[She is an authentic Beijinger, a "sassy" Beijing girl, nicknamed "Kui Datou"; she is a typical post-80s, like to take the usual road; she has a happy personality, can often smile openly and smile when things happen, and use humor to resolve bitterness; she won the World Championships with injuries and lost the Olympic Games due to injury; coached the Malaysian gymnastics team, and pushed the team to the championship throne, but she retreated in a rapids; the cross-border development in life is wonderful, playing racing has experienced a life and death line... A few days ago, Beiguang characters interviewed this legendary gymnastics world champion and entered her legendary life. 】
When I first started practicing gymnastics, I found that it was different from what I thought. The basis of gymnastics is to press the legs, unlike the nature of playing in the current interest class, it is really playing with life pressure! After two and a half days of going in, I didn't want to go again.
"Raise a glass by chance, I don't know." This poem is from the famous Song Dynasty poet Yang Wanli's famous work "Drinking". Looking back on the past, it seems very appropriate to use this poem to describe Kui Yuanyuan's state at this moment.
Competitive gymnastics is a typical child's skill, and the athletes engaged in this sport, their initial life planning and career planning, are mostly related to the parents' decisions in that year. Faced with such a routine question, Kui Yuanyuan's answer was unconventional: "Why did my parents send me to practice gymnastics when I was a child, about this, you should not ask me why, you should ask them!" Ask me, I can't quite understand, really, I still can't quite understand. ”
The Beijing girl is quick to speak, and the side of "sa" can be seen from this.
Many people embark on the road of sports, the reason is nothing more than these few, some people are born with difficult to give up, some people are difficult to sustain themselves in the continuation of the family, some people are difficult to inhibit themselves due to interest, but Kui Yuanyuan encountered the opportunity of gymnastics is the most different: because of watching the hilarity!
Kui Yuanyuan was born in Beijing on June 23, 1981, and entered Beijing Shichahai Sports School at the age of 4. In the 1980s, for the childhood Kui Yuanyuan, when she met gymnastics, there was no surprise or joy, ignorance, confusion, and coincidence. She said: "My parents are not engaged in sports, no one in the family does this business, I went to practice gymnastics, it was a complete coincidence." At that time, our family went to Beihai Park to play, and then walked to the Shichahai Sports School, just in time for the gymnastics team enrollment of the sports school that day, surrounded by many people. We happened to come out of Beihai Park, probably because our family liked to watch the liveliness, and when we saw a lot of parents with children there, my parents took me to see it. After the past, I was targeted by the coach, and the coach then told my parents, let the child practice gymnastics. I think the reason why my parents agreed to me to practice gymnastics is that I feel that it is a toss at home anyway, and it is better to send it to the sports school to toss with everyone! I think that's probably why I went down the path of gymnastics. In addition, when I was a child, my body was not particularly good, especially when I changed seasons, I was prone to illness, exercise more, at least improve immunity, and be able to get a little better. At that time, I thought that the place had a trampoline and a sponge pit, and all kinds of equipment, which was very interesting, and it must be much more fun than home. My parents asked me if I liked it or not, and I said I liked it, liked it! Then go for it, just sign up and start practicing gymnastics.
However, when I started practicing gymnastics, I found that it was different from what I thought. The basis of gymnastics is to press the legs, unlike the nature of the current interest class, it is really playing with life pressure, and there is a lot of physical training, very tired and bitter, there is no happy component. After two and a half days of going in, I didn't want to go again. Every time my mom gave me a kiss, I cried. Later, my father did not let my mother send me, so he sent it instead. Strange to say, when my father sent me, I would be very well-behaved, and waved my hand and said: Dad goodbye, pick me up early. ”
It's time to join the national team, and I wasn't selected! At that time, we organized three athletes to participate in the National Games, and then the national team coach chose both of them, and also selected the coach of our team, but did not choose me.
"The mountains and rivers are doubtful and there is no way, and the willows are dark and the flowers are bright and another village." This poem comes from the Song Dynasty Lu You's famous work "You Shanxi Village". From embarking on the road of gymnastics to entering the international arena, this poem can be described as a clear portrayal of Kui Yuanyuan's gymnastics journey.
A few minutes on the field, a few years off the field. For artists or those engaged in sports, painstaking cultivation is nothing more than looking forward to a bigger stage or a higher arena. In this process of enterprising, some people have completed the canal, some people have eighteen bends in the mountain road, and Kui Yuanyuan's experience belongs to the latter. What is particularly interesting is that today's gymnastics masters have taken a very big detour when they start their journey, and they almost changed their careers to acrobats.
Looking back at the original gymnastics road and looking back at myself, Kui Yuanyuan's story is very interesting: "After I retired, sometimes, I would joke with the coach, I said you admit it, you didn't have vision at that time, don't pick me!" He would say, "Oh, at that time, I wasn't experienced enough as a coach." To put it aside now, I'm sure I'll pick you first! That calf is thicker than the thigh, and it's exciting to look at! ”
The beijing girl's outspoken and fast-talking nature is overflowing with words.
Kui Yuanyuan has a loud and special nickname "Kui Datou", according to her, perhaps when she was a child, her body proportions were not very coordinated, and her head was relatively large, so she had this nickname since she was a child. Everyone calls it that, so that over time, if anyone suddenly changes her name, it will often not be reflected for a while, and it is very unaccustomed. For the nickname, Kui Yuanyuan gladly accepted and was very popular, and her Weibo simply used the name "Kui Datou".
From a secular point of view, a name is just a person's symbol, but if you speak from a mysterious dimension, the name will also indicate and affect the direction of a person's destiny.
After practicing gymnastics for four years at the Shichahai Sports School, "Big Head" immediately encountered something that made her "head big". However, fortunately, she does not have a real name "Yuanyuan", the results are not bad, but also responded to the sentence "late is expensive, slow is round".
Recalling that year, Kui Yuanyuan said: "At the beginning, in fact, my physical condition was not particularly suitable for practicing gymnastics, and in the eyes of many people, I was not a particularly good material for practicing gymnastics, not particularly in line with this project." In particular, the selection criteria of each coach are different, one standard for one person. I was four to eight years old in the amateur gymnastics school to practice gymnastics, and then when I went from the amateur gymnastics school to the Beijing gymnastics team in Xiannongtan, no coach looked at me, which was equivalent to saying that I could not enter the Beijing team, they felt that I was not suitable for practicing gymnastics, not suitable for continued upward development, and felt that my conditions were not easy to produce results. In this case, I was faced with a change of career, practiced gymnastics for four years, and suddenly could not enter the Beijing team, and the previous efforts were wasted, and time and energy were wasted. It just so happened that the Xiannongtan temple was not far from the tianqiao' er, and there was an acrobatic troupe in the tianqiao' er, and my parents took me to the acrobatic troupe for an interview, passed, and wanted me. I remember that at that time, the coach of my amateur sports school told my mother that the child had practiced gymnastics for so many years, and it was a pity to abolish it, after all, acrobatics was a performance project, not a sports project, and said that otherwise you would take her to the Beijing team to try. So my mother took me to the Beijing team again for a trial training, and then it was Liu Qunlin, the coach of the Beijing team, who left me behind, and she felt that although I was not optimistic, I still had my own characteristics. I practiced with him for three years, and in 1993 I competed in the National Games, and I competed as the youngest athlete in the entire National Games. At that time, the Beijing women's team only had one national team athlete, and I had to compete with her for this national games. At that time, the coach strongly recommended me, and the coach felt that I was young and had certain strength, and I had the strength to win gold in the balance beam project and have the potential for development. So the coach made a guarantee with the leader, saying that if I smashed it, or whatever, he would resign and not do it.
At the National Games, I played ok and won the second place in the group and the fourth place in the balance beam. However, because of personal conditions, after the National Games, the national team enrollment, it is time to enter the national team, and I was not selected! At that time, we organized three athletes to participate in the National Games, and then the national team coach chose both of them, and also selected the coach of our team, but did not choose me. At that time, the coach of the national team, Lu Shanzhen, lacked a partner and needed to enter a coach, so he picked our coach. At that time, my mood was particularly uncomfortable, I remember very clearly, they were going to train for the national team in October, and I was thinking, what should I do? Later our coach said: Well, you go with them. In this way, it is equivalent to saying that our coach took me all the way to the national team, and also recommended to the national team coach Lu Shanzhen: You look at this child, she is particularly distinctive. So I stayed, and then I became lu Shanzhen's first world champion when he was the head coach of the national team.
Speaking of which, I especially thank my female coach Liu Qunlin, who treated me like a mother, and she helped me win opportunities along the way. For example, when our male coach Lu Zhi taught another athlete to learn difficult moves, but did not teach me, Coach Liu Qunlin would fight for me and ask why he did not teach Kui Datou? Lu Zhi would say that the conditions for the big head could not be done, and it could not be done. Coach Liu Qunlin said that if others did it, Kui Datou would have no problem. As a result, later, this high-difficult action, others did not practice it, I practiced it, because my legs are thick and strong, the courage is also big, dare to fight. After I retired from the army, sometimes, I would joke with that Lu guide, and I said that you admitted that you didn't admit it, you didn't have a vision at that time, don't pick me! He would say, "Oh, at that time, I wasn't experienced enough as a coach." To put it aside now, I'm sure I'll pick you first! That calf is thicker than the thigh, and it's exciting to look at! ”
At that time, I was young and had no experience in the competition, that is, I practiced with others, and my own coach did not go, as a candidate, I was not concerned by the coach who led the team, so I practiced by myself. (Source: Beiguang People)
