17 years on ice [figure skating]

◎"Lucy! Lucy!"◎

After dancing the zombie dance for half an hour, the tortured dance training was finally over, and it was the turn of the ice training session that Lucy was most looking forward to.

The ice training is two and a half hours a day, and there will be a small break of 45-5 minutes every 10 minutes.

Ice training also has special content, such as skating, spinning, and jumping lessons, and there will be special joint music training courses when the big competition is approaching.

After the World Youth Championships, there is the World Championships, which is the adult group competition. There is only one place for men’s singles, and Cui Xiao participated. In the trials at the end of last year, Cui Xiao performed three quadruple jumps. Deng Chang There were only two weeks, and finally Cui Xiao beat Deng Chang by one point to win this year's World Championships.

So Cui Xiao is doing joint music practice recently, and next week he will fly to Maoxiong Country to prepare for the battle.

The other team members are skating and jumping lessons today.

Lu Xi followed Cui Xiao and Deng Chang from the dance classroom to the ice rink. Lu Xi talked little, and Deng Chang was always in a taciturn state. The three of them carried an ice bag each, and walked in a row, listening to Cui Xiao stand-up comedy.

Suddenly, I vaguely heard someone shouting loudly from a distance: "Lu Xi! Lu Xi!"

Lu Xi was stunned for a moment, and looked towards the source of the sound, and saw a dozen people standing in the rest area behind the ice rink door.

Both men and women, ranging in age from teens to over 50, with cameras and phones, flowers and stuffed animals, not like journalists, but not like athletes either.

They looked at Lu Xi and waved to Lu Xi enthusiastically. Lu Xi was a little dazed, but the other party was quite friendly, so he also smiled and greeted him back.

"These are ice fans, and they come to watch from time to time during normal training. Unless we make up a new program, the training is not strictly confidential." Cui Xiao stopped and said to Lucy, "But there are a lot of people here today. , it seems that you have won the World Youth Championship, and everyone really wants to see you."

Lu Xi was stunned again. Huang Bin did say before that after the World Youth Championship, he was very popular among ice fans, but Lu Xi didn't use social software very much, and he didn't know the specific situation.

All these people came to see him?

Some surprises.

The ice fans saw Lu Xi stop and look towards this side. After a short pause for half a second, the crowd rushed up.

"Xiaoxi! Look this way!"

"The real person is so cute! Milky!"

"Little Xixi, I am Superman!"

Facing the black head, Lucy reflexively took a half step back in horror. If he were in a comic at this moment, there would definitely be two black lines hanging from his forehead.

Lu Xi has never seen this kind of battle before. Before he entered the World Youth Championship, he was basically unknown in China. The youth competitions were not watched by many people. The traditional figure skating powers must be more popular on the world stage. That game was again in Maoxiong Country, not the home game at all.

All in all, Lu Xi has never experienced the support.

However, after the performance, the audience routinely throws down plush toys to show their love. Lucy was indeed thrown a lot after the short program and free skating performances.

But the current posture is more vigorous.

The ice fans at the front were holding a light blue support banner with a picture of Lucy wearing a black Costen, and some were holding plush toy tissue boxes——since a certain figure skating drama hit the air, for the favorite figure skating It seems to be a tradition for players to send cute tissue boxes.And flowers, plush toys, autographed books...

A bunch of hands and enthusiastic smiling faces were handed to Lu Xi at the first time.

"Go say hello to the ice fans, take a photo or something." Cui Xiao reminded in a low voice.

Lu Xi glanced at the coach, Chen Qi nodded and signaled him to listen to his senior, Lu Xi put the ice pack on the seat beside him, and walked over quickly.

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As soon as the 16-year-old boy passed by, he was surrounded, and a bunch of notebooks were handed over to him for his signature.

In fact, Lu Xi only practiced signing for two days after winning the World Youth Championship. Basically, the signing method is that the word "Lu" is simplified into one stroke, and the character "Xi" is a cute cursive with a little heart inside.

This kind of cursive signature is actually more like a painting. Lu Xi is still very unfamiliar with signing. After taking the first copy, he found that it was a collection of signatures. The page on the left of him signed Deng Chang's name.

Lucy wrote on the right page, and halfway through writing, she realized that she had made a mistake.

Lucy:"……"

He stared at the notebook for two seconds, then turned to ask the ice fan who handed the notebook: "I signed the wrong note, can I re-sign it?"

If a young contestant who looks as delicate and cute as a doll asks you with a pair of beautiful dark eyes, don’t say it’s a request like “re-signed”, it’s even a request like “Would you like this Will you buy me the ice rink?" It is estimated that ice fans will be completely bewitched by it and nod enthusiastically.

This is the case now, and the other party readily agreed: "You can write whatever you want, no problem!"

Lu Xi responded, and crossed out the half-signed name. Thinking about it, it was a bit ugly, and Deng Chang didn't make a typo. He made a mistake, which seemed very embarrassing.

So Lucy forcibly painted a few more strokes, turning into a twisted skate shape, and then re-signed his own name on the edge of the skate: Lucy.

When he handed the notebook back, he found that the ice fan had already held his face in his hands and looked heart-eyed, and he was stunned for two seconds before he took the notebook handed over by Lucy as if he had just woken up from a dream.

Lucy asked with concern: "Are you okay?"

"It's okay, it's okay!" Bing Fan said again and again, "Xiaoxi, your handwriting is so beautiful!"

Lucy was taken aback and smiled.

He is good-looking, with a short slapped face, a small mole at the corner of his eye, and fair skin. When he is not smiling, he has a delicate and alienated sense of burnout. This temperament will be particularly elegant and moving on the deserted ice.

And when he smiled, his brows and eyes stretched out, and there was a kind of spring-like beauty.

Simply put, this kind of temperament is milky and cool. Coupled with the 10cm height change on the ice and below the ice brought by the ice skates, the switch of temperament is even more obvious.

So the ice fans who shouted "Xiao Xihao A" while watching the game video have now swarmed over to rua.

Of course, they didn't dare to really do it, so they just dragged Lu Xi to take photos with everyone.

Lucy hadn't had many photos taken together, and she didn't know how to pose. She was just like a wax figure, holding a pair of scissors with a smile on her face, and took more than a dozen photos.

After making everyone addicted for a while, seeing that everyone had no intention of stopping, Wang Lili came to persuade the enthusiastic ice fans: "The players are going to practice on the ice! Everyone, please don't disturb the players!"

The ice fans left reluctantly, but they also raised their mobile phones, ready to take pictures of the training routine of the new world champion.

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The second floor of the ice rink is surrounded by a transparent wall. Ice fans usually watch the athletes training downstairs from outside the wall, so as not to interfere with the athletes. Today I make an exception to let them in. It should be because of Lucy's first training. look at him.

Deng Chang received the same treatment when he won the bronze medal in the World Youth Championship before, but Deng Chang is not as milky as Lu Xi, and even makes people feel a little cold, so ice fans are more polite to him, there is no love So unscrupulous.

After the meeting, the ice fans went back to the second floor, and Lu Xi went into the locker room with other athletes to change their protective gear and skates.

Athletes will of course tie the skates themselves, but after tying them, they have to be checked by the assistant to make sure that there is no problem with the laces, uppers and blades—of course, there will be no problems under normal circumstances, but after all, they are senior athletes , must be just in case.

The feeling of wearing ice skates is very different from wearing shoes. The feeling of ice skates is heavier and the balance point is narrower. But after you get used to wearing them, walking on the ground with the blade cover is no different from wearing ordinary shoes.

And because he was soaking in the ice rink all year round, Lu Xi was more familiar with the feeling of wearing ice skates.

In addition to ice skates, you also need to wear various protective gear on the ice. The most basic protective gear for figure skating is actually gloves, because it is impossible to avoid falling during jumping exercises. In fact, athletes have fallen too many times, unless they are completely The body is out of control, otherwise it will not hurt too much.

But no matter how you fall, your hands will definitely hit the ground first for cushioning. The seemingly smooth ice surface is actually easy to scratch and frostbite your hands. Therefore, athletes must wear gloves anyway. This is the most basic and important protection measure.

In addition, there are wrist guards, knee pads, and elbow pads, which are generally soft and close-fitting long items.

There are also buttocks, which are short-like protective devices with a thick layer of foam padding on the outside and worn under training pants.Because figure skaters are prone to sitting and falling, this is a very important protection measure.

By the way, it is precisely because of wearing buttocks that most figure skaters look like their buttocks are raised during training, but in fact most of them are just an illusion brought about by the sponge pads on the protective gear.

Lucy's baby ice skates are a pair of white large-toothed blades. Because he usually wears black for training, he will put black velvet shoe covers on the ice skates in a smug way, pursuing the harmony of the whole body tone.

There are also some athletes who wear fancy clothes during training. Cui Xiao is a typical example. He is actually wearing a gay purple top, which looks very gay.

Lucy hadn't been on the ice for more than 30 hours from yesterday to now, and he was already too hungry. After changing the equipment, he asked the assistant to check that the shoes were fine, so he jumped on the ice and skated three laps first.

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It is a very special feeling on the ice. The high speed when skating, the switching of vision when constantly rotating, and the empty space on the ice make figure skating a sport that does not rely so much on vision.

Correspondingly, other senses will be particularly obvious at this time.

For example, the torso will use 100% control to ensure that when one foot falls on the ice, the 0.3cm wide blade can maintain balance for the body.

For example, the sense of hearing responds to music very clearly, people can't help but beat the music, and even the rustling sound of the ice blade cutting on the ice and stirring up a large amount of snow and fog becomes very clear.

For example, the cold that invades the pores when you first go on the ice will make you excited quickly, and the body that quickly heats up after a few laps of skating will make your state extremely relaxed, as if you have merged with this cool and clean world.

Another example is feeling.

Whenever Lucy slides on the ice, she feels like a gust of wind, a bird, a fish—this has nothing to do with artistic expression.

Artistic expression represents the level of dance, performance talent and musicality, and the ability to combine music and dance to tell stories, while Lucy is simply enjoying skating.

In the standard ice rink, even on the wild ice in winter, Lucy can gallop to his heart's content.

There is a lake in Crane City called Tongbi Lake. Lu Xi remembered that once he slipped like crazy on the ice. In the freezing northeast, the lake water was frozen from the bottom to the surface. to the bubbles.

Compared with the ice of the ice rink, the wild ice is harder, less obedient, and more disobedient. When the ice blade cuts into the ice, it needs to be controlled harder, which makes Lucy feel like he is taming something.

He flew across the ice, with white rime receding on both sides of his sight, Huang Bin shouted "Xiaoxi, don't do it" behind him, he slid a big arc, his face was flushed red, and he smiled. Yingying rushed back and stopped in front of Huang Bin with a "shua".

Huang Bin was so angry that he wanted to beat Lu Xi, but after seeing his shining eyes, he was silent for a long time, sighed, and said to him, "Don't make such a fuss on the wild ice in the future, or I will burn your skates."

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At this moment, Lucy has already skated three laps on the ice rink of the first body.

At the end of the third lap, he couldn't hold back a little. Old songs with brisk melody were playing on the ice rink, and the drums seemed to be beating in his veins, burning his enthusiasm to the extreme little by little.

Seeing that no one else was jumping around, Lu Xi simply increased his speed to the maximum.

After walking around the field for three quarters, he thought about what to do, and what appeared in his mind at that moment was the boy who demonstrated jumping in the provincial team's ice rink in the afternoon seven years ago, so Lu Xi had an idea in his mind.

His skating is extremely talented, and he can maintain a very high speed without even needing to push off the ice. When performing, this means that he can link up complex steps before jumping, without worrying about losing speed and affecting the success rate of jumping.

But this time, Lu Xi didn't increase his footwork, so he just slid over casually, giving the impression that he only took one step with his left foot, and he almost became a slender shadow.

The ice fans watching on the second floor knew that Lu Xi was going to jump when they saw the skating track, and all the mobile phones were turned on in video mode in an instant and stood up.

Lucy couldn't see these things, he only focused on his own moment.

The left foot is used as the supporting foot, and the right leg is used as the floating leg. At the most suitable speed, the body turns three times in the counterclockwise direction.

The wind passed by the ear quickly, and all the power was concentrated on the left foot at this moment, the inner blade was crushed to death, and the body tightened rapidly while taking off, and exerted force to the left.

It feels like flying in the air.

Lucy's habit of jumping is not to open his eyes, and his body will control the number of cycles for him.

The landing point has been perfectly predicted before take-off, 360,720,1080,1440, [-], [-], [-], the number of weeks turns around, and the ice falls open.

When the ice blade cuts the ice, it is the moment when the body load is the heaviest but also the happiest. It tests the body's ultimate control and endurance.

Sinking, opening, and sliding out, the top-level sliding technology allows Lucy to maintain superior speed and a completely unshaped sliding curve even after completing a quadruple jump.

He simply continued, his right foot landed on the ice and stepped on the outer edge, his left foot hit the ice hard, and he twisted his waist to take off again.

Four weeks after the inside and three weeks outside the back, if called 4S+3T in the game, a jump with a basic score of 14.8.

Slides out perfectly.