It became the super difficult action of the inner flip in 1980 (four weeks of the flip plus one and a half weeks of rotation), becoming the first snowboarder in the world to complete the action completely.
Yang Wenlong, 21, was a martial arts athlete who became a snowboarder through cross-discipline selection by Shenyang Sports Institute. After the establishment of the national training team for snowboard jumping and slope obstacle skills in 2016, Yang Wenlong became one of the first athletes to enter the national training team. "The martial arts training laid the foundation for me, and I had more aerial concepts and a better feeling of landing."
After switching to snowboarding, Yang Wenlong learned about and studied the project from scratch. In the past five years, he has overcome many difficulties such as lack of skiing technology, lack of project understanding, equipment and venues, and has continued to study. Every night, he reviewed the movements of his training videos of the day one by one, and carefully analyzed the technical movements of high-level athletes abroad. In the training process, he can find ways to decompose and study the technical actions for unclear places and difficult actions that he cannot complete for a while, carefully analyze and study through coach explanations and technical videos, and finally break through the difficulty technology one by one.
With unremitting efforts, Yang Wenlong has made rapid progress in the past year, completing two different types of 1800 technical actions. In October this year, Yang Wenlong followed the national training team to Europe, North America and other places for external training and external competitions, during which he completed the ultra-difficult action of the internal turn flip 1980, with the strength of the world's top player in the men's big jump event. "I haven't trained or competed abroad for two years, and when I came out, I was excited and wanted to do something new and difficult. The two years of closed training in China have also laid a good foundation. After communicating with the coach, slowly adapt to the training ground, and transfer the difficult actions completed in the past two years of training on the air cushion to the snow. Recalling the super difficult action of completing 1980, Yang Wenlong stressed, "Step by step, step by step."
In addition to Yang Wenlong, his teammate Su Yiming has also unlocked difficult moves in the near future and won the overall world cup championship of this season's snowboard jumping. In this regard, Yang Wenlong said: "After the development of recent years, the strength of China's snowboard jumping platform and the gap between foreign countries have gradually narrowed, and it is in line with the world. And he also enjoys the competitive state with Su Yiming," "You chase me", "This is a very good thing, we compete with each other, inspire each other, and will progress faster." ”
After making a breakthrough in the big jump event, Yang Wenlong has now focused on slope obstacle skills, and he looks forward to new breakthroughs in his weaknesses. "This season's snowboard jumping World Cup competition has come to an end, and now I hope to improve my strength and play better in the slope obstacle skills of the short board."
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