese patent medicines, wrote instructions in Russian and pasted them on the medicine boxes, and cleaned the house for him. Maybe when he fell asleep, he held the little pumpkin as a Pacha doll in his arms Pass.

Victor tapped the letter paper: "I asked my mother, and she said that you have returned home with the coach, and there is no picture of you. What do you look like, Miss Pumpkin?"

The author has something to say:

Victor didn’t know that Little Pumpkin not only practiced 3F with that kind of jumping method, but also used this awkward F jumping method to practice 4F for him in the future, so when he saw that Little Pumpkin really successfully jumped out of 4F, he was directly moved To the point of tears hahahahaha