The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is over, if the scene that impressed me the most is the final of the men's big jump platform on the veneer, a teenager took off in the air and won the championship with a magnificent momentum, when he was a teenager in fresh clothes, three days later was his eighteenth birthday, and his childish face on the podium showed a bright smile, thinking of the words he once said: "Standing on the snowboard is my happiest time." ”
Su Yiming
Now the people of the whole country remember his name, Su Yiming, and I have followed him all the way from many years ago, honor mixed with pain, tears and smiles flying together. What inspired me was not his victory in the Olympics, the world's top arena, but his love and attachment to skiing beyond the gold medal, which transcended utilitarianism, crossed the iron walls of reality, and was a more advanced understanding of the sport of skiing, in contrast, the gold medal was just an add-on.
I also love skiing, but I am only a pure and ordinary lover, untalented, the movements are often stiff and clumsy, but this does not affect my love of it, I only hope that this sport can accompany me for a long time, the mainstay of my spirit and the core that can be guarded in the face of difficulties, and that is enough.
Luckily, through the sport of skiing, I have met many people who regard it as a lifelong love and are brilliant and dazzling in this field, and I think they are very beautiful, with a youthful spirit, and they find themselves between the pistes.
When happy people do what they like
Liu Jiayu
Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Snowboard Women's U-Shaped Venue Silver Medal,
South Korea Hoseong Snowboard World Championships U-shaped track champion,
LAAX OPEN Lex Open Women's U-Shaped Track Champion
Liu Jiayu is a cheerful girl, her friends laugh and call her "Snow Circle Liu Wen", she loves fashion, likes to take pictures, the heroism between the eyebrows is similar to the supermodel Liu Wen, the Beijing Winter Olympics is already the fourth Olympic Games she participated in, the post-90s girl sent a circle of friends after the game: "Be a happy person, do what you like." The picture is a picture of her at the Beijing Winter Olympics, in which she holds a ski helmet, smiling like a flower, very beautiful. I asked her, do you think you are a talented player or an effort type? She replied without hesitation, effort type. "I work very hard, I work hard, in the competition, not because I am happy to win others, but because I am happy to beat myself, for me, the fun of the game is actually to beat myself." 」
The most memorable memory of the Beijing Winter Olympics is actually when she was training. She tried a new movement in training— the back foot for two weeks, and she practiced it for a whole summer to complete it perfectly, and when she finally completed the action in line with her expectations, she felt happy from the bottom of her heart, and when she said this, she laughed: "Really, you know, I admired myself. ”
I asked her, do you listen to songs during the game? "Yes, I prefer Shakgy's songs, I like music with clear rhythm and strong rhythm, like hip-pop, but I don't like heavy metal." Then she sent me a playlist of songs from the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Liu Jiayu's song list when he participated in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
Liu Jiayu always said that skiing is her life's work, as for the arena, if you feel happy, you will always challenge it, not limited by the outside world, even if you encounter difficulties, you can still stand up bravely, even if you stand at the peak, you will still purely enjoy the happiness brought by skiing. And outside of the competition, I would like to share the sport with more people, especially children. Skiing is destined to be a sport that will keep you falling, and when you fall, you have to get up on your own, and no one can help you, which can exercise your willpower and courage, and this value can be used by everyone for life.
Outside the arena, skiing is more like a way of life for Liu Jiayu, the competition is not all she skis, she once went to the Columbia Mountains in Canada with her friends to play heli-skiing, looking at the mountains from the sky every day, looking for wild snow that is suitable for sliding and no one has stepped on, and the U-shaped field is different, standing on the snowboard and the friction with the snow is like surfing, as if stepping on the clouds floating, at this moment, the whole world belongs to you.
Putting on a snowboard was my most beautiful moment
Cheng Shuang
2011 Freestyle Ski world championships women's aerial skills gold medal,
24th Winter Universiade Freestyle Skiing Women's Aerial Skills Runner-up,
Overall champion of the 2010–11 Freestyle Skiing World Cup Aerial Skills
I especially want to share the story of Cheng Shuang and the double board to everyone, because in that era when snow sports did not have such a high degree of attention in China, she was a pioneer figure, as a freestyle skiing aerial skills world champion, she liked to challenge herself, her personality was slightly impatient, but every time she put on the snowboard, she would become patient and persistent, even if she fell again and again, she never had the word to give up in her mind.
Cheng Shuang began to contact skiing from the age of eight, but at the age of eleven, she officially became an athlete, she specially introduced her project - freestyle skiing aerial skills, the athletes of this project have a nickname called "trapeze", because it is a combination of gymnastics and diving projects on the snow, all are skilled projects, relying on height, beauty, distance to score.
The injury rate of this sport is extremely high, and cheng Shuang's most serious injury was the ligament under the collarbone that was broken, and after the bone was propped up, it felt as if the skin was about to be broken. Later, it was fixed with nails and steel sheets to connect it hard. But for her, no matter how serious the injury, biting the teeth can pass, she is a girl who resolutely refuses to lose, once trained when her foot bones were broken, the reason is that the day's training to meet psychological expectations, when everyone rested, she also practiced the movements on the trampoline over and over again, when the repeated jump more than a hundred times, because the physical strength did not support on the trampoline next to a circle of metal, the ankle immediately swollen, because I did not know that it was a bone fracture, but I simply wrapped a bandage and continued to practice limping, Later, a sharp pain struck, and I went to the hospital to check and found that it was a bone fracture. "Is it worth it?" I asked her. "It's worth it, that feeling is pain and happiness."
Cheng Shuang is a girl who loves beauty, with a sweet smile, deep facial contours, and a bit of exoticism. Extreme sports are not very friendly to the skin, and the skin will face great challenges for a long time in the ice and snow.
Cheng Shuang shared with us a lot of her skincare tips: "We often come back from training and feel that our faces are very hot. In fact, the best way is to wash your face with hot water first, open the pores, and then wash it with slightly cool water, which can help the skin recover, and the cleansing product should also try to choose a mild one to prevent the skin cuticle from hurting the skin again. Cream this step can not be saved, you can choose some high oil content, repairing effect of the cream, can prevent moisture loss, in the cold and dry climate to maximize the protection of the skin. Before going skiing, the most important thing is sun protection, be sure to apply a few more layers, and remember to reapply regularly, frostbite is also one of the risks faced by the skin, when the skin is frostbitten, you must first use snow ice, if you immediately apply hot compresses, the skin surface is easy to darken. ”
Skiing rebuilds my relationship with the world
MONTHS
Founder of topski ski club
KK explores the beauty of snowy mountains around the world in the form of snowboarding, and leads more people to feel the joy of alpine skiing, so that everyone can feel the openness and beauty of nature in another dimension.
I met KK and I met in Xinjiang Hemu at an altitude of 2800 meters above sea level of Jikprin Peak, a vast snowy mountain, as far as the eye can see, only white snow, a teenager wearing dark blue clothes standing on a snowboard galloping down, lightly shuttled through the various terrain above the snowy mountains, sometimes taking off in the air, sometimes gliding at high speed, like a free eagle, and like a swift snow leopard, he is KK, because he, I know that there is such a magnificent skiing world in China. Even compared to the ski resort of the Alps, it is no less impressive.
This is the sixth year of KK skiing, and he spends most of his time with snow during these six years.
From exploring the snow alone to meeting a group of like-minded friends to play together, he slowly became an organizer to promote the sport of backcountry skiing to more people, and the sentence he said the most was: "Skiing, is to be happy, I hope everyone can find happiness in the snow." "Every time he explores the snowy mountains with his friends, he always goes to find new routes, not necessarily every time he encounters a beautiful scenery, but occasionally encounters the rugged and winding after the grandeur, he can always smile and slide to the end, patiently taking pictures of everyone." Once we had a makeshift drive from Altay to the Cocoto Sea in order to ski a wild ski trail called the "Great Wolf King", and our car passed through the sunset and starry sky of the Cocoto Sea, and our skis were placed on the roof.
Before 2020, KK was a one-man, one-man skier who enjoyed skiing in Canada, from Cypress Hill, which hosted the Vancouver Winter Olympics, to Whistler Mountain, which is surrounded by Blackcomb and Whistler Mountain, to big white in the Okanagan Valley... There are traces left by his snowboard, and when he talks about this, his eyes are light, which is the power of liking, and he feels that his life is very brilliant. KK has a juvenile spirit, maybe by the time he is eighty years old, you will still think that he is a teenager, living vigorously, doing what he likes, maintaining a strong curiosity about the world, snowboarding is a way for him to communicate with nature, and perhaps this kind of silent language can only be understood by people who love skiing.
At the end of the conversation, I thought of a fragment from Hemingway's novel The Snow of Kilimanjaro: "Kilimanjaro is a mountain with a snowy mountain at an altitude of nineteen thousand seven hundred and ten feet, and it is said to be the highest mountain in Africa." The Western Peak is called the Maasai 'Oachi-Uay', the temple of God. Near the West Peak, there was the body of a leopard that had dried up, and the leopard had come to such a high place to look for something, and no one had explained. ”
Editor, Author: Gong Xiaoge
Typography: miffy